For all you guys envious of us in the southern states:
http://screen.yahoo.com/attack-tumbleweeds-163500029.html
LOL...I'm resting up fro 3 hours of shoveling snow..mostly off my garage roof. Can't even see where I shoveled on the ground. 12" so far..but 35-50 mile an hour winds. Gusts this morning at the closed airport @75mph.
Rich it's 41 out side at my house ( Wi. Il. stateline) right now, ...... but they are calling for snow on Tuesday.
Rich
I know how important it is to get the snow off of your roof, but don't exert yourself. Stop and rest and try to keep warm.
I hope that you don't lose your power.
Let us know how things are going.
Jay
Neighbor behind me had a picnic a while ago.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/TomIII/critters/Picnic5.jpg)
Screw shovelin' snow! (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/TomIII/smilies/snowing.gif)
Last year we had a record snowfall. I hired a couple young guys to shovel part of my roof.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/TomIII/smilies/giveup.gif)
I plow the rest with this.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/TomIII/cars/Bronco2.jpg)
Rich, just as important stay hydrated! A lot of people don't think of drinking water when your out in the cold, but it is just as important as in the summer!
Tom, I love the Bronco! I had one in High School, it was a 71'. I really had my eye on a Thunder chicken. It was white with a orange bird on the hood, but Tom (Dad) thought it best that I bought the Bronco instead! Now I know why, but it didn't stop me from raising He!! Besides My Dad had a 55' Crown Vic with a 3-2 set up on it that he let me use when ever I wanted, that quenched my need for speed at the time!
Tim :unitedstates:
What the hey is all that white stuff? :005: :005: :005:
Ahh the tumbling tumbleweeds. I have seen people from out of state stop and carefully put the things in their car as a souvenier. One enterprising lady was selling them on line and was shipping them worldwide.. Am grateful that you all in Texas blocked that snow for us up herein western Kansas.
Ford blue blood, Come back to Wis. we are saving some for you.
Next time you come up stop and see all my Junk. I'm at the Ill>Wis. border on I90 Tom
Tom I get my fill of that stuff every year at Christmas! We left a day early last year to avoid that huge dump that came through. Still got plenty during the two weeks we were there. My red truck was two tone (red & white) by the time we got back down here!
Tom we will be heading up late June/July for a wedding, might just do that. 39 to 90 is the route we take.
Well, we ended up with a record 19" snowfall....alot for Texas. I40 is closed across the panhandle and all the way to Alburquerque. I27 is closed from up north all the way south to Lubbock.
I know 19" isn't alot for you guys up north..it's alot here, but couple it with 50 mile an hour winds and you end up with some strange looking landscape. Almost none of the houses had any snow on the roofs..it all blew off. Not sure why my garage(temp structure not meant to carry a heavy load)built up..probably because of the washboard type sheeting I used on the roof..but it had about 2 feet of heavy wet snow..had to get it off so it wouldn't collapse on my '57.
LOL..we got another storm heading this way in a few days. We're planning on leaving for Phoenix Thursday evening...hope we don't get snowed in. We may end up heading to southern Texas before heading west just to make sure we don't get stranded somewhere. I may get real close to the round up
I feel bad for you guys that are getting blasted, be safe. Only problem I had was finding my shorts this morning :003:
Blue blood 39 to 90 Last toll booth before wis freeway Rockton rd. I am about 3 miles off 90 on Rockton Rd.
Quote from: 57redwhitered on 2013-02-25 17:27
Ahh the tumbling tumbleweeds. I have seen people from out of state stop and carefully put the things in their car as a souvenier. One enterprising lady was selling them on line and was shipping them worldwide.. Am grateful that you all in Texas blocked that snow for us up herein western Kansas.
Wind was blowing like hell here in Az. yesterday. I was headed home down the main road here in Kingman and I could see something coming towards me in the oncoming 2 lanes. When it got close I could see it was a bunch of tumbleweeds gleefully bouncing & rolling (in line I might add) down the road blocking both lanes.
When it does snow here if you sleep too late you'll miss it. Main reason I moved here from Mi. last spring.
hiball3985:
Could you please email me at robertlee1143@aol.com. I'd like to get in touch with some other active club members located in the Southern California area.
Thanks,
Bob
57 AGIN
Quote from: 57AGIN on 2013-02-26 00:23
hiball3985:
Could you please email me at robertlee1143@aol.com. I'd like to get in touch with some other active club members located in the Southern California area.
Thanks,
Bob
57 AGIN
I'll do that today
Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2013-02-25 18:21
I know 19" isn't alot for you guys up north..
Rich 19" in one storm is a lot even for the northern folks, it's just that it mostly don't go away and piles up. 19" with wind is trouble no matter where you are, even Alaska! Big advantage the folks up north have is they know how to handle it and have the equipment to do so.
Here in Birmingham I knew we were in the sheeets when going into check the building during one of our "winter events" as the weather folks call them. The one bridge I had to cross was iced down pretty good. The city was beginning to work on getting sand down........two workers in the back of a small dump truck spreading sand with shovels!
Here on the news yesterday, during the storm there were Humvee type vehicles towing the ambulances to where they needed to be. I40 still closed to Alburquerque. Suns out and shinning today..gonna be alot of water around before too long.
The "Blizzard of 80" in Norfolk, VA had the same thing going, no HumVees but lots of 4 X 4 beach runners doing the ferry thing for folks in need of transport to the hospital.
That thing started on a Friday around noon, Saturday morning I had to go into the ship for duty. Took me 4 hours to get out of the developement (filled the back of my truck with snow as I cleared a path for weight) and made it in. Worked so hard on that because I had to relieve my boss, ended up stuck there for three days. Got home Tuesday and as you said there was water every where. Thursday it was all gone!
Somebody had to do it........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiSMyyj-Ac and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc5gDXQGIs
We are heading up for a snowmobiling weekend , going to Door county north of Green Bay. Very beautiful country for riding, Lake Michigan on one side, Green Bay waters on the other. Haven't rode for two years, should be fun. Bill, if you go to Tom's on the way up, take 43 North up to Wisconsin, stop for a visit. I'm about an hour and 1/4 away, on your way. Mark