Its snowing here this morning, weather says maybe 1 inch today but tonight thru Thursday we could get 6 to 8 inches, Dang Global warming gonna freeze us to death,
All you Snow Birds come on down south and enjoy! Wa Hoo :biggrin: cc
Well all my Southern Friends be very careful over the next couple days. It doesn't look promising down around there. :rolleye: :rolleye:
We've had that much up here on the ground for a while now. Would really like to get out & hunt some but before the weather straightened up we ended up with nearly 1/2" of ice on top of it. That makes it a real PITA to walk thru. Every step your foot breaks thru & 1/2 the time your toe gets caught on the way back up. I think I'll pass for a few more days. :laf: :laf:
Good advise Glen, I plan on enjoying the snow looking out the window, Few years back I went out with about 6 or 7 inches of snow on the ground, it was iced over like you said second step I made and feet flew out from under me and broke a leg. The south is never really prepared for the snow as most people here do not know how to drive in it. The Wrecker service loves it , the ditches will be full of car. :eyebrow: cc
It really shows what a person gets used to having. You get 6 or 7 inches and are stranded, we get 12 - 18 and are stranded, further north they get 24 3 36 inches and start to wear long pants.
Stay safe.
Jerry
Jerry, the last storm??? was 2 inches and it shut Atlanta down for about a week, God know what will happen this week. :rolleye: cc
Looks rough down there! We looking at up to a foot more Thursday. I remember when I was stationed in Charleston South Carolina one time we had a little bit of snow and slush in the whole place was in chaos.
here in east Carolina it's been raining since last night, started freezing this morning and been going on all day... temp has dropped to 29º late this afternoon but still dropping sleet... who knows what we'll wake up to in the morning... and to think I moved down here to get away from this crap... :biggrin:
Quote from: Hawks Feather on February 11, 2014, 01:24:09 PM
It really shows what a person gets used to having. You get 6 or 7 inches and are stranded, we get 12 - 18 and are stranded, further north they get 24 3 36 inches and start to wear long pants.
Stay safe.
Jerry
You can tell its cold in these parts if people are wearing socks with their sandals! :laf:
You can tell its cold in these parts if people are wearing socks with their sandals! :laf:
Do they have spurs on their ankles? :laf:
Most of the snow yesterday was gone by dark and did not snow last night but started coming down about 30 minutes ago and now they are saying we could get up to 12 inches of snow but further south it could be rain and icing mixed in with winds up to 35 mph. They are saying historical storm for the south. The icing will hit the Wanderosia in Georgia and I hate to think how much damage it will do down there, for sure next time down will be Chainsaws and Skid Loaders for several days. :doh2:
:alscalls: Socks with sandals is kind of a Seattle thing. Gore-tex mountain parka, shorts and sandals with socks, sitting in the rain outside a Starbucks at a table with a sun umbrella. We are across the line north of Seattle but it is common here also. A friend visiting me from Albuquerque was so amazed by that sight that he had me drive around the block to take a second look at people drinking coffee outside in the rain. :nono:
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We got a little here about 4". Mostly ice now . I heard in Huntsville they had a few roads salted.
I usually have to pull a few northerners out the ditch when we get ice here. They are not used to driving on ice without salt and plows.
Socks and sandals when it gets cold. That had me rolling. Good one.
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." Adolf Hitler
One picture is on interstate 59. They closed it right behind us. It was eery traveling 50miles without seeing another living soul on the road after the lead car left us in the powder.
Quote from: CCP on February 12, 2014, 11:31:15 AM
One picture is on interstate 59. They closed it right behind us. It was eerie traveling 50miles without seeing another living soul on the road after the lead car left us in the powder.
That's a serious measure of bad when they close a highway.
Reminds me... In college days a friend and I were driving from E. WA to LA after Christmas down Hwy 97 in E. Oregon. We missed a closed sign south of Bend or they closed it right after us, both ways. Eerie is the right word for driving hours in powder snow with no other cars going either way. Somewhere toward the south end of the closure near Klamath Falls we heard on the radio that the highway we were driving was closed. At the south end we skirted around a barricade and kept going.
