Maybe we will get a bit of snow this year. I think 4-5 inches was the most at one time....if not I'll live through your guys threads...
I agree, I can take the 40 below if there's 4 feet of snow to help, 40 below and no snow? Well that's just a cruel joke mother nature!
I will send you guys everything we get over a foot this year. I could not get in to the woods this winter as we had 3-4' on the ground from Jan 26th on. This was just before we gut buried for 7 weeks.
I could have easily hung laundry from the telephone wires out front. Those snow banks were about 9 feet high as I recall. I like snow, but the amounts we had were too much. I know a few people that were snowbound in their homes and EMS had to get them out. It was a relentless winter and many people struggled around here. I believe we had a major snowstorm every weekend for 4 or 5 weeks in a row.
see avatar... but up here 3 to 4 feet of snow is not any big deal.. meaning it's so normal Walmart still has batteries and water.. at university of Vermont we got a 42 inch storm over weekend and they did not cancel a single class. When I went UVA, they cancelled classes for 2 days for 3 inches.. I went to class never thought about it. an officer pulled me over asked what I was doing? I said going to class.. He thought i was joking... Then he saw Vermont plates.. I drove him around for 6 hours to check on people. Did not get another ticket rest of year
About ten years ago we left for a snowmobiling trip at 6am just as a storm moved in. Drove 500 miles that day in 4wd through heavy snow from central Pa to Maine... Like you Canadian border... Just another day... Layed over at a cousins place that night, then luckily the storm got ahead of us the next day
We lost one of our dogs for 5 nights because of a giant drift like yours. Below zero temps and wicked wind every night, I feared she had perished. She "walked" over our 5' fence via a huge snow drift. We found her, amazingly well despite frostbite temps, just skinny with scrapes and cuts. She is fine today, and comes back quickly if she gets out of the yard (constuction contractors did their best...but they all used the same gate.).
All you girls and boys know full-well how much I love winter! It's been a soaking wet spring /summer so far here, now trust me I love all 4 seasons but honestly a REALLY snowy winter is my fave!! That said, I've got PLENTY OF tree work to keep me busy til then so let's enjoy what warm weather we may get......but I gotta throw a couple pics in too!! Harvesting some standing dead off of the farm for the maple syrup evaporator The maple jugs doing their job.... A break from the grind to do some high speed sledding!!
Over 15 years ago shut down interstate in big snowstorm plows could not keep up had a Toyota with 8 foot bed and 91 skid formula plus in bed... they literally pulled us into a rest area and said 89 north was closed. but I could take route 100 over Killington ski area. I literally said the 2 lane thru way with a breakdown lane going up the river valley is too dangerous so you want me to go on a 21 foot wide road over the ski resort.. Ski do came out on a bank and went up interstate... best trail I ever road!
I hear ya brother, nothing like a long straight trail at 70 smiles per hour. Groomed rail beds are pretty fun too. Oh...and the border trail in Caribou (ITS 81 between Caswell and Hamlin)
How soon everyone forgets!! Just a couple months ago everyone was on her Bitcoin about the cold, too much snow, running out of wood and having to get another load of wood.... Now all of the sudden we miss the cold and snow?? I LOVE. the snow and cold too! I'd take cold and snowy any day over hot and humid!!
snow shoes are about the only way to get around in that deep snow. I can't get out in any of it anymore. What I hate more than the deep snow is ice. I don't know anyone who says they like an icy winter. Broke an ankle on it once. Fallen too many times.
I like the winter time. Until about the end of January/beginning of February. Then I usually get tired of it and want some nice weather. That will be enough pictures of snow. Thank you very much! I am enjoying the birds, grass, flowers, trees..........bugs
That time of the year is when we head to Mexico, or somewhere equally warm for a week +. I love going from snowmobiling the Friday before, to tropical weather 3 days later, then back to sledding in 10 days or so.
