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ajw65 wrote:I am from Michigan, but one of the worst snow storms I can remember was in Roanoke Va, around 1995. A snow blower wouldn't of done much good.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.
I spent 7 years in Midland, MI. Remember the snow well. We don't see it often in SC! In fact, it is unusually warm, even for here. Hit 80 degrees the last couple days. Still over 60 out now, and it's almost midnight! Slept with the windows open and the ceiling fan on last night - I REFUSE to use air conditioning in December!!!
Almost forgot a funny story. When I got the transfer south it was December. I told my neighbor about it, and the first words out of his mouth weren't "congratulations", or "we'll miss you", or even, "you've been a good neighbor". No, the first words out of his mouth were "I want to buy your snowblower!".
I had 11 inquires for it during the next week! I ended up selling it to my neighbor for what I had paid for it new 3 years before. Amazing!
I usally like snow for the first month.
I do a lot of tracking during hunting season and then after the season is over just because.
Around mid Jan, the white stuff starts to get old.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.
I lived in Maple City 1996 when we got 286 inches, at least 6 inches on the car every morning, got old. So far in Traverse City this year a mild one, only about a foot on the ground.
Muzzleloading Tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regards,
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Slept for the third night in a row with the windows open and the ceiling fan on. Never got cold. It was 50 degrees outside when I woke up - but just with the retained heat (our house is all brick), it was still 74 degrees upstairs!
Kind of hard to get into the Christmas spirit with it being so warm. It is supposed to break today. I don't really care one way or the other, as long as it would RAIN!
Well, you ain't getting any sympathy from me! Sunday evening, I couldn't even get out to the road in my Suburban 4-wheel drive, the snow was drifted in so deep in my lane. I had to do about a half hour of snow blowing in the howling blizzard before I could make it out. It seems like it has been snowing for weeks and if it don't quit soon, I'm going to have to put an extension on our chimney in order to reach above the snow!
I live in the upper part of the Lower Penninsula in MI. I live just NE of Grayling and have a 12 horse blower that I usually have to fire up at least once a week during the winter months.
We've got about 2 feet standing on flat ground now, and I don't think we've had half as much as a lot of people a little farther south.
Kirk,
Thats a lot of snow when a big brute of a truck like yours can't get out.
KirkD wrote:Well, you ain't getting any sympathy from me! Sunday evening, I couldn't even get out to the road in my Suburban 4-wheel drive, the snow was drifted in so deep in my lane. I had to do about a half hour of snow blowing in the howling blizzard before I could make it out. It seems like it has been snowing for weeks and if it don't quit soon, I'm going to have to put an extension on our chimney in order to reach above the snow!
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.
K8bor,
We have about a foot on the ground, but that also fell mostly all at once.
Looks like most will melt off in the next day or so.
I need to get up to Kalkaska soon and hunt some snowshoes, and call some coyotes.
k8bor wrote:I live in the upper part of the Lower Penninsula in MI. I live just NE of Grayling and have a 12 horse blower that I usually have to fire up at least once a week during the winter months.
We've got about 2 feet standing on flat ground now, and I don't think we've had half as much as a lot of people a little farther south.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.
Reminds me of when a fella asked my stepdad if he ever got snowed in. He lived in Swanson, Michigans Upper Peninsula about as far west you can go in Menominee county about 1/2 mile off the main road. He told him never did. I knew for sure he didn't, but then most folks didn't have a caterpiller in their barn. I live just north of Howard City and have a foot on the ground. Being retired is a good excuse not to deal with the snow, but then the wife still works darn it.
swany wrote:Reminds me of when a fella asked my stepdad if he ever got snowed in. He lived in Swanson, Michigans Upper Peninsula about as far west you can go in Menominee county about 1/2 mile off the main road. He told him never did. I knew for sure he didn't, but then most folks didn't have a caterpiller in their barn. I live just north of Howard City and have a foot on the ground. Being retired is a good excuse not to deal with the snow, but then the wife still works darn it.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.