OMG! 20-24"+ of snow! Blizzard!
woodyoak
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Has this storm gone through your area? If so, how much snow did you get? We got about 20-24". It's been at least 15 years since we got anything close to this amount in one 12 hr. period! It took DH two hours - with a snowblower- to clear our driveway. Because no snowplow has been down our street yet there is a 24" wall of snow on the road so we aren't able to go anywhere!
View from the dining room window (front porch) shortly after DH started to clear snow:
Yesterday I took this picture of the cedar fence the neighbour behind us put up this fall:
This is what it looks like this morning - note where the snow is against where the horizontal board at the base should be showing.... (The picture was taken zoomed-in through the patio door - the fence is under evergreen trees which sheltered this area from some of the snow....)
ICK! Winter...!
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diggerdee zone 6 CT
2 years ago
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
2 years agowoody we are getting it too. Well over 24" and still coming down with white out conditions and heavy drifting. I will be heading out to shovel off the deck before our plow guy shows up. Crazy.
I just opened the door on the south side. This is the least amount anywhere on the property. Stay safe!
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Comments (48)ellenr, thank you, that was nice of you. I feel so bad for you people struggling out east. We got a little more last night, in the 20's but sun melted it off the sidewalks. It's been a long and busy day, in no particular order juggled my usual have to do's, mixed up almost the last of my soil to be ready, took a long time deciding what to order along with that Prairie Smoke on that other thread, called their toll free #, wait for call back, decided to just try their carts and order online, a hassle but got thru it and conf email. More seeds, just what I need, but really wanted those. Then I called HD about more potting soil. And some large pots. The soil is outside on the palettes and may be frozen to each other in which case I can't buy any. If they can get it loose, I can. If I can get it in the house, it will thaw. I'll have to go out there tomorrow. Let it sit in my car until one of the kids can come by and unload it. But knowing me, I get impatient and may try my wheelbarrow. So then I was going to start a thread asking about good places to buy large pots because one of my pair is ruined, patched it in the back with duct tape but see there's a big crack in it now. Shopped online for pots that would fit there, love those Talavera ones from Mexico but they might be too busy for my style and expensive plus they're too small, then some sites could not believe the prices. So I start at HD online, find a couple I like, resin when I'd rather have terra cotta or glazed, but $38 and not in stock here, read them off the SKU on the phone. Lowe's site down. Ended up ordering a pair $15 ones in either a dark red or rust that would fit. Cheaper to ship to the store and pick up, called out there, no help at all, am afraid they'll get lost in the shuffle 'cuz I never did that before, not in stock at any store within 100 miles. So I ordered those two, paid $7.95 for shipping to my home instead; it's almost worth it not to have to drive clear out there to pick them up assuming they can get that straight. Plus I had to pay state sales tax, forgot about that; if there's a store in your state, you have to pay on internet sales now, no biggie except when I bought my imac. Where is there a store here? Des Moines. That's halfway across the state. So I'm bushed, am waiting for my Friday night virus scan to finish up. I got to thinking about being alone and all the people who post about DH's that shovel for them, do the hard stuff. It makes me feel bad I have to fend for myself. But the husband I had, I'd have to beg to get him to do anything IF he even bothered to come home. Was always out drinking and never called to give me a time and abusive, totally inconsiderate. Good job and bennies though, life sure changed after the divorce So much for that. I think people are so lucky who have nice husbands who are considerate of them and willing to do things to help, call them dear and mean it. But I've been alone for so long I'm used to it. I'm 68, got a few years on you. The big upset right now is granddaughter took off for CA with her bf and just broke up with him. Her heart is broken, and she's out there all alone. I could cry for her, wrote her an email to tell my take on getting hurt (been there multiple times), and the long view. At least she is starting a new job she likes, but I'm worried about her and especially she is the kind like her mom who just has to have a man. Can't imagine what there is to choose from out there, begged her to be careful, rebound, and especially hooking up with someone on the internet. I'd send her money to come home, but jobs for young people are bad here. So it goes. Another long one. If I blog I'll let you know, just got invited to be a friend on Facebook. Again. I chat so much here I don't have any energy or desire left for that, don't want to get sucked into it and can't understand the appeal and giving so much real life, personal info. Have a nice evening, people, such as is left of it....See MoreBlizzard
Comments (14)I guess we were lucky here in northern CT--today's storm only added another 10 inches on top of the 4-5 ft. already on the ground. I keep taking pictures but since there's a new storm every couple of days, they're out of date before I can download them from the camera. I took more today but until I know there isn't another storm in the forecast for at least 48 hours, there is no point in posting them. I WS a couple containers today and set them in the snow off the back of my breezeway. The snow is at least a foot HIGHER than the level of my breezeway so it was easy enough to set the jugs down into the snow. My opinion of La Nina isn't fit for public view, not to mention whoever gave her that name should be drawn, quartered, then taken out and SHOT. Did I mention I love gardening?...See Moresnow snow go-away & other things
