Snow Sick of the snow...

TBrown · Feb 8, 2007

We're getting pounded by snow here in Upstate NY, we've even recieved some national and international coverage in the media. The city of Oswego and the bigger towns like Mexico and Parish are getting all the attention but there are over a hundred smaller communities like my own that are getting whalloped as well. We've gone over 70 inches from this storm so far and the weather dudes are saying we might go over 100 before it gives up the ghost.

My 2015 is a little snow-eating monster, but it's finally starting to struggle. I went home at noon to clean the drive for the unmpteenth time and found that the road crew had pushed the road back from a one-lane to a two-lane. I had two feet of densely packed snow at the end of my drive with eight-foot banks on either side, and my blower just launches a column of snow up there only to have it fall right back down again. I'm going to have to haul it out of there with the loader, so It looks like I'll be getting some major seat time this weekend.

I just wish I could figure out a way to use the tractor to shovel my roof, too.

Iowachild · Feb 8, 2007

Wow you guys are really getting hit. I have seen it before. Back in the 70's my BIL was stationed at the Air Force base that was outside of Rome. I think the lake effect machine works over time off Lake Ontario. Fortunately much of Lake Eire is now frozen so it's shutting down in NW PA. Good luck and THINK SPRING!

Thomas · Feb 8, 2007

Indeed you folks have pay your dues this month,just hope it won't be 1972 winter.

George2615 · Feb 8, 2007

TBrown,
I know what you mean. I have to do the same thing. My son lives not far from you, about 4 miles north of Panther Lake. I had to take off work Tuesday and take my 2615 up to his house to clear him out, then went home and did mine. Just plowed him again today and will need to bring the tractor back again this weekend to move back snow piles. I'll have to clear out an area in his back yard to move the snow to with the loader. Then we have to reshovel the roof. I think its about the fourth time this year for that. I Have already moved my banks back but need to do the roof again as well.

George

Tig · Feb 8, 2007

Right now I'm across the lake in Prince Edward County. I've been watching the radar and it's all funneling off the lake and on to you guys. We've got a nice winter on the go here with wind and lake effect snow but nothing like what you've got.

wallace · Feb 8, 2007

Man O man I wish we had half of what you have down here

we are dieing with over 50 snowblowers instock as a matter in fact we started to advertise that all of our snowblowers will be sold at dealer cost.
I just can't afford to write a check that big.

therebarely · Feb 9, 2007

It can't last long, due to global warming. Pretty soon, it won't freeze in upstate New York anymore. Will just need to add sand, and it will be just like Florida.

TBrown · Feb 9, 2007

We lucked out last night, woke up with only six inches of new snow.

I wish I'd had a camera with me last night. My daughter takes figure skating classes in Rome and we were driving back home around eight in the evening. The wind was just roaring, it was one fifty-foot whiteout section after another. My wife's little Subaru was getting pushed all over the road. Anyway, there's a section of route 69 known as Pine Hill with large fields to either side. I look to my left and thought "What in the world is a groomer doing way out there?" But it wasn't a trail groomer, it was a big four-wheel drive tractor spreading manure. Cab tractor, of course, and it was lit up front and back. It looked like a groomer because only a foot or so of the rears were visible above the snow and so little of the spreader showed that it looked like a grading sled. It probably isn't much more than a sled in snow that deep. It was strange to see because of the hour and the storm, kind of lonely-looking and pretty at the same time. Well, as pretty as a manure spreader can be.

George, your son is lucky to have you as a dad. I feel sorry for the folks who have to make do with a walk-behind snowblower. They just aren't cutting it, and a lot of people are having to hire out to have someone come in with a loader and push their banks back.

Wallace, I don't know what to say... other than if I hear of anyone needing a blower and who is willing to drive, I'm sending them your way

There are no deals like that being offered around here. You must be a huge dealer to stock 50 blowers, BTW. I've never seen over a dozen on a dealer lot.

Oleozz · Feb 9, 2007

We travel through your part of New York to get to our cabin in Canada. When I leave Syracuse I always think that it's beautiful country but desolate. I'm trying to picture what I 81 must look like with all the snow that you folks are getting. The last time I talked to anybody in the Rideau Lakes region of Canada they were telling me that it was a mild winter and the lake had just frozen over, I have a feeling that things have changed since then.