I too enjoy the snow. But, I don't have to go out in it, unless I really want to. So, I go out whenever I can. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
I hear ya. For years as fire chief, I never missed a call because of weather. Sometimes that meant braving some serious conditions. Chief
And I hear you too, as you well know, in the northern states life goes on when it snows. Of course in the cities like Boston it becomes a nightmare, because it's just a grown up colonial town with narrow little streets and nowhere to put the heavy snows. I'm just glad I don't have to go anywhere near there.
I've not experienced thunder snow very much but do remember that every time we had it, we also got dumped on with a lot of snow.
I have to agree. As a kid growing up near Montreal the snow came in November and stayed until March. Sometimes we got a lot at once and other times not so much but they iced some large flat areas in the local park with a fire hose and we skated for 4 or 5 months each year and the toboggans came out with the first snow and many a day I came home after dark because I was out on the local golf course hills. The football lights were on in the evening so skating was mostly an after dark activity. Around here it snows, but a week later it is gone so no real winter fun here. When it comes to snow, it is hard to enjoy the puny stuff I see here the way I would if we got real snow. I lived in SoCal for 15 years and really missed winter activities but I have been disappointed in what I found in this halfway winter area. We never get a winter here that you can go out and enjoy. I even remember winter wood harvest on my grandfather's place. It was work, but as a teenager I would go out with him and others into the woods to harvest some of his trees for lumber. We had the team of horses with us and would cut and limb large evergreens for the local sawmill. While we were working in the protection of those trees we were in shirtsleeves but if we stopped even for a minute it was time for the heavy jackets with the air temperatures around 0ºF. I was a relative newbie but I was allowed to limb up the downed trees with an axe. Nobody even considered using the only chain saw we had for that and I wasn't skilled enough to be using the team to skid out the logs. That fell to my farmer-kid cousins who had more experience with horses.
I love reading posts like this Oldman47 . Thanks for your perspective and memories, I too have worked in the woods in just a shirt....as long as you keep working. Again, thanks.
Starting to look like winter now. Wife and I took a hike out back to switch SD cards on the camera. Counting today, so far we've 19 or 20" since Thursday. May see up to another foot between this afternoon and tonight, when this one ends tomorrow morning.
Well,@tfchief, here are some pictures of what came last night, just some light flurries, still snowing, and more coming Wednesday. Winter is back in the north woods.
Some of you further down might say, how do you deal with all that snow which may last for months. With more coming. We have DOT districts every few towns that move the snow on the state roads. Each town has a road agent, and they plow the town roads. These guys know how to move snow, like we know how to cut and process wood. And around here, you can't not go to work because it snows from November to April.
Same out here. Our economy cant shut down just because it snows so we have the infrastructure in place to deal with it. Also the fortitude of the residents to just get out there and shovel is what living in snow regions are all about. We live a 12 hour drive from Vancouver BC. Theyve been hit pretty hard with snow this year but just dont have the equipment to deal with large amounts of snow. It was interesting watching the news and have people complaining that the sidewalks werent clear. I can just imagine what the city would tell someone here who complained about that.
