Got 18+" of snow yesterday coupled with a howling NE wind. Got everything shoveled out this morning..................driveway, deck, path to woodpile, and woodpile. Some pix for y'all..........
MightyWhitey: That's a load of snow... my brother and his wife landed in Chicago Saturday night around 6, said there was over a foot then, and 18" by morning! Glad we only got 6" or so! ~Nathan
Can't tell you how upset I am we missed it. Cousin up in Chicago posted a pic of her hubbie's truck completely buried, and all I could think was "that poor fellow!"
I'm jealous! We've only had one snowfall this year, and it was only 3". Last winter I was shoveling snow just about every week by hand, so this past summer I bought a garden tractor, loaded it up with tire chains and wheel weights and a snow plow, and I'm itching to try it out!
Mighty, I just want to say "Thanks" to you and your neighbors! Everything was to the south of us. And it looks like it's going to be that way again for the next one too...you have no idea just how much I appreciate that!!
I think the same thing......... "as a kid........" but was there deeper snow really? We were so much shorter back then.
We got 8-10" here in cedarburg on the north end of that storm . Tough to get a great measurement as the 40mph gusts though. So I'm going by what the weather people say, and I can't doubt them as some drifts are 3 feet high. I want a good storm to hit up north for the snowmobile trails. We've got enough here now, and we are getting another 2-3" tonight. It looks like more for Saturday night and Sunday too.
Yes, they got hit pretty hard. We are too far north for a lot of those storms and that is fine with me. I'd hate to live anywhere south of where we are in MI. North is much, much better. Sort of like the difference between NYC and Alaska.
Supposedly we got 16". Basically we got enough to keep me out of the woods. But, I have an idea for cutting some dead ash on the roadside of a farm close by. Drop the tree on the road, cut all the fire wood in 8' length and toss in trailer then use the snow plow to push sticks and debris to a pile on the field edge. Farmer likes it. He does not want the trees falling in the field or his crops.
Got some "club members" that live near you......................they were impressed by the amount of snow further South at our bi-monthly club meeting this past Tuesday down here!!!!!!
Polar bear, I did sort of the same thing 2 weeks ago. Fell trees, cut them to 8ft or less depending on weight/ diameter, then threw to the roadside. Took car with 4x8 trailer loaded on side of road with hazards on,then took lots to house to cut to length on sawhorse. You do what you have to when snow doesn't allow you to do it how you typically would.
