Winter 2020-2021

[MN Fisher]

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Sometimes Midwesterners don’t realize that our roads curve and go up and down mountains

Might not have mountains here, but we got good hills and curves too. I joke that the main road on the island I live on follows the path of a drunken snake.

 

[TnRiver46]

Just saw two cars get stuck from moms dinner table 

[gim]

3 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

My favorite aunt & uncle have lived in Minnetonka for more than fifty years. 

Grew up in Tonka. Currently live one suburb to the east.

 

Good chance I’m never leaving this area.

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Grew up in Tonka. Currently live one suburb to the east.

 

Good chance I’m never leaving this area.

Bought the house I'm in back in 1986 - next move (hopefully not for some time) will be to a retirement home.

[throttleplate]

6 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Ya, I measured 7.5" in my backyard this morning. It's very cold, and even just going out to the mailbox with that wind blowing was NOT fun.

my wife today shoveled the 1/2 inch dusting we got in fargo nd overnight. She asked me why us northerners always complain about the cold when we should be used to it. This is her 2nd winter in the usa.

[MN Fisher]

14 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

This is her 2nd winter in the usa

My wife's first winter in MN (she's from SE Florida), she kept saying 'I wanna go home'.

 

Now, 30 years later, she wouldn't leave...she loves the snow, the change of seasons, etc.

[TnRiver46]

Took a walk around the neighborhood after we made it home, several spinouts along the drive and two more on the 1 mile walk. Saw 3 transformers blow, like green Christmas fireworks. Several power lines swinging low. The Honda Fit with front wheel drive performed

well 

[MN Fisher]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Took a walk around the neighborhood after we made it home, several spinouts along the drive and two more on the 1 mile walk. Saw 3 transformers blow, like green Christmas fireworks. Several power lines swinging low 

That amount of snow...

 

TN = Snow-mageddon.

MN = Minor nuisance.

 

Hope you survive it.

[TnRiver46]

2 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

That amount of snow...

 

TN = Snow-mageddon.

MN = Minor nuisance.

 

Hope you survive it.

Milk and bread are probably flying off the shelves! This is my first time in 6-7 years to have significant snow to contribute to such a thread haha. We are like kids in candy stores taking pictures of everything . Even the Ohio girl is excited 

[DogBone_384]

2 hours ago, throttleplate said:

This is her 2nd winter in the usa.

My wife moved from Manila to Massachusetts in ‘78. She STILL hates the cold.

[roadwarrior]

20*/ 9* windchill this morning

 

[gim]

15 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Bought the house I'm in back in 1986 - next move (hopefully not for some time) will be to a retirement home

Homes are getting to be extremely expensive in the area, however. Luckily I bought the house (new) I currently live in 2012 when home prices were near the bottom and interest rates were low. I believe I can sell my house for a massive profit when I decide to sell it but I’m likely going to overpay for another one too.

[TnRiver46]

Day 2: still six inches of snow on the ground......... I’ve looked out all the windows hundreds of times, still looks the same......... I shoveled the driveway and walked to the store and walked to the rock climbing wall behind the house.............

 

 

I don’t know how you folks do it! Hahahahah! I’m feeling like Jack Nicholson in the shining and we aren’t 48 hours in yet. I’m hoping the roads melt a bit and I can do some bank fishing somewhere today. I could actually walk to the river if I must (it feels so weird not waking up and driving somewhere)

[A-Jay]

49 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Day 2: still six inches of snow on the ground......... I’ve looked out all the windows hundreds of times, still looks the same......... I shoveled the driveway and walked to the store and walked to the rock climbing wall behind the house.............

 

 

I don’t know how you folks do it! Hahahahah! I’m feeling like Jack Nicholson in the shining and we aren’t 48 hours in yet. I’m hoping the roads melt a bit and I can do some bank fishing somewhere today. I could actually walk to the river if I must (it feels so weird not waking up and driving somewhere)

We often need to excavate paths back & forth to the kennel and most everywhere we need to get.

In the long run it saves a ton of time, otherwise it seems to take forever getting around back there.

Used to shovel it by hand until we got a machine that could handle the load.

Now it's a routinely deal. 

 

A-Jay

[Log Catcher]

High temp on Christmas day was 18 with a wind chill near 0 making this the 4th coldest Christmas day on record. Also have about 2" of snow on the ground. I wish you northern guys would keep you lousy cold snowy weather up north. 

 

P.S. Looks like @A-Jay needs to come down here and get the snow he is missing. 

[TnRiver46]

@A-Jay, that looks pretty fun! I think I would shatter my neighbors windows if I had that! I do have a 13hp Honda clone for my shallow water boat, sounds eerily similar to your snowblower. I’m very familiar with the sound driving 10 mph up river 10 miles with nothing but that to listen to haha. (I can go a breakneck 14 mph back downstream though!)

[A-Jay]

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

@A-Jay, that looks pretty fun! I think I would shatter my neighbors windows if I had that! I do have a 13hp Honda clone for my shallow water boat, sounds eerily similar to your snowblower. I’m very familiar with the sound driving 10 mph up river 10 miles with nothing but that to listen to 

It is fun, truth be told.

But gets old & cold doing it when it's well below zero & super windy.

And you can't tell, but I'm rocking out under that bomber hat (ear buds).

I believe that day it was a Led Zeppelin Medley.

#dazedandconfused

A-Jay

 

 

[A-Jay]

Hardly worth mentioning really ~ 

btw, we live right between the G and the A in Gaylord

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

5 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Hardly worth mentioning really ~ 

btw, we live right between the G and the A in Gaylord

A-Jay

I’ll be up that way in sept! Hopefully no snow at that point 

[Michigander]

We only have an adorable amount of snow so far in central Michigan. 

[12poundbass]

The wife woke me up at 5:30 asking where the shovel was because we got a fluffy 5” of snow and the Pugs wouldn’t leave the front porch. So up I got to shovel a landing pad for Pug poop. I guess I got a nice early morning workout in. We’re supposed to get another 1-2” of snow with a mix of rain throughout the day.

 

Next week we’re looking at a possibility of mid to upper 40’s. 

[slonezp]

19 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

The wife woke me up at 5:30 asking where the shovel was because we got a fluffy 5” of snow and the Pugs wouldn’t leave the front porch. So up I got to shovel a landing pad for Pug poop. I guess I got a nice early morning workout in. We’re supposed to get another 1-2” of snow with a mix of rain throughout the day.

 

Next week we’re looking at a possibility of mid to upper 40’s. 

My truck is covered in ice this morning

[Bankbeater]

So far we have avoided snow this year.  We are supposed to get freezing rain starting this evening.  Not good for New Year's Eve.  Glad I'm staying in tonight.

[12poundbass]

Well we got a little freezing drizzle yesterday and before we went to bed the weatherman said we were supposed to get 1” of snow. Woke up this morning to 5-6” of fresh snow. Great job weatherman! ??

[MN Fisher]

19 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Well we got a little freezing drizzle yesterday and before we went to bed the weatherman said we were supposed to get 1” of snow. Woke up this morning to 5-6” of fresh snow. Great job weatherman! ??

Reminds me of Halloween '91

 

Initial forecast, two days before it arrived - 3"-8"

Revised the next day, day before it started - 5"-11"

Third day, couple hours after it started - 8"-14"

Fourth day, morning after it started - we got no idea how much we're going to get

 

Ended up getting 28" in the metro, 37" in Duluth...in 3.5 days (Oct 31-Nov 3)