Ultimate snow (dialup warning!)

Well.. if there is anyone out there who wants some snow.. just stop on by our place!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...vive/snow1.jpg

Mark plowing it:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ploinmarky.jpg

Dang, I love this man..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ve/plowin2.jpg

The result: note that the snowpiles are about a third of the way up the garage (building on left with American flag..) We have had years where it went up to its roof.. that's the abandoned barn in the background.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...snowyknoll.jpg

I had to let the girls out for about half an hour to get their stalls clean; they rolled a bunch and then just stood there patiently waiting to be let in.. see, the scenery looks beautiful, but it is bitterly and brutally windy out there. There are all kindsa warnings about frostbite being broadcast on TV..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../snohorses.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../horsesnow.jpg

Our back stairs would make a great sledding ramp!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...backstairs.jpg

I think I will pass on the snow offer, these pictures alone made me cold.

*envies* the whole 2" of snow that fell out here in Eastern MA is now mostly melted... :( I want some snow to go with my 5 degree weather!

Nice pictures, thanks.
I wish we would get some snow like that here. If we did this city would be shut down for at least 2-3 days, and I mean totally shut down! And that would mean some days off from work and some good stuff cooking in the crockpot :)

Brrrr! I can only dream of my work getting closed for weather; they have done it once in the last 10 years. :(
But heck, if we happen to get "stuck" in the driveway, I can always call-off! Although, the showmobile trail does go through our back fields.. and does pass by my work..

Kim, if I could, I would send you the while kit-n-caboodle of snow right now!

Ugh! I hate snow. We've been having practical white-outs here in MI Thanks to the lake effect.

yeah we have two maybe three inchs here in detroit area

How - about - no.

I moved from the mid-west to California and converted baby...no going back. =) Poor horsies..."we'd like back inside now plz thx".

Yeah, they like to roll around and romp and play chase for about half an hour; then it's "we wanna go back in!" Then once they're in the barn, they look out over their stall doors like they want to go back out.. but I think it's too windy and cold for them to be out.

Snow? That's not snow :P

Here's what a real snowstorm in Newfoundland looks like:
The Trans Canada Highway

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/%7Edbehm/Images/JeepInSnow.jpg

St. John's (the capital)
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow04.jpg
The park next to my house
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow07.jpg
Downtown
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow09.jpg
My street
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow08.jpg
What it looks like for most of the winter
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/street03.jpg

Great city, we plow all snow into the harbour and tow it out to sea :)

Not bad! We got a good amount here in MI in the last couple days. Yesterday the tv was flashing 3 different types of warnings including blizzard! Its pretty nice out today or so it looks but there is a ton of snow and man is it cold! My facial hair was freezing in less than a block away from the house when we took the dogs for a walk. Shoveled the drive when we got back...what I wouldn't give for a snow blower...but I guess its good exercise.


...stay warm!

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Originally Posted by Dread

Snow? That's not snow :P

Here's what a real snowstorm in Newfoundland looks like:
The Trans Canada Highway

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/%7Edbehm/Images/JeepInSnow.jpg

St. John's (the capital)
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow04.jpg
The park next to my house
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow07.jpg
Downtown
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow09.jpg
My street
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/snow08.jpg
What it looks like for most of the winter
http://www.bitstop.ca/pictures/snow_2003/street03.jpg

Great city, we plow all snow into the harbour and tow it out to sea :)

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WHOA.....!!
That first pic really floored me.. the rest of the pics reminded me of several blizzards we had in Buffalo; one in 2005 was just wicked. That is a pretty huge amount of snow there.

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Originally Posted by TekWarren

Not bad! We got a good amount here in MI in the last couple days. Yesterday the tv was flashing 3 different types of warnings including blizzard! Its pretty nice out today or so it looks but there is a ton of snow and man is it cold! My facial hair was freezing in less than a block away from the house when we took the dogs for a walk. Shoveled the drive when we got back...what I wouldn't give for a snow blower...but I guess its good exercise.


...stay warm!

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Wow; you know it's cold when anything in your nose, freezes up as soon as you go outside. :) I had jeans on that were wet on the bottoms because I had walked in show, and within seconds they were frozen solid (boot-cut jeans, wide bottoms.) Now we are getting that bitingly cold weather.

WOOOHOOOO! I got a call tonight from one of my building principles...that school is already closed for tomorrow. I'm fairly certain that means my other school will be down as well. Can we say extra sleep in day for me! :P

Just so every one knows here it was 75 and sunny. :D

dang that looks awful!!

I'm in Minneapolis and we dont have anything like that this year. we're like 35 or so inches below average for the winter by this time.

its been COLD though....minus degrees lately.

ya know when its real cold and your nose hairs freeze up when you breathe?

*shudder*

*looks upward*

PLEASE let it warm up soon :)

Haha, Syracuse isn't much better right now Ginevive. It was down to -3 here last night. I work at the airport from 3am to 10am and THAT'S cold. The wind chills go to 15 below! Nutty I tell ya, plain nutty.

you're so lucky!!!!

im so jealous....

the most we have had is like half an inch :(

I want like 3 feet or more :rolleye2:

Bleh; it's been snowing all night pretty-much; I doubt we will be able to get up the driveway today. I only hope that our power does not go out.. I am not prepared for it and our water and heat will go off if that happens. Only thing I could do if that happens is light the stove with a match and heat water to keep warm until it runs out as the well is pumped by electricity.. maybe we could borrow or buy a generator, if we could get to Lowe's.. and to top it off, I have the flu! I think someone is calling off of work today.. thanks to BP.net, I looked it up and saw that it was exactly a month ago that I called off last.. so no writeups!

