The snow started early this morning, and by now we have 8 to 10 inches. There's supposed to be a lull in the snowfall in the late afternoon before it starts snowing like a motherfrakker again around dinnertime. If we don't end up with at least a couple of feet of snow by the time the storm passes in the late morning tomorrow, I'll be very surprised ( Read more... )

I'm safe, warm, and dry here in Vermont, and wherever you are, I hope you and yours are, too. Having heavy rain here (heavier than last night, actually), but the wind has died down. The power hasn't so much as flickered at our house, although there are outages elsewhere in the state ( Read more... )

You guys, I'm still traumatized by what Hurricane Irene did to my area of Vermont and the state as a whole. This time with Hurricane Sandy there's supposed to be a lot more wind and less flooding here. Not necessarily better, if it's your house that a tree flattens. We have a lot of large trees near our house, some of which are certain to lose ( Read more... )

We're still here, as are our house and our new bridge. We lost a chunk of the lower garden to stream erosion and I'm running a dehumidifier in the living room to dry out a corner of a rug that the skylight dripped on. We lost power for about an hour last night. For us, that's it ( Read more... )

So far, we're fine, our house is fine, and it looks like the brand-new bridge down the road is probably going to make it after all (it was touch-and-go for a while; the water rose to less than a foot under the roadbed), but our valley and Vermont in general are getting frakking slammed by flooding, even worse than what was forecast ( Read more... )

Mostly just heavy rain and moderate wind so far at my house. Stream and brook quite high. One of our skylights is leaking in three places and rain is blowing under the cap atop the pipe for our wood stove and dripping down onto the stove, but nothing a few containers can't catch. The power flickers occasionally, but so far it has stayed on for us ( Read more... )

1) It's snowing. Quite heavily. Well, this is Vermont, where, if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes. I can remember it snowing in June once. No way this'll stick, since the ground has thawed and the air temperature is 36°F. I feel bad for the poor daffodils, though. Not so good for flowers ( Read more... )

THIS WINTER IS NEVER GOING TO END, IS IT ( Read more... )