Just wanting to say everyone stay safe if you will be affected by this pending blizzard. My town is expected to get 18-24" inches with gusting winds 30-40mph or higher. Funny thing yesterday was close to 50 degrees.

18 minutes ago, ike8120 said:

Just wanting to say everyone stay safe if you will be affected by this pending blizzard. My town is expected to get 18-24" inches with gusting winds 30-40mph or higher.

You too pal, we're expecting the same here around the Boston area. Probably starting a little earlier for you ... I appreciate you sharing but you can keep it down there.

Yep, we’re in the big snow band, but not as bad as the coast. The high end model for us is 27” and we are 50/50 to get over 18”. I think we’re going to net out roughly where the last storm was (which is still 4-6” of frozen hard slush on the ground). Pretty sure my trip isn’t happening tomorrow night at this rate. I don’t hate that since I’m going to be clearing snow all day.

Just starting to stick to the ground here, coming down harder now.

Not looking forward to shoveling us out, don't think I'll be able to get out and do some pre-shoveling as it's forecasted to be the hardest overnight.

Only good thing is being retired and not have to worry about going into work.

I just got back in from shoveling a dog path and the front walk way.

Plows have come by and of course the apron is loaded, did one path through it and that was enough for me.

Right now we have 6" and still coming down, there saying blizzard to noon tomorrow, oh joy!

I did the first round of clearing around the 4-5” mark. It was awful. Because it started as misty rain snow, the bottom 2” was damp and sticky. I got the first half blown before what was left was too sticky and gumming up the blower. It is perfect snowball snow but it really sucks to try to clear it. It’s heavy in a deep shovel and with a pusher shovel it just sticks. If you stop sliding it glues to the ground. It’s gotten colder since and a little fluffier so hopefully it is better in the next round. We have 2-3” more since the last time so that’s 6-8” so far with the worst ahead of us supposedly. Then again, my usual forecast location says only another 6” or so. Let’s see.

Getting ready to make my first clearing.

@casts_by_fly we had that heavy water base snow come in Friday night. It was only a couple of inches but when you were done you felt like you moved a sand pile

I’ll be out there at least 4 times today then up to my parent’s house to clear them out

Hope everyone is safe.

But I'm just here for the comments.

A-Jay

Update: It is still snowing got about 18"+ with drifting. Can't get out the front or back door due to drifts. I will be able to get out through the garage. Tons of power outages in my area. Everyone stay safe.

9 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

It was awful. Because it started as misty rain snow, the bottom 2” was damp and sticky. I got the first half blown before what was left was too sticky and gumming up the blower. It is perfect snowball snow but it really sucks to try to clear it. It’s heavy in a deep shovel and with a pusher shovel it just sticks. If you stop sliding it glues to the ground.

I'm very familiar with this. And yes, it's awful. Can confirm.

Had to shovel another dog path this morning, quick measure was 14" but I think we have more than that and still snowing.Supposed to stop around 2pm. Windy and temp at 28 degrees.

13 minutes ago, ike8120 said:

Update: It is still snowing got about 18"+ with drifting. Can't get out the front or back door due to drifts. I will be able to get out through the garage. Tons of power outages in my area. Everyone stay safe.

You as well

Wind is howling here...I got the inverter ready in case we lose power. I'll at least have heat, hot water and a cold foods in the fridge

17 minutes ago, herder said:

Had to shovel another dog path this morning, quick measure was 14" but I think we have more than that and still snowing.Supposed to stop around 2pm. Windy and temp at 28 degrees.

This is my biggest hassle. Our dog is only about a foot high, maybe 4” legs, we gotta shovel every time she needs to go out.

We have a Dachshund, so he couldn't even get out the door 😀

@Jigfishn10 - yep. It was like a sand pile- a wet sand pile. I am absolutely whooped today from that one.

We ended up better than expected. I have to go out and clear in a little bit but it looks like 12-14" from what I can see. Our well head it just barely covered and since there was 6" on the ground next to it already that's about another 12" on top or so. Newark airport and the east strip of NJ up this way is officially in a blizzard. The airport was around 24" (and my trip is moved 1 full week) and out friends who aren't far from there are 18-20". I'm going to call a foot of snow a 'win' this time. Now we have 20 mph constant wind with gusts to 40.

My wife is stuck in NYC because of the blizzard. She & her sis went to see a few Broadway shows over the weekend. They changed their return flights when the blizzard was coming. My sis-in-law got out on a flight early yesterday morn. My wife not so lucky. Her flight got cancelled twice & now she’s stuck there until at least tomorrow.

Well, I guess we made it in the blizzard category. Not sure why the news ppl are excited about this ... I'm not feeling very special right now ...

8 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Well, I guess we made it in the blizzard category. Not sure why the news ppl are excited about this ... I'm not feeling very special right now ...

Hole up and stay warm. Bad deal

yeah, this was a bad one. My snowblower just crapped the bed so i borrowed the neighbor's snow plow (what you upper midwest guys would konw as an ice pusher or snow pusher) to walk the first half of my 120' driveway and push it out into the road where the plow can push it up into my yard (we're in a cul de sac and that's where they push the road snow). Even though it is only about 8" deep, it is heavier than any snow we've had since we lived here. It is like wet sand or that awful colored sticky sand that kids play with. I managed to get enough moved to get my truck out to go borrow a friend's blower. But this blower is done for.

15 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

(what you upper midwest guys would konw as an ice pusher or snow pusher)

I call them snow-plows - course it might be a remnant of my Massachusetts upbringing

52 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

But this blower is done for.

The pull cord on mine broke last week on the first pull lol

So I had to deploy plan B, the shovel.

Luckily we only got about 4 inches out of that so it wasn't terrible.

I fixed the cord yesterday too, temporarily at least. Enough to start it anyways with a shorter cord. Once winter is over I'm gonna probably have to bring it in to the shop so they can replace the entire cord.

Snowblowers take a beating. They often sit around for long periods of time unused, and then have to work hard when the time comes. Hauling it into the shop is a pain in the rear too because they are heavy machines.

On 2/22/2026 at 8:22 AM, ike8120 said:

Just wanting to say everyone stay safe if you will be affected by this pending blizzard. My town is expected to get 18-24" inches with gusting winds 30-40mph or higher. Funny thing yesterday was close to 50 degrees.

Well Snow is tapering off, wind is dying down. Got the bulk of the snow plowed, just need to do some cleanup and clean the cars. Waiting for the plow to bury me in. More snow on the way for Wed. I can't wait. Everyone stay safe

@gim - I bought this one used in the summer of 2020 when we had first moved. It's a heavy steel craftsman with a tecumseh engine, 28" wide, 9 hp I think. I bought it thinking it would last a while with a good engine and steel construction. That's all true. But it's an older model so replacement parts are less available and especially so now that craftsman/sears is done. I had my local small engine shop service it a couple years ago and it's done well, but when he did it he said it was just limping it along. The design of the drive and stage clutches isn't a good oneso I'd always be fighting it. I figured keep it limping along until it's done and then get a new one.

Just borrowed my buddies Toro so we'll see how I like that. It's a little smaller width so we'll see if it is enough for my driveway size.

Both my lawn mower and snow blower are Toro. Modern 4 stroke engines.

They were calling 8-12 here then it went 4-8 lucked out with about 2.5 but only on the grass. My drive way had about an inch or so. I am over winter big time.