Winter

Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 – Wikipedia

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Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 – Wikipedia

The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 was a large extratropical cyclone which moved through the Eastern United States, causing significant winds, heavy rains east of the Appalachians, and blizzard conditions along the western slopes of the mountain chain. Hurricane-force winds, peaking at 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) in Concord, New Hampshire and 160 miles per hour (260 km/h) in the New England highlands, disrupted power to 1,000,000 customers during the event. In all, the storm impacted 22 states, killing 353, injuring over 160, and creating US$66.7 million in damage (1950 dollars). At the time, U.S. insurance companies paid more money out to their policy holders for damage resulting from this cyclone than for any other previous storm or hurricane. The cyclone is also one of only twenty-six storms to rank as a Category 5 on the Regional Snowfall Index.

In November 1950, the Great Appalachian Storm of 1950, during the weekend of Thanksgiving knocked out power for 1 million Americans and knocked down 800,000 acres of timber in the Adirondack Park and produced record breaking snow in Ohio.
This storm produced 108 mph winds in Newark, NJ -- the strongest winds ever recorded in New Jersey, and Albany had sustained winds at 50-60 MPH for hours, with a gust recorded at 83 MPH.
 
So yes, we can have very bad weather in late November, and it's not only blizzards that can hit then.

I Jumped A Tractor With My Snowmobile

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Levi Lavallee visits the farm and I break the township record jumping a tractor with my snowmobile. Onyx also got to take some jumps and pull some wheelies on Levi's two seater snowmobile.

I actually kind of like these gray winter days

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I actually kind of like these gray winter days… ☁

The colors are soft earth tones. The land is real, it is exposed. Cold to a degree but it reminds us of our toughness. The air has a tinge of earth and manure on it, you can almost taste it in your tongue. Things are frozen, they are dorment for a few more months until the seasons change once again. There is a kind of stillness to the woods only occasionally broken. 

I was really hoping to get out of town this weekend, but once again the winter weather has defeated me

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I was really hoping to get out of town this weekend, but once again the winter weather has defeated me. 🌨

It looks like based on the forecast that Brookfield is getting a half inch of ice today and 7 1/2 inches of snow tomorrow, and it will have a low of negative 2 on Saturday. There is no way in hell I’m getting my truck back to even the Moscow Hill Horse Camp for an overnight and not getting stuck, even if I could off the road. Plus negative two is much too cold.

And then Johnsburg forecast for camping off NY 8 is even more of a joke. They’re getting a third of an inch of freezing rain plus 8 inches of snow tomorrow. That’s on top of the foot of snow they already have, so not much of a chance of parking anywhere along NY 8. And it’s going to be negative 11 degrees on Saturday night.

So I think I can safely cross off going camping this weekend. But alas, only 3 weeks to March and 10 weeks until April 15th. Before you know it, summer weekends up at Piseco-Powley Road will be back or so I tell myself.