Four letter word

[Treepep 914]

What in the fresh #$*@ is this?

 

Gone once the sun peeked out, roads clear.  Stuff still shutdown or delayed.  Watch the forecast. If we get over an inch, grab a buddy or two, a sixer and head over with a sharpened stick.  You could take over the entire state.  

[ebinmaine 75,531]

We get that up north here once in awhile. Some people refer to it as snow. Others use somewhat more creative four letter words that begin with S.

 

 

 

 

[8ntruck 8,312]

That is North Carolina reaction.  We lived in Bowling Green Ky. for a number of years.  It seemed to be standard procedure to shut everything down when snow was forecast. 

 

We grew up in Michigan.  It took a minimum of 7" or 8" of snow to start thinking about shutting things down.

[Handy Don 15,049]

38 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

It took a minimum of 7" or 8" of snow to start thinking about shutting things down.

Yep. The “Back Mountain” of NE Pennsylvania was the same but a heavy icing or freezing rain was a different story.

[ri702bill 10,503]

My wife and I had friends that left Tonowanda NY and moved to RI. She referred to a foot of snow here as a "dusting"! She also mentioned that it was common back home to make a line item in your Will as to who inherits the Ariens Snowblower.!!

[Treepep 914]

 

 

Everything is online.  That said (not this "snow")

 

 I cannot bank in person or grocery?   I can go to the awful house and breakfast some garbage.  I don't bar other than a pool league.  Usually open.  

 

And frightened folks call out for work?  Uh have you ventured outside bud?  Roads are mostly salt and brine.  completely dry.  I don't want to be on them ta save my vehicle.  NOT dangerous.  

 

Great part (chin up folks)  There is nobody on the roads.  I love "winter" here.  Gotta car wash the daily driver tomorrow.

[Ed Kennell 43,680]

37 minutes ago, Treepep said:

Roads are mostly salt and brine. 

Our roads are still covered with a dusting(of brine, not snow) from last weeks forecast of a possible dusting of snow.   Can't wait till spring when the 12 million gallon of Pa brine gets washed down the river to the Chesapeake Bay.   The increased salinity should bring the rock fish and crabs up to my end of the Bay.

Maybe I can sell enough crabs to replace a couple rusted up vehicles.

[SylvanLakeWH 29,748]

SE Michigan sits on a massive salt deposit. The mine under Detroit is something else... so, salt is cheap... so we spread it roughly at an 1:1 ratio with snow... eats cars. We make cars. Hey - circular economy!!! Salt = $$$ Cars = $$$ What's not to love???

 

But to Ed's point above - massive environmental impact and it destroys our roads... 

[Ed Kennell 43,680]

PennDOT did find a use for the obsolete  snow plows.

I see them following the flair mowers and plowing the brush off to the sides.

 

 

 

 

 

[953 nut 62,883]

At our end of North Carolina there are so many steep winding roads with a drop off on one side and solid rock on the other side that it doesn't take much snow to bring things to a halt. We had only one snow worth plowing last winter. I cleared our driveway and a few hundred feet of our road to the top of the first hill. It remained very cold and by the time the NCDOT got around to coming down our remote road the snow had melted and refrozen into a mile of ice. I had to take my wife for a doctors appointment before the ice melted but having grown up in New York's snow belt I knew how to deal with it.

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,236]

4 hours ago, Treepep said:

What in the fresh #$*@ is this?

 

Gone once the sun peeked out, roads clear.  Stuff still shutdown or delayed.  Watch the forecast. If we get over an inch, grab a buddy or two, a sixer and head over with a sharpened stick.  You could take over the entire state.  

 

 I believe the proper word is snow, but as @ebinmaine said there are a few more colorful words for it. they tend to get more creative the more and the heavier it gets. 

 

 

 

[adsm08 3,824]

1 hour ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

there are a few more colorful words for it

 

I've only ever seen it in two colors.

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,236]

7 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

I've only ever seen it in two colors.

Yeah, There's that too. I was thinking of the words that come out as your shoveling. Don't eat the yellow snow...

Edited yesterday at 02:06 AM by MainelyWheelhorse

[adsm08 3,824]

1 hour ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

Yeah, There's that too. I was thinking of the words that come out as your shoveling. Don't eat the yellow snow...

 

I rarely shovel. Around here either it's enough to plow and I love it, or not enough to worry about 

 

On the rare occasion it falls in between my kids are old enough to go do the shoveling for me.

[kpinnc 16,141]

7 hours ago, Treepep said:

I love "winter" here.  Gotta car wash the daily driver tomorrow.

 

Aside from my time in the Army, I've lived my whole life in NC. 

 

When I was younger, you learned how to drive in the snow and just did it. It didn't matter if your vehicle was rear wheel drive only. You just used your hat holder the way it was intended. Maybe after a day or two a plow truck (or your local farmers) would clear the roads. But we did well regardless. 

 

Years later, the brine trucks started running. Melted all the snow, which re-froze at night and created a two lane ice sheet. Wrecks everywhere. Someone will have to help me understand why such things are better... 

[JoeM 9,221]

Had a few inches last week. Schools canceled because of the timing. Grand kids showed up and rode sleds for hours! Plus a snowman and ate like linebackers. 

