Today as everything keeps going wrong and lastly I sit with a broken snowblower, I want to quote Lucille Ball.
Wahhh!!!
Too bad this isn’t in the pit. I would see your Wahhh!!! and raise you some spectacular profanity. :mad: 
Today the paper has the Columbia county down for over 100 inches of snow this winter. I still can’t list all the stuff that been a problem today. I am about to rip apart the snowblower, then half of the roof has 3 foot of snow to deal with. Yesterday was moving snow, to move snow into that place, to move snow from the driveway.
Isn’t the 100 inches for all of southeastern Wisconsin, or at least include Dane County? I live in a cul de sac, so the plow pushes a good deal of the snow onto part of my lawn. As I pull out of the driveway and pull ahead to turn out of the circle, I am looking straight ahead at five feet + of a wall of snow. I am so SICK of this!!! I am not clever enough to come up with a response like Wallflower, though I could offer some profanity straight up.
p.s. Am I worse off because I don’t even own a snowblower?
On a whim, I picked up a used snowblower this past fall. Mostly because it was a good deal - not because I forsaw much of a use for it. I bet I’ve used it an average of once a week since Nov.
We got close to 12" of wet heavy snow on Sun and it’s been snowing all day today. After I blew out my driveway, I had to actually snowblow my deck. There was about 5’ of snow piled up on it and I was afraid it would collapse.
I’m not sure how much snow is on my roof, but I’m considering going up there and taking care of that as well (with a shovel - not a snowblower).
We haven’t had a winter like this in WI since probably the mid 80’s.
I know! We haven’t had it as bad as you, but Iowa (overall) is at twice normal snowfall so far, and March usually brings more.
Fingers crossed that it doesn’t melt all at once.
We are blowing the record from 1978-1979 out of the water. I think that record was 75 point something or 76 inches. We have to be over 80 by now. And now the next few days are going to be subzero. BUT - this weekend they are predicting in the 30’s with some sun so maybe I can get my driveway cleared off.
If it does melt all at once, my street is screwed. My end of the block has somewhat of a slope, but the other two blocks don’t and all sewer grates are completely blocked. It will be a swimming pool.
I just finally finished cleaning up this last big one. Officially it was 9 inches here in town, but I’m betting that is way off. That would put us at 99 inches so far, with 3 more expected tonight. Maybe this will help briefly.
While I hate the snow as much as the next Wisconsinite (enough already, you snowy bastards! bring on the global warming!) the worst thing about it is the pussies who won’t come to work because they don’t want to drive in it. Which means that I and the rest of the non-pussies get swamped and on top of its being insanely busy we get to have abuse heaped upon us by the morons who call in and have to hold for a while because 80% of the staff didn’t come in.
Otto , 1978-79, which is apparently the record we just broke, I had my first job, was driving either 1972 Chevy Impala - my parents’ car - or a 1979 Chevy Chevette. I drove from Deerfield to Downtown Madison. Every. Single. Day. I made it to work when Madison residents didn’t. I have never missed work because of the weather.
I agree, bring on global warming. I am so, so sick of this…
I figure on the river flooding and the basement leaking badly this spring, so now things are being moved for later.
The storm dropped a coating of ice and then 12 inches of wet snow Sunday. Monday’s snow dropped about four more inches. I have snow piled in large areas up to 8 foot high right now. Somebody used the boat and didn’t flip it up side down, so that has two and a half feet of ice in it.
The weather has only caused 4 pathway lights to break this year. Last week I fell backwards and caught myself about a foot from the ground. I get up and find the lamp snapped off and the pipe still sticking up. I came so close to having that pipe perforate my ass for ten inches, it’s scary. The truck’s weekend toll has been a stuck radio button so it cycles continuously through the channels. The wiper control got burned out so only the high speed works, and it stops wherever you turn it off. The windows had an eighth inch of ice covering them, as well as the locks. I needed gas for the snowblower having used a full gas can on Sunday. The station had 2 of 8 pumps bad. The other 6 had trucks at them. Only 1 person is pumping gas. The other’s can’t make the credit card readers work so they just sit there blocking the pumps for cash customers. After at least 3 minutes one guy finally says it doesn’t work, do you want to use it. Why yes I would like to get the 2 gallons of gas so I can blow more snow. Remember later the snowblower died, and I could hardly move because Sunday made me sore all over. Monday night I had a sick stomach and today I have the flu. Those are some of the highlights. I had one thing go right. I bought 1 of the 7 remaining bags of salt from the lumberyard.
Boy, I thought my day was bad on Friday, and I only got fired, received an overdraft notice, and then my son buried my car in a two-foot deep snow drift in the driveway! Hope today goes better. Stay warm!
Harmonious Discord , do you live on the Wisconsin River?
I cursed and ached last week while I rassled an ancient tricycle tractor with a too-narrow blade trying to clear the two feet of freshly drifted snow from my driveway – then read about folks over in Park County trying to make food stretch until they could be rescued. But at least my tractor was running and I could clear the snow.
I understand Wisconsin is gorgeous in the spring! Keep thinking about spring, Harmonious. Winter can’t last forever.
It is beautiful in the spring. It’s getting through February that bites. On the roads there is snow on top of ice right now with two ruts for tires (on some roads). It’s tooth rattling. Once we get through February I feel MUCH better but there is still ten days of it. Grrr
What part of it is broken? It starts but won’t blow snow? It won’t start? What’s up?
I used mine a few times this year without realizing that one of the shear pins was broken. I didn’t even know I had two separate ones for each half of the impeller. What a doofus I felt like when my neighbour came over and told me he noticed only half of the impeller was turning: as I struggled and sweated and wondered why the snow was so suddenly difficult to get through.
I think we’ve passed all time records here in Ottawa too.
What does Ottawa usually get? I don’t know what is typical for us, only that they are predicting over 100" for the year.
In NH we’re up to 90" which is already 20-40" more than usual. Lots of people around here had their roofs collapse last week. Not us, we’ve been diligent with clearing it off. We had the back porch collapse instead. I fucking hate winter.
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I live near the Fox and the Wisconsin is within a mile.
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The blowing snow shorted out the ignition, and I had to remove everything to get to the wire under the housing.
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The roofs now have a 2 inch thick layer of ice on them under the snow except for the roof junction where it is 6 inches thick. One half of the roof has over two feet of snow over the ice. I removed the overhanging snow and 4 foot icicles. today.
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I’m glad there was no snow today, because I couldn’t have dealt with it, and being sick.
I send virtual chicken soup your way. Truly. I have another drift at the end of my driveway, though snow on the roof isn’t an issue. I just have to worry about my 17 year old coming home at 9:30. He’s the one, bless his inexperienced heart, that got the car hung up on a two-foot drift in the driveway Friday night. Gawd, this is old.