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  1. I have my eye on it. Hoping a gradual warm-up will "clear the deck" a bit, so to speak, in advance of the main storm. The target of the AR has shifted around the past several days, and I suspect it will continue to do so. In 2021 (the BIG flood), it seemed like it locked on Whatcom County early and never wavered.
  2. That was me, and it's a pretty commonly-used phrase in northern Whatcom County. I think Phil mentioned that calling it a "thaw" is a bit odd, given that it's basically the opposite, which is fair. However, locally anyway, ZR events seem to be most likely to occur at the back end of over-running events, meaning their arrival tends to coincide with the transition from snowfall to snowmelt. Not sure if that's the real reason locals call it that.....but it works for me.
  3. Whatcom Transit Authority fully shut down bus service during the storm on Wednesday. The last time they did so was in.....1996. Cascadia Daily
  4. I call it "Tapwater Without Ice Season" and celebrate its arrival every year. And since we're talking about tapwater, peep the blue signs, cuz every place needs to be known for something.
  5. It's been a nice run, but finally getting out of the icebox tonight after give-or-take 180 straight hours below freezing. Will be interesting to see how quickly this disappears.
  6. I had the same setup in my previous house that i was renting, and didnt have a generator at the time. I could at least warm up the living room with the power out, so long as i had the pilot light lit (which i generally did from mid-October through March). Here is your answer, btw:
  7. I probably have the same one. I have a natural gas furnace, so heating my house doesn't take much juice, which means I can realistically run pretty much anything I want off of it, as well as running a line to my neighbors when an outage persists.
  8. Nice! Even though I'm a bit more windsheltered than the rest of Sumas, I still have pretty sizeable drifts around the house, so I'm not going to bother estimating final totals. It's 6.5 inches on the deck railings, so start there, and anything beyond that is a bonus, I suppose.
  9. Visibility much improved in the last 3 hours. But the drifts are super soft, and now a semi truck got stuck and is blocking the highway.
  10. It's not for everyone; for a lot of reasons that aren't all totally weather-related. My wife is from Southern California and HATES the weather here. But we wouldn't move at least until our youngest is done with school in another decade. And since we bought our house in 2020 and are locked in at 2.7%, it might be a lot longer than that.
  11. Chilliwack always seems to do well. Even when Abbotsford is skunked by the outflow. That part of the valley can get some pretty nasty ZR sometimes, though.
  12. I have a small forested area to the northeast of my house that protects me a bit from the worst of the outflow winds. So I was not expecting it to be as strong as it is. Basically a near-total whiteout once you get to the more exposed areas of town. Drifts are building up very rapidly.
  13. Coming down at a pretty good clip. Ignore the string lights hanging down from the pole. I laid the other poles down when the wind was ripping last week out of fear that one would come crashing through my sliding glass door.
  14. My mom helped deliver a baby on the pool table of our volunteer fire station during the December 1996 snowstorm. They were a family passing through town and trying to cross the border, before getting stuck in blizzard conditions. She still has a newspaper clipping of that story floating around somewhere.
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