Winter Blues

[Intrepidation]

It's actually a nice winter day today with temps at 31 degrees. Balmy!

[NOS2006]

There are a couple reasons why I really, really cannot stand living in Michigan at this time of year. One is slush/slight wetness on the road. Either the slush is getting all over your car, on the bottom of your pants, or just making the roads slightly more slippery than normal conditions or it's the little bit of wetness on the road left over that is spraying onto your windshield fine enough to be dry by the time you try to wipe them. You waste so much wiper fluid this time of the year, it's insane.

Also, cold in general sucks. Not like cold, but cold. Anything in the teens or lower would qualify as cold to me, especially if there's wind. Plus, this dries the air out extremely bad and makes your skin really dry and out of control for some people. My knuckles dry out (as well as everything else, but mainly hands), but what's worst is extremely chapped lips. I may have found a cure for them last night though after a few days of having painfully dry lips *knocks on wood*.

[Camino LS6]

From bad to worse.

The storm took a break for a few hours but came back as sleet and then rain - just as we started to slip below freezing again. Any time now, it is supposed to turn back to snow and dump another 6-10".

And the wind is picking up - 30mph is predicted.

The trees are already weighed down with heavy snow.

I expect to lose power before too long.

Going to be an interesting night.

[Camino LS6]

Thundersnow!

[Robert Hall]

Sounds like a load of not good back east..

I'm supposed to fly back to oh tomorrow for my moms Bday fri

[SAmadei]

Thundersnow!

I thought there might be some of that.

We're lucky... at the shore, its been all rain... and I don't think we'll see much of anything but a ton of rain.

[Blake Noble]

About three to four inches hit us this morning around seven. Before that it was just piss-pouring rain. When it finally started snowing, it was almost as if someone hit a switch. Not much of a sleet/freezing rain mix to speak of.

Global warming is the old word. As scientists gained more understanding of it, the proper term is global climate change.

So they essentially changed it back to what it was in the first place.

The reason for this is that extended melting of arctic ice due to higher summer temperatures can actually cause record cold weather in Europe.

Now I'm not a climatologist or anything buttttttt ....

Just sayin', ya know?

[Intrepidation]

About three to four inches hit us this morning around seven. Before that it was just piss-pouring rain. When it finally started snowing, it was almost as if someone hit a switch. Not much of a sleet/freezing rain mix to speak of.

That's because there was colder air aloft in the middle and higher altitudes, while it was warmer at low altitude. When it became cold at low altitude it just snowed. If it were warm in the mid altitude it would have melted then refroze as sleet.

The more you know.

[balthazar]

Plowed about 4" from 10:30AM~6:15PM. Home, sleep some, up at 1:30AM- there's about 6" out there and I'm overdue for another 8 hrs behind the wheel. Sigh.

[ocnblu]

"...but what's worst is extremely chapped lips. I may have found a cure for them last night though after a few days of having painfully dry lips *knocks on wood*" NOS OMG LOL that's classic...

But yeah, this morning I have like a 4 foot wall of snow across the end of my driveway from the plow going through. I am debating whether to back out and blast through it with the truck or actually check it for hardness first or (last choice) shovel that crap.

[Camino LS6]

Got about 16-18" total. Very wet and heavy with a layer of ice underneath.

Been awake since 5:00 AM yeaterday - lots of follow-up work still to do.

Very tired.

[NOS2006]

Wimp.

haha Just kidding. I got like 3 hours asleep last night and I'm fighting my eyelids with a cup of coffee.. and I'm not sure that's exactly helping.

[balthazar]

Got about 12-13" where I plow. Between doing a few other driveways, I'm back home at noon, snowblower'd the driveway, having some soup, ready to go back out and tidy up. No more room for snow- melt, please!

[Camino LS6]

Beat the hell out of the ROPOS today pushing the giant mountains of snow away from the lane anywhere I could. I also cleared a lawn area (untouched all season) for an event here tomorrow (parking).

One of the pressure lines on the plow exploded - so I had to replace that. And, the poor, old, ROPOS loses oil pressure at idle once hot. It also bleeds fluids constantly from everywhere.

I sure hope this winter eases up soon.

And oh yeah, it's snowing again...

Edited January 28, 2011 by Camino LS6

[balthazar]

Camino- why don't 'they' market a pick-up mounted snow blower?? I can't get this out of my mind- in some instances (like my job), it would be fantastic.

[ocnblu]

Blow on over here once

[balthazar]

Thanks for that, but 1000 lbs on the nose of a truck?? Hmmm- seems like there's room for a better version somehow...

[Camino LS6]

Heavy snow states use gigantic ones on heavy trucks - the ones at the linked page seem a bit flimsy for the job. I envision all sorts of hassles (clogs, failures, etc.).

But the idea has crossed my mind many times.

I'd love to try one out, as a reliable one would solve the troubles I'm having now with the piles building-up.

[knightfan26917]

FINALLY and an AWESOME blizzard a week ago. Kinda wish we were going to get another one soon ... lol.

But, for now, COLD is setting in for mid-week this week. Ugh.

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[Intrepidation]

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