Third Year In a Row!

[NoTrespassing]

Put on my loader arms and snow blade ---- let it sit with nothing to do for the winter months then take it off....is it ever going to snow in Maryland again?

This was the first winter in 23 years that I didn't have to plow here in East Central Illinois. It's not quite over yet though...

 

[ddbackhoe]

Put on my loader arms and snow blade ---- let it sit with nothing to do for the winter months then take it off....is it ever going to snow in Maryland again?

On the other side of the bay, 20-50 mph winds today and tomorrow might dry up things enough to go mow the lawn. No real snow, but quite a bit of rain this winter. Had some nice flurry activity Feb 25 and Mar 12 maybe I wont take the plow off just yet

 

[LouNY]

I'm eating a bowl of soup for lunch, then I'm going to head out and start working on the over 14" of snow on the ground now and still snowing.

damned frozen white crap!!!!

 

[jonsstihl]

only melting snow here today but it was coming down pretty good early this morning.

 

[bigtiller]

The LouNY pic is something we seldom see...snow falling straight down.

Our snow almost always falls horizontally and sometimes the little hard chunks have enough force to be painful.

 

[Rustyiron]

I'm eating a bowl of soup for lunch, then I'm going to head out and start working on the over 14" of snow on the ground now and still snowing.
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damned frozen white crap!!!!

Looks heavy Lou!
Nothing uglier than muddy snow that I expect your making right now and I'll be making tomorrow.
We're right at 32 and they've pulled the estimate back to 4-8". Very windy (gusty) here and so far (3-4 hours) it seems to be keeping the trees clear of snow, nothing like your picture.
Block heater for the genny is plugged in, fingers crossed that we won't need it!

 

[lman]

It snowed 3 times here in eastern Indiana that were deep enough to plow. That was 3 times to many. The largest snow was about 4 inches. I have 2 tractors setup to plow snow. It would not bother me if they don't plow any snow during the winter.

I liked snow when I was younger. As I have gotten older, I do not like it.

I'm in northern Indiana and I haven't plowed any snow this season. All of my vehicles are able to travel through the little bit of snow we have received, so I saw no reason to waste the gold diesel fuel. We had about 6" at one time but we had no problem getting through it and it was gone in a couple of days. You need to get some better vehicles if they can't get through 4".
We have had more snow in March than Feb.

 

[Hay Dude]

We had a couple years of no snow back at least a decade ago. Maybe early 2000’s. Nothing I haven’t seen before, but sure sucks the life out of the bank account….

 

[LouNY]

Looks heavy Lou!
Nothing uglier than muddy snow that I expect your making right now and I'll be making tomorrow.
We're right at 32 and they've pulled the estimate back to 4-8". Very windy (gusty) here and so far (3-4 hours) it seems to be keeping the trees clear of snow, nothing like your picture.
Block heater for the genny is plugged in, fingers crossed that we won't need it!

Yea, over 4 hours this afternoon with a bit of blower work and quite a bit of bucket work pushing snow and branches of the side and a couple of trees. Lifted several limbs with the loader and shook the snow off them to let them go up a bit. Did break a mirror got a new one ordered off ebay $69 for the head. We have been still getting snow and have past the 2 foot mark now with lots of power outages from trees and power lines. Chainsaw and grapple work tomorrow along with bucket and blower.

 

[ddbackhoe]

You need to get some better vehicles if they can't get through 4".

Havent seen any reports of ev's snow performance yet.

 

[Threepoint]

[snip]We had about 6" at one time but we had no problem getting through it and it was gone in a couple of days. You need to get some better vehicles if they can't get through 4".[snip]

True, but that only lets us come and go. What about all those Amazon and carry-out deliveries that aren't gonna be made in 4" of snow!

 

[lman]

True, but that only lets us come and go. What about all those Amazon and carry-out deliveries that aren't gonna be made in 4" of snow!

I never missed any deliveries. I did keep the front sidewalk shoveled off. It seemed a waste to use the tractor to move that small amount of snow though.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

True, but that only lets us come and go. What about all those Amazon and carry-out deliveries that aren't gonna be made in 4" of snow!

In Minnesota we call 4” of snow a dusting, we still go to work, kids still go to school, deliveries still show up.

 

[ArlyA]

We average over 200" per year and schools are rarely closed and deliverers are pretty much the same year-around. How could that be? let me add we moved here for the weather.

 

[ddbackhoe]

We average over 200" per year and schools are rarely closed and deliverers are pretty much the same year-around. How could that be? let me add we moved here for the weather.

Now imagine living someplace where it rarely snows and the commuters normally travel well over the posted limits. Now those same commuters have 0 reference for icy/snow cover and continue to drive well over the posted limits. Then they wonder why the road is closed for hours on accident clean-up.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

We average over 200" per year and schools are rarely closed and deliverers are pretty much the same year-around. How could that be? let me add we moved here for the weather.

I have a buddy here in Minnesota, he has what he calls a cabin in Wyoming, he goes there for the winter because there is way more snow for riding snowmobile.

The “cabin” is a three bedroom log home.

 

[deezler]

Here in southeastern Michigan it seems like we still get ~50-60" of total snow in most of our winter seasons, but it just never lasts on the ground any more. It's been several years since we had an accumulated snowpack that lasted for weeks. This winter we've been right on the rain/snow line of the big storms, instead of being well above the jet stream all winter long like it used to be.

January was near record warmest for us here. But now March is running colder than normal, with some snows. oy!

It was mud season all winter long, feels like. Just annoying. Ground never froze more than a few inches deep, I don't think.

 

[LouNY]

Here in southeastern Michigan it seems like we still get ~50-60" of total snow in most of our winter seasons, but it just never lasts on the ground any more. It's been several years since we had an accumulated snowpack that lasted for weeks. This winter we've been right on the rain/snow line of the big storms, instead of being well above the jet stream all winter long like it used to be.

January was near record warmest for us here. But now March is running colder than normal, with some snows. oy!

It was mud season all winter long, feels like. Just annoying. Ground never froze more than a few inches deep, I don't think.

Same situation here, warm mild winter with lots of mud. Then this last storm ended up with more then 2 foot of snow,
wet, heavy, sticky snow. hanging on to trees, breaking them down and bring power lines down. No huge area wide power outages but thousands of isolated small outages. And no frozen ground so hard to move snow without moving dirt, power line trucks can't get to many locations without getting stuck. Kind of a miserable mess, at least the temperatures are still somewhat moderate, cold but not brutal cold for those with no power.

 

[ArlyA]

We are about 50" behind normal and warmest winter in history.

 

[stumblinhorse]

Different winter here than in the past. Not as cold, to us, our lowest temps were -25*F, and we only had 15 - 20 days where it got to that. We only spent 40 straight days below freezing and just a few days where it didn’t get above 0. But holy moly the snow and wind. Seemed like it snowed everyday. We are at or close to a record snow amount for the season. Every snow ends with wind and that means drifts and snow removal is always required.