Snow storm in Burlington Vermont.

[LooseChange]

Check out my Barbeque grill. The door nto the left is a normal height door.

[2twang2]

B-r-r-r. It was 48 degrees here (Portland, OR) yesterday when I went out for my bike ride. But, we did get 4 inches of snow last week. Looks like you beat that by quite a bit.

[rafe]

  Hard freeze in N. Fl last night...looks like some three dog nights ....Ice in the dog bowl, all day ....It's going to be a long cold week here. Pipes could freeze....It usually warms up during the day to high 50's or better but it stayed below 45.....somebody call me a WAAAAAmbulance!

[G._Hoffman]

We got above 0 F today - I was able to go out and chop away the ice blocking the sidewalk to the street!  Yeah!

Lows of -15 F all week though - I'm glad I don't have to walk my dad's dog this week!


Gabriel

[LooseChange]

That's cold!
Here is a front view. It's about 6 feet tall.

[G._Hoffman]

That's cold!
Here is a front view. It's about 6 feet tall.

The real fun we are having right now is more to do with the fact that right before Christmas, we had three days of snow, interrupted for brief period in the middle by temps of 35 and rain.  So, all of the snow is actually big chunks of ice.  The road are awful (they are actually bad enough to keep me mostly off my bicycle, which is tough to do, but when you have 2" deep ice ruts, it's pretty hard to go in a straight line!), and shoveling the walks and such was really tough.  I needed to get out my mom's square garden shovel to chop the snow/ice into blocks I could actually pickup and move. 

Before I gave up my car, I spent a winter not using it, biking every where, and I had no problems, and basically didn't drive anywhere.  It turns out, that was a uncommonly mild winter (which I should have known, since I've lived here my whole life).  Every winter since then has been getting steadily worse for riding.  This is a trend I hope does not continue, or I might have to buy another car - which would suck!  I don't mind the snow, but having the back end of my bike slide two feet to the left when there is a car three feet away is pretty frightening!


Gabriel

[EL34]

We had 11 inches here in the Mountains of NC a couple weeks ago.
I could not get down my driveway and so I was stranded for a day or so until I hired a guy to come and plow my driveway with a small Bobcat type machine.

[PRR]

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[thermion]

nice tights!

[Ritchie200]

With the big coat and hood, I can't tell if it's PRR or not!  If it is, with the tights and all, he could be ready to burst out of the coat in his superhero form as.......SNOWMAN!
Sorry.....

Jim

[Fresh_Start]

Dan - you're in Vermont.  It's supposed to snow there!

Gabriel can relate to this - I had a 4-1/2 mile paper route in Connecticut as a kid.  An afternoon paper 6 days a week.  A "brand new" Raleigh 3-speed (whit-whoo!) bike with a generator light.  IOW driven by the wheel.  Probably weighed close to 40 pounds before adding the newspapers.  Try that in the dark when it's 10 degrees outside, there's ice on the roads plus 3' snow banks, and you're only 10 or 11 years old!

My daughter & I drove back from Boston through the "blizzard" a couple of weeks ago.  We actually had a foot or snow in Richmond!  My wife had remembered the part about parking the car pointed toward the road... but parked it behind the house  :shocked:  She was house-bound for a day and a half.  It took me less than 10 minutes to get her car out, but I did learn how to drive in Maine and she's never lived anywhere more than 20 miles from here.

Winter driving tip if you have a front-wheel drive car:  if you get stuck or your wheels start spinning going up a hill frontwards, try backing up the hill.  Learned that on New Years Eve sometime in the '70s.

Cheers,

Chip