Let it snow, let it snow.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Today was the last day of summer.

Over the last 2 days, we have picked up 20 inches of snow. Looks like we will pick up another 8-12” tonight. I don’t like to plow until the ground makes a good freeze so I don’t just push the gravel off my driveway. Might have to change that routine this year.

So much for fall, Mother nature isn’t foolin’ around.

Sort of sad, we will probably have a nice week or two coming up (last Year Winter started on October 10th with a good 2 feet of wet snow).

It’s hard on my Wife who is training for an IronMan. She still has to get a couple of long, long bike rides to do (100 miles). Looks like she’ll have to travel to do that.

Don’t really mind the long winters so much as the short summers. So much to do, and so little time to do it.

Winters are a time when I can usually relax a bit more since it’s harder to work around the house. But I really didn’t get enough done this year.

MPSIMS. Another year. Welcome to winter.

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Gimme some of that. I love snow. Rumor is that it’s going to be a dry and warm El Nino winter here on the West Coast, however. We’ve already gotten a dusting of snow in the mountains west of town, but nothing more than a brief sleeting here. At least it’s nice and cool.

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Keep it. The further away I am from snow for as long as humanly possible, the better. (Yeah, I’m a Canadian. That doesn’t mean I have to like all that white crap)

I’m hoping that we don’t see any 'til at least mid-November. That would be par for the course here, but if it can stay away 'til say, oh, December 24th, I’ll be happy.

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Wow…we don here in the lower elevetions haven’t seen anything but some drizzling rain.

Send me down some of your snow, enipla !

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Heck, I’ll take some of that as well: at 7:30 at night it is currently 81 (86 with the heat index) here. It was cooler earlier this week, and I want that back!! :mad:

At least the temperature should drop back down to the 70s once the front passes through.

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Just rain down here on the Western Slope. Don’t miss that stuff at all. Hopefully we’ll only get one or two good snowfalls down here this winter.

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I’ve had to clean of our DTV dish 3 times in the last 3 hours. TV is doing OK, but I lose the NET.

I get to check out my new 4x now. Not much experience with anti-loc brakes. Or any of that vehicle dynamic control. Kind of odd. All in all though, it seems to do quite well.

Heated seats baby. Posi-traction front and rear. I’m tired of crawling around in the snow attaching tow-chains to my plow truck to pull people out (sometimes me or my Wife).

Perhaps I can now also pull other people out when I really don’t need to fire up the plow truck for myself. The new Pathfinder has about 1000 lbs and 100hp on my last one.

New Pathfinder has the factory ‘off-road’ tires on it which I will need to replace with some good tires when I run some miles off of them. Plow truck is chained up on all four, ready to go. The new Pathfinder is my 4th 4x4.

Kind of fun and exciting when the season changes over-night. Sort of a pain too.

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I think I need to move there. At least the temps are dropping below 90 here.

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Well, unless she goes in circles, she will. :slight_smile:

As far as snow goes…I hereby bequeath, heretofore, in perpetuity, to anyone who wants it, my share of any snow I would receive.

No backs.

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Wooo-hooo!

Now all I have to do is time it such that I’m, oh say, walking down Waikiki beach when my share of your snow arrives! :smiley:

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As a former Colorado resident, I’d like to say, keep the snow. You can have all you want. I’ll stay here in Tucson. 80 degrees F. currently at 8:00 PM. High temperature around 86, low around 63. Very temperate and enjoyable this time of year.

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Am I the only one who’s sincerely praying for snow? It’s looking very cloudy and feeling snow-ish here in Albuquerque, but I doubt we’ll really get any this early in the year. The Sangre de Cristos have already gotten a dusting, though, and I have high hopes for a real snowpack this winter. The summer rains this year were a godsend, but it’s going to take snowpack to make a real dent in this drought.

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Too late. It’s cyclocross season!

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It’s blowing and raining here (Sterling) as I write this. We need the moisture, so I’m not complaining. But **enipla ** can have the snow – I have to drive to Greeley and back twice a week for the next two years, so I’m not anxious for a lot of snowfall out here on the plains. If it falls 30 feet deep up in the high country this winter, it’ll all flow right past my house next summer, and that’s just fine with me.

**Mindfield’s ** comment reminds me of my uncle, who lived at Carbondale for 30 years before moving to Phoenix. Said he was gonna’ pack everything in a U-Haul, strap the snow scoop to the front of the truck and start driving south. First time somebody asked him what the snow scoop was for, he’d know he’d gone far enough south.

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No.

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I wanna go play at enipla’s house. I love the snow.
We might get lame flurries a few times before the end of the year, but we don’t get real snow till January and February.

Twenty-plus inches of snow, and it’s still September? I’m moving.

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Didn’t turn out as bad as I thought. Let’s see [ciphering……] about 29 inches since Thursday. We try to base that on a count/measure in the morning. Snow has a tendency to pack down when it gets deep and wet.

I have a new neighbor from New Mexico. Now someone else lives on our road. He brought up a 2-axle U-Haul trailer behind his 4x4 last night during the thick of it. He did make it up the road, but no way on his drive.

I wanted to help him out and plow for him, but he just got his driveway paved (only one in the valley), and my plow truck is chained up on all 4 tires. I’m afraid I’d tear the heck out of his new asphalt with those chains.

He does have a snow blower, so he went at it with that. Not sure if he got the trailer up or not. I’ll check on him later today. I don’t think he has really thought this through. Our driveways are sort of similar, two switchbacks. I have a 16 foot trailer that I can get up the drive in low 4x (in the summer), but can barely, barely get turned around up top on a good day. Backing it down is simply not an option with the switchbacks culverts and drop offs. In snow?. Ummmm no.

He should probably drop the trailer, and transfer the load to his truck to take stuff up the drive. And make a couple of trips. That’s what we did with the last guy that lived there. AFTER I spent the better part of an afternoon getting a small cube van unstuck at the bottom of the drive.

I donno. I don’t want to give un-solicited advice, but I’m probably going to be the guy that spends most of the afternoon getting my new neighbor out of a pickle. Maybe he will do it, but I really doubt it. When you stick a 4x4, you are stuck. Do it with a trailer attached, with no room to get another vehicle near you, and you are screwed.

Still snowing lightly, I don’t think I’m going to have to plow. I don’t want to plow this early in the year, I end up scraping a lot of gravel off the drive. Plowing too early can make a real mess. I like to get the driveway well packed with snow before I just start pushing the new snow off the top. My Wife got out OK this morning, and I don’t think she will have any problem getting back up. But the snow was deep enough, that she had to plow though it and it washed up onto her hood and windshield. That’s in a Grand Jeep.

Wishing snow on all that want it :wink: , and :cool: for everyone else.

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I bought a new vehicle last month, a Honda Element. It’s supposed to handle snow really well, which was one of the deciding factors for me. AWD, antilock brakes, and lots of room to change in for when I take it up to the mountain for snowboarding. Man, I can’t wait to give it a try.

I must admit I’ll kinda miss driving a 2WD Chevy Blazer- controlled spins around corners can be a bit fun. Won’t be able to do that in the Element.

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You can have all of my snow too.

And the unlivable temperatures that go with it. If you can’t survive outdoors buck naked for 24 hours in both Feb & Aug, you’re not living in a spot that’s meant for human habitation.

And no, I’m not currently living in such a spot either. But I did, and I will again.

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I love, love, love the Rockies in early winter. It was my favourite time of year there. I miss the mountains a lot, but I sure don’t miss the weather we could get.