With it still coming down, we got about 15" heavy heart attack snow. ATV did not like plowing that at all. I spent 3 hrs just clearing vehicle access areas. That meant pushing snow as. Far back as possible in just those areas. LOTS of clean up ahead for another day.
I hate snow. Only hope is the northern ny got less or dragging an ice sled is really gonna suck this year.

Got another 4-5" overnight. Total is close to 2 feet now

HT,

Where abouts are you located?

Seeing HTs pictures DarDy, I'd say.... right now, in the wrong place.😫

Snow storms like that, made me very happy to have my snowblower.
and now...... sitting on the Gulf of Mexico. GOOD GRIEF, it ain't even winter yet. 🙈

I'm about 30 miles south of Albany, ny.
Albany reported 28" total snowfall

So, normal weather for you this time of year?

Snowfall, no. This is about 3rd highest record.
It's a mess this early because now we run out of room before winter even starts.
The cities will be dumping a LOT into the Hudson river trying to get rid of it

We got about 10 inches Syracuse a foot, we got ours on Sunday morning and afternoon they got freezing rain , we got snow . They got snow sunday night, we did not get much. I used the blower up an inch from the ground to clear.

Not what I want is happening. Heavy snow that's hard to move on top of non frozen saturated clay and bright sun.
Snow is soaking up water. It WILL freeze and then become ice. Any thaw that happened on the east was ice by time I got home. Applied ashes from woodstove to solid ice areas.
If I don't at least expose as much as possible to hopefully melt this week, its gonna be ugly here. Thankfully no winds or trees and power would go down.
I've already had to pile snow in areas I try to reserve for February.

No more snow for winter dance please Jack

Yes, this was NOT a Lake effecter, more of a Nor'easter.  The Eastern Seaboard and inland to HT's area,  got hammered, and even more so north of there into the 'daks, while the amounts dissipated as you go west.  Here in Rochester we had about 6", but it was even heavier than the 10" we got a couple of weeks ago.  As HT says the bottom was sitting on unfrozen ground, and there was rain to pre cede the snow, so the bottom couple of inches was just like lead, and turned to ice as soon as night fell if it was not removed.  My plow guy has had some problems with his truck, so I got out and effectively shoveled the driveway twice as I took one cut about 4" down, the picked up the bottom 2".  I also did a lot of it with a small coal shovel, so what should have taken about an hour took 4 with all the doctor mandated breaks.  And my back was beyond the reach of ibuprofen yesterday.
 
The wood ashes work great, but you have to really watch the shoes coming into the house.  But after this past fall, my kitchen is getting in industrial strength mopping later today, or tomorrow, whatever my gimpy back will allow!
 
So when was Indian Summer supposed to arrive this year?