I hope everyone is having a great day today! Happy Thanksgiving!
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I hope everyone is having a great day today! Happy Thanksgiving!
I enjoyed watching the Lions as the Bears Wasted the last 30 seconds of the game.
1st time ever Detroit has a 11 - 1 record.
It was a Good Day
We've been hit by a huge lake effect snow storm. 3 1/2 feet of snow and more coming. Don't think I'll be going to the range any time soon. Deer season is shot too. Starts tomorrow and I can't even get the truck out of the driveway! Oh, well....
Glad I'm not back home then. I'm from right across the lake from you, southern Ontario. Just above Point Pelee...Quote:
Originally Posted by jimb16
Me either Jim, but not because of deep snow the starter gave up. And its too cold for me along with those couple ribs I popped to swap it out right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimb16
One of my brothers lives in Edinburg, PA and sent me pictures of his property, trucks and tractor completely buried by snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimb16
I dug out the truck today. 25 feet off the road and it took me 4 hours to get it out! Thank heaven for all wheel drive. I can't even get to the snow blower which is buried in the garage behind the boat. I can't get the boat out without first clearing the other drive so I can move the car which of course is also buried in deep snow. If it ain't one thing, its another! We "officially" got 43 1/2 inches of snow, measured after it had started to settle! We escaped any more today with a wind shift. All we got was an additional 1 1/2 inch dusting. But we might get a little more tonight and for the next couple of days.
I never moved the snow thrower from the garage up here to the back boat house/shop after last winter like I usually do. But haven't needed it, all the lake effect went north and south of us. We've only got a couple inches, light enough my leaf blower blew off the cars and walk way. No way I could shovel right now with these D@mn ribs even if I needed to.
My Wife's friends went north with plans to get about a weeks worth of work in on a home their building. Right in the Lake effect snow belt, they averaged 12" of snow a day for 3 days and got 19 and 1/2" over the last 24 hours they were there. So a total of 56+ inches of snow over 4 days and a white knuckle ride back home down here that took 8 hours instead of the usual 2 1/2. All they managed to do was non stop snow plowing / throwing.
You mentioned Deer hunting:
Near the end of our annual 2 week camp we got snowed in the deep woods of a National Wildlife Refuge Deer hunting back in the early 80's way out off a 2 track in the Upper Peninsula. 2 big army tents put end to end were caving in about 2am when someone went out to take a leak. He woke us up and turned the radio on. We had a Winter Storm Blizzard Warning expecting 4-5' of snow coming off Lake Superior. We started tearing camp down and loading up. It took us 2 full days and 1 night working shifts to winch and shovel our way out far enough to where some snowmobilers had broke trails that we tried to track in out to a open road. I've never been so wet, cold and exhausted. We were snowed in at the motel we made it to for 3 days. Never had a Bar tab that big in my life either.
:surrender: Anyone remember when kids would wander door to door asking if you wanted your driveway shoveled or lawn mowed?
I actually had a kid from across the street volunteer to help for free! I thanked him and declined the offer. At that time the snow was only 2 feet deep. We "officially" have 45 1/2 inches this morning but we got another 4 inches during the day today. Its going to start up again tomorrow night and continue through friday. We are expecting another foot of the white stuff.
Kid must have seen you out there from over top of his computer game screen :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by jimb16
I can hear him now........
Mom, I got to go help the Old Guy across the street shovel out before he falls over with a Heart Attack.
It looks like he's going down any minute !!
Mom rushes to look out the window :move eek: Then tells the boy...... Hurry, Hurry !!!!!
:D
:rofl: I bet my neighbors look at me the exact same way Charlie haha. Dang Jim, that is a lot of snow!Quote:
Originally Posted by painter777
Its in the top 10 of the storms that we've had here since I've been around, but its a long way from #1. I put it around #5 or #6. The Lake Erie snow machine can turn out some horrendous snow storms. Buffalo is at the east end of the lake and sometimes gets as much as 10 feet of snow. This one only dumped around 7-8 feet on them. Erie Pa. got around 6 feet. N.E. Ohio got anywhere from 4 to 5 1/2 feet. After living in the L. Erie snow belt all my life, I've gotten used to getting dumped on every couple of years. You never get accustom to it but you do expect it and are usually prepared for it. Generators, Kero heaters, Colman sleeping bags, survival foods, Colman stoves, etc.... are very common household items in this part of the State. Many houses have duplex furnaces as well (Gas/wood heat). Even roof rakes can occasionally be found. This storm only collapsed a few buildings (including a high School building) in Ashtabula County (10 miles away from me). In other words, just another bad snow storm......Ho Hum!
JimB,
My Wife's Aunt lived in Buffalo. I remember hearing her telling how many times a winter she'd have to have her roof shoveled off from the snow load. She'd pay a 1 time fee for the entire winter and they'd come when needed, it was often.
I'm not talking about lake effect snow, but general snow storms and summer thunderstorms. We've noticed over the last ~7-8 years or so that they seem to run more south of us now. Hitting your area more than they used to and less for us. We still get a few snows a winter that put 1-1/2 to 2'+ of snow down but not as many as years back. Maybe 'Global Warming' ?
Got 4" yesterday, Wife knocked it out no problem today, while I watched Rifleman and Wagon Train :)
Be Careful on those roads. We don't heal as fast at our ages.
You watch the exact same channel that I do Charlie haha. My TV channel stays on MeTV. I love the rifleman, wagon train, the Big valley, all of them. That's all I watch
JD,
Don't forget Beaver in the morning, then Andy and Barney, The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres in the evening. Oh, Perry Mason and Twilight Zone if I can stay awake long enough.
Hey to Gomer :wave:
You can't forget back to back episodes of Hogan's heroes from 10:00 till 11:00 p.m. haha
I'm still watching Combat and Rat Patrol.
BTW, the sun is in one of its periodic storm phases. That is why we are getting so many arouras so far south. That is more likely to be the source of unusual weather than Global warming. I'm not a warming denier, I just don't attribute it to the same causes as the environmental panicers.