Snow anyone?

just removed another 4" or so of snow (after taking care of 8" earlier)

The snow will definitely help with the water shortage we've been having in the Boston area.
 
Just passed the 10" mark on Cape Cod. Sleet on the way now.
 
Looks like 11-12" here, but light and fluffy. I'm sure it's not a record. Supposed to stop around 8pm Monday.
 
I cleared out 12-14" last night and another 3-4" this morning. Thankfully dry and powdery. On a positive note, the temp rose overnight from 5* to 14*F. Woo-hoo...:lol:
 
I was in Oregon and trying to get back to Nashville and got 3 cancelled flights for my attempts.Finally got a rental and struck out yesterday afternoon from Denver about 4:00,within a few hours of Nashville now.Roads are rough
 
sarangan said:
I'm on a business trip in OKC and got stuck here due to flight cancellations. News says 4 inches of snow fell, but I am not seeing it. My estimate was about 2 inches. I even went on a long 5 mile hike and didn't think it was bad enough to shut down everything.
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You apparently haven't seen Oklahoma drivers in snow.
 
kkoran said:
You apparently haven't seen Oklahoma drivers in snow.
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When I was in college, it wasn’t hard to spot foreign students in cars after a snow. 30 mph to the intersection, slam on the brakes, slide through the intersection, accelerate back up to 30, and repeat for every I intersection along the route.
 
Spent two hours shoveling this morning with my family and neighbors. Fortunately, today is going to get above freezing for a bit so the roads and walkways should be reasonably clear. My final report to the weather service was 10.2". The sleet packed it down a little overnight. All in all, it came down to a little over an inch and a half of precipitation. It was really weird to look at the ADS-B chart and see NOBODY flying around the Boston airspace. As I write this, Boston is just now starting to release and arrive planes.
 
kayoh190 said:
Ended up with 17" here. Gonna be awhile to dig out! Shoveling snow is harder than I thought. ;)
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I figured that out after our first decent snow in COS. That’s when I understood the value of a snowblower. Luckily I only had to shovel once, but on lighter snows it was still quicker when choosing to shovel.
 
Finished with 14" on the slopes and 7ish in town here in Avon, CO. Yesterday was negative 8 and snow blowing sideways. Today is spectacular. 20 degrees and blue skies. Colorado at its best.

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It's almost done here. I think about 18" total, 29" deep at the end of the driveway because of the extra caused by the plow on the road. That's taller than the top of the 2 stage snowblower, so I had to take some half passes and some where it was climbing over the snow a bit. The little bits left in the front of the cars were less then an inch or two, so not worth worrying about. Clearing a path for the mailman is a good idea if you want mail.

It used to snow like this several times a year, now it's maybe once a winter.

Funny story, when I was in college some friends flew out to some city in the southwest where it never snows. They got to airport, went to the rental car counter and were told that they were closed, not renting cars because of the snow. They looked outside, maybe a dusting of snow, and then looked at the counter folks and back and just said "what?" completely puzzled. So the rental guy asked them where they were from. They said "Albany", and the reply was more or less "Oh ok!" and they rented them the car.

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My daughter just sent me a pic. It’s a Cat D9 dozer at one of her company’s jobsites somewhere in Quebec.

I can feel the cold from the picture.

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Ed Haywood said:
Finished with 14" on the slopes and 7ish in town here in Avon, CO. Yesterday was negative 8 and snow blowing sideways. Today is spectacular. 20 degrees and blue skies. Colorado at its best.

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Beautiful town, I did a little bicycle ride from Evergreen to Avon last July and stayed overnight.
 
MauleSkinner said:
When I was in college, it wasn’t hard to spot foreign students in cars after a snow. 30 mph to the intersection, slam on the brakes, slide through the intersection, accelerate back up to 30, and repeat for every I intersection along the route.
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Under the right conditions, that actually sounds kinda fun.
 
That's how I learned to drive in the snow. When I was 17, Eastern Oklahoma got a dumping. Dad tells me we're going for a drive. I had a 1963 Chevy C-10 at the time that he and I rebuilt. It was all manual. Manual transmission (3 on the column) manual choke, manual (as in not power assisted) steering and manual brakes. Skinny tires, too compared to today. Drove down to the big Baptist Church parking lot and did maneuvers for an hour or two. Definitely set me up for success in the future.

