Winter Storm Watch Keweenaw

[mezz]

The NWS Marquette has issued a Winter Storm Watch for Sunday 7pm to Monday 7pm for the UP. Accumulation of 1 to 2 feet of snow is possible. Winds could gust in excess of 60 mph along the lakeshore and in the Keweenaw causing whiteout conditions. The Storm Watch may be upgraded to a Blizzard Warning if conditions permit.

 

[hermie]

We could use a little more snow but not those winds again.

 

[mezz]

The NWS has amended the Winter Storm Watch to Blizzard Warning. Snow accumulations of 14 to 21 inches are are possible with more likely in the higher terrains. Winds expected to gust in excess of 65 mph in the Keweenaw. Wide spread power outages are possible due to downed tree limbs.
Let's hope the severity of this is not worse than or a repeat of the Thanksgiving storm. Fingers crossed .

 

[garageguy]

Cool

 

[whitedust]

If I had to do it again and I mean that in a good way first improvement would be a propane full house generator.

 

[dfattack]

If I had to do it again and I mean that in a good way first improvement would be a propane full house generator.

Agree with this except if natural gas is available you never have to top off the propane tank.

 

[whitedust]

Agree with this except if natural gas is available you never have to top off the propane tank.

Nat gas wasn’t available

 

[old abe]

The NWS has amended the Winter Storm Watch to Blizzard Warning. Snow accumulations of 14 to 21 inches are are possible with more likely in the higher terrains. Winds expected to gust in excess of 65 mph in the Keweenaw. Wide spread power outages are possible due to downed tree limbs.
Let's hope the severity of this is not worse than or a repeat of the Thanksgiving storm. Fingers crossed .

AMEN

 

[old abe]

If I had to do it again and I mean that in a good way first improvement would be a propane full house generator.

Yup, spot on whitedust! We've had ours for years now, and it just gives you a very secure feeling. Always worried when we would be away from home.

 

[goofy600]

Still have to have someone checking on generator, as I have one and the Thanksgiving storm wind was blowing so much it wound up getting into the intake and plugging the air filter and shut it down then when trying to restart killed the battery. So when I got home had to clean all the snow out of it charge the battery to get it back running. Now working on moving battery into the garage to eliminate battery issues and building a secondary box around generator to help keep snow out in the future. So they are not fool proof.

 

[dfattack]

I remember one year we had a power outage in December for over 12 hours and all my Christmas lights were on and my neighbors kept asking me if we had power when the rest of the street was off. We were the only house with power on the street.

 

[old abe]

Still have to have someone checking on generator, as I have one and the Thanksgiving storm wind was blowing so much it wound up getting into the intake and plugging the air filter and shut it down then when trying to restart killed the battery. So when I got home had to clean all the snow out of it charge the battery to get it back running. Now working on moving battery into the garage to eliminate battery issues and building a secondary box around generator to help keep snow out in the future. So they are not fool proof.

What brand Gen Set was that goofy? I have a Kohler, and its literally been buried in blowing snow, and never had that happen?