October Snow

I've got the best of both worlds going on right now: I've got power here at home, where I am right now because the plant where I work does not! I did have to shovel a foot and a half of snow off my driveway yesterday. Took about an hour and a half. I usually have a plow man come and take care of it, but it's so early in the season that the ground hasn't frozen yet, so the risk of tearing up the lawn is high.

I've lived in New Hampshire my whole life (except for 6 years when I was in the Navy), and it seems to me that Percy is right that we are seeing damaging storms more frequently. Probably the utilities could be doing a better job, but an inch of freezing rain is an inch of freezing rain. 40mph winds and a foot of snow on pine branches (boughs?) are going to cause power outages, period.