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Smitty37

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Woke up this morning with a couple of inches of snow on the ground and blowing/drifting with temperatures in the 20s.

Now that doesn't seem like much to a lot of you folks - but this is slower lower Delaware and Delaware does not respond well to snow. We have insufficient equipment and the operators have insufficient experience (because we have so little snow) clearing it. This adds up to my bride and I having even more 'togetherness' today than usual. I'm sort of a stay around the house except for a 1.5 hour dog walking excursion every day, but my wife's car is rarely in the garage until late afternoon - she is a go - go - go kind of person with trips somewhere virtually every day. Not today though. And the dogs will have to take care of their business in the dog yard and we are fortunate enough to have a good sized yard for them. They usually prefer to take care of business on a walk rather than at home though.

There is some question as to whether or not we will have mail service today because the roads are so bad it might not be safe. It's also subject to speculation as to whether we will have outgoing service today. I also have a package arriving in BMW airport today that would normally be delivered to my door today, but I'm not sure the carrier will make it.

With luck, things might be ok by Monday, but if the cold projected hangs in I wouldn't bet the farm on that.
 
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tbroye said:
Hmmm reality sets in? or is that a metaphysical kind of snow? Have a great snow day start shoveling.:devil: Stay warm and safe.
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Based on experience and personal observation over many past winters my perception is that if there is such a thing as reality, this snow is real.
 
We could sure use a lot of snow out here, rain also had 6.5 inches of rain last calendar year and a little over an inch in the rain year starting July 1st. Should have many feet of snow in the Sierras and 5 or 6 inches of rain in the valley. Had to turn sprinkler system on last night to water. Unless things change we are going to be hurting this summer. We depend on the snow run off to fill the many lakes that supply our water for residential/landscape use and for irrigation for the farms. While you in the East get hammered we are going to have a high of 68F today may have break out the lawn mower and cut the back lawn this weekend bummer.
 
We got 31" of lake effect snow a week or so ago. Was a problem blowing snow as the backs got 5-6 feet and when you were close the blower couldn't blow over the top. But the worst part was this morning -- the plows finally came back and pushed the banks on the street back. That filled in all the paths and driveways with piles that were like ice and packed hard. Snowblower wouldn't touch it, I had to chop at the banks with an ice scraper to break it up so I could blow it. Way harder than blowing 20" of fresh snow. And I still have to go back after work and clean out the sidewalks since the plows pushed back the banks all the way to the sidewalks. I'm beat already.

Getting too old for this stuff.

Jeff in northern Wisconsin
 
Make sure to go to the store and get your bread and milk !!

at least that is what they do here in Pa......:smile:
 
Year before last we got a couple of feet of snow --- shut things down for a week and the saving grace was that it warmed up and melted. Of course we got some flooding but we're so low and flat that we see that all the time.
 
I remember how flat that area is. A "few" years ago I did an internship at Stockley Center. Is it still there? I was a Music Therapy Intern working with Severe MR/DD clients. Had a good experience there.
 
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