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[bruceha2000]

You folks up New England way have hurricanes, but they come in the winter and are called Noreasters... Don't know if they reach into your part of NY, but then NY has those nice arctic blasts and lake effect snows.

Noreasters don't come with hurricane force winds! At least they don't where I live and @Beer can lives a bit further west and south. We are both too far east for lake effect snow.

Agree that too much snow can be too much! But when it does happen it is usually only a day or two of inconvenience (as long as the power lines don't get clobbered), no flooding of the house, no roofs ripped off. Can't say that about many hurricanes

 

[CapricornFarm]

This dog wants out all The time.

I got a bag of tennis balls today and the ball launcher is coming.

 

[Alaskan]

Agree that too much snow can be too much! But when it does happen it is usually only a day or two of inconvenience (as long as the power lines don't get clobbered), no flooding of the house, no roofs ripped off. Can't say that about many hurricanes

here a lots of snow year means four hours of shoveling minimum every blasted day... 4 hour minimum of plowing every single day. ... for three solid frigging months. and then...after a while of that mess you might have to shell out a solid grand to have giant equipment come up and push the multiple feet of snow back a bit from the road.....or just give up and not drive out for 3 months.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I used to love getting the driveway shoveled out and along comes the plow and fills in the bottom 6 feet of the driveway with heavy nasty looking snow! Here we don' t have to worry about that because there is no snow plow that comes to our road.

 

[bruceha2000]

here a lots of snow year means four hours of shoveling minimum every blasted day... 4 hour minimum of plowing every single day. ... for three solid frigging months. and then...after a while of that mess you might have to shell out a solid grand to have giant equipment come up and push the multiple feet of snow back a bit from the road.....or just give up and not drive out for 3 months.

I think that is your best bet
4 hours of shoveling?? Sounds like you need a big 2 stage snow thrower. Or a blower on a garden tractor (if the areas to be blown are relatively flat). Blown snow doesn't get all packed into concrete like banks necessitating $1K for big equipment to move.

 

[bruceha2000]

This dog wants out all The time. View attachment 1225664
I got a bag of tennis balls today and the ball launcher is coming.

Pretty dog. I bet that launcher will be a favorite!

 

[ronott1]

I used to love getting the driveway shoveled out and along comes the plow and fills in the bottom 6 feet of the driveway with heavy nasty looking snow! Here we don' t have to worry about that because there is no snow plow that comes to our road.

Do you get trapped in sometimes?

 

[bruceha2000]

I doubt it snows enough in SW Virginia to worry about snow. My sister in law lives in Alexandria. She said 1/2" of snow will shut the place down, they wait for it to melt the next day.

 

[microchick]

Yes, but @Alaskan, look where you live! Seriously, the last frontier in America. How cool is that? DH and I actually considered 'retiring' to up there.He had a colleague who is a doctor u he started on her career path by having her work with him in his office for a year. She now works for Indian services up in Anchorage and flies out to the Aleutians and really tried to talk us into relocating up there as she said they really needed doctors and nurses.

We thought about it then decided that if we were younger we might make a go of it but at our ages we like our creature comforts like not having snow up to our butts 8 months out of the year and not having snotsickles big enough to name.

But how cool would it be to live up there.

I went to town today. Couldn't put it off any longer. I was about ready to start looking up tasty ways to cook dog kibble. It'd been about two weeks since I had last bought groceries. I kept looking outside, looking at the temp and looking for cook books.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Do you get trapped in sometimes?

We just moved here in May so i have no idea. But we have food, ammo, and wood for the stove so we could wait it out. We were both surprised the river froze over.