Not at all. March is our heaviest snow month, with April not far behind. We shouldn’t have zero degrees or below though.
I’ve got fuel for plow truck, and the tractor just got 5 gallons of diesel. Probably gonna need more gas for the truck.
About an average year so far I guess. My Wife used to diligently measure any time we got an inch or more. She didn’t this year, so no more diligence. It gets to the point where it’s rather… pointless.
Adding to the chorus of “man, this winter has been weird” from my Toronto perch. I’ve literally worn my snowboots twice this winter. Typically, we get steady snow of and on for a couple of months, with one or two proper blizzards that tie up the city. This year, bugger all. I live in an apartment, and they plow the drive, but I still need to shovel out right around my parking spot. Haven’t had to do that at all. There were predictions of an arctic blast hitting us at the end of this month, and we are dropping from 11 degrees yesterday to 2 below tomorrow, but Environment Canada has it at seven degrees and raining next Tuesday.
You sound like me @Tride. What kind of tractor/blower set up do you have? I don’t have a blower for my Kubota. I use the loader to move snow when the plow truck fills up the snow storage places. Also, we shovel the snow off our first floor deck. It gets too high to throw it and I use the loader for that and move it out of the way.
It’s been a weird winter here in the Northwest. I live just south of Seattle, I don’t think we have gotten 1 inch of snow. A friend in Olympia, 45 miles to the south, has gotten about a foot. Another friend that lives east of Portland has gotten over 2 feet of snow. The snowpack in the Cascades is anywhere from 20 to 40 percent below normal. Right now we have daffodils and crocus’ popping up all over the place about a month earlier than normal.
DC suburb, and we’ve had almost no snow this winter. A couple of light snowfalls. And since our house’s front is south-facing, meaning snow on the driveway and sidewalk melts fairly fast, we have not had to shovel anything.
We have certainly had snow in March, in the past, so I hesitate to say we’re out of the woods yet.
We’ve got a 52HP LS tractor (Korean) with a 74" blower with a front PTO. Could have used more HP last winter–just have to go slow. Enclosed cab, AC and heat. It’s pretty sweet! Our driveway is about a half mile long.
Yeah I just checked the AccuWeather site and so far it looks like in Cleveland it’ll be 29 this Saturday, 62 next Tuesday, then in the 40s and 50s from here on out.
As for me, living some 20 mins south of the Lake, we just had that one day where all the snow came down at once and that’s been it as far as snow clearing. I think our city has only had to send the plow/salt crews out 4 times.
Hiring a 1-time plow cost me $60 this year, because that industry is hurting (aka “off season landscapers”). Didn’t mind paying it because it’ll only be once.
This winter I told the company that normally plows my parking lot at work that I didn’t want them doing my plowing. Last year was the last straw. You cannot pick and choose when/if they plow. Last winter we had many snowfalls on Friday nights. My business is closed Saturday and Sunday. Yet, they’d plow Saturdays and Sundays, at $100 a pop. Every single snowfall last winter would have been melted enough by Monday morning.
So, this year I’ve held my breath a bit, but the same pattern has happened.
I knew a guy years ago whose marriage ended over a snowplow. He used their savings as a down payment on a very nice truck with a snowplow. He figured that income from plowing driveways would cover truck payments and then some. His wife wasn’t happy about the purchase.
That winter we got almost no snow. It was a record breaking winter. Then he got laid off at work. The truck got repossessed and for his wife it was the last straw.
Nice. No enclosed cab here. I thought about a blower, but I would want it on the loader arms, so it would have to run on hydraulics, not the front PTO. Doesn’t appear available. Thaaatsss really not gonna work as I would need to raise/lower it. And anyway, I often have to push myself out with the bucket.
Plow truck has a 10,000lb Warn winch on the back. I’ve learned my lesson. That has saved my ass 3 times this year. Truck is chained up on all 4.
The Kubota is 26hp 4x4. I don’t have a long drive but it’s very steep, so it’s chained up on all 4.
The size is about right since it’s very maneuverable, and without a cab, very cold
We are nearing retirement, and know that we can’t handle this much longer. Looking for a place to go…
The rural high country of CO is not kind to older folks, that’s for sure. I miss some things about Telluride but waiting for the County plow 2 miles off the highway isn’t one of them.
My brother is retired, living in a condo in Denver. He loves it there. He is a 5 minute walk from several bars, a dispensary, a weird antique shop, a grocery store, etc.
Finger Lakes NY (in case you didn’t know to click on my avatar.)
It used to be very unusual but not unheard of to get enough snow in May to need to shovel it.
It used to be unusual but not extremely strange to get enough snow in April to need to shovel it.
It used to be extremely common to get enough snow in March to need to shovel it. Some of the biggest snowstorms I’ve seen over the last 50 years in this general area have been in March.
This year, for the first time in my life, the ground has never properly frozen up – the top few inches has frozen several times, but even a short warm spell has been enough to thaw it again, and it’s never stayed frozen. I think I’ve used a snow shovel once, and I could probably then have gotten away with the broom I use to get light snow off the steps and most commonly used path.
I have no idea what it’s going to do for the rest of the season. Four feet of snow in a lump? No snow at all? Either seems perfectly possible.
It has now been 769 days since the last time there was any snow at all here. While South Carolina has never been exactly the snowfall capital of the world, a streak like this is not normal.