Actually, now that I think of it about a year later we had a terrible ice storm come through. I was back in town for Christmas visiting my girlfriend at the time and we kinda got stuck. Power was out all over the county so my girl's father (who worked for the power company) asked me to drive the family to a relative's house in OKC. 165 miles took almost 4 hours but I got them there safe and sound and only slid once as I was hitting the brakes going downhill. In a 1990 F250 longbed. Hero of the family that day. Too bad the girl was already cheating on me at the time. :lol:
 
Driving in the snow can be a lot of fun if you don't really have to be anywhere and there aren't too many other people out.

I was almost finished plowing last night when the snowblower died... engine ran and auger spun but no power to the drive wheels. No biggie to finish with a shovel. Few inches more overnight, go to shovel but it's packed and a PITA, let's look at the machine, never saw a machine I couldn't figure out, turned out to be nothing more than a broken spring on the belt idler, easy to fix.
 
:) First snow of the year, every year, if I'm silly enough to take I-90 to work there will be at least 3, usually about 5 cars spun out in the median. That's on about a 12 mile drive. Most of them will be SUVs, half will be Cherokee type jeeps. Snow seems to exaggerate the George Carlin perspective that people either drive way faster than you (crazy) or way slower than you (stupid). So I'll putter along at what to me is a reasonable speed, expecting to be passed by those going 60+, and having to go around those going about 10.

I don't know if it's because every winter people forget how to drive, or if it's because every winter there's a new crop of drivers who haven't seen snow yet that need to be weeded out.
 
Zeldman said:
...No door, no roof, no walls...
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As a Boy Scout, a troop leader relayed a story of a snake biting someone's posterior while using the loo. For years, I could not even use a port-a-potty w/o vivid images dominating my brain. I wish I knew earlier the existence of ultra-rustic facilities, if the story was even true.
 
kayoh190 said:
Ended up with 17" here. Gonna be awhile to dig out! Shoveling snow is harder than I thought. ;)
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I don't know the official numbers, but from walking through it for work all over town last 2 days, I'd say we got 14-18".
The wind has been killer for 2-3 days now and it's hard to keep the roads clear with this much cold and wind. Did I mention it's cold out?
 
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I stopped at the airport yesterday and it was closed. It was gonna be closed as we are getting new runway lights. But none of that was going on with 12” of snow.

This is the first time I've seen it not plowed with in 24 hours after the storm.
There was so much snow and even though I was driving a F250 with a large plow on it I didn't want to be the first to drive back there. And I sure didn't want to plow any snow since there is so much of it. I know it don't look like much but it is around here. I learned long ago not be jonnie on the spot with your plow. Any thing you drive on is going to turn to ice. And that could mean weeks. IMG_6170.jpeg

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I did not plow this, it was done when I got here so management could get it.
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When UPS says we don't know what happened to your package, I took this picture a few days ago. It got worse, as every bump he hit the door went up a little higher.
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Zeldman said:
But this is for the governors mansion.

And yes, I have had to sacrifice a sock or two before...
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C'mon, I see plenty of leaves around. If it were a pine forest it'd be a different matter... :eek:
 
Snow?

My wife just heard from our former neighbors in NC. An inch of snow/sleet mix. 6 inches predicted next weekend.

No thank you!
 
This randomly popped up as a YouTube suggestion… and made me think of this thread.
I remember distinctly being in the ditch atleast 4 times, all the kids getting out to push a few times, and the dreaded fear in all us kids who have heard it before felt when the weather was really bad. The speech from ole curled blue haired Maryloe…. “We are stuck… we are going to all have to get out and dig this time”. To her credit her route alway made it through… and almost alway on time short of when she put it in the ditch or slid through a tee intersections and dropped the front wheels over the end and hung it up. Then it was usually the oldest boy sent to walk to the nearest farm to ask to use their tractor.
 
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murphey said:
Obviously you didn’t watch the AFC game today. Fall then blizzard in a matter of minutes.
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Correct.

But, Denver isn't really mountain west... it's as east as you can get and still be in the mountains. Utah, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, etc...
 
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