(So far) cloud boy has been spot on. Models showed Littleton not getting a whole lot. We’re around 3-4 inches now, radar looking good.

We’ve had about a foot across three events this week. I wasn’t looking forward to another foot today. 4-6 not too bad if we can end around there.

Nice to see the southern part getting hammered like usual.

My snowblower got trashed. Some oil is leaking out. The starter cord ripped off but it has a plug in option thankfully. A shear pin... sheared. I'm guessing if I bring it in for repairs I won't see it until August though.

I had about 8” at 7am in…undisclosed town bordering Peterborough. Expecting another 6

The small engine trap!

Always fail when you're using them, but if you can't fix it yourself then you're doomed to the long wait list effectively leaving you without the tool you depend on when you need it the most.

Portsmouth is getting some wet snow. It's starting to pile up now. Not great for shoveling, but a direct hit with a snowball will take you off your feet.

It would be great but unfortunately we can’t find any plows guys that want to work. My husband has been out straight plowing with all these storms and I’m pretty worried about his stress level.

Which is why one should learn how to do their own maintenance and repairs. Snowblowers are very easy to work on, but if you keep ignoring annual maintenance that will eventually bite you in the ass.

I guess it depends where you are in the state. Down south here it's above freezing but the snow is coming down faster than it can melt. I'm not looking forward to shoveling.

I don't disagree with this in general. I am able to maintain most of my small engines with the assistance of youtube videos or some experience. Emphasis on most.

But not everyone has the time, or the tools and it's not really reasonable to expect everyone in a population to do this.

For example, would you expect someone who stores their snowblower in a shed and does not have a garage to service their failed snowblower in the middle of winter? You know, that time of year where its cold as fuck and dark at 430? This is the real world, not a dick waving contest about who is man enough to service some tool that they only care about what it does, not how it works.

Coming down pretty good in Nashua right now, we've had 2" fall since I dragged my ass out of bed at 8.

That's why you do maintenance in the warm months, so your not doing repairs in the winter, not hard to figure out, even for a dick.

I'm not touching it until tomorrow

Plow guys work but they have jobs lined up. You have to get ahead of it you can’t call them the morning of and expect them to show up. Money talks $

it looks beautiful.

I love that we finally have snow but the density is absolutely brutal to shovel 😬

I have had more problems with plow guys... nobody can do a gravel driveway without shearing off the top layer and leaving it in a pile at the end. I'd pay $100+ for every plowing if someone could come at the right time (after the snow stops) and do it carefully.

I fired 4 of them and ended up just buying a 36" snowblower so I can do it myself in about 2 hours, not counting all the shoveling.

You’re not kidding!

It's also not hard to figure out that even with proper maintenance a machine with several moving parts is still susceptible to failure. I owned a Subaru in the 80s, so believe me, I'm an expert on this one.

It’ll just become a block of ice, overnight low is 22 in my area.

No, my husband IS a plow guy but he can’t find anyone to pay to work with him. Plow guys work their asses off

My husband is the plow guy.

That they do. The way you worded that before you edited it made it seem like you were trying to hire a plow guy. My apologies.

good I can drive right over it then

I'll go ahead and disagree. If you own tools, you should know how to maintain them. If you can't do major repairs, that's fine but know how to keep them running and store them properly. No need to pay hundreds more over time than you paid for the tool in the first place.

> but if you can't fix it yourself then you're doomed to the long wait list

This seems like a good opportunity for a side-gig for the mechanically inclined. Although most of the small-engine places tend to have shelves, drawers, and cubbies filled with the odd gasket, spring, or other part. Maybe that's the real issue with wait times?

40s the next few days too lol. Let the melt begin. Spring will be here in half a blink!

In five years they will probably ban gas lawnmowers and snowblowers. Vermont and a few states have already come for gas blowers. Its only a matter of time.

Sure, that sounds perfectly reasonable, but I am not sure what point you're arguing against. Knowing how to service and repair something is one thing but availability or circumstance is another. I can change my cars motor oil no problem most of the year but jacking up my car on my driveway in February sucks and I wouldn't fault someone for outsourcing that task to a service garage.