I grew up in Alberta Canada...so I know what snows all about. Fortunately for me, I moved down here to South Carolina about 7 years ago, and haven't seen more than a couple inches of snow for a day or two the entire time. Can't complain, I DO NOT miss waking up and shoveling the driveway.

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I grew up in Alberta Canada...so I know what snows all about. Fortunately for me, I moved down here to South Carolina about 7 years ago, and haven't seen more than a couple inches of snow for a day or two the entire time. Can't complain, I DO NOT miss waking up and shoveling the driveway.

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Shovelling? Shovelling your driveway is for WIMPS! Get a friend in construction!
http://mousch.zoto.com/img/45/0a71da...3e6c0e6e7-.jpg
That's how REAL MEN shovel!! :P

But this photo is from Central Saskatchewan, not Alberta.... Alberta gets barely any snow!!

Things are really lousy now.. our ATV can not plow through this stuff; it got stuck 2x and Mark had to pull it out with the truck while I whomped on it in reverse.. now Mark has this flu bug thing too and is just completely miserable.. he has to take the large tractor wheel off to take it in and refill it, as it is flat.. if we had just that tractor going, it would make things su much easier for him, it goes through anything.. and conveniently, none of our nearer neighbors are home and they all have huge tractors.. so much for rural hospitality.. :( Argh! It would be so much easier if Mark would agree to just hunker down for a day or two and let the weather pass a little, as it is still blowing snow everywhere.. but not HIM!

My family lived in Champaign, IL the winter of '78...snow drifts bigger than houses, families snow locked into rural farm houses for days...and the melt...almost was scarier...

Been there, done blizzard...I'll take chances with earfquakes...=D

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My family lived in Champaign, IL the winter of '78...snow drifts bigger than houses, families snow locked into rural farm houses for days...and the melt...almost was scarier...

Been there, done blizzard...I'll take chances with earfquakes...=D

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Wow.. it is almost like this snow wants to kill off all human life and exterminate us from the planet or something! Gotta love living in a place where it's deadly to merely be outside.. reminds me of those blizzard stories you hear where people freeze to death five feet from their front door from being lost in the snow..

Good news on the home front.. we were able to remove the tractor wheel and take it in to get reset on the rim and filled with air; the low pressure caused the flat, not a hole. So now we can at least plow decently around the driveway and farmyard, and up to the road and at least have some semblance of hope on getting in/out..

I am getting scared here.. we can't even see it is snowing so bad.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ive/horror.jpg

If you have food, neighbours with phones and all your horses safe and warm... I'd imagine you'll be fine :)
Nothing to offset a blizzard like a cup of hot cocoa and your favourite snugglebug under a blanket in front of the TV!

Ginevive...I know it sounds crazy, but I'm looking at that picture with such longing, you can't even know :)

It isn't that I'm a winter fan...it's just, if it's going to be 5 degrees and FREEZING outside, I'd like some white groundcover. Snow at least makes winter pretty and magical-looking. All we've got is brown grass and some ice from where we had 2" of snow last week :(

Amen..to that..its -20 with the widchill here and we only have 1 1/2 inches of snow..there over 400 school closing yesterday...

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It isn't that I'm a winter fan...it's just, if it's going to be 5 degrees and FREEZING outside, I'd like some white groundcover. Snow at least makes winter pretty and magical-looking.

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Ginevive...I know it sounds crazy, but I'm looking at that picture with such longing, you can't even know :)

It isn't that I'm a winter fan...it's just, if it's going to be 5 degrees and FREEZING outside, I'd like some white groundcover. Snow at least makes winter pretty and magical-looking. All we've got is brown grass and some ice from where we had 2" of snow last week :(

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I do have to agree with you to a point! I hate those frigid days with no snow.. it is like the world needs a blanket or something. The worst thing is, that type of COLD night, with no cloud cover.. ouch! I only wish that here, it had held off at 2 feet, lol. Seriously though, the worst thing happening now is not the amount of snow, nor the temperature; it is these gale-force winds that make everything outside both dangerous and miserable.. the fields behind our house look like the ocean or something, with huge 30-plus-feet-high waves of blowing snow! Honestly, if the wind died down, I too would think of this as beautiful.. but if we could only get out of the driveway, and both get to and from work safely!
Here are some new shots from today! This is our landlord's upstairs porch.. he is vacationing in the Dominican Republic at the moment.. hope he doesn't think we're gonna shovel this stuff off!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ve/icicles.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...pperporcvh.jpg

Snow day number 2 WOOOHOOO! One of the many advantages to working for schools haha! I'll get to actually enjoy this one despite yesterdays snow day I spent most of it on the road. Now what to do with myself since I was up at my usual time and showered before I got the call.

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Snow day number 2 WOOOHOOO! One of the many advantages to working for schools haha! I'll get to actually enjoy this one despite yesterdays snow day I spent most of it on the road. Now what to do with myself since I was up at my usual time and showered before I got the call.

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That's cool; snow days are always a nice thing. :)
I would enjoy this all alot better without the flu bug.. anyone want it?