Looks like you beat us this time, enipla! We’ve had hail, and snow on the peaks, but nothing big. Trees aren’t even seriously turning yet. I expect acceleration to kick in here shortly.
At least in a month I’ll be in the tropics for 2 weeks, so that’ll break things up a bit.
Snow shudder
Best of luck with that. Hope you have a nice fireplace, warm cozy socks, an afghan or comfy blanket, and lots of hot chocolate.
Snow shudder
JESUS CHRIST Er, I/ve never experienced weather like that in Zone 7.
Which circle of Dane’s Hell is frozen?
So pretty!
I have a photo somewhere that I took of my future Thai wife’s first encounter with snow at age 32. She’s standing in a drift up on Sandia Mountain near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Yeah… It was 101 last Friday, and on Saturday, we had a handful of people go down with heat exhaustion at the Renaissance Faire.
Normal mid-September weather for the area.
I see what you did there.
Frankly, I’m envious of you, enipla. Our early summer was the hottest on record, then the drought started. I think what hit you finally got to us a day or so ago and we thank you kindly for passing it along.
It doesn’t seem like that long ago that our Canadian dopers were asking when winter would end. Then we had the New England dopers marvelling at how docile their summer was. Record heat and drought further south. A really strange summer all the way around.
We had the wettest June on record. Mind you this is a semi-desert sort of area, so the record was something like 5 1/2 inches for the month, but they’ve been keeping records for over a hundred years. I only hope that sort of thing keeps up through the winter. We really need a good snow year.
And this was the view out my front window of my car last Christmas morning. It had just gotten light enough to take pictures and was still snowing pretty hard. The maintenance guy came around later with a bulldozer to dig us out and I made it to work for half my shift.
I’m very envious here in the humid Midwest. I love cold and snow and hate heat. We go to the Rockies every chance we get for vacation. Can’t wait for real autumn weather here, which could be late October.
Arrgh…I meant the view was out my front window, OF my car. Forget one stupid comma…
Ha! That’s why I keep a large push broom handy. Snow brush just doesn’t cut it when you are talking feet at a time. Bulldozer? I hope you mean a plow truck or loader. I have my own plow. Sort of have to here. But the good news is that I live above the road, so the drive goes down hill to the access road which also goes down hill to a more major road. Since it’s down hill, and we run 4x4s we have only missed 2 days of work in 17 years. You don’t have snow days (off form work) in ski country.
I was born in Chicago, and lived in Towanda for 6 years. I prefer the mountains too.
Oh my, how can you guys live like that? :eek: I’m sure its a lovely place, but I can’t imagine how anything gets done there in the winter. Shoveling snow? I barely manage to get up in time for work, I cant imagine waking up in the dead of morning to shovel snow for an hour to get out of the driveway. I’m both awed and frightened
Like Siam Sam, I don’t know about this snow thing…
Oh, please, winter. Any time.
I can’t wait for all the people in the smoking area who have said, “You won’t like St. Louis when it gets cold,” to see me all smiling and happy and shit.
It sure looked like a bulldozer to me, enipla. If it was some sort of specially adapted one I wouldn’t know, though he also has a regular plow for lesser snowfalls. I was snowed in until he came by so I was glad to see him, no matter what he was driving! One advantage to renting, I don’t have to have my own plow. My cabin is built on a dirt road that’s maybe fifty or seventy-five yards from the highway (two lanes, the one road in and out of the valley, which the state is unbelievably good at keeping clear) so he clears the road I live on and the one out to the highway. I don’t bother with shoveling except behind my car from where the plow throws it up unless we get at least a foot. At least we get lovely powdery snow up here so I can do a surprising amount of shoveling if I must.
Snow day? What’s a snow day? Oh, yeah, that thing my brother got on at least one occasion in Maryland before finishing high school when they called a snow day because they thought it might snow the next day…and nothing. No snow at all. Cowards.
YogSosoth, to be fair, that was the one big storm we had all winter. I wanted a white Christmas, but that one was quite a bit whiter than I really wanted!
Hmm. I must budget for an oil change/tire swap within the next month or so. Better to have the snow tires on before I need 'em. Easier on the guys at the shop, too, if I beat the rush.
Is it that weird to like winter? I’ve never lived anywhere with it before, and it turned out that I adore it. Yet even most of my coworkers think I’m nuts.
Bat shit insane.
103 here yesterday.
Speaking for myself, not much does get done in winter. There are plenty of winter sports of course, and Colorado experiences many, many brilliantly bright blue sky days. As far as any work on the house is concerned, I save the inside stuff for winter.
My wife will sometimes shovel in the morning, but I don’t plow until I get home from work. Our drive, and the first half mile of ‘road’ is downhill. We can handle about 2 feet of fresh snow. Theroad that goes up to the highway has usually had enough traffic through the night to at least have a couple of tire tracks in it. Often someone will drop their plow on their way home late at night to create one pass. That helps before the County can get to it.
It usually takes me about 45 minutes to plow our drive. More if I have to do our road as well. Usually, the County will have that done. My poor truckis getting a bit beat up. Plowing is very hard on it, but that’s all I use it for, so I can leave the tires chained up all the time. On the flip side, I don’t have to mow grass.
Winter? It’s still summer here. High of 91 today, tomorrow and Friday the high is 95.
