Ever wish you had more snow?

TimberXX · Jan 15, 2014

4shorts said:
Like most things in life to much of anything is not good. We are having records amounts of snow for December. So much in fact yesterday I had to start shovelling off the roofs of our buildings. We get snow then rain and that makes for some miserable weather. This year I prepared for any power outages with a new generator and custom built generator shelter but this amount of snow is something else. I pity the folks that don't have the equipment to help move it.

I really like that enclosure. Who makes it?

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deerseeker001 · Jan 15, 2014

We have more than enough.

rmorey · Jan 15, 2014

We've been spreading ash from the woodstove on the driveway and walkway to stop from slipping on the ice. Thanks to the +6C and rain the other day. :thumbdown:

JJZ 109 · Jan 16, 2014

The majority of ice storm 2013 cleanup from our 2 acres. Unfortunately there will be a lot of raking/hand work in the spring when snow melts and I can see everything that got buried in snow or frozen in.
I did pick up the majority of this pile a little at a time with the stiff arm backhoe/fixed thumb on the skid steer and transport it to the pile. That saved a lot of dragging by hand or having it fall off the forks. It had to be moved such a short distance I really didn't want to spend the time trying to tie each bundle down to the forks before moving it.

4shorts · Jan 16, 2014

Since the rain came we lost 101 cm's of snow in ten days. This is just after the snowiest December since 1901 :shocked:

lostcreekranch · Jan 16, 2014

So far, in Colorado County Texas, our favorite amount of snow has fallen, i.e. NONE!

Don't own a snow blower / thrower and hope I never have to. That why we live in Texas and not Nebraska where I was raised!

lostcause · Jan 16, 2014

i say: the more the better. that's not necessarily because I have any great love for snow, but instead because so many others don't like it. i live in rural america and i like it that way. if it takes cold weather and snow for a part of the year to help keep population down, i'll tolerate it. let's face it, the rest of the year here is pretty tolerable. comfortable without requiring air conditioning most of the time, comfortable and safe to go out in the woods at any time. mosquitoes blackflies, and snow are all we have to keep the tourists from staying between labor day and memorial day. if the weather was good year round then more of them would stay and eventually it would become more urban. i'm sure it would take a while before it was noticeable, but why change a good thing.

lostcreekranch · Jan 16, 2014

lostcause said:
i say: the more the better. that's not necessarily because I have any great love for snow, but instead because so many others don't like it. i live in rural america and i like it that way. if it takes cold weather and snow for a part of the year to help keep population down, i'll tolerate it. let's face it, the rest of the year here is pretty tolerable. comfortable without requiring air conditioning most of the time, comfortable and safe to go out in the woods at any time. mosquitoes blackflies, and snow are all we have to keep the tourists from staying between labor day and memorial day. if the weather was good year round then more of them would stay and eventually it would become more urban. i'm sure it would take a while before it was noticeable, but why change a good thing.

Lost Cause;

Good point!

milkman636 · Jan 16, 2014

lostcause said:
i say: the more the better. that's not necessarily because I have any great love for snow, but instead because so many others don't like it. i live in rural america and i like it that way. if it takes cold weather and snow for a part of the year to help keep population down, i'll tolerate it. let's face it, the rest of the year here is pretty tolerable. comfortable without requiring air conditioning most of the time, comfortable and safe to go out in the woods at any time. mosquitoes blackflies, and snow are all we have to keep the tourists from staying between labor day and memorial day. if the weather was good year round then more of them would stay and eventually it would become more urban. i'm sure it would take a while before it was noticeable, but why change a good thing.

Ya, I spent some time in the Tampa Florida area a few years ago and wondered how you could ever let your kids swim in a pond down there with them gators all over the place. Nothing like that here in snow country. So far no sinkholes, and I haven't seen a poisonous snake in the wild here either.

wmonroe · Jan 16, 2014

lostcause said:
i say: the more the better. that's not necessarily because I have any great love for snow, but instead because so many others don't like it. i live in rural america and i like it that way. if it takes cold weather and snow for a part of the year to help keep population down, i'll tolerate it. let's face it, the rest of the year here is pretty tolerable. comfortable without requiring air conditioning most of the time, comfortable and safe to go out in the woods at any time. mosquitoes blackflies, and snow are all we have to keep the tourists from staying between labor day and memorial day. if the weather was good year round then more of them would stay and eventually it would become more urban. i'm sure it would take a while before it was noticeable, but why change a good thing.

I agree, bring on more snow and me and the neighbors will enjoy what we have here.