Blizzard of 2013-- Northeast

[Bill Stockard]

Check into Onan residential generators. They have Cummins motors in them and are extremely reliable. I've come across a lot of them lately, and talking to the home owners, they've all been very pleased with them. Probably pretty pricey tho!

The residential air cooled standby Cummins-Onan generators I checked out were either powered by Briggs and Stratton or Subaru-Robin, depending on the size. I have an air cooled Kohler 20kw LP gas powered residential standby generator.

Bill

 

[mwilson]

We have a lot of snow but it is hard to tell how much as it is drifting so bad. My son-in-laws ice shack fliipped on it's back about an hour ago, a big gust of wind must have come up the lake... ... . Have to put that back on it's feet tomorrow.







Mike.

Got the ice shack back on its feet, not too much damage.



Sent the grandkids in through the jig hole which is in the floor (until it flips over) to pick-up all of the loose items and pass the window from the door out to us. It fell out of the door but never broke.





Drilled a hole on the ice and wrapped a chain around a short 2 x 4. Drove it down the hole and got it locked under the ice (about 14" of ice right there). Hooked a come-along to it and the ice shack, cranked it up. Worked like a charm.



I should have called FEMA... .....

Mike.

 

[moparguy]

The difference is up in the County they have room to put it. Many of my piles are 8ft high as there is limited room for storage. There is nothing like back dragging 2 1/2 feet of snow away from the garage doors because the driveway dead ends there. On the bright side, I plowed with a 9. 2 ft Boss VXT for 17. 5hrs on approx 23 gals. of fuel. I think that's pretty efficient. . All of my customers were opened up before the State roads were passable. One of my customers was so happy to see me he posted this picture on Facebook. View attachment 84208

NICE SHOT!!! Youse guys can have the snow, I'll just enjoy the cold here in NW ND. I needed to walk about 1/2 mile of pipeline I'm rerouting this morning, didn't carry the face mask,,,,BIG mistake. Looking forward to getting back home in a couple weeks, highs in the 50's and 60's

 

[BIGNASTY]

3 feet of snow!!!!! :-laf:-laf:-laf:-laf

that aint enough to harness up the mules for a workout, they would look at me and think REALLY?????? :-laf:-laf get the shovel out

 

[jhenderson]

Big. The difference is 1 foot of snow in RI has about as much water in it as 3 feet of mountain snow where you live. Up where Mike Wilson lives you can move 6 inches of fresh powder with a push broom. Down here on the sand bar, it seems to weigh as much as gravel.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Ours depends on who left the door open!!! if the Canadian boys left the door open ours is like powder no weight to it at all, if the storm comes in from the west its heavy and wet weight is a bunch different. Our average snow fall is 120 to 140 inches per year so I dont see anything wrong in the east yet.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Not to far from the house this is :-laf:-laf

3 ft of snow :-laf:-laf:-laf

We are just now getting to the bad time of the winter for snow

 

[BIGNASTY]

I haven't figured out what is the big deal. When I was stationed at Loring AFB all of this was a normal winter. In fact it was always way worse. I still remember walking out the door one morning to only see the ball of the antenna on my 69 satellite above the snow line. The engine compartment was completely packed with snow which explained the engine running very rich with no air getting to the carburetor. When I finally shoveled out the driveway to the street I needed a ladder as the plow did not make the run and with approx. 6' of snow on the road I think it would have had a rough time anyway. I didn't go to work that day



Dave

You were at Loring AFB? I lived in Base housing there, they had posted BIG SIGN'S that said no parking on curb during winter. Was laying in bed and heard one of the GIANT Oshkosh snow blowers that they used to clear the runways and streets with coming down our steet. All of sudden the I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER HIT THE FAN!!!! someone had parked a VW on the curb and the snow covered it, that Oshkosh blower ate about half that VW before it got stopped :-laf

 

[DavidC]

You were at Loring AFB? I lived in Base housing there, they had posted BIG SIGN'S that said no parking on curb during winter. Was laying in bed and heard one of the GIANT Oshkosh snow blowers that they used to clear the runways and streets with coming down our steet. All of sudden the I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER HIT THE FAN!!!! someone had parked a VW on the curb and the snow covered it, that Oshkosh blower ate about half that VW before it got stopped :-laf

Moved on base after living off base in Caribou for about a year. Residence on base was on Mehan Drive. That was probably quite spectacular with the Volkswagon parts flying out of a snow blower. Maybe that was the inspiration for the VW Jetta .

Dave

 

[BIGNASTY]

I did it the other way around I lived on Base first (cant remember the name of the street) then went to a place in Caribou across the street from the hospital. I went to Loring AFB for medical rehab I didnt have to work just get better so they could discharge me. Home of record was So Calif and wanted to be as far away as I could so I wasn't being distracted by family feeling sorry for me and doing everything for me. I tried to find work in Maine for months after discharge I wanted to stay I really liked the place.



