A White Christmas Suitable for Mike Wilson

[RUSSELL5000]

I took a nice hike in the woods on Sunday afternoon with my wife, older son, and the dogs. We got home toward dusk as it started to snow. I said that was great - fresh snow for Christmas morning.

The news stories say we have received 53 inches in thirty hours - an all-time record. Our annual average snowfall is 110 inches.

Got a white Christmas that would even be adequate for a Mainer!

 

[S.Morris]

Holy Moly Mike. Merry Christmas [emoji319]. Uh ( and don’t send any up to Ottawa )

 

[mwilson]

I took a nice hike in the woods on Sunday afternoon with my wife, older son, and the dogs. We got home toward dusk as it started to snow. I said that was great - fresh snow for Christmas morning.

The news stories say we have received 53 inches in thirty hours - an all-time record. Our annual average snowfall is 110 inches.

Got a white Christmas that would even be adequate for a Mainer!

That's more than adequate for me, Wow!!!

 

[mwilson]

Is it dropping off cold now??? We got about 14" total but hard to be sure from the drifting. We have been out blowing and shoveling all morning, had planned to have today off anyways but didn't really plan to be moving snow.

Just in for lunch, temp is dropping and wind coming up. At 10 degrees now, sub-zero tonight.

Is the Erie lake effect snow light and fluffy or is it full of moisture??? That makes a big difference.....

 

[JR]

Is it dropping off cold now??? We got about 14" total but hard to be sure from the drifting. We have been out blowing and shoveling all morning, had planned to have today off anyways but didn't really plan to be moving snow.

Just in for lunch, temp is dropping and wind coming up. At 10 degrees now, sub-zero tonight.

Is the Erie lake effect snow light and fluffy or is it full of moisture??? That makes a big difference.....

If the lake is still open it's some of the heaviest stuff you've ever seen. Normally lake effect carries inland and anywhere between 10 and 25 miles in gets the brunt. I'm in the line of fire most of the time, but this one seemed to follow the shoreline. I'm not complaining at all! Last year in early December we got over 40" in a short period, 2 days later it warmed up to just above freezing and rained for 20 hours straight. The snow load combined with the rain collapsed many roofs in this area, including my chicken coop. It snapped almost every single 4 x 4 about a foot off the ground.

 

[Wayne M.]

That's the Chicken coop? where's the livestock now?

 

[JR]

That's the Chicken coop?

It was :{

where's the livestock now?

Free range now :-laf

Actually, if you go to the other white Christmas thread going on, you'll see it in the picture I posted earlier. It is the red sided lean to to the right of the greenhouse.

 

[RUSSELL5000]

The lake effect snow is wet and heavy. I have a low slope on one part of the house which I will have to shovel. No rain in the near forecast but if I leave it on there it will eventually be two or three feet of ice.

I have been carefully shaking snow off the rhododendron and azalea but I imagine they are going to be torn up.

It is snowing hard now - I think another foot on the way.

 

[RUSSELL5000]

Just finished another shovel session. Only eight inches or so accumulation, but cleaned off two cars. Four feet of snow on a car is a lot. Took less than two hours, so went well.

Still snowing - sure hope there is not another foot and a half tomorrow morning.

I like winter - nothing better to me than a ride out to the woods in my truck with the dogs, a good distance with the snowshoes until the dogs and I are both wore out. Then home to watch something with a plate of pasta and wings and bottles of Yuengling.

BUT, this is ridiculous!

 

[Shadrach]

We hardly have any snow up this far North. Most of it melted already, but yesterday it was -30*C ( about -22* F ) We did get some fish stuff for Christmas, about an inch.

David

 

[Jim W]

Will we got a white Christmas also but only 3 inches in our area with a little more on the way towards the end of the week. The daytime temps are between 4 and 6F with the nights around -3 to -4F. Although my wife said it was -11F at our house this morning. If you live in the mid-west and northern states we all know what winter is like. One day freezing temps and the next day mid 20's to 30's.

Have a happy new year.

 

[RUSSELL5000]

Here is the two day accumulation on my truck. My wife is 5 ft 7 in tall (standing in front).

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

Here is the two day accumulation on my truck. My wife is 5 ft 7 in tall (standing in front).

That's incredible!

What makes it worse is the fact that after you clean that off you need to clear the driveway again!

 

[Wayne M.]

WOW. Incredible how you managed to keep the driveway so clean. Where do you put the snow? I can remember a couple of 25-35” storms around here. Piling snow was the issue. Nowadays we just melt it.

 

[RUSSELL5000]

Wayne, putting the snow somewhere IS getting to be a problem: I can only throw it so high.

Strange thing: it looks like right at the lake only got around two to three feet. Paper says we have received somewhat over five feet. I live about three miles from the lake, with about a two hundred foot elevation rise. I wonder if that accounts for it.

 

[RUSSELL5000]

Found a late model Cummins Ram truck under a snow pile this afternoon!
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[RUSSELL5000]

I think I got the vehicles hemmed in so they can't run away.

The house is now ringed with ridges.

I have spent 16 hours shovelling over the last five days. Another foot to eighteen inches forecast for Friday SAturday. Sure not getting that Patriot done at this rate!

 

[mwilson]

My place will look the same BUT over the course of several storms, not one continuous event!!! It is funny looking snow to me, somewhat porous??

I'm sure that don't make it any easier to shovel.....

 

[jhenderson]

I saw a woman from Erie on the news. She said "we're used to snow, but this is a bit much". My guess is she's known around home for understatements.

 

[Wayne M.]

Russell, I assume you are within city limits? How does the municipality deal with accumulated snow on the streets? Do they pile it in a field? Dump it in the lake?