Doggone it.....Who put away their snowblower?????


 

JKalchik

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27 degrees at 7:00 AM here, with 6" of what looks like pretty wet sludge down overnight, and supposed to continue until lunchtime. Very pretty, as long as I can stay indoors. This is not a snowfall I care to shovel.
 
Can’t blame me, I broke (jammed) mine and fixed it. We’re supposed to get snow starting tonight, maybe an inch or two. I too hate the slushy snow, but I hate it when it freezes up even more than the slush. This Sunday ends daylight saving 👍🏻
 
They're predicting it here as well. Though, FWIW supposed to be sunny and high around 40-45. So, it can just stay there for all I care :D Not even gonna pull the machine out
 
The forecast last night showed that we were right in the sweet spot for snowfall in MN. Traffic around the Twin Cities Metro was a mess this morning, and due to how heavy the snow is, a lot of power outages as well. My UPS squawked just before midnight about a power flicker, but no other outages in our house. Other side of town where the infrastructure is all overhead has a couple of outages.

This is a little atypical, the plows haven't come down the street yet.
 
Not worth firing up the snowblower
 

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I think our chance for snow is past now, after today 70's the rest of the week, pretty to look at and play in but folks who have to deal with it to make a living it sucks.
 
I did my part to bring warmer weather. On the morning of an anticipated “significant” snow event, I decided to replace the friction disc on my snowblower. 3 hours before the snow was due to fly, I had the machine on it’s nose with no wheels or axle on it but did get the job completed with an hour or so to spare. Of course, the storm turned into a mostly rain event instead and I have yet to fully burn in the new disc. With temps in the mid 60’s tomorrow and nothing lower than 41 degrees showing for the extended forecast, there are more geese than you could care to count in the sky over the last day or so. I’m thinking I may have actually reversed the groundhog’s prediction with my efforts.
 
We are in early spring here in our “Rain Shadow” area of the Olympic Peninsula.
We are very close to the water and the mountains
The hills close by are still getting snow.
We can see the snow line and it’s not far away.
I think there are a dozen or so glaciers near 15 miles from here as the crow flys and they probably effect our weather a bit, but who knows?
That said we don’t see as much snow on the cars coming down the hills as we did not long ago.

We still have occasional light rain and drizzle but are seeing lots of things come to life here.
My bulbs have are near a foot tall and are starting to flower.
There are lots of plants starting to bloom right now and it’s time to add some lawn seed.
We even have a couple of robins that tap the sliding glass door for us to toss them some bread.
I thought that was cool until I had to clean their poopy mess so “No more soup for you! “ :).

I think coming up I will buy a Bobcat or a mini excavator for our land to grade a large area.
The quotes were near 20K so I figure it might pay for most of it itself and I’d have a really nice snow remover thingy.

We drive back and forth to the Bay Area a lot and are still very leary of snow storms on the Siskiyou mountain pass using a 2 wheel drive vehicle.
 

 

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