Feet of Lake Effect

Ugh, we don't get that often but when we do...

Better you than me
How much snow is that ?

No worries of falling off the roof there! Only way we get half that much where I live, is in drifts beside trees that slow down the snow.

I dunno how you folks who live in lake-effect land do it. We get some deep winters here, but they alternate with some light ones. You guys are pretty much guaranteed to get buried every year!

Knots said:

I dunno how you folks who live in lake-effect land do it. We get some deep winters here, but they alternate with some light ones. You guys are pretty much guaranteed to get buried every year!

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When your born/raised here it's what you know. Until I was well into my 20's and started travelling out of the area in the winter I thought the whole northern tier of the US got blasted like we do. What a surprise leaving home in January going inland 100 mile from 3 feet of snow to nothing.
Its not really a big deal as most everyone is equipped to handle it. Those who aren't stay home.

I'd have to have one of these:

Knots said:

I'd have to have one of these:

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Where is that snow shooting out from? It's not coming from the chute!

CaptSpiff said:

Where is that snow shooting out from? It's not coming from the chute!

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There is a bypass gate on most of the big ones

JustWood said:

There is a bypass gate on most of the big ones

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Yep. Supposedly that pic is from the Trans Labrador Highway.

I remember when I lived in one of the Lake effect areas of Lake Michigan. 31 days straight of measurable snow. Mostly just a 1-3 inches per day. Towns quit plowing because it was only a couple inches per day and they were running out of money.

My inlaws from the northeast called the town to say the roads were impassible. I had to go pick them up at the hotel. They didn't visit at Christmas again.

A lot colder where I am now but no where near the snow.

Wow. That is awesome amounts of snow! I'ld love it..once a year. ha ha.

Yes, all big blowers have a bypass side chute. It allows for a lot less momentum loss due to the chute, it just blows it out the side. Far. like 150 feet away far.

Andrew

Thanks for schooling me on "bypass gate" for big snow blowers. I did not know. Now I do!

I'd have to have a snowblower on one of our cab tractors that's for sure.

This dude right here has about the nicest piece snow removal equipment I've ever seen.

Paul Short
https://www.youtube.com/user/7863348

I remember when Penn-Central RR experimented with a jet engine mounted at the front of a locomotive with the exhaust pointed at an angle toward the tracks. Made a racket and blew the snow - must not have been a great solution though.

LOL ahhh yes, the Tug Hill area. This is where I take the amount of snow I get and multiply it by 10 or so to figure out how the trails will be up there. What a great region to visit in any season to do some wonderful machine (ATV, sled) riding.