Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[chickisoup]

Gotta keep that old hen who is an egg warmer - she's worth her weight in gold.  23 + here this AM and supposed to get to 30 +.    Is this the spring thaw?

We are actually supposed to.hit +10 today and maybe even near +32 over the weekend!!! I might actually be able to give the coop a good clean out.

 

[chickwhispers]

Ready for the day! Woke up to -7o !

At least that's supposed to be the last of negative temps here. High of 23 today!!!

Now it's +7!

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

 

[TXchickmum]

 

[Alaskan]

Gotta keep that old hen who is an egg warmer - she's worth her weight in gold.  23 + here this AM and supposed to get to 30 +.    Is this the spring thaw?

Spring happens mid May. Any warming now is just to crush your hopes or hand you an ice sheet.

 

[sourland]

 

[3goodeggs]

What happens when all of that melts? We have gotten rain just about everyday, but it just soaks in... and makes everything moldy and slippery, but with ice and thawing, do you flood?

I really am like an alien aren't I ?

 

[BellChell123]

What happens when all of that melts? We have gotten rain just about everyday, but it just soaks in... and makes everything moldy and slippery, but with ice and thawing, do you flood?

I really am like an alien aren't I ?

No, it just all sort of melts, and seeps into the ground. Mother Nature knows what she's doing!

 

[sourland]

Here it melts and seeps into my cellar. 3 sump pumps will be running 24/7.

 

[Alaskan]

Here it melts and seeps into my cellar.  3 sump pumps will be running 24/7. 

Before I had my septic redone, all the water would flood into the septic system so that a risk of a poop flood in my house greatly increased. Ah yes! How I miss my house being flooded with poop!



But nope, the water doesn't sink into the ground up here. The ground is frozen solid and can't absorb anything. How bad it gets, depends on how fast the snow melts in relation to how fast the ground thaws and the drainage ditches reappear.

I often get a solid inch or two of water flooding my chicken shed. Some years I can get a foot of water over my driveway. If the snow and ice on the road melts, but the giant berms on the sides of the road aren't melted yet (so almost every single year) then rivers of water run down the driveway and any unpaved road causing very soft spots. Some years the soft spots can be large enough and squishy enough to suck in cars up past the hubcaps. With paved roads, all of that water tries to flow directly under the pavement, since all culverts are still full of ice and snow. That water causes giant pot holes to magically appear.

We call that season "break up" since the ice, and the ground is breaking up and becoming a giant muddy nasty impassible mess.

Some years break up can be only a single week, other years it can last for six weeks.