It is hard to imagine the storm that is now hitting the south. I can't help but wonder if God is ribbing Al Gore and the global warmists about their prophecies. :innocentwhistle:
Its really putting it down here now. If it keeps snowing like it is now until in the morning its gonna be bad here. I was gonna post some pictures but Photobucket is not working right or I;m screwing up . cc
Quote from: CCP on February 12, 2014, 11:31:15 AM
I usually have to pull a few northerners out the ditch when we get ice here. They are not used to driving on ice without salt and plows.
You are sooo full of it , your eyes are brown :laf: :laf: We scoff at this crap.
We havnt had squat for snowfall this year. A measly 12 to 16 inches locally. :shrug:
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What are those things in your last pic Jim? :laf: I havent never seen nothing like that..
My buddy over in Georgia said the interstate there was like a parking lot. He got behind a bunch of vehicles with Wisconsin and Minnesota plates trying to get south and they got skeered of the ice and it shut the interstate down. :alscalls:
Not snowing this morning but weather man says it will, we have about 4 inches with a layer of ice between the snow, so far our power has stayed on,( Thank God ) I will be glad when its gone. cc
Quote from: CCP on February 13, 2014, 04:30:38 AM
My buddy over in Georgia said the interstate there was like a parking lot. He got behind a bunch of vehicles with Wisconsin and Minnesota plates trying to get south and they got skeered of the ice and it shut the interstate down. :alscalls:
Those had to be hillbillys in rental cars, but nice try :eyebrownod:
2" of snow this morning with an inch of ice underneath. Supposed to get 40 today and sunshine so should be nice out in a few hours.
No sunshine for a few weeks is a real bummer will be glad to see some sunshine.I kinda understand now why my Yankee buddies are so grumpy and rude all the time. Long periods of snow and clouds would make me an azzhole too. :laf:
If this was the snow storm of the century, then what a joke!!! :alscalls: They were calling for 10-14+ inches and we got maybe 2". Oh well come on spring!!!!
As you can see my little shrubs didn't mind the snow yesterday morning but the ice with snow they don't like this morning. Kinda felt bad for the little fellows.
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." Adolf Hitler
Iced up pretty bad here looks like I have several trees down behind the house but don't think I gonna get out as its snowing again.
Ice is not your friend. Even when it is called God's Pruning of trees it is nasty. If the south hasn't been hit with a good ice storm for a few years you will have all kinds of limbs and trees down. The good thing to remember is that Jim is always looking for more fire wood.
Jerr
Looking out my motel window in Virginia we got about 12" and supposed to get another 1"-3" today.
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Wow! That's amazing in Virginia.
Dont ya just love it??
Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow :jump:
we had a warm front come thru last night {Wednesday}, it was 50º at midnight melted everything off... today was basically dry but cooler... seems to be a bit windy though... hope y'all don't get to messed up with the snow...
Be Careful Ed!! That's a lot of snow in one dumping for sure. The more snow we get around here the more tires I put to work on the truck. It's just another day in paradise for me. :biggrin: :biggrin: The ice is as nasty as it can be beautiful.
It started warming up yesterday afternoon and most of the white stuff here is gone, I think it is supposed to get warmer today and hopefully it will all be gone by this evening. :bowingsmilie: cc
Quote from: Carolina Coyote on February 14, 2014, 06:02:42 AM
It started warming up yesterday afternoon and most of the white stuff here is gone, I think it is supposed to get warmer today and hopefully it will all be gone by this evening. :bowingsmilie: cc
Well that is one of the good things about living in warmer areas. Our snow will be with us for a while longer - thanks to that darned groundhog seeing his shadow. But on the up side we are scheduled to get above freezing for a couple of days next week.
Jerry
Hope everyone comes out of this okay. Suppose to hit 77 today, in the 80's by the weekend.
