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Been watching the weather and thinking about all you New Englanders. Learned a new term from the weather report. A "bomb cyclone"? That was definitely a new one on me. Please hunker down and stay safe. Praying no one loses power (again). My northern raised granddaughter recently graduated from Columbia and took a job in Florida. She is having a ball posting about all the "freak outs" in Tallahassee over their snow flurries. To her it's the funniest thing she's seen! :lau

Still no snow to speak of here (only about a foot on the ground) but the Polar Vortex continues. Another windchill advisory for tonight. Already below zero and expecting down to -35 windchills by morning. Probably won't see above zero again before Saturday when we finally have a chance of snow. I really hope we get some. The frost depth is already starting to freeze water lines in town. The way we have our water supply set up that's not a concern for us but If this cold doesn't break soon it's only a matter of time before our septic lines freeze. That happened once before a few years ago, not fun.

I hope all is fine during the freeze. It sounds terrible
 
It's down to 31 degrees here now with 4 mph sustained winds, an 15 mph gusts. It stopped raining a little while ago. They say it's going down into the high 20's tomorrow night. Not the type of cold we are used to at all, especially this early in the year.

The sides of all my coops are covered in good tarps. The top is open, but has a roof, so they have ventilation, but are dry, and protected from the winds. I bought extra hay, and piled it up pretty good. They seem cozy enough. I know it is warmer inside the coops, than outside.
 
Who said we didn't get hurricanes this far north

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Who said we didn't get hurricanes this far north

I believe it was @Latestarter ;) Of course he DID say they are just known by another name.
You folks up New England way have hurricanes, but they come in the winter and are called Noreasters... Don't know if they reach into your part of NY, but then NY has those nice arctic blasts and lake effect snows.

Yeah, we have a snow blower on our tractor... but the tractor is old ... currently not running. And wow! It is big, but I think it is powered by 2 gerbils. It takes forever to blow with that beast.. and you need to look over your shoulder and drive backwards...no cab.
That whole backwards thing is a non starter for me. Were I to get a real tractor and have a need/desire to use it for blowing snow, I'd have to spring for the much more expensive front mount blower.

Still no snow to speak of here (only about a foot on the ground) but the Polar Vortex continues. Another windchill advisory for tonight. Already below zero and expecting down to -35 windchills by morning. Probably won't see above zero again before Saturday when we finally have a chance of snow.
Yeah and THANKS for sharing that PV with US on Saturday @chickisoup !! Today we get the western side of the Atlantic coasts snowstorm. Only half as much predicted as @superchemicalgirl will be seeing though.
 

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