BIG

 

[mwilson]

Big and Dave,



Please check this out for some Loring stuff. Down in the lower LH corner are links to photos of Loring in 2005. Enjoy.



http://www.all-hazards.com/loring/photos.html



Mike.

 

[Wayne M.]

I think it's all relative to what you're used to. Mu Aunt in SC said a foot of snow would devastate her area. In a heavily populated area like here, we handle it well, but too many people panic, and the media DOES NOT HELP. I do know folks in parts of CT and east of me out on the island, especially in Suffolk county "lost the storm" for a whole bunch of reasons, but in Suffolk, I'm hearing, trouble because the county execs didn't call shots to mobilize. Similar to what happened in the NYC blizzard of '10-'11.

BIG, NYC had a few of these... http://www.wausau-everest.com/models/lr-44-blower.html Had Cummins 8. 3C power, and it went on our Case 821 loaders. They were done away with- too much damage. There's a story where they were running one along a curbline in Manhattan and the chute was a bit high, and the heavy snow blew out a line of windows in a building and filled up the offices with snow... OOOPS!
Nowadays, if we get enough snow, we just move it to certain locations and melt it with these... http://www.trecan.com/webe3/snowmelters.html

 

[DavidC]

I tried to find work in Maine for months after discharge I wanted to stay I really liked the place.



BIG

Nice country indeed. It was quite isolated tho, if you did not work on base or pick potatoes there were not a lot of alternatives for work back then.



Dave

 

[BIGNASTY]

Big and Dave,



Please check this out for some Loring stuff. Down in the lower LH corner are links to photos of Loring in 2005. Enjoy.



http://www.all-hazards.com/loring/photos.html



Mike.

Thanks Mike it was a nice base the surrounding area was made for me, The base housing that I lived in was right at the edge of the forest I could just let the dog out and walk maybe 100 yards and forest so dense you couldn't see 50 ft in front of you.

Nice country indeed. It was quite isolated tho, if you did not work on base or pick potatoes there were not a lot of alternatives for work back then.



Dave

True and it seemed as if the jobs that did exist went to the locals, I had no problems with that its just that I wanted to be a local even went down to some of the bigger city's and still could not find work. Any that retired from service at that base usually stayed in the state some place. Use to go to Baxter State park to camp and climb a mountain in fall with a 6 pack of Rolling Rock to look at the change in tree color not to be believed. From the base to Caribou I didnt use the main road I took a back road trees overhang the road in fall it was magnificent.



BIG

 

[DavidC]

I was up in Vermont working at Ben and Jerry's in St. albans in 2k and we took a trip to see what a closed Loring looked like. All the enlisted base housing was gone. I spent a lot of time at the DC hangar as that was the aircraft electricians shop along with hydraulics shop. The hangar was falling apart, the concrete tarmac was crumbling. It actually brought tears to my eyes to see a base that was always busy with B52's and KC135's flying and being moved around. The 42nd FMS offices were on the opposite side of the building and was not faring so well either. The base had changed so much I did not recognize some places anymore. The steam plant was still standing tho as it was always an iconic place that stood out. There were 100's of Hummers parked there and when I inquired about them I was told they were stored there from Desert Storm. Even with 70 below windchill and snow that never seemed to end it was a good base to be stationed at. The local residents were very sociable and friendly. So to any Mainers out there I say Thank you for your kindness and generosity during that time.

Dave

Dave

 

[DavidC]

Thanks for the memories Mike

Dave

 

[jhenderson]

My Uncle Walter retired from Loring in the 70s. He was a civilian flight mechanic. I have great memories of him taking me around when I was young. I even got to see the Thunderbirds and the Snowbirds at the same air show. Not to mention the B52s flying right over the house in Ft Fairfield. I went by Loring last year while on vacation. I wish I never had.

 

[DavidC]

My Uncle Walter retired from Loring in the 70s. He was a civilian flight mechanic. I have great memories of him taking me around when I was young. I even got to see the Thunderbirds and the Snowbirds at the same air show. Not to mention the B52s flying right over the house in Ft Fairfield. I went by Loring last year while on vacation. I wish I never had.

I may have seen your Uncle who knows. I was there 72-76. We would go to the engine shop, DC hangar etc. but most of my time was on the flight line and alert duty aircraft. Being an aircraft electrician had it's perks

Dave

 

[BIGNASTY]

I may have seen your Uncle who knows. I was there 72-76. We would go to the engine shop, DC hangar etc. but most of my time was on the flight line and alert duty aircraft. Being an aircraft electrician had it's perks

Dave

My rehab at Loring was in 75/76 small world!!!