Techsurvivors

Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: krissel on February 17, 2003, 10:39:00 PM

Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on February 17, 2003, 10:39:00 PM: OK, here's the place to post pics of our TS community dealing with the white stuff. If you have a shot of yourself and your trusty blower, shovel or whatever, let's see it. ( snuffy ) that pic you once posted of you and your nordic track is still vivid in my head )

Harv's house (pendragon)

Harv's picnic table...moose burger anyone?

Harv's alter ego

Bobun's front walk...the wind cleared it for him

krissel's sheds in the middle of the storm

Tuesday I tackle my driveway et al (it's still snowing a little as I write). Will post any good shots when I get done. I also have to shovel part of my roof as it has a 20' nearly flat section.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: RHPConsult on February 17, 2003, 10:52:00 PM: Kris:

You really aren't saying, are you, that as Harv sits comfortably inside that nice warm house, he sends his alter ego out into the cold to clear the driveway?

Oh well, he is/was an officer and a gentleman, so there are some things (like work) that are to be done by others .

- - -

Left Coast weather report: We had 62 degrees, blue skies and sunshine today, in the Bay Area, sorry to report.

[ 02-17-2003, 11:55 PM: Message edited by: RHPConsult ]
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: cmteng on February 17, 2003, 11:10:00 PM: How I wish we have snow over there (Malaysia). As far as I remember. It has been all year summer for the pass 25 years....
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: Paddy on February 18, 2003, 01:19:00 AM: Still snowing like crazy here - they're forecasting 20-30 inches by the time it stops sometime tomorrow!!!

My cat Simba cracks me up - she seems to forget about the outdoor conditions every time she asks to be let out and acts like it is a complete (and horrid) surprise every time. She made the mistake a couple of hours ago of leaping off the porch from snow up to her chin, into a drift at least 2 feet high - and promptly disappeared. She sure didn't like that - it was almost like watching a film being run backwards as she leapt back out of that drift. Creatures of the savannah do not appreciate this weather!

I'll post some pics tomorrow - of the giant snow pile!

Meanwhile, from the National Weather Service at 1:45 AM:

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
145 AM EST TUE FEB 18 2003

...THE PRESIDENTS STORM OF 2003 MADE THE TOP 10 LIST OF 24 HOUR SNOWFALL FOR BOSTON LOGAN AIRPORT AS WELL AS WORCESTER AIRPORT AND T.F.GREEN AIRPORT IN RHODE ISLAND...

AS OF MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT 23.6 INCHES OF SNOW HAD FALLEN AT BOSTONS LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS TIED FOR THE SECOND MOST 24 HOUR SNOWFALL FOR LOGAN AIRPORT...TYING THE 24 HOUR SNOWFALL FOR THE BLIZZARD OF 78 AND TRAILING THE APRIL FOOLS STORM OF 1997 WHEN 25.4 INCHES OF SNOW FELL AT THE AIRPORT. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IT
WAS STILL SNOWING AT LOGAN AIRPORT AT MIDNIGHT AND SO THIS 24 HOUR SNOW FALL RECORD IS IN JEOPARDY SINCE ALL THIS SNOW HAS FALLEN IN 14 HOURS. IT STARTED SNOWING AT LOGAN SHORTLY AFTER 10 AM MONDAY.

THE STORM SNOWFALL OF 23.6 INCHES ALREADY MARKED THIS AS THE FOURTH GREATEST STORM TOTAL FOR LOGAN AIRPORT. THIS STORM NOW TRAILS THE APRIL FOOLS STORM OF 25.4 INCHES...THE FEBRUARY 24TH THROUGH 27TH STORM OF 1969 WHEN 26.3 INCHES OF SNOW FELL AND THE BLIZZARD OF 78 WHEN 27.1 INCHES WAS RECORDED.

[ 02-18-2003, 02:26 AM: Message edited by: Paddy ]
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: sluggo on February 18, 2003, 09:56:00 AM: This is from Christmas week 2001, but it sure looks exactly the same here right now. The old '78 Heavy Chevy still pushes a lot of snow.
The Ranch

[ 02-18-2003, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: sluggo ]
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: csonni on February 18, 2003, 04:10:00 PM: Can someone give me instructions on how to post a .jpeg on this thread? I'll post one soon, once I hear how to do it.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on February 18, 2003, 07:05:00 PM: The image you want to use must be located somewhere that is accessible on the net such as in a photo album at .mac. The place it resides must allow "live linking" which means TS sends out a signal to retrieve the image from the site to post it here. Some sites do not allow this as it is often used too much and therefore lessens the available bandwidth on that site for other users. My pics are on the space my dialup ISP gives its customers on its servers.

