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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Timothy on February 15, 2015, 06:02:38 PM
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Worcester, MA has the highest snow total in the country this season of 103 inches. May not last long but we're near 60 inches above normal!
My town is near 102 and my thirty year old re-built Toro is handling it like a brandy new blower. Granted, it's been below 25° for near a month now so it's light and fluffy!
I am getting a bit tired of the weekly snowfall but I'll never tire or stop helping the old folks around me! My 90 year old Vet pal is always thankful with a shot of Chivas...I'm clearing at least three drives every snowfall.
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there is no snow out west. even ski resorts are offering up to 90% off lift tickets right now. it's going to be an extremely dry year
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New England ski areas have had a good January and February but it sucked prior to that.
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What's "snow"? 8)
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What's "snow"? 8)
it looks like cocaine, but is cold.
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Frozen pipes this morning! :(
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We, Atlanta, are in that in-between zone. The fronts can't seem to make up their mind whether to go north or south of here. They don't know if it's going to snow, freeze or or have blistering heat.
We are fortunate that we don't have mounds and mounds of snow. I visited Freeport, ME a while back and asked about the 10' tall, red-tipped fiberglass whips attached to each fire hydrant. Now I understand.
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What's "snow"? 8)
It's the crap you left behind in PA, Haz!
:D
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Up here we have gotten quite a bit of snow the last 6 weeks, but nothing near what we got in 2001 or 2006.
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I don't know about the total but we had almost a foot of snow in one two day storm. It's the one time this winter I plowed my driveway. The rest of the winter we only got an inch or two at a time. I've been shoveling the sidewalk most of the time but not the driveway. The last time it snowed the wind blew it away and I didn't have anything to shovel. We had record lows last night but no snow so I'm not complaining. Much. ;)
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Snow in Western PA has been below normal. However, Winter isn't going to give us a break as its been colder than average. Woke up this morning to -8. Might even be colder at the end of the week.
I do miss sort of miss the big snows when I lived up just North of Worcester. At least I could cross country ski every year for most of the Winter. Not always the case here.
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We'll take snow, and we will take cold, but WE HATE WIND!!!
Wind sucks the heat out of everything faster, it messes with the air inlets in the barns, it relocates the snow in the way constantly, and it makes climbing bins very uncomfortable and dangerous. Did I forget to mention trying to control a 700 square foot aluminum sail on the highway with a cross wind?
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Woke up to 14" this mornin' here in extreme southern WV! Still snowin' as I post this. :-\
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McGyver, I'm in northern WV only got 2" total from storm.
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no snow in Phx, 80 degrees.
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More coming tonight, only a couple inches. 5 below this am.
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no snow in Phx, 80 degrees.
Ain't it a bitch? I played golf today. ;)
Had to use the AC in the truck on the way home. Oh woe is me!!!
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On a lighter note...
Near Boston...no fire restrictions until May or April..
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Speaking of Boston .
As they clean up the streets I wonder how many "Smart" cars are being scooped up and dumped in the river with no one even noticing ? ;D
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Still no snow here. They are talking we may get an inch or so tonight, but I will believe it when I see it - We are bouncing between lows of -10 and highs of single digits above zero.
Fun part is that the wind continues, and climbing bins in a 20 to 35 mph wind is a pure joy. Fifteen to twenty feet in the air, in an open field, on a slippery ladder, 26 times. Actually only 25 times. Of the three bins at our home barn two bins are close enough together that I can stand on one ladder and lean over to the other bin roof.
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The industrial park where my shop is located used to have an indoor sports dome thingy until about a week ago when it collapsed under the weight of the snow.
No one was using it and it recently changed hands to a new owner who was going to try and get a business going in there again. Looks like a total loss..
Lots of buildings failing around here and in Boston. Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize that a Cape style home is really the only one they should build in this part of the world.
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It baffles me how people/companies, can be so stupid as to build a flat roofed building in New England and then ignore the snow piling up on it.
On the other hand Obama is in his 2nd term so intelligence of any sort is probably pretty rare.
