Please, for the love of God, stop snowing!

RidgeRaider

RidgeRaider

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Fifth day in a row here in SE Wisconsin having to go out and plow, with the sixth day tomorrow. Just getting ready to head out the door to go do a cleanup round this evening before tomorrows storm.

Hoping I can somehow manage to stay awake at league tomorrow. Did I mention there's been a run / shortage on salt? Anyone got salt? I'd do unspeakable things for salt right now...

I am going through pool withdrawals worst of all. Haven't played, watched, or heard of any pool in 6 days. That's like an eternity for me!
 
Two things.
1) In Idaho this year I haven’t had to get a snow shovel or snow blower out of the shed. 😎. I don’t want to get too cocky tho because other years can bring more snow than I want and this winter isn’t over either.

2). Close to sixty Januarys ago, my father left work in a large city on a big lake. The city south of you. It was below zero with a brisk 30 mph wind. He asked himself WTF was doing living there, despite spending his whole life there. We moved within a year or two. We moved west and still had seasons and snow. Sometimes some bad snow or cold weather. But not like the Midwest. My uncle stayed longer. We got pictures of the winter of ‘78. He was in California by 1980.

Oh, 3 things. Chicago and the Elkhorn area were nice when I visited. In September. 😜

February to me is when winter gets too long and people get too edgy. I suggest trying to go to BCA in Las Vegas.
 
My senior year of high school, January of 1977, we went to school 3.5 days the entire month.

It just kept snowing and snowing. After a few days when you thought we could go back it would snow another 4-5 inches. The back/side roads were snow covered and slick pretty much the entire month.

I got to stay up late at night and watch the old science fiction TV show The Invaders.

r/DCP
 
1977 i was 25 yrs old lots of snow than more than now, also Saturday Night Fever was a big hit.
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I live in what the Indians and early mtn men called the snow hole ! Back in the winter of 2017 & 2018 , before the end of it we received over 180" of snow along with winds up to and over 70 mph so many coulee's were blown shut with snow and the mountain snow pack was fantastic all the stock ponds , reservoirs were filled to capacity as were all the lakes .

I drove my snowmobile right out of our driveway and down the county roads , you had to be very careful where you drove it and you had best pay attention or you could bury you're snowmobile ! I did a coup!e times ! Ha ha

This winter we've had a little bit of snow but winter is just getting started , oh and All I've got to do is get my snowmobile started and it'll quit snowing !
 
Rusty in Montana said:
I live in what the Indians and early mtn men called the snow hole ! Back in the winter of 2017 & 2018 , before the end of it we received over 180" of snow along with winds up to and over 70 mph so many coulee's were blown shut with snow and the mountain snow pack was fantastic all the stock ponds , reservoirs were filled to capacity as were all the lakes .

I drove my snowmobile right out of our driveway and down the county roads , you had to be very careful where you drove it and you had best pay attention or you could bury you're snowmobile ! I did a coup!e times ! Ha ha

This winter we've had a little bit of snow but winter is just getting started , oh and All I've got to do is get my snowmobile started and it'll quit snowing !
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Its in the teens days and single digits at night here Rusty.
A bunch of white stuff would cripple the entire city.
 
JPB2 said:
Two things.
1) In Idaho this year I haven’t had to get a snow shovel or snow blower out of the shed. 😎. I don’t want to get too cocky tho because other years can bring more snow than I want and this winter isn’t over either.

2). Close to sixty Januarys ago, my father left work in a large city on a big lake. The city south of you. It was below zero with a brisk 30 mph wind. He asked himself WTF was doing living there, despite spending his whole life there. We moved within a year or two. We moved west and still had seasons and snow. Sometimes some bad snow or cold weather. But not like the Midwest. My uncle stayed longer. We got pictures of the winter of ‘78. He was in California by 1980.

Oh, 3 things. Chicago and the Elkhorn area were nice when I visited. In September. 😜

February to me is when winter gets too long and people get too edgy. I suggest trying to go to BCA in Las Vegas.
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That s where I will be! Wind chill of -28 degrees yesterday. Luckily no snow.
 
Mensabum said:
Its in the teens days and single digits at night here Rusty.
A bunch of white stuff would cripple the entire city.
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Since that winter back in 2017 we've been snowed in bad enough that we had to wait until we were dug out as the snow was deep enough we couldn't open any of the doors going outside !
The highways were shutdown as the highway dept had crew's running around like chickens with their heads cut off ha ha !

I got my old Toyota 4 Runner started , the hubs turned it and got out of the yard and to the gas to get more gas for the snow blower .
The snow drift was close go 10' deep over my snowmobile so digging it out wasn't a option ha ha and I was one of the few who could get out and get around , some of the drifts were deep enough that I had to drive around them and I was,missing my old 3/4 ton 4 wd high boy pickup with the skinny tires that cut through deep snow and keep going !

When I was getting close to town the radio station asked to not drive around in town unless it was a emergency travel only ! Using the snow blower was what keeps some people from having a heart attack and kicking the bucket !

Back during the winter of 2017 / 2018 , I sweet talked a guy who was in a big front end loader to push some of the snow from our driveway out into the yard and thankfully he did as I was as weak as rain water from surviving cancer treatments and it was tough to pull the rope start on the snowmobile which drove me crazy so I'd use resistance bands and build up my strength again .
 
rusty, better snow than gumbo on your road.

i got stuck a few miles in once on it and drove out and pity the poor guys that had to grade it back after it dried out.
 
