BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:38 PM

Yes, I've been getting much use out of ours too, Rapaire. They are a necessity around here.

Sorry to hear about the 3" maximum problem in parts of the UK! I guess maybe that is what all those "tractor" enhancement ads I keep getting are on about when they promise to "add 3 inches"...

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: kendall
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:32 PM

My snowblower has 11 horse power. How big is yours?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:30 PM

Oh, by the way...I've used it four out of the past five days. Had to.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:29 PM

And back in Indiana, when I convinced my wife that we needed a snowblower, I didn't buy one of those punky little paddle jobs, but a genuine two-stage auger-driven one with a 22 inch high mouth on it (and electric start). She thought I was nuts, but then we got 24" of snow one night...and when I was in Kentucky and she was living in Indiana and had to deal with 44 inches of snow...suddenly I became the most brilliant man who ever lived.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:16 PM

Back in 92, we got just over 1.6m in two days. Of course, that ain't much compared to some. But, when I was shovellin, I didn't really care.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 04:04 PM

"A couple of nights ago in Tok, Alaska, the official temperature went down to -73F"

...One Tok over the line, sweet Jesus, one Tok over the line..

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 03:49 PM

I wish the gods of weather would shift some of that snow here. The mountains are doing OK, but here on the prairie it is badly needed.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 03:45 PM

When I lived in Geauga County, Ohio the average annual snowfall was 120 inches -- and every year I lived there (13 of them) was above average.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 03:03 PM

I lived for 12 or 13 years in Garrett County in western Maryland (USA), where in 2003, 49" / 124.5 cm of snow were dumped in one storm. That was on top of 120" / 304.8 cm that was already on the ground (total - 169" / 429.3 cm). Fortunately I wasn't living there then, but we had some similar snowfalls while I did live there. It wasn't unusual to go outside after a big snowfall and not be able to find your car, and there were places where you couldn't park your car from November or December until April or you might get snowed in for the whole winter. The county's average yearly snowfall was about 100" / 254cm. Coldest temps I experienced there were 30-40 degrees below zero without the wind chill.

This is one of the reasons I live in the Sunny South today.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:58 PM

A couple of nights ago in Tok, Alaska, the official temperature went down to -73F. No wind, though.

Whoa.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: kendall
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:48 PM

I spent 21 days in the Davis straights in January back in 1955. I can't say how cold it was, the thermometer only went down to -40 F. It must have been made in California.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:43 PM

And, in the Trent Valley, the 3 inches is black! It's the cooling towers and other chimneys that do it you know.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:37 PM

Absolutely?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:37 PM

You are well Blessed LH...in the UK we are fortunate if we manage to get 6".......and the particular part of the UK I am in..the Trent Valley..which has numerous power stations...we can only manage a 3" maximum.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:29 PM

Wimps. It was -273.2° C. here last night. Lemme tell ya, folks weren't moving real fast!

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:28 PM

40cm is a record? Anywhere in Canada? Well, excluding Lotus Land (on the Left Coast fer ye ferriners), of course. Heck, I could actually move to a tropical climate and still be in Canada?... excluding... you know.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:21 PM

We were having so much trouble with cold weather we installed a new thermostat. It immediately reported it was a near-death 68 degrees F in our hall. Needless to say we cranked it up...



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Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:09 PM

Hey, LH... sunny and 63 degrees F here at the beach. Not a flake of snow in sight. I heard crickets the other night, and I'm thinking I may have to cut the grass soon. Come on down for a visit.   ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:03 PM

16 inches? A Viagra overdose?

Back to the weather, the paper and TV give the snowfall in centimeters, but I still have to convert to inches before I can grasp how much that is.
A little snow here, cold, with the windchill -43.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:01 PM

And touch nothing metal with bare flesh.

It wouldn't be so bad down here in Idaho if them Albertans would close the gate in the damned barb-wire fence up there!

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 02:01 PM

I understand you use a "minute" rating to tell you how many minutes you MIGHT be safe out of doors. I have a friend who has a house near Tumbler Ridge, but he only goes there in the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:50 PM

Coldest I have been in was -55 (no wind chill in that). Truthfully, at those temps it's difficult to tell how cold it really is; hard to distinguish between -42, -47, -55. Ya just know not to go out side, and if you must, do not sweat or expose too much skin that covers anything you may want in later life. Keep the old toes moving when ya walk, and wear mitts, not gloves.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:37 PM

It tends to get bitterly cold on the Canadian prairies, Richard...as it does in central Russia...and for the same reason. Dry air and no large bodies of water nearby to provide some stored-up warmth.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:37 PM

And winter is on the way I heard . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:37 PM

Anything after -40 is too cold to do much of anything except freeze. And -52, ya can't even freeze it's so cold.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:35 PM

Yikes! I guess we Orillians can consider ourselves lucky after all.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:34 PM

Canada got the snow.

America got GW Bush.

I think the Canadians must have had first choice.


The winter in the UK has been very mild (so far, it seems to get later every year), but I hear that in the middle of Canada it has been down to -52F without any windchill. That is not weather for humans.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:33 PM

In Juneau the forecast for snow between Saturday night and Sunday night is 24 inches on top of what we already have. And then, wind.

I've never been a snowbirder but I may change my habits.

Subject: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 01:31 PM

I woke up on Thursday morning, opened my eyes, took a look....

16 INCHES!!!!!!

I was stunned. I could hardly believe it, so I went to the workshop and got the yardstick, took an exact measurement....

16 INCHES!!!!!!

It hadda be a record.....

16 INCHES!!!!!!

So what could I do, faced with such a situation? I did what any red-blooded Canadian man would do, and engaged in Canada's national pastime for the next 3 or 4 hours...
















Snow removal.

Man, I hate the stuff!

Yup. The Orillia newspaper says that we got 40 centimeters of snowfall on Wednesday night, and that it has set a new record since the records first started being kept in the 1800s. Yippee.

Aren't we lucky, eh? Pray for Spring!