Blizzard

pitw · January 08, 2011, 12:21:21 PM

Well you gotta love timing

. We are having a good old fashioned blizzard here right now, complete with 40mph winds, probably 7inchs of snow so far and -5F. I was supposed to take the boys up to my MIL's for Ukrainian Christmas dinner[13 meatless dish's that taste like{Stuff in the pile behind a cow}] and all them useless inlaws in the same place

. Needless to say the wife wasn't happy when I told her a couple days ago we would be to busy to make it

and then this hit. She called this morning and told us to stay home[which was really quite pointless other than she likes to think she is in charge

. I may have to open a road to town sometime today as I'm down to twenty litres of coke

. Also I may get a few more post's up today

.

Bills Custom Calls · January 08, 2011, 12:38:34 PM

Keep that [pile of stuff behind a cow] up there we don't want it down here

Okanagan · January 08, 2011, 12:41:11 PM

Pitw, hole up and stay warm, and post some more stories.

Bopeye · January 08, 2011, 12:42:02 PM

Be careful Barry and stay warm. Glad you got to miss out on seeing the "in-laws".

pitw · January 08, 2011, 12:51:37 PM

Thanks bop. If we were going fishing or hunting I imagine we could have got through

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Tikaani · January 08, 2011, 01:16:05 PM

Stay warm Barry, good chatting withj you this AM.

John

HaMeR · January 08, 2011, 08:41:10 PM

Nothing like that here. I don't moind some snow but I don't like the winds like that. I never get ahead with the shoveling. lol Stay warm & ration that Coke!!

Hawks Feather · January 08, 2011, 08:45:40 PM

You can keep all the snow and wind north of the border. We had about an inch of snow overnight and that is more than I really wanted.

Stay warm,

Jerry

pitw · January 08, 2011, 08:48:55 PM

You can bet that the only way to take a backroad now is to wear snow shoes, ride a sled or ski.

Wind let up but the snow hasn't and the temp is plunging. Two boys are driving me nuts with their fighting and ball playing

. Times like this makes me glad I'm as self sufficient as I am cause we sure ain't hungry or cold

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MI VHNTR · January 08, 2011, 09:40:42 PM

There's been close to two feet of the white stuff here since Friday afternoon courtesy of Lake Superior and N/NE winds. It is a balmy 17 F though.

pitw · January 08, 2011, 09:48:45 PM

Quote from: MI VHNTR on January 08, 2011, 09:40:42 PM
There's been close to two feet of the white stuff here since Friday afternoon courtesy of Lake Superior and N/NE winds. It is a balmy 17 F though.

You fellows over by the lakes always have my sympathy when it comes to snow. We get little compared to you but with the vast open spaces ours moves around a mite. hope you get through it all fine with your overloaded roofs and such. How much water is in your snow compared to ours I wonder. We generally work on a 10" of snow to 1" of water here.

golfertrout · January 09, 2011, 05:38:50 AM

i feel for you Barry, hope it warms up for you

its in the 70s here and ive been fishing every day.lol

FinsnFur · January 09, 2011, 07:12:50 PM

So how'd ya make out? Did you at least get your coke?

pitw · January 09, 2011, 07:39:21 PM

I got the yard blew out to the West today and there has been nobody by. Tevis just got here at 6pm for supper[and a bed] with 2-24 packs of coke

and grapes. Says the bus ain't gonna make it tomorrow so the boys will be home learning again

.

Bob took some pics this morning but not of the biggest drifts

MI VHNTR · January 09, 2011, 07:55:45 PM

Quote from: pitw on January 08, 2011, 09:48:45 PM
Quote from: MI VHNTR on January 08, 2011, 09:40:42 PM
There's been close to two feet of the white stuff here since Friday afternoon courtesy of Lake Superior and N/NE winds. It is a balmy 17 F though.

You fellows over by the lakes always have my sympathy when it comes to snow. We get little compared to you but with the vast open spaces ours moves around a mite. hope you get through it all fine with your overloaded roofs and such. How much water is in your snow compared to ours I wonder. We generally work on a 10" of snow to 1" of water here.

The NWS here uses a general formula for snow to water. 1 foot of snow = 1 inch of water. This snowfall was a bit "drier" since the air mass coming over the lake was very cold. It dropped to 4 F overnight.

FinsnFur · January 09, 2011, 08:12:22 PM

Looks like she's piling up pretty good.
Our stock pile is diminishing here.

pitw · January 10, 2011, 10:27:33 AM

Gotta love a storm.

Got a phone call this morning from a lady who lives three miles East of me and she was

. Started out screaming at me that the snow plow hasn't been by her place yet and that I should do something about it

. Told her I was still snowbound too and that I have not been on the council since '91

. None of that mattered as she needed to vent[I think she had a gas build up second to none

] and I appeared to be the only one would listen[Seems her husband had braved the field in his truck to get out

].

HaMeR · January 10, 2011, 10:31:24 AM

3-6" here tomorrow & some more on Wednesday.

KySongDog · January 10, 2011, 02:49:12 PM

We got a 90% chance of snow tonight. Hope the wind dies down some.

pitw · January 10, 2011, 06:38:52 PM

Got the yard cleaned out at 2:30 today and the plow came by at 3:30

. Lady who called this morning did it again at 3:45 syaing,"Thanks so much for getting them moving"

. So I said,"Your welcome but you have used up your get of a snow bank free card"

. I wonder when the thought flying around her head will finally roost

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