Snow Day in the South

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Truck says 1 degree.  Warmest morning in a week.

[alfsauve]

43 at sunrise today.  The storm front moved through about 3 hours ago, so all is clear.
Put 120 rounds downrange at the falling plates, getting ready for GSSF.
Ran Steel Challenge 5-to-Go stage, 60 times with my rimfire rifles.

Great day.  Hurry spring.

[PegLeg45]

63° and a slow drizzling rain in the bottom portion of GA.
We're supposed to get down to 32° Monday AM....probably the last we'll see that low going forward, but you never can tell.
Grass is still dormant, but clover is green so it's time to spray.
I'll know when 'winter' is done when the first pecan tree buds.

[Big Frank]

It looks like we had at least 5" of snow from yesterday afternoon until whenever it stopped. I thought it was supposed to last a few days.

Snow is like sex, you never know how many inches you'll get or how long it will last. That's what she said.

I put the snow plow on my ATV after I got the battery charged up yesterday. I pushed a little bit of old snow off to the side, between my house and shed. Then I hooked up the trailer and parked it over there, and parked the ATV behind it. That leaves the driveway and beyond all the way to the fence clear so I can plow it all the way back. 10 or 20 years ago I would often have a pile bigger than my shed but only half as tall. The last few winters I didn't plow any snow and didn't even shovel my sidewalk for 2 years.

[Big Frank]

Here's the view off my back porch less than 10 minutes ago. I really can't say how much snow we had. It looks like 4" on the car and 7" in deep spots in the driveway.

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That was 30 mins yesterday  lol

[Big Frank]

The winters are generally a lot milder than they were 10-20 years ago. And NOTHING like they were when I was a kid. Back then it snowed so much, my older brother and one of his friends went snowshoeing around the neighborhood after a snowstorm. They walked right over the neighbors car parked on the street because they couldn't see it there. Sometimes we had to go out the front door onto the porch because the snow was so deep we couldn't open the side door onto the driveway. The wind blew most of the snow off the front porch as long as it was less than 3-4' deep. I remember being in the U.P. on Easter when I was a kid. It was April about 53 or 54 years ago as I recall. I had a 6' deep foxhole in the snow and dug a cave under a hay wagon I couldn't see, except for the tall fence on the back of it. I thought it was facing the opposite direction. My older brother jumped off the barn into the snow and never hit the ground. The snow packed up between his legs and stopped him before he could sink any further. One of my uncles tied a ribbon around a pine tree at the top of the snow drift. Next summer when the snow was gone he measured it and it was 14'. One of my army buddies from Minnesota said they had a second story door on their house with no stairway. When the snow was deep enough you just walked out on top of 10-15' of snow. This was the first time in a few years that I plowed my driveway. This is 15 minutes ago, after I plowed the driveway. There's maybe 200 cubic feet of densely packed snow back by the fence.

[Big Frank]

Snow day in the Northwest Territory or Midwest. I have a small snow pile this year, but I haven't had one at all for a few years.

1. The Menard's yardstick doesn't lie. I had to scoop out around it to take the pic.
2. The tip of the yardstick is at the tip of the arrow.
3. Side view of snow pile. Another 5 feet until it gets to the shed.
4. All done and locked up. The fence post is welded to another post that's 4' deep in the ground.

P.S. I don't know how wide the snow pile is, but it goes over into the neighbors yard. If you look close you can see the backward "POLARIS" impressions from the plow on the front of the pile. The blade is 52" wide and the pile is close to 3X that, or 13'.