Snow and Then Some

[johnk]

I think its 11 feet no with more to come. The link I first posted gets updated everyday with new pics of the snow so go back and check the 1st post if you want to see new pics.....

 

[TBrown]

How is the wildlife surviving up there? The pic of the two deer standing outside the window makes you realize that it will be hard for them to make it in those conditions.

The deer are having an awful time of things. Saturday afternoon I was driving over to my setpfather's place to help him shovel his barn and came upon eight deer in the road, maybe a quarter mile fromm my house. They all sort of milled about until I was too close for comfort, then the two largest bolted up the bank to my right. Two more held their ground for a few seconds more before following them. The bank they went over was maybe eight feet high. The last four did not want to leave the road for nothing. Two eventually ran ahead of my truck until they found a spot on the left hand side of the road where the bank was only about six feet high, then went over. The last two were little buggers and they looked to be in really bad shape. I could've opened the door and grabbed onto one (would've been a dumb thing to do, I know, I'm just sayin'). They walked ahead of the truck for awhile looking terrified, then when we got to a place where a small creek passed under the road they went over the bank and into the creek. It was heartbreaking, but I couldn't get by them because the road had narrowed down to one lane from the snow, nor could I turn around.

The town I live in, Florence, borders the town of Redfield. Redfield, as I'm sure everyone has heard, set some sort of record for snowfall this week. It's been unreal. I have no other words for it. I spent three hours in my tractor Saturday morning, then shoveled my barn, then helped shovel my stepfather's house and barn. Sunday I got up and spent another three hours in the tractor, then shoveled the roof of my house, then got back on the tractor to move what I shoveled off. Then I went and helped shovel the roof of the fire station and a barn we store the department's two antique firetrucks in. That took until 6:30 PM. I never did get to Camden to help shovel my father-in-law's roof off and I feel guilty as heck over that, but I ran plumb out of steam. There's only so much a man can do. I'm just glad it's finally over.

 

[johnk]

Mother Nature can really make you humble. The Great power she has and how weak we are at times. It just seems the intervals are getting closer as to devastation that mother nature invokes. Hurricanes , tornadoes, snow, mudslides, forest fires global warming, glaciers melting. Maybe all this was happening when I was younger but I don't remember all the devastation back then. Is it all the bombs in Iraq, tailpipes in America, or just me being paranoid??

 

[Cottonhawk]

All I can say is, "Good Luck to you!"

 

[Thomas]

Indeed its been crazy weather,and I saw where Reading,NY. has the most snow fall...well over 100" and more on the way ....folks in NH are beging for snow,and by the looks staeting tonight we might get our first decent snow storm.

Think spring and shovel safe.

 

[hazmat]

Seems that the TV station must be buried, I can't get the link to load...

Wish they would truck some of that snow over to the ski mountains in New England. It's been a tough year.

 

[George2615]

Just to add some numbers to the pics in the link, todays paper listed the following snowfall in inches for only the past 10 days.
Oswego 85"
Mexico 106"
Constantia 76"
Parish 121"
Redfield 141"

But all this snow is still not a record breaker.

 

[Oleozz]

I would imagine you tractor owners who live in that part of New York consider yourselves very lucky to have the means to move the snow. I can't imagine all the snow that is being shoveled by folks who have no other way to get rid of it except by hand. It must really be hard on the senior citizens.

 

[ByronBob]

I would imagine you tractor owners who live in that part of New York consider yourselves very lucky to have the means to move the snow. I can't imagine all the snow that is being shoveled by folks who have no other way to get rid of it except by hand. It must really be hard on the senior citizens.

Most of the people here have plows do the work and pay for that priviledge. Others help each other around my place. You need to when you live around here.

Most of the time it evens out. But it's the people who know better who don't do anything about it which makes it more difficult to deal with.

My first winter I had help. The neighbors were great but I knew I needed to buy something. So I do the same when I can