Well the snow is almost gone now, just the shady areas still have not melted, I think we got lucky on this storm, Powder stayed on and very little damage to the trees around the house, Where we have to worry about the snow MrJohn has to worry about getting sunburnt. :laf:
Got information a while ago that it was a major ice storm down in Georgia at the Wanderosia, limbs and trees down everywhere and Power is out in that area and may not be back on until sometime next week. :doh2:
What's all the fuss about a little snow? We've had nearly 109" and counting so far this year. We're currently ranked number 1 for the snowiest city this year...
http://goldensnowglobe.com/current-top-10-snowiest-cities/
Bring it on... I doubt we'll break our own record of 149" in a season though.
Steve
Im with Steve...bring it on :thumb2:
6 more in last night. And going to be 60 deg next week. What a wild ride with weather this year has been.
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now that Lake Erie is frozen over the snowfall should slow down for you Steve... when I look at that chart I cringe... :sad3: so glad I moved south...
Carl â€" Just another typical February day in sunny Arizona with family and friends.
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Yep, the big Lake has been frozen over for a few weeks now. That's why I don't figure we'll break our record this year......no more lake effect snow :whew: We certainly got a good dose of snow this year though, we ain't done yet. Heck, we get snow here all tyhe way into April.
My daughter and I actually got turned back from summitting a mountain in the Adirondacks last Memorial Day due to snow and poor weather conditions.
Steve
Lil late to the party, but. Here in roanoke we got 10 11 inches wed nite and another 11 inches Thursday from 12 -4 pm. Was crazy here. The piles in parking lots are over 18' tall
ya got that grill lookin good John... :thumb2:
Mr.John, I had barbecue ribs one day last week from one of the wild hogs I killed this year but I was inside by the fireplace, you old devil you had to show off. :biggrin: :alscalls: :alscalls: cc
John,
That posting is just wrong on so many levels. :biggrin: Maybe we can post some cool 70 degree pictures this summer when you (just like now) will have a much higher temperature. But, you will have a dry heat and 110 dry is always kewl. Not cool, but kewl as the kids say.
That first picture is making me hungry.
Jerry
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Winter Storm Warning Another 4 to 7 expected starting in the night tonight :yoyo:
You guys get so much snow it opens up the upper lever of the "Snow Bank Parking Garage" Jim!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
You keep posting pictures like that and you're going to end up with a bunch of northern visitors on your front door step. :laf:
I'm jealous, John, of both the ribs and the weather. I see in your last pic that youngster is running around in bare feet! It's too cold in my HOUSE to walk around in bare feet!
If that house gets drifting that comes over the top you won't see those people till spring.
Jerry
Edit: P.S. you need to clean your windshield.
I see that the woodpile is buried in the snow. :confused:
More glo-bull warming headlines from a local paper in the UP of Michigan. More snow here tonight too. It just keeps on coming.
Winter of 2013-14 now officially coldest on record
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/595229/Winter-of-2013-14-now-officially-coldest-on-record.html?nav=5006
I was headed for Kentland In. one balmy winter day in 1978, listening to an AM station out of Chicago when the dj whooped it up and started going on that the temperature finally got over freezing, the first time in 63 days... the frost line in Kentland was down 5 feet that winter... if you died they had the service and put you in cold storage til the spring time when it thawed out... digging graves was to expensive if you had to hire a air compressor and a jack hammer to dig you in...
The frost here is down 8 feet already. More below zero temps next week too. Thanks algore.
I talked with Sam yesterday my friend that owns the Wanderosa went down this past weekend and said the Ice Storm that hit down there is devastating as much as 35% of the trees in some places are broken or down, roads are impassable, power was still off and even power poles were broken, we plan to go down next week to start the clean up as rain this week will make the dirt roads difficult to run the Skid Steers. I will take pictures when I go down to show why a little snow and ice in the south is such a big deal. cc
Sounds like a real mess Carl. You guys be extra careful around that fallen & possibly twisted together timber. If I were closer I would be there with chainsaw in tow. :biggrin: :biggrin:
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The frost here is down 8 feet already. More below zero temps next week too. Thanks algore.
so how do you keep your water lines from freezing?...
