Ever wish you had more snow?

[milkman636]

grs, I've seen your pics before and those are impressive snows. Last night was just a few inches. We had a good foot more snow on the ground a couple weeks back but the winds have blown alot of it away. I live in a fairly flat agricultural area with lots of open spaces and not much to stop the wind from blowing. My house faces west and sits about 8' above the road so the wind usually helps to keep things more shallow in the front. We have some waist deep snow on the backside of my little hill where the wind dumps it in the woods, which is a rare thing for us.

In the northern parts of our state nearer the lake shores I've seen 42 and 48" snow fall events, but they taper off this far south and inland. Six solid weeks of snow cover with no signs of thawing in the next 10 days is also very rare for us. Usually our cold stretch runs about 4 weeks between thaws. We have a genuine winter this year. Who knows, it may actually follow the calendar this year and last the whole 13 weeks???

 

[Iowan]

Nope , I don't want more but my neighbor does so I push it over on his drive.

 

[milkman636]

Nope , I don't want more but my neighbor does so I push it over on his drive.

That's very generous of you.

 

[Iowan]

That's very generous of you.

No charge

 

[alleycatdad]

0.0"? Not quite, but it's pretty close.

Scary dry.

SA

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Nope. But there have been times I wished for colder and longer cold spells without snow to kill the ticks in the woods.

 

[wmonroe]

I asked for more earlier and I have been getting it, nothing big but it has been great. We got about 8" last night and maybe more tomorrow night, didn't get out to plow tonight but I will tomorrow.

 

[grsthegreat]

we had 4" last night, bringing the winter season total to 28"....woop te do

a ways to go to standard 100" i think

 

[lostcause]

All so true.

I just read a book where the claim was made that black flies are what will save Maine from civilization. :laughing:

the irony of it all is that i learned my attitude from a southerner

back in my youth (the 90's) i spent some time working in atlanta, and there was a writer/comedian there named lewis grizzard. he used to talk about the people from the north who wintered in the south. they would complain that sometimes the weather was too hot and they couldn't wait to get back home. his reply was: "delta's ready when you are." i've got no problem with people who don't want to live in the cold, or with people who decide to move to warmer climates to avoid the cold. my issue is with the people who year after year will complain about the winter weather, but do nothing about it. i'm of the s**t or get off the pot attitude - if you can't do anything about it, or refuse to do anything about it, then please don't constantly complain about it. life's too short to whine about something that's as much a guarantee as death and taxes. winter isn't going away anytime soon - learn to live with it.

 

[Iowan]

the irony of it all is that i learned my attitude from a southerner

back in my youth (the 90's) i spent some time working in atlanta, and there was a writer/comedian there named lewis grizzard. he used to talk about the people from the north who wintered in the south. they would complain that sometimes the weather was too hot and they couldn't wait to get back home. his reply was: "delta's ready when you are." i've got no problem with people who don't want to live in the cold, or with people who decide to move to warmer climates to avoid the cold. my issue is with the people who year after year will complain about the winter weather, but do nothing about it. i'm of the s**t or get off the pot attitude - if you can't do anything about it, or refuse to do anything about it, then please don't constantly complain about it. life's too short to whine about something that's as much a guarantee as death and taxes. winter isn't going away anytime soon - learn to live with it.

I say if you don't like what you've been reading, don't whine about it just don't read it. Part of dealing with the extremes of winter is talking about it, sorry if you don't under stand that.