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[minmin1258]

Here's another they wouldn't load together.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

We'll it hasn't hit here...YET. The temp is 40* outside. Most of the snow from last wk has melted today. The storm is supposed to hit late tonight. Now on another note... I found these tracks in my yard by the coop this evening. Anyone have any idea what they could be???? There's a pad and four toes with long claws. The picture doesn't do them justice. But posting picture anyway. . The print is about the size of my hand.

Bobcat? Just a guess, I am not sure

 

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We'll it hasn't hit here...YET. The temp is 40* outside. Most of the snow from last wk has melted today. The storm is supposed to hit late tonight. Now on another note... I found these tracks in my yard by the coop this evening. Anyone have any idea what they could be???? There's a pad and four toes with long claws. The picture doesn't do them justice. But posting picture anyway. . The print is about the size of my hand.

Bobcat? Just a guess, i am not sure

 

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Sorry for the double post

 

[Leahs Mom]

RE: Blizzard of 1978:
I was newly married and lived in downtown South Bend in a rented house. Of course in the city, drifting snow is never an issue, right? Not that year.

The snow drifted up to the top of the garage door and the front porch door, that had 3 steps up to to the door, had snow half way up it. You didn't shovel paths; you made tunnels. Cars were completely gone under the snow parked on the roads right in the city. You might only see a glimpse of the side or top in an area that the wind had blown the snow from.

In the county, the roads were non-existent. Eventually they got bucket loaders and began to dig the roadways out and there were huge walls of snow on either side of the road. If your car had stalled or gotten left on the side of the road it was totally lost. Some of the folks didn't get their cars until a couple months later when those huge piles finally melted or they hired someone to dig it out by bucket loader.

In St. Joseph County they finally began to take huge dump trucks and bucket loaders out on the roads and would load snow into the dump trucks then take it to the St. Joseph river and dump it in there to try to relieve some of the snow walls and I think maybe hoping that they could melt some of it off ahead of a big spring thaw and try to avert huge flooding problems.

No one could drive for about 5 days...not because they didn't want to but because it took that long to dig out. Medicine and emergency stuff was being handled by snow mobiles. People w/snow mobiles volunteered for emergency service and were pretty much the only vehicles on the "roads" for quite awhile.

I know one lady who had livestock at the time. They were in the barn but to get to the barn, there was a bridge that went over a "ditch/creek" that you had to walk over. The whole bridge was gone...weren't even exactly sure where it was...but the horses needed water and feed. She told me that they tried to figure out where it was and one of her young sons went across to try to do chores. She had tied a rope onto him just in case something happened on his way. They later found out that he had been walking above one of the top side rails of the bridge and narrowly missed falling down into the ditch through the snow.

 

[minmin1258]

I haven't seen it at any "local" stores. I was wondering if Lowes in Clarksburg WV would carry it year round? Hmmmm I'll hav t check next time I go that way. [CONTENTEMBED=/t/730582/indiana-bycers-here/19240_40#post_12593889 layout=inline] [/CONTENTEMBED] Thanks for th info. Where do you by peat at? I've seen it in craft stores but that would be outrageous to try t put that expensive stuff in a chicken dust bath! The wood ash I use is out of my fireplace, I buy it from a tree trimmer that is local. No cut lumber used.

I get it at my local Menards in their garden area. They have it in the winter too but they may have to bring it down from one of the higher shelves for you. http://www.menards.com/main/outdoor...2-cf-sphagnum-peat-moss/p-1509487-c-10116.htm

Any garden place or places that keep garden items, etc. should have it. Package is similar in size to one of the bales of pine chips from TSC. Price probably varies according to area but mine ranges from $4.99 - $6.99.

 

[Leahs Mom]

It wasn't that same year, but not too long afterward there was a snow day on Valentines Day in the Converse/Marian area and my two young cousins were out of school for the day. They were playing and diving into the snow when one of them dove head-first into snow that was covering a ditch that was filled with snow and he got stuck. He was at a precarious angle and his younger brother tried to pull him out but couldn't and he suffocated to death as the snow had filled his mouth, nose and lungs and he was lodged in such a way that he couldn't get out. I believe he was 14 years old if memory serves me correctly.

Please watch how your kids play if the snow is really extremely high.

 

[chick rookie]

was going to put a few more up but that one took 20 min. I think the satellite I get my internet from is off it's rocker with all this snow... will post latter. That was this after noon at about 10" of snow... we have 13 now. And it is starting to drift.

 

[chick rookie]

Bobcat? Just a guess, i am not sure

you wouldn't see the claw marks if it was a Bobcat cause they would be retracted while walking. do you have wolves or coy dogs in your area? maybe it is a stray dog. the print looks like one of my LGD's prints.

 

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you wouldn't see the claw marks if it was a Bobcat cause they would be retracted while walking. do you have wolves or coy dogs in your area? maybe it is a stray dog. the print looks like one of my LGD's prints.

Didn't see the part about the claws