April Snowstorm

[WayneB]

Started snowing yesterday afternoon and we ended up with about 10" of heavy wet snow! I took the snow blower off the other day so I used the FEL to move some of it around.

One nice thing is everything looks really clean now and this will add to the length of the mud season!

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Wayne,
Looks beautiful, but it wont last long ! As you say, that should help prolong mud season !

 

[hazmat]

Well it's all my fault. I swapped the snow tires for the summer tires & put my snowblower in the shed last weekend. This is the thanks I get. 3" at my house in Mass - lots of rain.

Bummer is I can't motivate the wife to go skiing this weekend - something about a religious holiday and upcoming reportcards (she's a teacher).

 

[mjarrels]

Every thing is in full bloom here and temp is expected to dip to 20 tonight!

mark

 

[Thomas]

Well the weatherman nail this storm on the head...11" as of now w/sleet bouncing of the windows.

Hard to believe couple days ago the rake was humming its song as the robins were bouncing on the lawn,unhook the plow but no gonner put it away again just yet.....guess that little fur ball Phil was right also.

 

[shvl73]

We've been without power since since sometime before 4:00 this morning.
Awful glad to have a generator.

 

[jinman]

Oh man!...that is just illegal. We are supposed to get just the edge of the storm and one night of freezing temperatures. It's not a great time to be one of my tomato plants.

 

[shvl73]

Well, 8:00 AM and still no power.
Like others, I had taken the snowblower off and set it aside. Yesterday morning I discovered I had parked it in what became 6" of standing water and under trees bent over laden with heavy wet snow.
This morning I am even more thankful for the generator.

 

[Dmace]

13" here in Wakefield, NH.

Of course, the snowblower was removed last Sunday just before taking my motorcycle out for the first ride of the season. Gotta love New England!

 

[TMcD_in_MI]

Yep, same here in northern Michigan. Ten to twelve inches around me, it's snowing lightly all day today, and a bunch more is supposed to be on the way tonight. Weather forecast shows chance of snow showers through Tuesday, maybe even Thursday. It's not warm wet snow either. We had 18 degrees last night and the night before, with twenties today. Weather records are being broken here left and right.

Yuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

Tom

 

[WayneB]

Oh man!...that is just illegal. We are supposed to get just the edge of the storm and one night of freezing temperatures. It's not a great time to be one of my tomato plants.

It sure is Jim, but the worse part of it is all of the earth being moved around along with the snow. Just makes a total mess of everything. Also will extend th mud season a week or so. Hope your plants make it through the temperatures! Here I haven't even started the tomato seeds yet! Won't plant them until late May up here.

 

[WayneB]

Well, 8:00 AM and still no power.
Like others, I had taken the snowblower off and set it aside. Yesterday morning I discovered I had parked it in what became 6" of standing water and under trees bent over laden with heavy wet snow.
This morning I am even more thankful for the generator.

I heard the north end of town was out of power yesterday! Although there were a bunch of branches on the ground we never lost power, guess there is a first for everything!

 

[George2615]

Same here. Had about a foot of snow last night and I had taken the blower off last weekend and parked it way in back. Plowed with the loader this afternoon. Also got the motorcycle out last weekend for for a ride since it was 55 degrees here. I should have known better. I don't think we'll see much more this year though.

 

[shvl73]

I heard the north end of town was out of power yesterday! Although there were a bunch of branches on the ground we never lost power, guess there is a first for everything!

Luckily the country store has a generator, was able to get gas and an egg sandwich this morning.

 

[Ductape]

We got a good, wet, 8 to 10 inches up here in Tilton. I too took my blower off my tractor just a few days ago...... i think it was one of those 55 degree days ! We didn't lose power from the storm, but strangely, we lost power for about 6 hours a few nights earlier from a sub-station going down. Strange sight the whole town being pitch black. I'm thinking i won't get any grief from Whats-Her-Name when i do buy a generator. Since heat won't be an issue, i'm thinking something big enough to run the fridge, some lights, TV.... maybe the microwave. Don't want to get too crazy.

 

[SCDolphin]

Where is Al Gore when we need a warm up!

 

[WayneB]

Where is Al Gore when we need a warm up!

Last I heard h was driving around in a Tahoe SUV telling me to car pool and save gas!

 

[scott_vt]

Last I heard h was driving around in a Tahoe SUV telling me to car pool and save gas!

Mornin Wayne,
Heck I could have sworn someone said Al was flying around in his private jet, but still telling me to carpool !

Yep, we definitely have a severe case of global warming going on, I just restarted the woodstove again !

 

[mjarrels]

I guess that I will pay some April carbon taxes... I'm burning coal again! Only about one inch of snow on the ground.

mark

 

[WayneB]

Mornin Wayne,
Heck I could have sworn someone said Al was flying around in his private jet, but still telling me to carpool !

Yep, we definitely have a severe case of global warming going on, I just restarted the woodstove again !

Scotty, isn't it hard to take at times! We was in New Hampshrie some years ago speaking on conserving energy, car pooling and less driving to help say gas! Outside was a fleet of seven or eight SUV's all Black loaded with SS oh I mean Secrete Service people. They completely closed down the interstate so he could make it back to the airport. Then I was told the vehicles were all taken to logon t be transported to the next stop.