I guess. Personally I'd never trust any garage with my stuff. You do what you need to buddy!

Im sure this will get downvoted because everyone loves cloudboy apparently but he has been way off for the dover area the last few storms. We got like 5" for this storm instead of a foot like predicted. Wmur has been more accurate

sun trying to pop out here in Kingston, still a few flakes straggling about.

The country is at a fifty-year record for low unemployment. The only way the phrase ‘nobody wants to work’ holds any water is if you add ‘for the low wages I’m offering’ at the end of it.

You have a gravel driveway. That’s what happens when you have a gravel driveway. It’s not a question of ‘doing it carefully’, it’s simple physics. The snow freezes to the material on the top layer and it all gets pushed up by the plow.

You might be able to find a guy who would be willing to put shoes on his plow to lift the blade off the surface, but that would leave behind a layer of compacted ice on the entire driveway that I’m sure you would be equally displeased by and fire him too.

The area of Meredith I'm in had 9-10 inches. It had enough moisture to make it a bit heavy but my dog had the best time chasing snowballs. Usually it's too light and fluffy for snowball making.

Ice is fine, that's what I do with my snowblower. Leave an inch or two of compacted snow and let it freeze. It doesn't make it any more difficult to drive in and I either use shoe spikes or there's enough snow left on the surface that it isn't slippery.

I put cat litter down around the area leading to my door if it gets really slippery so delivery drivers don't slip.

Tag me next time so I can at least defend my forecast; part of the reason why people like me is I'll tell you why it didn't pan out as expected. The southern end of the 12-16" band in Dover & Rochester is the only notable bust in the forecast grids for the entire state; that's a win any day, especially given the level of detail provided in my last forecast here!

The reason behind the shortfall is thermal profiles (which I discussed at length in previous posts) were abysmal both at the start and remained that way over your neck of the woods for the majority of the event. Your storm average dry & wet-bulb temperatures hovered between 32-33 degrees, a clear signal that snow ratios were not great. Also consider that totals eclipsed 14" a mere ~15 miles to your north, it was that fine of a line. As for WMUR's forecast, they had you in the 8-14" blob so they a) weren't more accurate and b) technically busted by fewer inches than I did.

Total suckfest using the snow blower. The bottom layer icified so the machine kept riding up if I went faster than FWD 1. Took over an hour and half to snow blow the driveway (though my driveway is quite long). Pretty sure we got 8"+ like /u/TheCloudBoy predicted.

I plowed all around that area today.. was about a foot. You were close enough. Keep doing your thing 🍻

Agreed. Hes been off for me too but I'd say thats typical of 'predicting' weather so I get it. I'm not going to bash the dude but I aint gonna suck him off either.It's like any other job that involves guess work like a fortune teller. I mean, You kinda know but....You don't really know do you? Lol

Keep in mind it’s a simple machine but I’ve seen some educated people loose fingers to snowblowers. Don’t write them off if you don’t know that you are doing.

That’s the spirit!

It really does. Chill snow on a nice low 30s day with no wind is the best.

Wtf. How is this old school nh snow storm. You born 10 years ago?

Im certainly not going to be perfrct at every 2.5 km (1.55 mi) grid cell in the map I shared, what town?

I’m in Dover and got nearly a foot this storm

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Rule 1: Never trust a beer out of a fridge in a house with an uncleared driveway.

😂

Imagine having this guy on your route? Yeesh! No thanks!

Well it's not exactly optional, either deliver packages or quit and find a better job.

I don't drink so you'll have no problem there.

Are you offended by my tales of how I keep my driveway?

Wish it came during Christmas 😢

Any professional daring enough to share their expert perspectives on a social media platform, with the goal of appeasing anybody, is going to combine the passion of their craft with the feedback of people who have none.

With your successes, there will become a game of identifying your failures. It feels amazing to point out someone else is wrong, the reward exists and some people collect it.

Engagement is the onramp to burn-out. As one professional to another, I encourage you to find ways to throw all your fan mail in the trash. I win arguments at work all the time but I have never won a single argument on Reddit.

He's said up to 20" inches this weekend. NOAA shows rain all day for the seacoast, ending with potential snow that looks like it will just melt on impact.