Washingtonians

[broodytood]

In 1985, we got 16 inches total. I remember because I was in HS and got stuck at a friends house. As a young driver, they didn't want me to chance driving home.
Two yrs ago we got a total of 18 inches in two rounds. So with the melt that happened in between it was more like 11 inches.
7-8 yrs ago we had 10-11 inches.
I believe in being prepared but sometimes I wonder if people(news) blow these things up a bit?

I think that we country folk are just used to stayin' put if need be and living in such a way that we don't have to leave home for a few days when necessary.
I just try to take it in stride.
Glad for the fact that no one in our house has medical conditions that make a power outage a pain.
And I'm really glad I'm not incubating right now!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

OK, I have some good news for a change. Slightly bragging too. In order to apply for employment with the shipyards you need to pass an accuplacer test. There are 2 levels. A basic Helper Program (which was my intention) and a more advanced Apprenticeship program. You are tested in Reading Comprehension, Sentence skills and Math. I took the accuplacer today and passed well above what is required to apply for the Apprenticeship! Much higher starting pay and pay raises and paid education! So, we'll see what happens at the job fair next week. Wish me luck.

 

[Greg Richardson]

We have around 10 inches now. Tree branch took out our mailbox this morning. Haven't got mail since Friday.
Other branches just missed our run and one smaller one landed on top wire.
One tree split in half and of course that half went into our fenced garden area.
Huge mess to clean up..

Make sure you get the snow load off your coops.
If we get lot of snow followed by rain think about the weight on your coop roof.

Walked down the street and two neighbors got their fence wiped out.

Just really surprised we still have power.

 

[broodytood]

OK, I have some good news for a change. Slightly bragging too. In order to apply for employment with the shipyards you need to pass an accuplacer test. There are 2 levels. A basic Helper Program (which was my intention) and a more advanced Apprenticeship program. You are tested in Reading Comprehension, Sentence skills and Math. I took the accuplacer today and passed well above what is required to apply for the Apprenticeship! Much higher starting pay and pay raises and paid education! So, we'll see what happens at the job fair next week. Wish me luck.

Way to go CG!!!

 

[Chickielady]

OK, I have some good news for a change. Slightly bragging too. In order to apply for employment with the shipyards you need to pass an accuplacer test. There are 2 levels. A basic Helper Program (which was my intention) and a more advanced Apprenticeship program. You are tested in Reading Comprehension, Sentence skills and Math. I took the accuplacer today and passed well above what is required to apply for the Apprenticeship! Much higher starting pay and pay raises and paid education! So, we'll see what happens at the job fair next week. Wish me luck.

Awesome !!! You have my best wishes !!!!!!!!!

So what kind of job at the Shipyards are you shooting for ?

 

[Chickielady]

In North Idaho, in 1996 (I think it was) we got over 16 feet in the winter, and 10 sat on my cabin roof and packed to about 12" of solid ice with icicles as big around as your thigh...hard to bust off, and if they reach the ground they will lift your roof UP and pull it right off the walls.
Uncool and hard as granite!
I could not keep up with the driveway plowing, and the highway plows would bury my drive approach 24/7...overnight we could get up to 2-3 feet !
That was an anstrnomical snow year & January pre-Chinnok temps of -30 degrees.
Yeah, I stay prepared !!!!!!!!!!!
And I moved !!!
Sixteen feet, measured, and hard to find anyplace left to shovel it to !

 

[ReiMiraa]

i bundled up to walk to class earlier, and was cozy on my walk back a few minutes ago. down filled mittens and my ski coat.... and a face mask. it is soooooo windy. almost to my dorm i saw a gust coming (carring the frozen snow) i ducked behind a car and for 30 seconds it rocked the car. its nasty outside.

Mom says at home its been snowing all day... i am sure my chickens are sad.... they were eating grass a few days ago.... gone again.

 

[Chickielady]

OK peeps, here it comes, and we are in a white out right now !!!!!!!!!!

Click to see :

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/r...min=2&num_stns_max=9999&avg_off=9999&smooth=0

 

[Stumpfarmer]

My ultimate Big Snow was in January 1972, but that was sort of an exceptional snowfall: a whole lot all at once on the first sub-freezing night, so that there was an insulating layer before the waterlines could freeze, and then an inch or so of powder every night and bright 20F or colder sunshiny days; we went sledding and had pancakes and hot cocoa and Dad made thousands clearing driveways and parking lots (and there was a glacier at South Sound Center that didn't melt until May).

1985 I was pregnant, and slipped on the ice and scared myself to death; it froze hard before it snowed, and the well froze up.

2008 was a nightmare: terribly cold well before it snowed, miserable keeping the watering troughs going, and the worst road maintenence ever.

This is NOT FUN, though, because it's so hard to move around the yard and take care of the chooks, and because the Hamburgs are still in a flat-roofed wire and plastic run. And because I can't say, as I did the last time I had to gravel up the driveway, that I would do that and not worry about having energy to do anything else, because I have to take care of the living things first.

But at least it's before calving season, unlike that little mess we had earlier this year, last week in February, first week in March. Poor babies lost the ends of their ears, boo,

 

[Stumpfarmer]

In North Idaho, in 1996 (I think it was) we got over 16 feet in the winter, and 10 sat on my cabin roof and packed to about 12" of solid ice with icicles as big around as your thigh...hard to bust off, and if they reach the ground they will lift your roof UP and pull it right off the walls.
Uncool and hard as granite!
I could not keep up with the driveway plowing, and the highway plows would bury my drive approach 24/7...overnight we could get up to 2-3 feet !
That was an anstrnomical snow year & January pre-Chinnok temps of -30 degrees.
Yeah, I stay prepared !!!!!!!!!!!
And I moved !!!
Sixteen feet, measured, and hard to find anyplace left to shovel it to !

1996 was the ice storm. Mom died (not as a result of) the first day of it.

I don't want to think about that one.