Can’t vote. Last winter we got 360" of snow. 30 feet. We measure. It’s usually about 22-25 feet.
hmmm…
I would prefer no more than 6" a day I suppose. That’s not really a big deal. We had 44" in 3 days over Thanksgiving.
Now normally I could cope with that. But I had my hip replaced on November 21st. Since I knew that was gonna be the case, I hired a guy to plow for us. He is a bit in over his head and told me that. He has been stuck in my driveway 3 times and I have pulled him out once.
He has to chain up his truck on all 4 wheels. It’s the only way to do it. I’ve told him that. He tries to take short cuts, and always has problems.
He had to get a backhoe come and dig him out of how stuck he got at my neighbors driveway.
Sheesh I come in here to be all high-and-mighty about how 60" of snow is nothing, but I’m just an also-ran since enipla got here before me.
We’ve had 80" so far this year, coming down mostly a consistent few inches a day, with a few storms thrown in. If I had my druthers, I guess I’d vote for something along the lines of “just enough that we only have to do snow removal a couple times a week.” And by “we” I mean “Mr. Athena and the guy we pay to plow the driveway.” I just supervise.
My problem is that much snow at one time would cause, I think, some serious structural havoc. I remember back in the blizzard of '79 my neighbor’s garage roof collapsing, and that was only like 20" of snow. I can’t imagine what 60" might do at once to a place not accustomed to that much snow.
Now I could be wrong – it’s possible my neighbor just had a shitty roof, and most structures can take a 60" snowfall.
Well, I can’t compete with the big boy up the hill from me but we’re at 40" so far this year. If it’s less than 4" I don’t even pay attention. I chose 10 x 6". Its enough to notice without effecting life much. I’ll be bummed about it not melting off though, the beauty of a Denver snowfall even in the foothills is the snow melts off before it gets brown and gross and typically before the next storm hits. We got an inch or two after christmas and its mostly gone already.
I’ll take it all at once. I get paid for snow days, and 60" would shut down DC for at least a whole week. It did back in 2010 (“Snowmageddon”), and that was only half that amount.
In Charleston, South Carolina? I’ll take one inch a day for two months. Anything else would, literally, be measured in body counts. We’re simply not designed to deal with such things.
The only saving grace would be that everything is flat, here. So we wouldn’t have to deal with snowy inclines except at a few bridges.
This was close to my thinking. 10" at a time isn’t too much and my snowblower can handle it. It’s not going to destroy Chicago-area traffic for days or anything. Seems the the optimal amount to “get it over with” without being a huge snarl in daily life.
I went with the last choice but actually I want more info ------ how many melts, how much hard-pack and things like that. Give me 60 inches over say a week and then 33+ temps and nice roads with a slow meltdown and I want that. Constant under 32 and I would rather have say 15 days or 4. How much falls does not equal what the roads are like and that is my main concern.
Does this come with my municipal area knowing how and having the equipment to handle 60" of snow? Or we dealing with our current snow handling capabilities, just 10x more than usual?
Is it dry or wet snow?
