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Just got back from dropping my wife at the train station in the 4WD, she works in hospital administration and had to get in to work, looks to be at least a foot of snow so far. Quite windy too. Yikes!
Riot. We call that "Winter accumulation." Funny how what will cripple one area and make national news, wont even get mentioned if it happens in another. Just another day in paradise.......http://eplay.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008d68b9688340120a778d825970b-320wiGot a automated phone call this morning saying we are now at a "code red" state of emergency and are really, really to stay off the roads as they are impassible. I looked out to see what is in store for snow blowing/shoveling and you can just barely see the top of the cars in the driveway. Still very windy but the snow has just about stopped.
My back/neck is not going to take kindly to what I am about to do to it.
Exactly. You guys (and areas like yours) have the equipment and are prepared to deal with things like these. We get 4 feet and it is like we go back to the stone age.Riot. We call that "Winter accumulation." Funny how what will cripple one area and make national news, wont even get mentioned if it happens in another. Just another day in paradise.......http://eplay.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008d68b9688340120a778d825970b-320wi
:note: OH THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS........ well, normal. :note: LOL In case you were wondering, the machine in the pic is not a walk behind snowthrower. We put huge snowthrower attachments on DUMP TRUCKS. Then the college kids build 2 story tall ice sculptures at winter carnival and have the worlds largest snowball fight. http://www.lakesuperiorphoto.com/MTU_winter_carnival/MTU_winter_carnival.html
You Yooper folk are a breed apart living with all that lake effect snow the way you do.Riot. We call that "Winter accumulation." Funny how what will cripple one area and make national news, wont even get mentioned if it happens in another. Just another day in paradise.......http://eplay.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008d68b9688340120a778d825970b-320wi
:note: OH THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS........ well, normal. :note: LOL In case you were wondering, the machine in the pic is not a walk behind snowthrower. We put huge snowthrower attachments on DUMP TRUCKS. Then the college kids build 2 story tall ice sculptures at winter carnival and have the worlds largest snowball fight. http://www.lakesuperiorphoto.com/MTU_winter_carnival/MTU_winter_carnival.html
There's a little bit off on the conversion, here...:bloated:We had three to 4' (100 cm) of the white fluffy stuff
Larry
A forecast calling for the possibility of 1/2" of snow will get schools closed here. 1-3" shuts down the entire Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region.We laugh all the time at how 1 - 3 inches gets the schools closed here, and places like we have lived in the past just understand it is WINTER......
I was sassing you about the 3'3" in a meter... :icon16:Johnboy,
By my calculations, 1 Meter (100 cm) = 39.370" and 3 Feet = 36". Hence, between 3 and 4 Feet. Lucan, Ontario, a mere 10 miles from us received over 125 cm. Although Canada converted to the metric system in the mid '70's, I still have to manually convert back to the Imperial system in order to visualize depths, temperatures, etc. That's what happens when the grey matter in the brain begins to turn black (pushing 70 don't you know.) :evil: