Winter 2022-23

[A-Jay]

After getting it done, the snow drifts made it seem like

there was more on the ground than there actually was.

Guessing 20 something inches mostly.

Here's some before & after clean up shots.

Good Times 

A-Jay

[Way north bass guy]

Looks like I get to shovel and blow snow again tomorrow, and by the way is coming down right now it’ll be just as much as this morning if not more. 

[A-Jay]

7 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

Looks like I get to shovel and blow snow again tomorrow, and by the way is coming down right now it’ll be just as much as this morning if not more. 

Flip Flop Folks just won't understand.

I may be in the same boat but at least we got some of it today.

#heartyhumans

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Way north bass guy said:

We’re very lucky here as far as power outages go. It does go out a fair bit, due to us being in the woods and being quite a ways from the main transmission line, but usually it’s only out for several hours at the most and occasionally a day or so. We have a generator big enough to run everything we need to in the house, and our whole place is primarily heated with a wood stove, so we’re nice and toasty no matter what happens. 

I think our power grid is great for supporting the population of the area in 1996. 2022, not so much 

[Way north bass guy]

Ours just came back on a few min ago. Guess we can have something other than hotdogs for Christmas Eve dinner! ( not that hotdogs are bad, just nice to have options ?).

[MN Fisher]

4 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

Ours just came back on a few min ago. Guess we can have something other than hotdogs for Christmas Eve dinner! ( not that hotdogs are bad, just nice to have options ?).

If mine went out for long enough, I'd be digging in the camping box for my two stoves, the grill and the lantern. I'd set up those and the propane heater by the fireplace with a small battery-powered fan so the fumes go up the chimney. I've got a full 20# bottle for the heater and 8-1# bottles for the others.

 

Can't actually have a fire - wife would suffer an asthma attack, otherwise I'd switch the propane heater for lighting up the fireplace,

[gim]

My power has never gone out in the winter here in MN.  The only time it goes out is during a summer thunderstorm, and that hasn't happened in years.  Mostly because we don't really get as many as we used to (hence, a drought).

[TnRiver46]

37 minutes ago, gimruis said:

My power has never gone out in the winter here in MN.  The only time it goes out is during a summer thunderstorm, and that hasn't happened in years.  Mostly because we don't really get as many as we used to (hence, a drought).

That’s nice! Ours goes out fairly often when trees fall on it but they fix it quickly. This intentional outage stuff is new to us all 

 

In 1993, we had 2 feet of snow and power was out for weeks. We lived on top of a massive hill and mom made us walk to the store for provisions because we couldn’t get down. I was so sick of playing cards by candle light when that ended……..

[Way north bass guy]

The roof of our wood shed. For snow depth comparison, that facer board along the top is a 2x8. I can’t even see my barn right now it’s snowing so hard. 

[MN Fisher]

13 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

The roof of our wood shed. For snow depth comparison, that facer board along the top is a 2x8. I can’t even see my barn right now it’s snowing so hard.

Is the RCMP gonna come help dig you out?

[TnRiver46]

RIP stupid trout.  Never liked you anyway 

[Way north bass guy]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

Is the RCMP gonna come help dig you out?

Ha, they aren’t even within three hours of where I am. Only the Ontario provincial police around here. And no, I’ll manage on my own ?. 

[Log Catcher]

I have a brother and sister that both lost power for around two hours last night. There has been talk of doing rolling blackouts here. So far we have not lost power and I really don't want to have hook up a generator in this weather if possible.

[Glenn]

On 12/23/2022 at 7:56 AM, Glenn said:

It hit 13 degrees last night...and then the ice storm hit.  Ugh.

52 and raining today.  Urban flooding now.  

 

It was spring-like temps with snow and ice on the ground, melting.  Weird.  Can't say I've ever seen that before.

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, Glenn said:

52 and raining today.  Urban flooding now.  

Send that east...

[Glenn]

It's coming. You're dealing with what we were dealing with all week.

[12poundbass]

3 minutes ago, Glenn said:

It's coming. You're dealing with what we were dealing with all week.

Yes it is. 6 yesterday with -25 windchills and this time next week they’re saying 55 and rain. 

[Smells like fish]

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

That’s nice! Ours goes out fairly often when trees fall on it but they fix it quickly. This intentional outage stuff is new to us all 

 

In 1993, we had 2 feet of snow and power was out for weeks. We lived on top of a massive hill and mom made us walk to the store for provisions because we couldn’t get down. I was so sick of playing cards by candle light when that ended……..

Wasn’t that the best time ever? I was in grade school and that January including that huge snow we only went like 2-3 days the entire month. Biggest snow of my childhood! 

[TnRiver46]

26 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Wasn’t that the best time ever? I was in grade school and that January including that huge snow we only went like 2-3 days the entire month. Biggest snow of my childhood! 

It was great, I believe that’s when we began “extreme sledding”

 

everyone lived in the woods on our street which went waaaaay up and waaaaay down a few times. We built some pretty awesome courses by the end of the 2 weeks without school. Crazy ramps scattered throughout the woods, fun stuff

 

 we moved away from that street in 6th grade but then found that if you can get into the smoky mountain national park during snow, it’s one crazy sled ride. Just straight down wide open through briars

[Smells like fish]

Yup I was with a cousin sledding at every chance when a good snow fell. I had a purple plastic sled, I’ve no idea what ever happened to it. Trying to surf on it was always deadly 

[TnRiver46]

18 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Yup I was with a cousin sledding at every chance when a good snow fell. I had a purple plastic sled, I’ve no idea what ever happened to it. Trying to surf on it was always deadly 

The torpedo? ? 

 

seems like KY always had ice storms, probably go screaming pretty fast on ice with that . When the road froze over, which was rare, we broke out the metal rail sled and would try to steer all the way down without rolling over the curb 

 

[Smells like fish]

No that’s not mine. Mine was embarrassingly bright purple too. I did the extreme too, through the woods via hillside. One hill stands out in memory as the nutcracker! ?

[12poundbass]

8 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

No that’s not mine. Mine was embarrassingly bright purple too. I did the extreme too, through the woods via hillside. One hill stands out in memory as the nutcracker! ?

Our sledding hill as a kid we called Mt. Buttmore because the only way you could go down it was on your butt. There was one kid over all those years who made it down on a snowboard. 
 

That place was legendary and I still look at it when I go to my dad’s. 

[Glenn]

58 degrees this morning.   

[MN Fisher]

2 minutes ago, Glenn said:

58 degrees this morning.   

We started at -3....currently at +7