Isn't gumbo fun !!!! In Eastern Montana many of the dirt / gravel roads are gumbo and after a rain or a chinnook when there's snow on the ground you're better off to stay put and wait for it to freeze or at least get colder before trying to drive back out to a paved road / highway ha ha

4wd doesn't always help in some situations ha ha bunch grass or buffalo grass can to a point but it doesn't always last very long .
A doomed road can if you can keep it in the middle which is a challenge ha ha , yes I'm reliving some wild rides into or out of the hills in my minds eye ! I'm glad I'm sitting someplace nice and warm and dry .

Having water drip down our neck or into you're eyes as you're trying to chain up you're pickup isn't as much fun as you may think !
 
your all over the place in gumbo. luckily its the same when you slide off the road as it is on the road if things are flat as they are.

i ran into it one time way back in the cenntennial mountains fishing. and on a narrow road with a steep side on one side.
made it most of the way but got stuck and walked out a couple miles to a farm house and they came and pulled me out. what a mess.

rusty your high boy with thin tires is the trick for it. still not to do.
 
JPB2 said:
Two things.
1) In Idaho this year I haven’t had to get a snow shovel or snow blower out of the shed. 😎. I don’t want to get too cocky tho because other years can bring more snow than I want and this winter isn’t over either.

2). Close to sixty Januarys ago, my father left work in a large city on a big lake. The city south of you. It was below zero with a brisk 30 mph wind. He asked himself WTF was doing living there, despite spending his whole life there. We moved within a year or two. We moved west and still had seasons and snow. Sometimes some bad snow or cold weather. But not like the Midwest. My uncle stayed longer. We got pictures of the winter of ‘78. He was in California by 1980.

Oh, 3 things. Chicago and the Elkhorn area were nice when I visited. In September. 😜

February to me is when winter gets too long and people get too edgy. I suggest trying to go to BCA in Las Vegas.
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haha!


I've got nothing nice to say about Chicago, but Elkhorn sure can be nice! I used to work a farm out there.
 
Rusty in Montana said:
I live in what the Indians and early mtn men called the snow hole ! Back in the winter of 2017 & 2018 , before the end of it we received over 180" of snow along with winds up to and over 70 mph so many coulee's were blown shut with snow and the mountain snow pack was fantastic all the stock ponds , reservoirs were filled to capacity as were all the lakes .

I drove my snowmobile right out of our driveway and down the county roads , you had to be very careful where you drove it and you had best pay attention or you could bury you're snowmobile ! I did a coup!e times ! Ha ha

This winter we've had a little bit of snow but winter is just getting started , oh and All I've got to do is get my snowmobile started and it'll quit snowing !
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That was a helluva winter for Montana!

My buddies and I made an impromptu ski trip to Big Sky spring 2018 when we heard they still had insane snowpack. Was a great trip.
 
David in FL said:
I grew up in SE Wisconsin.

In 1982 I realized that there are roads that go south.

You're welcome. 😁
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You must be related to me, cause all of my family except my immediate family booked it south!

Everyone on my dad's side went to Arizona, a lot on my mom's side went back to Mississippi, and I know a few cousins ended up in Florida I believe.

I'm like my dad. As much as the cold and snow sucks, there's too much to love about Wisconsin and Milwaukee in general for me to ever want to move. My dad was born and will die in the same city, and I plan on doing the same too. For a state with not too many reasons to like it, we just couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's a weird thing.
 
The first and last time I was in Chicago and Detroit was back in 1966 we rode the Empire Builder ( passenger train without sleeping cars but there was a dome car I spent a great deal of time in looking and wondering from ha ha )

That was an eye opening experience for a small kid from North Eastern Montana !
 
RidgeRaider said:
You must be related to me, cause all of my family except my immediate family booked it south!

Everyone on my dad's side went to Arizona, a lot on my mom's side went back to Mississippi, and I know a few cousins ended up in Florida I believe.

I'm like my dad. As much as the cold and snow sucks, there's too much to love about Wisconsin and Milwaukee in general for me to ever want to move. My dad was born and will die in the same city, and I plan on doing the same too. For a state with not too many reasons to like it, we just couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's a weird thing.
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Packers and the Badgers

What's not to love?! 👍
 
RidgeRaider said:
You must be related to me, cause all of my family except my immediate family booked it south!

Everyone on my dad's side went to Arizona, a lot on my mom's side went back to Mississippi, and I know a few cousins ended up in Florida I believe.

I'm like my dad. As much as the cold and snow sucks, there's too much to love about Wisconsin and Milwaukee in general for me to ever want to move. My dad was born and will die in the same city, and I plan on doing the same too. For a state with not too many reasons to like it, we just couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's a weird thing.
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I actually think it makes sense. I have relatives on both sides of the family in various spots in the Midwest. Most of the Chicago contingent moved. The Elkhorn resident got out of Chicagoland a while ago. My other Wisconsin relatives like it I think. By moving we got disconnected from family on both sides. Not that I wish we stayed in Chicago when I was little. But there is something to be said for staying somewhere and not leaving because of weather and such. I tend to like the Midwest although I haven’t spent a winter as an adult there. So yes, you could move but I get why you wouldn’t.

In defense of Chicago, I did have a superdawg and played 3C at Chris’s the one afternoon I spent there my last trip.
 
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