Like someone mentioned we haven't had any significant snowfalls this year. And its after the holidays. Today, I just read all the gulf states may experience spring 20 days earlier this year. Where I'm at in MD., its 15 to 20 degrees warmer this year than normal temperatures so there's definitely a climate change. I see rhododendrons butting. I remember 50 years ago, we had snow on the ground for 2 months. Not any more. Maybe that's why the forum activity seems slow. No more blizzards.
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Be careful, roads will be icing up tonight.
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I was just joking!
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We're expecting nothing but rain at home.
However, we're driving into the belly of the beast (jackpot 12-18 inch area per Don's map) for the weekend.
Due to the forecast, I begged my wife to let us leave early, so after some juggling (extra night for the dog in the kennel, extra night at the hotel, kids out of school Friday), we'll be driving up there after work tomorrow, before the madness starts.
This is a family tradition for the four of us (neither my parents nor my sister's family would tolerate the cold), and after two years of not being open due to covid, the boys found out that Santa's Village is open for the season this year, and asked to go. Seeing as they're 12 and 16 and still believe in Santa (or at least pretend to), and we all love the place, we booked the trip a week or two ago.
Normally, we only go for two nights (due to school schedules), but after missing Columbus Day weekend and most of October due to 3/4 of us being sick with covid ourselves, I'm happy to have an extra day to relax, even if it's just at the hotel swimming and playing board games (and not driving through the mountains of NH during a massive snowstorm) on Friday!
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However, we're driving into the belly of the beast (jackpot 12-18 inch area per Don's map) for the weekend.
Due to the forecast, I begged my wife to let us leave early, so after some juggling (extra night for the dog in the kennel, extra night at the hotel, kids out of school Friday), we'll be driving up there after work tomorrow, before the madness starts.
This is a family tradition for the four of us (neither my parents nor my sister's family would tolerate the cold), and after two years of not being open due to covid, the boys found out that Santa's Village is open for the season this year, and asked to go. Seeing as they're 12 and 16 and still believe in Santa (or at least pretend to), and we all love the place, we booked the trip a week or two ago.
Normally, we only go for two nights (due to school schedules), but after missing Columbus Day weekend and most of October due to 3/4 of us being sick with covid ourselves, I'm happy to have an extra day to relax, even if it's just at the hotel swimming and playing board games (and not driving through the mountains of NH during a massive snowstorm) on Friday!
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Have to admit, while I figured it out after a minute, I initially thought you were heading up here for a new acquisition, now that you're opening gaping holes in your storage area!!!
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Our plan worked! Left later than we'd hoped, but arrived in North Conway, NH right around 11 pm. Drove through a lot of mist and light rain, and didn't see snow until the last 15 miles (of the nearly 200-mile trip).
Temps were 40 °F when we left, 34 when we got here, so those flurries didn't even stick up here (YET)...
Here's the latest severe warning for up here...
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Temps were 40 °F when we left, 34 when we got here, so those flurries didn't even stick up here (YET)...
Here's the latest severe warning for up here...
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We got over 2” of rain yesterday from the storm that’s dumping snow in the northeast US today. If it had been a couple degrees, colder, it would have been a serious snow dumping here.
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Have a great time, be appropriately careful, and most of all - watch out for those IMPACTS Mike ... 
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Ha! "Impact" is someone else's trigger word (Randy or Don, I think).
Mine is "Bombogenesis." Pretty sure it's Jeremy Reiner's favorite word (Boston Channel 7 guy), he uses it just to point out when a storm is NOT caused by it...
...and, cue the mandatory Ben Stiller clip!
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Mine is "Bombogenesis." Pretty sure it's Jeremy Reiner's favorite word (Boston Channel 7 guy), he uses it just to point out when a storm is NOT caused by it...
...and, cue the mandatory Ben Stiller clip!
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TWC likes using that word too. I think you're in the 12-18" range, Mike. I can see that it's already coming down. Have fun!
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