Here we snow again..

My roof rake was only reaching the bottom three feet of my roof and I wanted to clean some more snow off yesterday before it snowed again last night. So I went down to the basement to see what I could see and I ended up dragging the ladder from the inflatible pool we bought for the kids outside. Pretty stable and easy to move around. I was able to get about another four feet removed. Sometimes you just have to be creative.

 

ALRIGHT, I'M TELLING YOU , STOP SNOWING. STOP IT

 

Do you have or can you borrow a small stepladder from somebody?

 

We got lucky in that the rain snow like remained south of here I think. I got about 2 inches of heavy slushy stuff but not the 1 inch downpour they said was possible. My leak remains just a slow drip luckily.

 

Glad you didn't have to deal with rain yet Jeremy. You guys gonna get some sun today too? I just got done cleaning up the 4" we got last night and roof raked too. If the sun gets out here, should be around 40. It ought to melt out the drive, decks and roofs a little... got a small ice dam in the valley between the house and garage. My honey just took off to get some Shurmelt.

 

Yeah I had about 3 inches to deal with... hearvy we slushy crap that was harder to move than a foot of powder. We just went out for a ride, huge puddles everywhere, things are melting.

 

6" of heavy wet sticky snow is a real PIA when the snow banks are so frickin high.

My wife, ever the optimist, love her to death, says today when I got done cleaning it up "at least it wasn't 10 degrees and blowing 30"

I know the Inuit (Eskimo) 100 words for snow is really an urban legend
http://www.firstpeople.us/glossary/Fake-Eskimo-Snow-Words.html
couple of my favorites
Maxtla-snow that hides the whole village
Mactla- snow burgers
Mextla- snow used to make Eskimo margaritas

I made up a couple my self today while shoveling
PIAtla- self explanatory
Enoughtlalready- also self explanatory

 

It rained down here all night.
Changed to snow for about an hour and then it was done.
Now it will freeze and everything will be like stale old marzipan
impossible to shovel or do anything with

probably spend the rest of the day chipping ice and will try to pull some more slush off the roof before it freezes
glad I got all the snow off I could before it rained

 

This one was sighted in Standish and headed towards Turner. Very hungry! Likes "old goats" best.

 

40 degrees and bright sunshine out!!! I was out there with only a shirt on and felt hot... amazing how the body adapts, as southerners would probably put on a parka in these temps.


Things are improving, a lot of the ice has fallen OFF the back roof, and on the side where the leaks where my salt socks worked and we have channels open down to the shingles draining the water off. All the streets are down to blacktop, as is part of my driveway - for the first time in 6 weeks. part of the road is even drying now, so maybe it wont be an ice rink driving to work tomorrow after all.

 

I'm glad the weather finally turned for you, I've been keeping ours roof raked the best I can. I think today was the third day we've had that the sun was strong enough to melt the snow.

Once the thaw/freeze cycle really starts we'll see what develops.

 

Yikes ... I'm... a... old... goat...

 

Dunno. I just got rid of a small one today with Shurmelt and 36 degree sun. My hatchet helped too.

 

It's ok to let go zap.
Just come on down potential for "significant" snow here Wednesday

 

I'm not complaining, send that snow up here so it will extend winter so we can get more sledding in.

After this week the coldest air will be gone so with the stronger sun, we'll be losing snow.