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[superchemicalgirl]

Shoveled the chicken coop roof. I'm ready for our blizzard.

 

[Alaskan]

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.

Yeah, we have a snow blower on our tractor... but the tractor is old ... currently not running. And wow! It is big, but I think it is powered by 2 gerbils. It takes forever to blow with that beast.. and you need to look over your shoulder and drive backwards...no cab. Freezing...just wow! To chew back berms made with the plow takes a true jillion hours.

Oh... and over a mile of driveway and 4 parking lots to plow. It all snakes up and down a very steep hill with hairpins and almost no places to push the snow.

Lots of fun for stories.. and was a great Alaskan experience the first 10 years... great challenge. .. yadayada....

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.

Very true. When my dad was still coming to visit, they asked me at the local clinic if I could beg him to come out of retirement. .. (he was still licensed) and just work a few hours a week whenever he was here visiting.

 

[ronott1]

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.

It is a bit colder than normal. I have not seen frozen mud puddles in years here.

 

[bruceha2000]

Looks like it will be heavy wet snow with the temps pushing up toward freezing SCG.

 

[ronott1]

Shoveled the chicken coop roof. I'm ready for our blizzard.

Stay warm and safe!

 

[Bunnylady]

We've been getting sleet/freezing rain for the last few hours, due to turn into snow at some point during the night. The sooner, the better, IMO; snow is bad here, but ice is much, much worse.

 

[chickisoup]

Been watching the weather and thinking about all you New Englanders. Learned a new term from the weather report. A "bomb cyclone"? That was definitely a new one on me. Please hunker down and stay safe. Praying no one loses power (again). My northern raised granddaughter recently graduated from Columbia and took a job in Florida. She is having a ball posting about all the "freak outs" in Tallahassee over their snow flurries. To her it's the funniest thing she's seen!

Still no snow to speak of here (only about a foot on the ground) but the Polar Vortex continues. Another windchill advisory for tonight. Already below zero and expecting down to -35 windchills by morning. Probably won't see above zero again before Saturday when we finally have a chance of snow. I really hope we get some. The frost depth is already starting to freeze water lines in town. The way we have our water supply set up that's not a concern for us but If this cold doesn't break soon it's only a matter of time before our septic lines freeze. That happened once before a few years ago, not fun.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am going back out to my workshop and make another water warmer. Only one left to make unless i buy more bunnies.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Need a good laugh?

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article192007484.html

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sure glad we are living where we are peace and quiet with sanity