Members Tony S. Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IsildursBane Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 I'm talking about Marlborough, Middlesex County, years ago...Maybe things changed in past few years or it's different from your area. Anyway, I remember seeing several giant plowing trucks on Masspike or 495 when we had as little as 2 inches. The town of Marlborough is pretty small, something around 30.000 people, but I used to see hundreds of trucks cleaning the streets every time a storm hit... Once you get out to 495 and beyond, things start to shape up a bit. I'm talking more about inside 95. The vast majority of plows I see are owned/operated by contractors, but even the municipal plows are kind of puny. -Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bobby1Note Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Wow, I remember the feeling... This is what I saw this morning: Allex,You wanna make sure that if Keith Richards ever visits your place, that he has a helmet on. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dogoth Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 It looks like you've got the storn system that we had out west a week ago. Living near the crest of the Sierras, We got hit pretty hard. I remember servicing outdoor security cameras at Lake Tahoe (back in the late 70s - vidicon tubes ick!). The service call said "camera only shows snow". It took me an hour to dig that 12' high camera enclosure out of the snow drift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Busy morning, got gas for the snowblower, made sure it starts, took the trailer out to pick up a couple subs I bought cheap and parked it again for the winter. My tow vehicle is a Scion Xa hatchback so no way I'm towing a brakeless 5x8 enclosed trailer unless the roads are perfect ! Expecting 10 inches here + drifts . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members monkeyland Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 here in southwest florida it's light jacket weather. for us that means that it's 70 degrees and people are shivering. and unemployment is upwards of 15 percent. i'm just waiting for a break in the wind and rain so that i can take the kayak out for some fishing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members walkerci Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Here in Central Florida its 62 F and sunny.The pool is only 70 F because I have been running the pump only 3 hours a day to save on electricity. I put the pump on for 6 hours now so the pool will be 80-85F for Christmas Eve. Solar pool heaters rock!Tomorrow afternoon I'll be flying into Newark, NJ and driving to North Wales, PA for work.I shouldn't complain too much though, they upgraded the plane from a 757-300 to a 767-400ER, and my son and I were both upgraded to First.Continental and Boeing rule! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NUSound Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Our you sure that was Minnesota. We have the same two seasons in Montana. Those are our seasons here in Wisconsin as well. And yes, I have seen road construction projects ermmm... frozen, because we got a foot of snow 2 weeks before they had planned on finishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jerry007 Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 "Lake Effect" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted December 19, 2009 CMS Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 Once you get out to 495 and beyond, things start to shape up a bit. I'm talking more about inside 95. The vast majority of plows I see are owned/operated by contractors, but even the municipal plows are kind of puny.-Dan. That's what I loved about living up in Orange County, NY. When snow was imminent, the HUGE plows (we're talking monster truck size, with 12-foot blades would be sitting in the median cop turnarounds, full load of salt, at each stretch of roadway. Two trucks went exit to exit, and did endless circles until the road was clear and the snow stopped. Then they'd cut in both shoulders and clean up the exit and entrance ramps. Invariably the roads were black as soon as the sun came out. Here in PA, you're lucky if there's one usable lane out of three, and the shoulders are full until it melts on its own. Pathetic. Several years the state and city ran out of salt in February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bobby1Note Posted December 19, 2009 Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Try going for a drive on the M1 in the U.K. when they get even 1" of snow.:poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted December 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 19, 2009 Made a run into town this afternoon and got stuck behind a huge John Deere tractor with a plow blade clearing Main Street. Like I said, we don't have many trucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members samkokajko Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 What's snow? Signed, Texas In all seriousness I think I saw an inch and a half once. Never really seen snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IsildursBane Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 "Lake Effect" Yep. My dad spent 20 years bitching about the snow in Rome. So what did my folks do when us kids moved out of the house? They moved to Ava. -Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mshifflett Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Up around 2 feet here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kevinnem Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Edmonton has established a record it would probably rather forget. The Alberta capital recorded the lowest temperature in North America overnight Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members W. M. Hellinger Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 For awhile when we lived in Alaska, we became well acquainted with Jerry, who had worked most of his life clearing snow from The Thompson Pass (just outside of Valdeze)... where it's common for 500+ inches of snow to fall in a snow season. Jerry was approaching retirement age, and his retirement plans were thus: When he retires, he was fixing to buy a motorhome and tie a snow shovel to the front of the motorhome, then start driving south. He figured that sooner or later somewhere on his journey south, someone would ask him what that thing (the snow shovel) is tied to the front of his motorhome. At that point, he figures he will have driven far enough south... and there he'll stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Preacher Will Posted December 20, 2009 Members Share Posted December 20, 2009 Up around 2 feet here.Ditto here. Nothing's moving but 4x4's and my arm gave out before I could clear enough driveway to make it to our as-yet-unplowed road.Mshifflett, where are you in the valley? I'm in Stuarts Draft and, tucked up against the mountain, we can get really dumped on when a storm system climbs up over the Blue Ridge.Here's a shot of my deck yesterday afternoon when we were still getting an inch an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 6Imzadi Posted December 21, 2009 Members Share Posted December 21, 2009 Looks to me like the polar bears have plenty of real estate to roam on now. Sorry to hear you all are socked in, though. Cold here, but no precip yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gomer Pyle Posted December 21, 2009 Members Share Posted December 21, 2009 Less than an inch here in Nanticoke PA, I can still see my grass, Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcastar Posted December 21, 2009 Members Share Posted December 21, 2009 Just under a foot here on the Boston (Charlestown) harbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 6Imzadi Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 So how are you guys doing in the great white north? Glad I moved from Milwaukee years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bobby1Note Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 Very little snowfall in the last week or so Dale, but cold; brrrrrr !!! -15* Celsius this morning, at 8:42 AM. Forecast says we're heading into a "warming trend". It's supposed to climb to +2* Celsius by Boxing Day, (This Saturday) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 6Imzadi Posted December 24, 2009 Members Share Posted December 24, 2009 Rained like a son of a gun here today. 50+ degrees F. Supposed to drop considerably tomorrow and snow is in the forecast for Christmas day! Woo! The nice thing about snow in Tulsa is that it usually is gone in three days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coaster Posted December 25, 2009 Members Share Posted December 25, 2009 we're getting mildly stomped here, not too bad - little over a foot so childs play for this area.. someone just died in town minutes ago (11 month old kid) parents left cruise control on and the car spun on the i-state and hit a bridge pylon. nice christmas memories for them forever, i feel for them. how did people get so stupid? how do you NOT know to turn your cruise off in inclement weather? drive slower? be careful? i drove as fast as i could go today and it was 28mph; i ended up slowing down even more than that cuz i got tired of fighting the steering wheel. 20mph was about right. these folks were going full speed balls out on the i-state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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