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My BIL and I cleared mine, the wind did some of it as well. All fluffy stuff but add an inch of rain to that and you're asking for trouble.
Better to be safe.
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No snow here. High of 79 today. Tonight a low of 51.
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It baffles me how people/companies, can be so stupid as to build a flat roofed building in New England and then ignore the snow piling up on it.
On the other hand Obama is in his 2nd term so intelligence of any sort is probably pretty rare.
They are actually shifting to flatter roof barns in our area. They can engineer the trusses to handle the same load, and the flatter roofs do not collect as much snow as steeper pitched roofs do. The trials have shown that the snow blows off rather than collecting. In the case of heavy wet snow that does not blow, it collects on both styles the same. We will see what time brings.
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You have constant wind out there, so it might work. It only collects on the flatter pitched roofs around here. The real old colonial farm houses have a pitch that will split a rain drop just so the snow WON'T stay. They are a royal b!tch to reshingle though because you need staging, and ladder brackets for everything .
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Here in Lexington KY we got over 10" in one day, followed by 2-3" the next day. And then the sub-zero temps - this town is just not cut out for this. Univ. of KY (SEC, 25-0 so far this year) has been shut down for 4 or 5 days this week, and they never close - something like only 3 other times in recent history. They will be playing b-ball tomorrow night though, they ain't stupid enough to cancel that!
Having moved here from ND, I have to chuckle at all of the semi-hysterical weather people in KY. I do admit I got kinda homesick Tuesday during the "blizzard" Tuesday, but I sure did miss my snowblower too. Had to clear that 12+ inches by hand. It may have been "fluffy" snow, but after the third time during the storm, well, a blower would have been nice. And I traded my ranch pickup (F350 quad cab with the 7.3l Powerstroke diesel) so I didn't have that to combat the imbeciles who were told to stay home - and clearly should have - but went out anyway apparently to get milk, eggs and bread.
As for flat roofs, they have those in ND. Normally the snow blows sideways so it usually blows off the roofs. When it doesn't, the snow removal people use a crane to lift the snowblowers on the roof to clear it manually. NBD. Apparently too sophisticated for the NE though.
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I heard a story this morning about a guy in Mass that went out to rake the roof and got buried in 10' of snow. :o
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry for the guy..
His wife found him 4 hours later, according to the story.
Kennesaw finally got snow this year last night. 4", I think is what they said. In AL where I was got 7", and Guntersville, just north of there got 11".
Finally got to partake of some of that bread and milk.. ;D
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We only had a fraction of an inch last night so I'm not shoveling. Most of our snowfalls have been really small with one big exception. There's a chance of snow tonight, Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday and Tuesday night, and next Thursday. It sounds bad but half of those days are a smallish chance like 30-40%. I'll be surprised if it totals more than 2" for the week.
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Here in the secondary snow belt of ne Ohio we have probably had less than 2 feet of snow total. That is below normal for us! What has been killing us is the extreme cold. Many of our "Snow Days" have actually been "COLD DAYS"! Second year in a row that many of the local wineries have lost all or most of their vines which translates to their grape harvest/wine production. It's going to take several years to bounce back if they are able to stay in business.
Richard
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We've had school closings because of the cold too. Some days the wind chill was low enough to get frostbite in under 10 minutes. Not good for kids waiting for the bus or walking a few miles like I did. At least it didn't snow most of those days. I like to look at at the good side of it.
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I'm home, and I'm safe! Thank God!
Took big blue and 172 of my closest friends to Sioux Falls this morning. Was scheduled for 2:00pm dock, but with the weather forecast I was able to bump it up to 5:00am. Thankfully I did! Trip out went great, but while I was there the sleet and snow started. By the time I finished at the wash out I had to use the axle locks to pull away at lights. The first sixty miles was a joy with the ice rink roads, but then I turned NE up the next highway, and the 35 mph tail wind turned into a broadside on 690 square feet of light weight aluminum :'(
If I had stayed with the original dock I would most likely just be getting called in now (3:15pm). Last trip I had a 10:30pm, and I didn't get called up until 1:10am. As I came in a half hour ago the visibility was down to about 100' - 10' in the open areas, and they still have a couple parts to replace on the pickup from the last time this happened.