Comments (24)Josh, This is from another site. I had always been just a bit skeptical of the fact that snow contains nitrogen. My research when I was first asked this question back in the late '70s -- which I don't need to remind you was pre-Internet and Google -- failed to turn up any reliable data confirming what I considered to be just another gardening wives' tale. Well, it turns out not only snow, but rain as well, contains nitrogen compounds that were suspended in air as they formed. It is estimated that 2 to 12 pounds of nitrogen are deposited per acre as a result of snow and rain. Most of this nitrogen comes from emissions as a result of burning fossil fuels and industrial manufacturing. The rest comes from lightning fixing atmospheric nitrogen, which makes up 70 percent of air, as I recall. In fact, it seems the amount of nitrogen in snow and rain has increased dramatically since industrialization and the advent of the automobile. One study I read indicated that by the 1980s the amount of nitrogen deposited in the Colorado Front Range was 30 times greater than it was before the Industrial Revolution. Another study says that this number has since doubled. Granted, to a chemical gardener, 2 to 12 pounds per acre is not that much nitrogen when one considers the suggested rate of application is 3 to 5 pounds per 1,000 square feet. (An acre has 43,560 square feet). But in more and more areas, particularly along rivers and in watersheds, the nitrogen from rain and snow, particularly when snow melts in the spring, has been enough to cause serious changes in the ecosystem. Add to this studies that show an increase in nitrogen mineralization -- uptake by microbes a la soil food web -- in tundra areas when there is snow cover and it becomes clear that snow falling in your yard can be counted for something, especially if you have not damaged your soil's microbes with harsh chemical fertilizers. No wonder the old wives' tales called snow "the poor farmer's fertilizer." Here is a link that might be useful: Poor Farmer's Fertilizer...See MoreJay's Blizzard Watch
Comments (13)Susan, I agree. Our local guy is really good about telling us when the models are giving conflicting indications and keeping everything "up in the air". The NWS is the worst, I think, for changing the forecast. My favorite weather faux pas is when there is NO rain in the forecast and then it starts raining. AFTER the rain starts, they run back and change the forecast to show that rain is "predicted". LOL Do they think we don't realize they are putting rain in the forecast only after it has started falling? Jay, I always look at Amarillo for your forecast but they don't seem terribly accurate. You need your own NWS office there in Elkhart (LOL), but even that wouldn't guarantee an accurate forecast. Today our local guy is saying 63 for today and the NWS was saying 54. Someone will be right, and I bet it will be the local guy. Our LOW last night was something like 50 or 52 degrees. It feels like a March or April morning outside right now. I always try to be stocked up on supplies just in case, but we never really have such bad weather here that we are snowbound. It does amaze me how people run to the store and wipe out the shelves when even a slight chance of bad weather is forecast. I try to always be prepared in terms of having candles and matches, flashlights and batteries, bottled water and nonperishable food items. We rarely have ice or snow last more than 1 day on the roadways, so it is unlikely we'd ever have to stock up in fear of being 'snowbound' here. I do always make sure I have ingredients for something yummy and filling for the firefighters (like stew or 15-bean soup or taco soup or chicken-n-dumplings and the like) if ice is forecast. Often, on icy days the FFs are out all day long going from one wreck/disaster to another, so when they leave on a morning like that, some of us ladies start cooking. We try to get the food to the fire station so the FFs can come back to the station and eat a hot meal and drink coffee or cocoa or hot tea, but if I think it is too dangerous to try to drive to the station, I tell the FFs to come by the house and pick up the food. Our firefighters currently are converting some storage space to a kitchen, bathroom and conference room space at the station, so before too long we'll be able to go to the station with them on icy days and stay there and cook while they're out working accidents. That will be a lot easier than transporting containers of hot food. We have never had a power outage here that lasted more than an hour or two, and the few we have had usually have occurred during windstorms/duststorms with winds in excess of 50 mph. So, spring windstorms generally make me more nervous than freezing precip. I do always buy an extra bag of hen scratch and maybe thistle seed for the finches if icy/snowey weather is expected because the wild birds show up in huge flocks when inclement weather occurs. One year, I didn't have extra henscratch, so I made the birds blueberry pancakes....and they ate every bit of it. That same year, my old farmer friend Fred saw the huge flocks of birds in our snowy yard and came over on his ATV and brought me a big bucket of oats for them. Dawn...See More
prairiemoon2 z6b MA
2 years ago
woodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada
2 years agowoodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada
2 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years agowoodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada
2 years agorouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
2 years agoNeighbour 'woody'!
It is usually that you get (way?) less snow than us.Right now we are at 56 cm/22"...easy to measure using the accumulated snow on the table on our deck:
And in contrast, friends of ours sent this picture from their garden as of today in Victoria BC:
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
2 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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2 years agowoodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada
2 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years agodiggerdee zone 6 CT
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2 years agoL Clark (zone 4 WY)
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2 years agoperen.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
2 years agowoody being rural has its up sides. The township does an incredible job so the roads are cleared reliably and quickly. Our plow guy has not showed up yet but he or his son will. They have plenty to clear in their yard before they get to us. Our laneway is almost 1/4 mile so there is no way to shovel or snow-blow. We do have a Bobcat but my soon to be son in law works long hrs.
rouge crazy is right. I knew we would pay for having virtually no snow until now. I am surprised you & woody got as much as you did. I rather expect to get the max called for.
This is a rough beginning to the shoveling of the deck. Thankfully it was cold enough that the snow was light.
Ken I am about 45 miles southwest (mostly west) of Ottawa. I am roughly 4 hrs. from woody & rouge - over 200 miles.
sandyslopes z6 n. UT
2 years agowoodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada
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2 years agoThought I would post this here. It’s my favorite spot to sit on a sunny day! :)
She likes it too! :)
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