10 Inches in May

[theGinsue]

If the ridge of snow on the top of my fence is any indication, we've got 10"+ of wet heavy snow here in the NE-ish side (Powers/Dublin) area of COS.

Very little stuck to the roads or sidewalks though, so that's good. Hope my trees and Lilac bush can survive this. I've still got ratching straps around a tree that got damaged in the snow that came 3 yrs ago this week.

[Seamonkey]

Nice blanket of heavy wet snow here! w00t w00t!

I'm on well water and this year I had an electrician install a generator hookup to the house. It's a manual process to switch over and gives me a 50 amp circuit for the house.
The connection is outside (due to generator fumes)
Fire up the generator, connect the generator outlet to the transfer box.
Inside the house panel they installed a neat plastic guard that prevents the main breaker and the new circuit from being live at the same time.
Turn off the main breaker from the grid.
Slide the plastic guard up which locks the main fuse OFF and allows the new circuit to be turned ON

reverse the order to restore


Buy enough generator for your water well motor requirements. Maybe get an even larger generator to support more house circuits pending your needs. I have a 1HP motor and chose the dual fuel (gas/propane) Sportsman GEN7500DF for the 7500 surge Watts/ 6000 running Watts.
Preferred fuel is propane to avoid the issues found when leaving a gas engine unattended in storage. Bought extra BBQ tanks that also fuel alternate cooking (camp stove with appropriate adaptor) and space heaters (crack a window)

[.455_Hunter]

I will give Xcel credit where credit is due. They have been working heavily over the past couple of years to trim problematic trees from the power line right-of-ways and it seems to have paid-off. We only had one session of extend outage (a couple of hours) and everything thing else has been just the short 30 sec to 2 minute breaker reset periods. I am sure also having the generator prepped and ready to go ensures power loss will be negligible (isn't that the way things work?).

The winter wonderland is not what I expected for May 21st...

[10x]

18 inches of heavy wet snow northwest colo springs.
Lots of tree damage despite knocking snow off several times, the last being 2:30 am this morning.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Taken this morning from a bedroom window. It?s correctly portrait on my iPad and on other applications but comes up landscape on the forum.

[XJ]

8" and still more coming down, so glad I procrastinated on planting tomatoes last weekend

[BladesNBarrels]

Mother Nature trimmed the 80 year old Cottonwood in back of the house during the night.
We call it the Tree of Life because of the number of birds and critters that visit it.
Not a very neat job.
Neighbor just got out of his hot tub and said he heard continuous cracking and limbs falling while he was in it.
I guess the job is not done yet.

[earplug]

Neighbors tree down over my power line. I'm running my generator bought with COVID stimulus.

[eddiememphis]

Sun is out and the landscapers have the entire complex cleaned up. One and a half trailer loads.

[BPTactical]

Taken this morning from a bedroom window. It?s correctly portrait on my iPad and on other applications but comes up landscape on the forum.

So much snow it stuck sideways!