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We've had school closings because of the cold too. Some days the wind chill was low enough to get frostbite in under 10 minutes. Not good for kids waiting for the bus or walking a few miles like I did.
Same here but I found it ironic when school is canceled because of cold many of the kids are outside anyway playing outside. Heck I know I did the same as a kid too.
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We had 3 inches of snow and there's no more in the forecast for the next 7 days. I love this part of Michigan. No lake effect snow and a fraction of what they get in the U.P.
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It was 82 here in south GA today. :P
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We made it 39!
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Same here ! ;D
I've been noting temps all winter, Tuesday was the warmest day we've had this year, I'll have to check the old calender to see how far back into last year.
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Here in Florida, we've had more than two feet of sunshine every day for the past week. Temps are dropping into the 70s with kids getting frostbite only by sticking their tongues into the freezers at home.
On the bright side, lots of you damn Yankees are leaving large sums of money at our tiki bars and beach-side restaurants. Still, Canadians don't tip the wait staff, so there's that.
Thinking warm thoughts,
Crusader Rabbit
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They call the Me/NH coast the "Canadian Riviera" . The main thing to remember is that French Canadians suck .
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We made 12 below last night, and it is still 6 below. Promises are that we have seen our last sub-zero until the end of the year. Early next week they are forecasting 50's.
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They call the Me/NH coast the "Canadian Riviera" . The main thing to remember is that French Canadians suck .
I rented a house on the beach in ME some decades back and a posse of French Canadian beauties rented the place next door.
Spent the next seven days enjoying the bevy of beauties go topless most of the day... ;D They'd cover up when a life guard passed by but most didn't bother them..
THAT DID NOT SUCK!
The bruises from getting smacked by the wife smarted a bit, though! 8) She just didn't understand the cultural exchange that was happening...
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No naked quebekkers to report here.
Just got in from shoveling 14" of the white global warming. I want to remind everyone that I moved AWAY from North Dakota 20 months ago, I am now in Lexington KY. Kentuckians are not used to this kind of nonsense. Some of the schools in the SE part of the state have been closed for 3 weeks now - 3 WEEKS!
The University of KY is closed today, and they were closed for 3 days 2 weeks ago. Their rep is that they never close too.
Western KY has had over 20" of snow, more than 2 feet in some places.
BTW, it was 60 degrees yesterday and raining, then the front came through. Supposed to be sub-zero tomorrow morning. Glad I kept my arctic-grade Carhartts!
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Tim, the reason blondes do not wear skirts in Ogunquit is because their testicles get cold. ;D
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Tim, the reason blondes do not wear skirts in Ogunquit is because their testicles get cold. ;D
Yea...Ogunquit is a place of wonders for sure! Regardless of the plethora of homosexuals in town, it's still got some charm. Balls ain't too charming, though!
There is a freekin' great bakery right on the Post road just north of the corner that goes down to the beach. If you're up there check it out... Chocolate shop is a few doors down... I go with the wife so the locals know I'm not available!
;)
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It got up to 65 today but it's supposed to be freezing again this weekend. ??? I think we're done with snow for the season but left my ice scraper in the truck in case there's frost. The only snow left in my yard is where I plowed it into a big pile and that's well over half gone. Even the ice in the shade next to my truck is gone. My mom's flowers are already coming up but mine aren't.
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Got about an inch of heavy wet snow this AM.
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:)
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I'm not putting my snow blower up until May!
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I'm with you Timothy! I don't need to Summerize my snow blower, it's electric! Works really well except for having to dodge the d**n cord.
Richard
PS: I don't know about snow totals for the winter but the local paper reported that we had a record 62 consecutive days of total snow cover!
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April 1, 1997
Nearly 36" of the white stuff fell here! A real doozey!
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Not near as warm as Florida shootin' buddies, but it was 78 here yesterday and today. Ah-h-h-h-h.
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It was near 50° when I left the shop at 1630.
Half hour and 33 miles further north it was about 35° and blowing like crazy!
Cray, cray...