Enough snow already!!!!!

[razz]

The amount of snow and then the drifting is getting to be enough already! I have used the snowblower more than ever and the drifts are getting higher so harder to plow through. We got more again last night.
Not much to do but VENT and grin and bear it. Thanks for the vent option:|(

[rodeosweetheart]

Right back at you, Razz. The drifts are epic!

[SteveinMN]

Owing to how our property is laid out, we're running out of places to 'blow the snow. There's already a four-foot pile next to the driveway. The poor dog can't find many places low enough to jump into the snow and wander the yard. Not that we've gotten that much more snow than usual; just that we haven't had days near or above freezing to melt/condense some of it.

[CathyA]

I can't get out of my drive (lane) again. I couldn't get out for about 10 days last month...........now this. I think I even hurt something under my car, when DH pushed me out of deep snow the other day. He drives around and around our lane with his 4x4, but can't get the middle part.......and that's the part my car can't clear. You'd think my house would be immaculate and cleaned out by now...............but I've gotten even less done that usual. Getting out sort of lifts the spirits. Oh well........there are worse things, right? And at least we're not in a drought! Good thing I don't have to get out to get to a job.
You'd think after living out here for 32 years, we'd have a tractor by now.......

[Float On]

I've worn my winter snow boots more this winter than in the entire 10 years that I've owned the boots.

[Simpler at Fifty]

DH started snowblowing on the grass so the dog has a place to go. Yesterday the city dump trucks went buy 10 times with loads of snow. We live in a circle and there is another sub behind us that is a circle. Not sure where they are getting all of the snow since there are not that many corners to get it from. The last 6 winters remind DH and I of living in Northern WI and the UP when we were younger. We still do not get as much snow as they do but much more than we used to 8+ years ago.

[pinkytoe]

I don't know how you all tolerate that weather. You would laugh if you came here today - everything closed and canceled due to some light mist that "might" freeze on bridges and overpasses.

[SteveinMN]

I don't know how you all tolerate that weather. You would laugh if you came here today - everything closed and canceled due to some light mist that "might" freeze on bridges and overpasses.
Conversely, many Minnesotans start melting when the temperature climbs above 80* F ... rrrrr It's what you get used to, I guess.

[onlinemoniker]

I live in the Mid-Atlantic on the line between the humid subtropical and humid continental. So we get a lot of snow predictions and very little snow materializations. This year we've had less than 6" of snow and missed 6 days of school. It gets really old. Just snow already! Really annoying to get all hyped up again and again only to be crushingly disappointed again and again.

[Miss Cellane]

No, it's really annoying to have to shovel three times in one day, and then two days later, have to do it all over again.

There's no room in this old New England city for the snow to go. So for days after a heavy snow, there's no on-street parking in the old part of town until they can load the snow on to trucks to haul it away. Usually they only have to do that 2 or 3 times a winter. This winter, it's like every other week.

Usually I like winter. But I am so over this weather.

[Teacher Terry]

Simpler at 50 which part of Wi do you live in now? I have lived in Northern WI and Milwaukee for a major part of my life. There are some things I love about it-how green it is but all the snow can get to be a drag.

[Rogar]

Our temperatures finally got above zero and I was able to get out for a walk on some snow packed trails in our foothills near by. It has it's own beauty if you aren't stuck at home shoveling or warming by the fire and can get out. We haven't had the oppressive amount snow but several spells of very cold.

[Simpler at Fifty]

Teacher Terry I am near Green Bay. I grew up near Lake Superior and DH in the UP north of Houghton.

Every area of the country has their own weather issues. Some happen in different seasons. I would not want to live in fear of earthquakes, tornadoes or hurricanes. We do not care for hot humid weather. We deal with the snow and cold because we know spring is coming. They are predicting 28 (above) for the 13th. Woo hoo.:laff:

[Teacher Terry]

As a kid I spent every summer at a resort my folks owned near Cable, Wi-it is beautiful there! I have been to Green Bay many times. You are so right that everywhere has their issues. I lived in Kansas 2x's & Texas once-spent alot of time in the basement. Earthquakes are really a moderate possibility where I live now but still a concern. I do not like the heat either but where we live is not too bad and no humidity of course.

[jp1]

Reading this thread reminds me why I moved to San Francisco. We're finally having a weekend of rain, which I don't love, but I guess we need to stave off the drought apocalypse. I agree that snow is pretty, but it's much nicer for me to live here, then go somewhere snowy, like Tahoe, for a few days and then come home.

[razz]

More snow again and some drifting lazily down. It really is pretty. While I grumble about the amount of snow, I keep remembering my dad talking about the advantages of a cold and snowy winter based on his experience living in southern Africa. Fewer pests, less drought, diverse flora and fauna and lovely gardens in the temperate zones. Plus I used to love xcountry skiing and enjoyed downhill skiing when I tried that.

[Greg44]

For us "Valley Dwellers" in the Pacfic Northwest, we usually get one token snow fall once each winter, and normally only a couple of inches. WELL - in early December we got 6" now this past week we got
9" topped off with 1/2" of ice. I would discribe it as "beautiful destruction"! Our Japanese Maple tree was absolutely beautiful, and our flowering plum trees - total destruction.

I walked 3 miles to/from work yesterday seems I couldn't get through the 1/2" of ice on my car - and partly because I wanted to just take it all in. Only fell once! Now that it is melting, it can't melt fast enough. Give me my sunshine!

[SteveinMN]

Give me my sunshine!
You can have some of ours. It's visible but it's not doing much for the temperature (+5* F air; -12*F windchill). It's Mother Nature's hoax to have so much sunshine outside on such coooooold days.

[Teacher Terry]

Actually it is healthier to live where it is cold. I read about 10 years ago that the healthiest & oldest people live in Minnesota!

[dmc]

We have been in South Florida for much of the winter. But we are back now and it looks like we have some snow coming. I just do not like the cold. We are going to buy a house or condo or something down there for next year.

[Charlie WA]

The months of December, January, and February make up the meteorological winter. Marquette, Michigan reported it's coldest meteorological winter on record. Las Vegas and Tucson reported their warmest meteorological winter on record.
http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/It-was-the-warmest-winter-on-record-it-was-the-coldest-winter-on-record-248263941.html

[onlinemoniker]

I live in central Virginia. We got 4ish inches of snow today and it's supposed to get to 6 degrees tonight (this is VERY cold for us at any time of the winter--but it will be the coldest March night on record.)

I have to say I have really enjoyed this winter. I really don't want it to end. Last year and the year before it was like we didn't have a winter at all it was so mild.

I am looking forward to (cross fingers) retiring from my teaching job in 10ish years. At that point I plan to move to a much colder climate such as upstate NY or Vermont or NH. I HATE the summers in Virginia. The heat and mugginess is UNRELENTING from the middle of June through the end of August. It's hell. I would love to live somewhere that I need a light sweater on a summer night.