I love it,
How many inches did you wake up to, we seem to have between 15-25", I have a large lawn on the south side of my house with a fence around the pool, and you can NOT see any of it, there is a drift between the pool house and my back doors that is around 12 feet!!! {but that is because its a U shaped channel that the wind is blowing to}...
It is still SUPER windy, but I think it was worse a few hours ago. I had to go out 3 times last night, I took the snow mobile and took my oldest son, which my wife was not happy about but he was begging me. One womens heat turned off because she has a side vented furnace that was covered in snow, then we got there and they didn't have any shovels, so I ended up running the snow mobile over it a bunch of times and restarting her furnace. Another families smoke detectors kept going off so I went and checked it out and it was because there wood stoves draft control was clogged up {not storm related, just bad timing}, and the last one was a nurse who needed a ride to the hospital, which turned out being 2 nurses, Had to take 2 trips because I had my son with me and we only seat 3 on the machine. While I was at the hospital a women and her son needed a ride home which was on the way so I left my son there went and dropped them off picked up the other nurse that needed a ride and then picked my son up when I dropped her off.
I did learn a few things, I definitely need more lights on the snow machine, and some type of strobe would be really helpful, there was no one on the road just other snow machines, but visibility was a real issue, I could only see about 15 feet in front of me, I thought I thought of everything, I had extra gloves, hats, goggles, tow straps, 2 cell phones, flares, etc, but no shovels {not smart} and not enough light on the machine, I am going to buy some big lights and a strobe light but will probably have to upgrade the battery and charging system after that..
I am not going out much today, I promised a couple more rides from the hospital which I will do in one trip {its actually a really fun ride down to the hospital, its not far and riding in the center of the high way without worrying about police ticketing you is fun...
I hope everyone is safe and comfortable, we lost power for about 3 hours which I wasnt home for much of and the gennies did their job, but looking out there now one of them is COVERED in snow the other is sheltered by that one so it isn't as bad, I may go blow them off just to be safe...