I like it! 

The view from the WH shed down the double diamond. 

[Treepep 914]

3 hours ago, kpinnc said:

 

Aside from my time in the Army, I've lived my whole life in NC. 

 

When I was younger, you learned how to drive in the snow and just did it. It didn't matter if your vehicle was rear wheel drive only. You just used your hat holder the way it was intended. Maybe after a day or two a plow truck (or your local farmers) would clear the roads. But we did well regardless. 

 

Years later, the brine trucks started running. Melted all the snow, which re-froze at night and created a two lane ice sheet. Wrecks everywhere. Someone will have to help me understand why such things are better... 

 

 

Yes sir!  I think before I moved here the city (Raleigh)  completely dropped the ball on an actual 100 year snow event.  Since then it seems they have shot way past what is necessary. 

 

Ground temp is well above freezing, it has been pretty wet for a NC winter and they still brine and salt.  I went outside to start my car.  Cold for here, back deck was an ice sheet.  yard

 

dusted.  Driveway was clear, roads clear, overpasses clear.  ALL roads looked like there was a snow event.  No sir!  Just excessive salt and brine.  As previously stated... great for me, on

 

the road virtually alone.  Super stress free.  All (snow) gone by 10 am. 

[Ed Kennell 43,680]

6 hours ago, kpinnc said:

 

Aside from my time in the Army, I've lived my whole life in NC. 

 

When I was younger, you learned how to drive in the snow and just did it. It didn't matter if your vehicle was rear wheel drive only. You just used your hat holder the way it was intended. Maybe after a day or two a plow truck (or your local farmers) would clear the roads. But we did well regardless.

My young days were spent atop the Appalachians in western Pa.   My daily driver was my '30 Dodge Brothers "6".   With chains on the rear 5.5X18 tires, it would handle 10" unplowed snows with no problem.    The March 1958 storm did close rt. 160 where we lived for two weeks.   We could hear the snow blower operating for two days before it reached our house.   They cleared one lane and ever mile would back up and make a passing lane.  It created some long interesting rides on the 17 mile trip to high school as it was understood most vehicles including the coal trucks were expected to back up to the passing lane when they met a school bus.  Farmers eventually used their FELs to create more passing lanes.  I lived near that small black 110-140" dot at  Somerset.

 

[WHX?? 53,201]

We have more snow this year then then last couple of years put together and winter just started.  Another 5 inches last nite. Girls are gonna get another workout today.

Edited 17 hours ago by WHX??

[SylvanLakeWH 29,748]

5-6" here. Wet snow.

 

4:45 am cleared three drives before work... used the Dewalt  blower so's not to wake up the old ladies... quiet as a mouse and, since it's not red, done under the cover of darkness with no pictures... 

 

Besides - I had to get it done so I could get inside and wish @ebinmaine a happy birthday...

[WHX?? 53,201]

2 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

work

There's that four letter word again ... 

 

The dynamic duo... 

One set up for pavement 

One set up for off-road w%r#

 

Edited 14 hours ago by WHX??

[rmaynard 16,683]

21 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

That is North Carolina reaction.  We lived in Bowling Green Ky. for a number of years.  It seemed to be standard procedure to shut everything down when snow was forecast. 

 

We grew up in Michigan.  It took a minimum of 7" or 8" of snow to start thinking about shutting things down.

 

Here in Maryland, when I was growing up, because I was the biggest kid on the bus, I was the designated shovel wrangler. School busses ran until there was at least 3" of the white stuff on the roads. If the bus got stuck, the bus driver and I shoveled her out. None of this pansy-a$$ crap that is going on today. 

[8ntruck 8,312]

We got 6, maybe 7 inches of snow last night.  Heavy wet stuff.  I have a blade for my 14-8, but I didn't put it on this fall.  I don't have weights or chains, so the snow today might have been problematic to plow.  

 

Instead, I fired up tiny two stroke Toro.  It did just fine.  By the time I had the driveway, front walk, walkways to the lake house, bird feeders, shed, and woods and the dog run cleared, I had gone through a full tank of gas.

[ebinmaine 75,531]

We're getting another inch or two overnight here.  More playing tomorrow. 

 

Seat time!!

[Beap52 1,726]

I now live in south Missouri.  I was raised in north Missouri.  

 

In the 1960's when my  brothers and I were kids, we had snow drifts that enabled us to walk cross the tops of fence rows.  We had wooden fencing around some of the barns on the farm and we could dig tunnels  into the snow drifts.  (Now I would worry if my grandkids the opportunity to tunnel for fear that the tunnel might collapse on them--no concerns sixty years ago.)  I've seen pictures of snow drifts several deep feet high and only one lane roads in the area.  We didn't have hi-tech clothes like my grand kids have and just weathered the cold--and often times we poured melted snow out of our rubber boots  when we finally froze out and headed to the house.   Dad never had a four wheel drive vehicle until way after I was grown and had my own family. 

 

My kids never saw snow like we experienced. 

 

Here is south Missouri, we get some snow but its rare to get 5 or six inches on the ground. Ice is our nuisance.  It won't be long and I'll fill all of the gas cans full of gas as well as the older cars in the event ice takes down the power lines and I need fuel for the generator--which fortunately seldom happens.