I spent about 6 hours outside today moving snow from here to there just
trying to make room for truck deliveries, etc.

Came in the house only to receive an email from my sister regarding
the storm forecast for this coming Saturday through Monday.
She is the Deputy Director of Emergency Management for Plymouth.
(10 miles south of us).

Here's the email:

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THIS IS TO BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY -

We just got a call directly from the Taunton Weather Service. They
NEVER call us directly and we monitor their site as storms approach.

The head forecaster, the one who approves all forecasts to go out, said
he wanted to give us a heads up that the approaching storm is likely to
be like none we've seen before. He had HIGH confidence that our area is
going to get hit and when we do, it will be with 1 to 2, possibly 3 feet
of snow and blizzard like conditions at times with winds at 50-70 mph.
With the already sagging branches on trees from snow that is still on
them, there will undoubtedly be power outages, perhaps lengthy. Mobile
homes should be prepared for roof collapses.

I don't send this to alarm you, but to give you time to start thinking
seriously of what you need to do to prepare. IF, and I hope that's a
big IF, this comes to fruition the way they expect, this could be a
life-threatening storm. We are praying the NWS is wrong, but better to
be prepared however you can be than not be.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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This is insane.