SNOW..MAGEDDON

[Squibb]

Is anyone out there caught up in the Blizzards running up the East Coast USA?

Looks like it's the base layer of ice that is the real problem. Never seen pics of DC so quiet.

Keep safe folks ..................... KEN

 

[Brick]

We got about 8 1/2" here in Western North Carolina. Which is 8" more than I wanted to see. I have a curvy 209 foot long driveway and I'm trying to shovel it now. A little at a time... This sucks! We usually get one snow a year and I damn sure hope this is all for 2016.

I'm not as young as I once was!! ::009::

 

[Andylaser]

I have a curvy 209 foot long driveway and I'm trying to shovel it now.

Thats gonna take a lot of shovelling.

 

[RCinNC]

This is Pinehurst, NC, about an hour north of the SC border. I don't think my tree is gonna make it......

 

[fredz43]

We got about 8 1/2" here in Western North Carolina. Which is 8" more than I wanted to see. I have a curvy 209 foot long driveway and I'm trying to shovel it now. A little at a time... This sucks! We usually get one snow a year and I damn sure hope this is all for 2016.

I'm not as young as I once was!! ::009::

Hey, Brick, I'm older than you and have 2 driveways to clear. Last winter I finally got wise and added a snow blade to my zero turn mower and have been having a blast with it. Lots more fun than shoveling.

https://youtu.be/Y5NuFRfiBD8

 

[Defekticon]

It's drifting, but this is on my deck. And it's still snowing.

 

[Brick]

Yea I don't have a zero turn or a blade. But by next winter I'll have something. A snowblower at minimum. If I got a blade all my neighbors would want me to do there driveways too.

Hmm just thinking... With the elevation change in my driveway I would have to do chains or something else.

Hey, Brick, I'm older than you and have 2 driveways to clear. Last winter I finally got wise and added a snow blade to my zero turn mower and have been having a blast with it. Lots more fun than shoveling.

https://youtu.be/Y5NuFRfiBD8

 

[78YZ]

We got 20" in 24 hours. It started snowing around 7pm yesterday and it is still snowing. This is.fun.

 

[fredz43]

Yea I don't have a zero turn or a blade. But by next winter I'll have something. A snowblower at minimum. If I got a blade all my neighbors would want me to do there driveways too.

Hmm just thinking... With the elevation change in my driveway I would have to do chains or something else.

Yeah, I did several neighbors' driveways this week, as I was having so much fun, I found it hard to quit. My other driveway is pretty steep, but the zero turn does really well on it, with the engine over the driving wheels. Also put a gallon of windshield washer fluid in each tire for added traction.

 

[Checkswrecks]

I'm 35 miles north of DC and am wondering if somebody can help me find my truck. It was in the drive beneath eh window the last I saw it.

The squares in the slider to the deck are one foot high, so it and the table on the other side are my snow gages.

We've been told that our street probably won't get plowed out till sometime tomorrow. I watched a neighbor working it and the snow was deeper than his knees.

 

[AVGeek]

What's all that white stuff piling up? I almost, ALMOST feel bad about the fact that temps have cooled a bit here from a high of 76 yesterday to "only" 66 today...gonna have the heated gear on for this morning's ride to the job site...

 

[Checkswrecks]

It's been a strange few days, since we were spending an anniversary on a cruise ship with my sis and BIL. Cruising was a new experience, especially since neither of us are big eaters. We've been telling ourselves for years that we had to try a do-nothing vacation, which is just not who we are by nature.


This was late Thursday:

Early on Friday morning while the ship was still coming into Miami we learned that our airline had already begun canceling flights from Friday noon until Sunday noon. Our flight was scheduled for 2:15. We hit the dock in the first group off, caught a cab, pissed me off that we had to PAY to help American by rescheduling our tickets (beat killing 2 nights at MIA), and literally walked onto the last call for the last flight with seats going north.


It couldn't have worked better, as we got the first flakes while driving home from picking up the pooch.

 

[rem]

I guess I could loan some of you boys Schroeder the Loader, but you'd have to come and get him ........ and bring him back. R ::003::

 

[Dirt_Dad]

Nice Rem. These were my heroes of the day...and night...and next day... and ... you get the idea.



Before Thursday evening I only had the yellow thing. My wife had been bugging me about getting a snow blower, but I resisted since we've always been fine with the ATV. She talked me into (reluctantly) considering one on Wednesday afternoon. Checking all the stores and they were all sold out. DM called a Lowes on Thursday that just had a truck load come in that day. She bought it over the phone.

I have no idea how much we got. Massive drifts all over the place. Like here...



I've seen some reports within 5 miles of here that were at 34 inches. That sounds about right. This is our third 30 inch+ snowfall in the 14 years we've been at this house. We've learned how to deal with it.









My poor screened in porch.



Oh, and about the snow blower...I was wrong, and DM was so very, very right. We plowed until 12:30am Saturday morning. I thought that would be good to let us sleep. BAD DD....BAD. By 7:00am there was another 15 inches on the ground. My plow can't do much with 15". After getting stuck and digging out 9 or 10,000 times, I finally had to admit defeat and have DM rescue the day with the snow blower. I take off my knit cap and bow respectfully to the snow blower. It ran circles around the plow when the going got too deep.

 

[rem]

Oh, and about the snow blower...I was wrong,

A good snowblower is an impressive piece of equipment. I've had a couple over the years, but due to the plethora of rocks on the grounds, a bucket and / or blade does a better job for me. The blowers don't like rocks. But they can tackle just about any depth of snow and move it somewhere else. R

 

[RIDEMYST]

I cleared all of the snow from my yard and started my grill.....here in South Florida. -JEP-


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[rem]

Now that's just plain rude ..... I hope a mosquito bites you right on your porky loins ..... uh, pork loins . sorry. R ::012::

 

[sfc67]

nice Dirt Dad.
looks alot like here.
i still have a snowblower also but up graded to a John Deere 1025r tractor this year that can really move the snow.

Sean

 

[Checkswrecks]

What I woulda given for a snow blower today.


But I did get over 3 hours of cardio in.
:

 

[Dirt_Dad]

nice Dirt Dad.
looks alot like here.
i still have a snowblower also but up graded to a John Deere 1025r tractor this year that can really move the snow.

Sean

Hi Sean,

I would never pretend we could keep up with you. Maybe this weekend we briefly looked like you, but I remember seeing snow at the top of Tablelands in July We're not going to have any of that here. Hope all is well. I'm toying with the idea of heading your way again. Thinking about doing the Trans-Lab up. Nothing definite, just an option under consideration.

What I woulda given for a snow blower today.


But I did get over 3 hours of cardio in.
:

On Thursday morning I wasn't excited to give anything for a snow blower. I have a whole new outlook today.

I still got tons of cardio. Getting an ATV stuck time and time again, shoving, pushing, digging...repeat, shoving pushing, digging, repeat. Thought my heart was going to bust out of my chest a few time.