Storm quotes'n'forecasts

1. Seen earlier today: "After 11pm tonight, no cars other than emergency vehicles would be allowed on streets in the state of New York - and the Mayor de Blasio emphasized that 'a food delivery bicycle is not an emergency vehicle'."

2. On MassLive.com:

▶ Complete Blizzard 2015 coverage
▶ Gov. Baker activates 500 National Guard troops for blizzard
▶ Western Mass. parking bans for winter snowstorm announced
▶ PVTA bus service suspened
▶ Will your nearest Dunkin' Donuts location be open?

I've lived in Massachusetts long enough to find the presence of that last item unsurprising. Heck, it's downright expected.

3. The forecasts: last night, weather.gov was forecasting 21-31" for Wales. This morning, it was 22-32". It's now dropped to 18-28". I'm all but doing a happy dance over the latest numbers. Accuweather has us at 28.9"; The Weather Channel has my favorite (if untrusted) numbers with 14-21" and Weather Underground is even better at 13-20". According to MassLive.com, the top three single-storm snowfalls in Western Massachusetts have all happened since I moved here. I'll be happy if this one fails to make the top ten.

And the Award for Most Prepared goes to:

Bill Burns!

Bill and Mary Burns live down on Long Island. Bill not only has the gas tank on his Prius full and the connection set up to run the inverter from the car to provide AC power, he's also set up his house wiring so he can leave the Prius in the detached garage and send the power from it to an isolated AC circuit running back to the house so it's available for critical systems should the need arise.

He used the inverter during the Nor'easter that came in on the heels of Superstorm Sandy just over two years ago and posted details about that on the Prius forum.

To my eyes, adding the isolated AC circuit is the Perfect Artistic (Engineering-Grade) Finishing Touch.

Current snowfall total here at Toad Woods: 1"