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Quote from: MI VHNTR on February 18, 2014, 08:36:47 PM
The frost here is down 8 feet already. More below zero temps next week too. Thanks algore.
so how do you keep your water lines from freezing?...
Many of the newer homes have waterlines are buried deeper than that, just in case it gets cold. However, in some of the homes built much earlier, they are issued a "let run" for the remainder of the winter. This allows them to let their water run continuously in about a pencil sized stream without incurring a huge municipal water bill. This is happening all over the UP.
From the local tv station:
http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=1007085#.UwVlx4W69Mg
I went down and paid my water bill tonight and they had already issued a "let run" notice. They want the lines closest to where the water comes into our houses to run a continuous pencil size stream. Water bill will be compensated for it.
Their theory is with the temps back up above zero now that the lines can burst as the frost comes up? I never heard of such a thing....... :confused: My water froze as the frost moved deeper and deeper into the ground. Probably cause some idiot put my crawlspace and water lines under the house :laf: But they freeze again when the frost lifts???? rreally???
The frost leaving the ground can cause the soil to heave up and cause pipes to twist, bend or break. You can see this here in the Spring because the roads/ground heave upwards and break the pavement. The counties put weight restrictions on the heavy trucks in an attempt to limit damage from frost heaving. The length of the weight restrictions is usually determined by temp and frost depth.
Yep, all our roads are heaved up bad right now with these last few days in the high 30's. But were coming off some 30below temps.
But I still dont get how running the water will help stop them from breaking when the frost leaves if it's heaving ground that causes it. The ground will heave whether the waters running or not. :confused:
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I talked with Sam yesterday my friend that owns the Wanderosa went down this past weekend and said the Ice Storm that hit down there is devastating as much as 35% of the trees in some places are broken or down, roads are impassable, power was still off and even power poles were broken, we plan to go down next week to start the clean up as rain this week will make the dirt roads difficult to run the Skid Steers. I will take pictures when I go down to show why a little snow and ice in the south is such a big deal. cc
Carl - You be careful down there. I got something for the Wanderosa, shoot me a PM with your address and I get it mailed out to ya.
Snow snow snow is what we have. Once in awhile I guess Mother Nature wants to remind us that we live in Canada so gives us some snow in place of rain. It was supposed to snow a little three days ago and then warm up. Oops... still snowing with blizzard winds piling drifts across the roads, on a layer of ice from freezing rain when it almost warmed above freezing yesterday. The weather folks keep predicting that it will warm up in the next 12-24 hours and keep revising that out another 12-24 hours. :huh:
Except for a run to the grocery store in 4x4 have stayed holed up. Partial retirement is nice not to have to go out in this stuff. :yoyo:
The dreaded polar vortex has taken aim at the UP of MI and most of the Midwest again.
At least I got to take the snowplow off of the truck for a while. It's going to be too cold to get too much snow. You just have to love this glo-bull warming BS.
I went down to Georgia this past Monday to start the cleanup on the Wanderosia, it looks like a Hurricane went through down there , the pictures don't really show the damage as I took a few pictures the first day but after that just to busy, the damage is so wide spread thousands and thousands of acres with trees down and tops broken out, the pictures here are in the pines, the hardwoods had trees that were 3 to 4 feet in diameter blow over. Anyone want free fire wood come on down.
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Someones got some work ahead of them. Is that from all the ice Carl?
Oh and did you say free fire wood? :shock2:
Yes, Ice and wind did all that but the hardwoods in swampy areas was a lot worse, the big trees that did not have deep root system and over and inch of ice built-up then wind just pushed them over, Yes Free firewood all you want, all you have to do is come get it. its hard to describe the damage as it is so wide spread its unbelievable, We can clean up the roads but the Thousands of acres of pines will be a big loss, Timber company's do not want to come in and try to savage, there is just nothing that can be done from what we are hearing.