I'm just going outside and may be away some time

[sovay]

I just hacked a foot and a half of solid ice off my recycling bins with a metal spade so that I could take out the trash tonight. That was a lot more Scott of the Antarctic than I was expecting from a Monday night.

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[heavenscalyx]

We have not yet cleared our front walk. I haven't even tried to see how deep it is out there. I know that the snow on one of our third floor roofs is up to the middle of my chest, and I don't dare try to clear any of it because the second floor roof below it is badly in need of repair.

[umadoshi]

Ack. I hope there was a warming drink of some sort after you finished with that!

[yhlee]

O.o

I've...never lived through that much snow, even when we lived in Missouri, I don't think.

Stay warm!

[kore]

It is so weird hearing about all my East Coast friends get horribly blitzed because we are at the lowest snow level since the state started keeping records http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2025656599_nosnowxml.html What climate change?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

But did you keep the mineral samples?

[sovay]

But did you keep the mineral samples?

No, but in these temperatures I very much doubt those chunks of ice are going anywhere fast.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

seriously. I think everyone in the Boston area (and frankly it's pretty bad here, but not quite Boson-level bad) can say those words IN THEIR OWN HOMES BECAUSE THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH ENCASED IN SNOW AND ICE.

Hang in there.

[sovay]

IN THEIR OWN HOMES BECAUSE THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH ENCASED IN SNOW AND ICE.

derspatchel needs to take pictures of our icicle situation, because not only do we have five-foot icicles daggering down outside our kitchen window, we have horizontal icicles under the front eaves. I guess that's what gale-force winds plus a lot of snow are for.

Hang in there.

Thank you. We're staying warm. The cats are very helpful with that.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Yoiks. For once, I am glad we do not HAVE trash bins in this neck of the woods.

(OTOH, we DO have parking bans. Hello, freezing-cold dawn tomorrow.)

[sovay]

For once, I am glad we do not HAVE trash bins in this neck of the woods.

I have to say it was worse than I was expecting. It took about five minutes of concerted whanging with a heavy shovel before the ice started to split and calve off. I'm sure it's already building up again, but our last two weeks of recycling (and an ordinary week of trash, but that doesn't mean I want it around) are not our problem anymore.

(OTOH, we DO have parking bans. Hello, freezing-cold dawn tomorrow.)

(We don't have a car, which simplifies this problem considerably.)

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Yes, but are they going to come pick it up? I have serious doubts that they are going to come pick it up.

[sovay]

Yes, but are they going to come pick it up? I have serious doubts that they are going to come pick it up.

I share your skepticism: I didn't take the bins out to the curb. I just wanted the trash and recycling out of our kitchen. That wasn't possible without de-icing the bins, which wouldn't open for the weight of compacted snow and roof-drip freezing them shut. There were stalactites.

[ckd]

I'm just letting bags pile up on the landing of the back stairs. I'm pretty sure there's a trash can outside that door somewhere, but doubt I'm going to find it any time soon....

(If they are picking up this week, I'll just lob the bags onto the giant freaking snow berm or something I guess. Recycling will wait because there's no way I can roll that bin through the house, and outside the back door there's snow up to my hips.)

[zdenka]

You're more stalwart than I am. I saw that our recycling bins were solidly frozen into a snowbank and just decided to leave them there. Possibly until Spring.

[gwynnega]

Yikes. Keep warm!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I salute your determination!

According to The Guardian, Boston has had 73.9 inches of snow so far this winter. Gleep. Thaw will mean great continents of ice calving, and sliding thunderously off roofs.

Nine

[sovay]

According to The Guardian, Boston has had 73.9 inches of snow so far this winter. Gleep.

That matches my mother's estimation of sixty inches in her back yard, allowing for some melting and settling. She's five foot one.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Don't lose her!

Nine

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

Yeep, 6 feet! Never saw that much in the years I was there.