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I can hardly believe it! It’s not even Halloween yet and we are going to get about 6″ of snow in the Boston area and over a foot to our west. It’s been raining most of the day here but has now turned to snow. It’s only 7:00 pm and it’s already covering the street. The worst is yet to come during the night when winds pick up a lot and so does the snow. They’re predicting widespread power outages. Our foliage has been a little late this year so most of our leaves haven’t even fallen yet. The leaves were looking really pretty but with all this heavy wet snow bearing down on the limbs, this can’t be good.
SW, you live in the Boston area don’t you? Anybody else in the Northeast dealing with this? Meteorologists are saying this storm will break records. Uggggghhhhh!!!!!! I just heard in my head the words to the song, “It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas”!!! I love Christmas, but Halloween first!!!!has been so crazy! I live in Central Texas and the drought and heat this summer broke all records. Our local newspaper today said that October snowfall records could be broken in parts of southern New England. It said the October snow record for New England is 7.5 inches in Worcester, MA in 1979. Let us know if it breaks that record. Sorry about the leaves. I was thinking the other day that I would like to travel to New England to see the beautiful fall leaves. We don’t have much of that at all around here. Anyway, after this past summer, all of our trees are just dead.
we pay exorbitantly enormous taxes, so that nixes the nice weather here all year long – I’d gladly take a few snowstorms…
so I guess fall has arrived. But former Hurricane Rita just dumped an enormous amount of rain on us yesterday. My pool has an overflow pipe and the rain came down so hard and fast it couldn’t keep up with it and the pool actually overflowed. Fortunately, there is a sewer drain in the back of the yard to handle things like this.
So, sorry about your early snow…I’m just looking forward to when I can turn the A/C off for a little awhile! :o) I remember that stuff from when I lived in Wisconsin and Illinois. We even got a little bit of it once when I was in California. I have a picture of snow on my roses. Glad I don’t have to live with that anymore. Well, it’s not actually the snow I don’t like, it’s the cold that always seems to go along with it.
It’s a shame if it destroyed all the colored leaves as they are one of nature’s most beautiful sights. Just stay safe on the roads, the first snow always seems to cause lots of accidents because people forget how to drive in it.
actually right near Salem. We got the rain, a little snow, but a lot of wind! The trees here aren’t happy since most haven’t dropped their leaves yet. Off to go clean the sidewalk and driveway and check around to see what has come down. I’m glad I deon’t live in the western part of MA as they got up to 21+inches! Talk about a nasty Trick or Treat! I doubt they are happy in Salem either as this is their big money making time of year.
are going to be trapped together in a snowstorm. Funny, cause I’m sure they taped those scenes over a month ago, and it’s being shown almost at the same time when an actual Nor’easter hits New England. Just thought that was a funny coincidence.
I got power back last night. Some are not expected to get power back for a week. This storm was really something. I live in Connecticut. Went out yesterday and looked at the damage. Trees down everywhere, wires down, this was a crazy storm. News this AM is saying we got between 18 and 20 inches of wet snow! It is beautiful out my window, but other places around are not as lucky!
at one time. Hope you can enjoy the beauty without it causing too much grief/problems. Sometimes Mother Nature can be pretty nasty.
in parts the record went back to the civil war, they said. This year the leaves never really got as gorgeous as they have in the past. We blamed it on the cold/watery summer. In September, some of the plants that usually bloom in the spring got very confused and came out a second time. Weird! As we were getting soaked again with floods, I was saying it’s too bad they couldn’t bring up some of those water tankers and haul some of our rain water down to Texas where they needed!
Happy Halloween everybody! I am dressed up today as a 70’s disco mama.
We got a few inches from the storm. Fortunately, it must have mixed with rain to keep the snow totals down. We lost our power twice; once Saturday night for one hour and then from Saturday night at 11:00 pm to Sunday morning at 9:30 am. It got a bit cold in the house but I had lots of layers on to sleep so it wasn’t bad at all. Amazingly, we still have a lot of leaves on our trees so we can still enjoy some color even though the colors aren’t as brilliant as in past years. There are many branches down but overall we were lucky where we live. I know the Western part of Mass. got hit very hard and so did Connecticut.
It’s so funny that I was raking leaves on Saturday and shoveling on Sunday!
and luckily didn’t lose power, cable or phone. Off to rake more leaves that came down and yes, they’re still plenty on the trees left to come down and needing to be raked.
said that about your trees coming back out. We have some here in Texas that are doing the same thing right now! I guess the drought and heat really did confuse them. Yes, I wish we did have some of your water. Seems all over the U.S. people are getting too much or not enough.
when I lived in California. I had some crocus in my back yard that were very confused. If we’d get a couple of cooler than normal days, a couple of weeks later they’d bloom. They’d sometimes bloom four or five times a year. Crazy crocus!
confused little roses and lilacs…kinda nice to see and cut for the vase on the dining table but I know the plants know it’s November…and the hummmingbirds are not flying further south because of the plants blooming. The huge black barn bees aren’t hibernating either…it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world! ~ I know you remember that one Bon!
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