Once you have the image online you need to copy the URL of it's location. Click on the photo and if it opens in a window of its own, copy that URL. Then on the reply to post page you will notice below the text box a number of buttons, one of which is IMAGE. When you are ready to add the picture to your post click on IMAGE and a new window opens. Past the URL of the picture into that window. Click OK and when you get back to the text box you will see the code for showing that picture. Leave it alone and finish your reply and hit Add Reply as usual. Your picture will come in at the size it is posted on the other site so don't make it too big.

An easier way is to just post the link as I have done above. In that case you click on the URL button in the reply window, paste the URL , click OK, then type in a few words in the next pop up window to describe what it is. Click OK.

I strongly suggest that pics be put through Image Ready, Graphic Converter or a version of Photoshop or Colorit and reduced to under 100k, 50k or less if possible.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: jcarter on February 18, 2003, 07:25:00 PM: Cape Cod is covered with snow and our dog has short legs, so she sticks to the snowblower tracks that my husband made. http://www.pbase.com/image/13177894
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: csonni on February 18, 2003, 07:40:00 PM: Well, here's a go at the instructions. The picture is far from quality. It was a cloudy day and the results was terrible. Since this shot, we have gotten 10 additional inches. people here say we still have the rest of Feb., March and April to go. Our house will be under by then.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: iGuy on February 18, 2003, 09:29:00 PM: that is a load of snow, csonni! Is that someone on your roof cleaning the snow off to prevent a cave in?

Ryan
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: kps on February 18, 2003, 10:06:00 PM: Everyone dig out yet?

We got a light dusting of about 2" up here, then it warmed up and turned to slush...I hate slush...pedestrians hate it even more.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: DaveF on February 19, 2003, 12:13:00 AM: csonni, all the photos of snow shown have been impressive, but your photo deserves a
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on February 19, 2003, 02:21:00 AM: Next time I go out in the middle of it and not wait til the next day. Why?, cause the rise in temp today made the snow so heavy the blower couldn't handle it. Just a 30 degree temperature made that fluffy powder become like styofoam. I ended up shoveling much of what was too much for the machine. I only opened one door and walkway, the others will wait for spring.
Tomorrow, the roof.

I hope the postman comes

I got more of a workout than this guy

View from my computer chair

As annoying as this is, I surely can't complain after seeing csonni's picture. That I couldn't take. Isn't it amazing how mankind has adapted itself to the extemes of nature?
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: csonni on February 19, 2003, 04:27:00 AM: That would be me up there on my roof. That was the 2nd time I had to get up there to shovel it off completely. We have a truss roof, but with all that snow, we were getting some popping, so I decided I'd better clear it off again. The snow we get in the Winter is quite dry (with most daytime highs of 0 F or below. Come March, we'll have to be careful with the snow piling up that deep as seen in the picture. She'd collapse for sure if that stuff was dense and heavy. March is known as the "big snow" month. There is usually several feet that fall during the month. If all goes as usual, we'll have somewhere around 12 feet of snow before it starts settling from melting.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: pendragon on February 19, 2003, 06:57:00 AM: In comparison with the snows in Goose Bay, what we just had, they may well term a dusting.

Highs the rest of the week in the mid 40sF with rain on Saturday. Local flooding probable.

Some may reason this is the doing of Mother Nature. As for me, I just BIOB!

Harv
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: RobW on February 19, 2003, 08:07:00 AM: Csonni, I looked at that picture yesterday. I was too shocked too comment. I looked again today. Ok, now I can comment: Oy.

Harv, we've got the same forecast. I don't know what will be worse--the floods, or what happens when it gets cold a day or so later. If we get floods followed by ice, and I'm going to start looking for locusts and the rest of the plagues.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: dolphin on February 19, 2003, 08:30:00 AM: View from backdoor (http://www.geocities.com/dolphin_43055/photopageflag.html)
OOps...guess geocities doesn't allow live linking!

[ 02-19-2003, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: dolphin ]
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: Peter on February 19, 2003, 08:54:00 AM: This Is how my uncles clear snow-

We clear it with a tractor that has 75 more horsepower, and a cab

Peter
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: snuffysbluff on February 19, 2003, 09:43:00 AM: These photos were taken on 40 acres of good Iowa bottomland that belonged to a lovely lady I was engaged to a few years ago.
I had bought this great old Farmall tractor with a hydraulic snow blade in anticipation of a big storm and I couldn't wait to try out on this stuff.

WOULDN'T &%$#&!!! START!
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: Gary S on February 19, 2003, 11:42:00 PM: Snuffy,

LOL!
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: Peter on February 19, 2003, 12:48:00 PM: quote:
Originally posted by snuffysbluff:

I had bought this great old Farmall tractor with a hydraulic snow blade in anticipation of a big storm and I couldn't wait to try out on this stuff.
I Can't help myself- what model was it, and do you still have it?

