Thanks, ski3pin.
If we ever get snow this year (haven't used the blower yet) I will try one you recommended.
I haven't had to clear snow yet this year. Lakes are very low.
Posted 03 March 2024 - 05:19 PM
Thanks, ski3pin.
If we ever get snow this year (haven't used the blower yet) I will try one you recommended.
I haven't had to clear snow yet this year. Lakes are very low.
Posted 03 March 2024 - 06:29 PM
Ski please post up some pictures of your tractor at work when you get a chance. It brings back memories of when I was a kid and we had huge (for me anyways) snowstorms in NH.
Thus far this storm has been a pip squeak compared to the snow totals that were predicted for here. Yesterday morning we woke to 6". Yesterday we received an additional 3". Overnight we received 8" and cleaned that up early this morning.
We live on a private road. With the tractor and snowblower I clear our upper driveway.
The road down past the neighbor below us and her parking area
and our lower driveway
I clear the road up past our neighbor above, his driveway and parking, and the plow berm on the county road
Julie usually has the 10' x 30' deck and the walkways shoveled by the time I'm done with the tractor work. If I can't stop her, she's up at the neighbors above clearing off his car.
To burn off energy she'll also get out and scrape everything down to black pavement.
The hardest part of cleanup is when the sun hits and the snowbombs come out of the ponderosa and cedars. It immediately freezes up into rock hard cement.
The forecast -
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Posted 03 March 2024 - 08:14 PM
Edited by smlobx, 03 March 2024 - 08:14 PM.
Eddie
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Posted 03 March 2024 - 08:42 PM
When snowfall forecasts state "up to..." or "as much as..." I see that they're erring on the side of caution, warning people of the worst case scenario -- for safety.
BUT: It can also lead to a "boy who cried wolf" situation. Personally, when I hear ".. up to a foot of new snow possible at Cascade passes.. " I automatically assume, "OK, so it'll be about 6-8 inches" -- because it's rarely as much as they predict "possible".
That's why I really like how AccuWeather (for one source) presents precipitation forecasts -- as a simple table of probabilities (such as this example from my screenshot archive):
Just gimme the facts.
But...wuddya gonna do about people who travel without even looking at a forecast of any sort...?
Oh well.
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Posted 03 March 2024 - 08:43 PM
This has been a very interesting storm. In our central coast area ,Monterey Bay we had a real official tornado warning last night about 6:30. Put out over the phone/radio station we were listening to and the TV. It was an area of very severe weather within
a few miles of our home. Only amounted to some winds and hail.
The warning had a bit of humor in it.It advised to go to our basements,yeah right. Basements in California.
Frank
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Posted 03 March 2024 - 09:51 PM
In spite of the authorities asking people to postpone travel if they didn't "need" to travel its seems a majority just wanted to go see/play in the snow.
Craig K6JGV_________________________ 2004 2500 CTD 4X4 FWC HAWK 1960 CJ5
Posted 05 March 2024 - 12:50 AM
Wow! You really didn't get much snow (relatively). Well we're not over Winter yet.
From "The Big One" storm that's now tapering off, we received 22" of snow and over 3.5" of rain before it turned to snow.
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Posted 05 March 2024 - 04:15 AM
ski - your travels to death valley are the opposite environment of your home area. good luck with the snow removal. just rain here in the pdx area.
go
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Posted 05 March 2024 - 02:41 PM
ski - your travels to death valley are the opposite environment of your home area. good luck with the snow removal. just rain here in the pdx area.
go
Indeed! We are soon to get out of this rain in PDX and head down to Death Valley and environs. It will be 77 and mostly sunny in Stovepipe Wells today!
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Posted 06 March 2024 - 05:56 PM
It was snowing when I woke up yesterday and hwy 101 was closed between Seaside and Cannon Beach because of ice.
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