Northeast Gardening: Today's Weather in Your Garden - 64, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
We got on the 8:00 Steamship in Hyannis and got home around 10:30. It is not blowing yet, but we are suppose to get a whole bunch of wind tomorrow.

We lost power in Vt around 1:00 and as the snow was still coming down at a good clip, DH decided to give the road a try and headed down to the main road (RT 30) which was in good shape. So he came back and we packed up and headed south around 3:00. The 2 mile trip down to the RT 30 was a tad hairy for me, but I drove the 4 wheel drive truck down using overdrive on the uphills and gear 1 for the downhills. I made it. I was raised in Okla so have never mastered the snow driving. Then we switched cars and I drove the new van down via the Mass Pike instead of taking RT 2 which was likely to be a mess. It is a bit longer, but far easier driving. It just rained all the way once we were south of Greenfield. We had to take both the van and the truck which was a pain. The van lives on the mainland to get us between Nantucket and Vt, so we had to get it back to Hyannis and the truck which lives on Nantucket was loaded to the gills with firewood for our Island wood stove.

I would say we had a foot when we left. Pictures from this morning. Patti