Peter
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: Paddy on February 19, 2003, 05:21:00 PM: Well, I can't compete with csonni in the sheer quantity department, but how's this for a small pile of the white stuff? That's my 7 year old on top - and yes, the top of the pile really is level with the eaves of the garage. On the downhill side it's about 12-15' high. It will probably still be there in June!!!
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: snuffysbluff on February 20, 2003, 10:34:00 AM: quote:
Originally posted by Organic Farmer:
[I Can't help myself- what model was it, and do you still have it?

Peter[/QB]
When the engagement didn't work out, I bought my present home and gave the tracktor to a buddy in town that does snow removal. Never have had to shovel my driveway, and I have a BIG driveway...He's always there unless the ex-mayor next door does it first with one of his tractors. He has some old ones also.

I don't remember what model. It had the single row "pidgeon-toe" front wheels. "H" ?
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on February 22, 2003, 01:21:00 AM: Here's my Dad, Bobun, who is well into his ninth decade. He emailed me these pics with the adage,
"Know your limitations and learn to live within them".

Good advice.

In the beginning...

Not too happy...

Disgusted

What's left to do...advice kicks in here...hires plow
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on February 22, 2003, 07:53:00 PM: One more.

Reliable sources report this to be a picture from last week's blizzard, taken in Pendragon's back "acreage", deep in the hills of Maryland . . .
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: DaveF on February 22, 2003, 08:20:00 PM: krissel, You gotta love that photo!
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: RHPConsult on February 23, 2003, 09:57:00 AM: Do I understand correctly that that's Bernie enjoying a...uhmmm... restful moment there in Harv's "facilities"?

[ 02-23-2003, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: RHPConsult ]
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: dolphin on February 23, 2003, 08:21:00 PM: Hi everyone...just thought this was cute.

We are supposed to get 3 more inches tonight...YUCK!!!

[ 03-02-2003, 01:15 AM: Message edited by: dolphin ]
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: RobW on February 23, 2003, 08:46:00 PM: Well we didn't get more snow this weekend, but we had some monster rain yesteday. The kind that makes you look for the guy building an Ark who's rounding up pairs of animals. Add that to temps above 32 degrees, and well, you can imagine the amount of water around here.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on February 23, 2003, 09:52:00 PM: Rob's right, we are floating high and the sump pumps are earning their keep. Then there was the fog.
For only the second time in history, the NJ Turnpike was closed it's full length due to the weather. (Last time was the 96 blizzard).

One positive spin, the reservoirs are full.
Last summer's drought is a statistic.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: kps on February 23, 2003, 10:20:00 PM: Up here is started with rain...then freezing rain...and then 10" of fresh powder...which I had to shovel this morning.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: csonni on February 24, 2003, 04:46:00 AM: Here we go again. We actually had almost 3 days without any snow. I'll have to post another picture in March when we're up to our chimney in snow.

Blizzard Warning issued
Pressure:   98.8 kPa
Visibility:  0
Wind chill :  -23
Dew Point:  -14°C
Wind Speed:  NE 44 km/h gusting to 65 km/h
Forecast :
Issued 6.30 AM nst Monday 24 February 2003
Today :   Snow heavy at times with near zero visibility in blowing snow. Northeast wind 40 gusting to 70 km/h. High minus 5.
Tonight :   Periods of snow and blowing snow giving reduced visibility tapering to a few flurries near midnight. Total snowfall amounts near 20 cm. Wind diminishing to northwest 30 to 50. Low minus 11.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: RobW on February 24, 2003, 06:04:00 AM: Kris, we also had the real heavy fog yesterday morning. It was really strange. It looked like an episode of Twin Peaks yesterday morning. (Anyone remember that strange show??)

Overnight it got cold again. So let's review, lots of water on the sidewalks and streets, followed by a very cold night. Any guesses as to what fun we're dealing with walking and driving this morning??
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: kelly on February 24, 2003, 11:19:00 PM: Right now it's like that famous Van Morrison song, twobelow Honey.

http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/dis...phy/tupelo.html
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: RobW on February 25, 2003, 06:01:00 AM: quote:
Originally posted by kelly:
Right now it's like that famous Van Morrison song, twobelow Honey.

http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/dis...phy/tupelo.html
I love that song!
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: dolphin on March 02, 2003, 12:21:00 AM: quote:
Originally posted by dolphin:
Hi everyone...just thought this was cute.

We are supposed to get 3 more inches tonight...YUCK!!!
I think I finally got the hang of this...with a little help from my son.
Title: OT:Snow, snowblowers, etc.
Post by: krissel on March 02, 2003, 12:38:00 AM