23 thoughts on “February 23, 2023: Lights Out”

  1. No clue how much snow we got over night. It never really snowed at all at my house until after 9pm. Woke up to 3 foot drifts in my driveway. Weather channel says we got less than an inch in Alex. I am guessing a couple of inches in places that just blew around into large drifts all over.

    1. We must have gotten more than an inch, judging by the volume on the roads (I'd guess 6, give or take). But yes, the drifts. Oy.

  2. We got rain and a teeny bit of snow. Spring is a week away and I have yet to use the snowblower except the initial warm up at the start of the season. Forecast says freezing rain today/tonight so cool, slippery roads.

  3. Schools are closed here again today. We got a “wintery mix” that was heavy on sleet. I had an in-person presentation to give on campus yesterday afternoon, and the drive home made me thankful I took the Outback (which runs on Nokians) instead of the LeSabre. Conditions rapidly worsened. I felt bad for anyone forced to deliver pizzas or otherwise venture out on the roads last night.

  4. My parents didn't have power in WBL when they woke up this morning, but it sounds like it came back pretty quickly.

  5. I'm estimating we got about 12-14 inches here in the northern 'burbs. That new snow blower for Christmas thing is working out nicely, it seems quite prescient at the moment.

    1. I think we ended up with about 9-10” total in New Hope. I’ve shoveled maybe 15% of what eventually needs to be done between online meetings today, so I’ve still got some hours of work ahead of me.

  6. A foot of snow is not a record breaker (thank jeebus) but its still a lot of snow! (had to dig my van out of a hood-high drift to get to work this afternoon, cant image with it was like for folks living in the rural areas. That northeast wind had drifts where there usually is not drifts) Don't really understand why people are mad at the weatherfolk. I suppose its just the way of the online world, mad at everything.

    1. The biggest drift I had to work through was up to my ribs, and I'm 6'1".

      Living on a rise out in the country with no wind breaks leads to lots of drifts.

    2. We got 17 inches. That's a lot. I have a snow blower, which did not make it that painful to clear, but if I had had to shovel... that would have been really hard work.

      I'm so old, I remember when people would say better safe than sorry.

    3. Same people who say the pollsters were all wrong in 2016, even though the pollsters didn't give binary predictions

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