Yet ANOTHER blizzard

[DougA]

Woke up this morning and there's a drift half way up my bedroom window. I'll have to shovel just so I can get the tractor out of the garage. The stove has been non-stop for a week and I need to empty the ashes badly. I've been sticking the ash shovel in and moving the coals away from the air vents as best I can but ... The wood in my shed is covered in snow and I went into the garage to get at my emergency pile and there's a small snow drift in the garage from the crack on either side of the garage door.
I'll spend all morning trying to push the drifts out of the way with my Kubota so I can get the car out to the highway which is snow packed anyway. Geez, will this ever end? I should just go back to bed.

I don't think the groundhog is even going to wake up.

 

[tekguy]

Where are you? We are having the exact opposite winter here, cold and no snow and nothing really on horizon, we may have received 15-20" total since Dec 1 and it was all light and fluffy powder, so far for a snow fan its been depressing, my sleds remain dormant and its a 5-6 hour tow to the nearest decent trails

At least I got my stove in to play with

 

[Kevin Dolan]

Woke up this morning and there's a drift half way up my bedroom window. I'll have to shovel just so I can get the tractor out of the garage. The stove has been non-stop for a week and I need to empty the ashes badly. I've been sticking the ash shovel in and moving the coals away from the air vents as best I can but ... The wood in my shed is covered in snow and I went into the garage to get at my emergency pile and there's a small snow drift in the garage from the crack on either side of the garage door.
I'll spend all morning trying to push the drifts out of the way with my Kubota so I can get the car out to the highway which is snow packed anyway. Geez, will this ever end? I should just go back to bed.

I don't think the groundhog is even going to wake up.

Doug relax, it's winter. Bang the snow of your outside splits, fill the stove go back inside and enjoy the heat
We can't get out our drive until the big tractor comes up, my tractor got bogged out with the drifts in the drive, over four feet high in places. Got to love winter!

 

[DougA]

Oops sorry, corrected the location info now. Kevin and I must be close.

 

[Laurent Cyr]

You guys in southern Ontario have really got hit this year with more than average snowfall. Here in southern quebec, we`ve had a lo of snow, but thankfully the rain in december and january have brought the snow banks down a bit. The cold has been brutal this year. I`m officially at 4 cords burnt. I still have 2 cords in the wood shed, but I never thought I`d be using that pile this year.

 

[Kevin Dolan]

Oops sorry, corrected the location info now. Kevin and I must be close.

Doug I am just north of Woodstock , where are you?

 

[Kevin Dolan]

You guys in southern Ontario have really got hit this year with more than average snowfall. Here in southern quebec, we`ve had a lo of snow, but thankfully the rain in december and january have brought the snow banks down a bit. The cold has been brutal this year. I`m officially at 4 cords burnt. I still have 2 cords in the wood shed, but I never thought I`d be using that pile this year.

Laurent we have been hit pretty hard with cold temps and now some pretty good snow. That must be pretty normal for you in Quebec ?

 

[rideau]

It's still snowing and windy here, but so far this has been a non-event except for the wind. Per weather maps, there were to be weird lines delineating the relative snowfall amounts...areas very close to us were to get three to six times our snowfall.

Wet snow, unlike what we have had to date. Warmer than it has been in quite a while (21F), very windy, going right back down tonight and tomorrow.

 

[branchburner]

I don't think the groundhog is even going to wake up.

You didn't hear? Punxsutawney Phil got sucked up by the polar vortex and is still missing. Bill Murray has put together a search party.

 

[simple.serf]

Eh.

Since Lake Erie froze over, any "blizzard" just doesn't worry me too much. What gets me going is when we either get a front moving through or a winter storm and the lake is still at 35*. When that happens, I know I can plan on 2-3 feet of snow to plow before I can go to work. The winter storms we are getting now just give us 3-6".

 

[DougA]

Kevin, I'm just south of Cambridge. When I see what's going with the snow elsewhere, it makes our snowfall seem like nothing.

I got the driveway plowed. The snow is real light but it keeps coming down. Our highway has still not seen a plow since last night.

Gotta go clean out the ashes.

 

[eclecticcottage]

Eh.

Since Lake Erie froze over, any "blizzard" just doesn't worry me too much.

Blizzard of 77 happened after the lake froze

 

[simple.serf]

Touche.

Though I wasn't yet born for that one.

Unless I get a work call, the wife and I are staying in tonight.

 

[Laurent Cyr]

Laurent we have been hit pretty hard with cold temps and now some pretty good snow. That must be pretty normal for you in Quebec ?

Well, I can`t say the cold températures have been normal. I`ve never seen prolonged températures in the -30`s for so long. Usually, we get a week of -30s and -40s in february, and then that`s it. This year, it seems as if it has been non-stop since october.

People are pretty fed up. Thing is, with all that cold, we haven`t had that much snow. I live out in the country, and my snow banks by the driveway are 3 feet high. Usually they are at 4-5 feet. The rain we got in december and january took care of half of it.

But from what I`ve been hearing on the news from southern ontario (other than Rob Ford`s antics), is you guys getting hammered with lots of snow, high winds and really cold temps.

 

[Kevin Dolan]

Kevin, I'm just south of Cambridge. When I see what's going with the snow elsewhere, it makes our snowfall seem like nothing.

I got the driveway plowed. The snow is real light but it keeps coming down. Our highway has still not seen a plow since last night.

Gotta go clean out the ashes.

Doug we got cleaned out around noon, probably about a foot of snow. We have light snow coming down now and supposed to be for overnight . Where do you get your wood and what specie. We have mostly ash and maple, not much oak. You have a vc resolute how is that to burn and how big is the firebox?

 

[boomhour]

We just hit 395 cm of snow in and around Muskoka this year, that I can deal with, but -40 and wind is a little much. There is a state of emergency in Dufferin County, most roads were closed as of Thursday night and Friday morning .

Some pictures heading up Hwy 11 into Huntsville Thursday afternoon. 29 plows so far for this season, commercial plowing is up around 35 plows, I would say it's starting to cost them some money to kept plowing for the rest of the year.

 

[rideau]

That's getting to be a lot of snow!

And after this storm, there is at least one more coming next week.

Have they given any idea when roads ill be reopened? I guess not for a while, with today's storm adding to the problem. That is an unbelievable number of plows. I am up to 5. The number you have needed make for a significant added expense not budgeted by most homeowners. Hope people had enough food in their homes before roads were closed.

I guess we should be grateful we for the most part have only had the extreme cold. Our snowfalls are certainly no more than normal, and I suspect less than normal, since it has been so cold that none of it has disappeared and we haven't all that much on the ground. I was in the woods today, and the snow is not over my boots. Of course, there is an ice base that one does not break through, so I am not sure how deep the snow is, but certainly less than two feet. No where approaching the almost ten feet you have had. How much snow remains on the ground where you are? Most of it, I'd expect, given the temps? The banks on the side of my road vary from 2 to 5 feet, mostly about 30 inches. No bad. They are commonly as much as 5 feet average in a snowy winter. Of course, we may just now be heading into the snowier weather. Isn't that an encouraging thought for you?

I will say, the woods are MUCH easier than normal to walk in with the ice base. My woods are very rocky limestone base, very little topsoil, lots of little pockets everywhere. Now, they are like a smooth, albeit slippery, yard, thanks to the ice storms and brutal cold. . There is a bright side to everything