The Soapbox : How much snow did you get?

We got nearly 4 feet here in Central Maine:

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I was almost finished shoveling a path to my back door and mailbox when I took that picture this morning, and that's the smallest of the shoveling jobs I have ahead of me.

I don't remember the last time we got 3½ to 4 feet of snow in one storm.

This is a picture of my back yard that I took this morning at eye level (I'm 6'2"; 6'3" with the boots I was wearing):

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Combined with the snow that we already had on the ground, I'd guess that there's over 6 feet of the stuff out there now.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

Last week on the west coast we got a few inches and it shut my city down - snow day, no work! But it's long gone now. Weather is pretty dry now, in the 50's all week.

I don't envy your snow, at all (although I love cold weather). It's the reason I moved from Chicago almost 4 years ago.




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Less than a foot. A lot of ice. Not as bad as 2015. It's February in New England. It is what it is.



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About 10 inches. Took an hour to shovel my driveway, sidewalk, door path, and car out. Fortunately it's been an extremely warm and dry winter in New York.

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I don't even know what to do with that much snow.

Alpha predators are very rarely interested in singalongs.

I expect it will be a wet and muddy spring when all forty-eleven thousand metric ass tons of it melts.

The snowmobile crowd around here is probably loving it. I'm dreading the several hours of shoveling I still have to do, which I can't put off for very long because I'm running low on groceries. I'm within walking distance of the grocery store, but there's only so much I can carry on foot.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

Do you have a backpack? That's what I used to do when I lived within walking distance of a grocery store and it snowed. It made it a little easier to carry stuff home while navigating snow drifts. I certainly don't envy you right now, that's for sure.

Alpha predators are very rarely interested in singalongs.

I don't have a backpack. I had a greenish-gray one from L.L. Bean when I was in middle and high school, but I don't know whatever happened to it.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

in 1960 when I was seven, max

we got about an inch. I made a snowman. Highlight of my childhood!!

your pics are impressive.

We are getting so much rain out here after years of drought, that spillways are being eroded. 180,000 residents have been evacuated

crazy weather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the picture I posted yesterday during the storm; a "nor'easter":

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We got about another foot after that.

In the summer of '82 when I was 7 a family from California moved in next door. The youngest of the family, Bill, who was 17 at the time, had never seen snow, or at least not any significant amount of it. He had a blast during the winter of '82/'83; making snow forts, getting into snowball fights, shimmying up a giant pine tree with a chainsaw to lop off the top for a Christmas tree, and driving his 4WD truck around in the snow (he managed to roll it on its side while doing so; the snow provided a soft landing and the truck wasn't significantly damaged).

The mother in the family, Liz, was born and raised in Maine, so it was nothing new to her.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

there are parts of Ca that get tons of snow, but most of us do not
I'd be like your neighbor.

the year it snowed here, We were raising 3 pigs to make linguica, a portugues sausage. they did okay in the snow

you must have had a golden childhood! [jealous]

Nig, we see snow on top of the San Gabriel mountains all of the time.

None. Probably because we're in completely opposite corners of the country.

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I'm incredibly envious. Here we have had 2 dustings of snow since November, which is getting to be a typical winter here in the lowlands of Scotland.

Would it get some wind for the sailboat? Would it get the railroad for these workers?

I wouldn't mind it if I didn't have to shovel it. A typical snowfall of a foot or less isn't so bad, but shoveling a path through snow that is nearly 4 feet deep, for any significant distance and width, sucks six ways from Sunday.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

Hah, nada. While that's expected here in southeast Texas, our winter has sucked balls this year being warmer than usual. I can count the number of times on one hand we've even experienced a cold snap. And by cold I mean in the 4o's. Lol. I'd love to live somewhere a little farther north where they see snow at least once a year, just not blizzards and *beep* This *beep* is ridiculousthere's almost no difference anymore between us and people living at the damn equator.




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Think how much money you're saving on home heating costs.

Maine hit its all-time record low temperature in 2009, -50 F, which beat the record from the 1940s which was -48 F.

I'll take heavy snowfall over blistering cold any day, because snowfall doesn't cost me money. They don't usually go hand in hand either. Typically when it's snowing, it isn't very cold. There's a saying: "too cold to snow":

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-meaning-of-th/

On top of that, heavy snowfall provides additional insulation to the house, especially the basement and the roof, which saves on heating costs. This latest snowfall was heavy enough that it's adding insulation to some of my windows too. The snow is high enough now that the windows in my kitchen and dining room are halfway covered.

As "luck" would have it, we have another foot of snow coming later today:

http://wgme.com/news/local/another-winter-snow-storm-to-hit-maine

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

Down here the electricity for the A/C is more expensive that the gas to run the heater, I think. Our gas bills goes up a little during winter but we've never run it that long and I've never done any kind of cost analysis comparison so I could be wrong. It's not like we've had to ever run our heater for months on end! With over two hundred dollars a month spent on A/C for months at a time I'm very familiar with THOSE costs, that's for sure. I forgot snow is insulation, I remember now the stories about people caught out during blizzards building igloos to keep warm. So weird to me. I guess everyone has a fireplace up there too? It's hit and miss down here, I've never been interested in having a fireplace. Is it cheaper to run a fireplace with the extra price of wood and maintenance or to run a heater?



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I don't have to worry about an A/C bill up here. Some people around here do have A/C, but we don't usually get many days during the summer where it's actually needed. However, the heat is usually used for about 8 months out of the year (beginning of October until the end May), though obviously there are months that it's used far more than other months. December through February are the worst months, but even into April it's still quite "wintery" here. For example, our last snow storm of the year is usually in early April.

In my case, the oil furnace uses both oil and electricity. The electricity is to run the motor which pumps the oil from the tank to the spray nozzle, and to run the blower which blows the heat through the ducts to the registers.

And yeah, snow is a good insulator. Some people intentionally bank their house with snow as soon as there's enough of it on the ground to do so. At this point though, nature has banked everyone's house with snow for them; no effort required.

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I guess everyone has a fireplace up there too? It's hit and miss down here, I've never been interested in having a fireplace. Is it cheaper to run a fireplace with the extra price of wood and maintenance or to run a heater?

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Most people don't have a fireplace. They aren't a very efficient method of heating a house. Because they are wide open, they are always burning full steam ahead. People who are serious about heating with wood have a wood stove or furnace ("pellet stoves" have become popular in recent years; they are a specialized type of wood stove which burns manufactured wood "pellets" and doesn't need a chimney), which is enclosed and allows you to control the airflow, thus controlling the rate of burning. People who have/use fireplaces usually only use them occasionally for "atmosphere" or whatever. I don't know of anyone who uses one as their primary heat source.

I don't know what the current price of wood is compared to oil. When I was a kid, Dad sometimes used wood, but some years oil was so cheap that he used oil instead. Oil has a more or less set price, while the price of wood can vary drastically depending on how you obtain it. It can even be "free" if you cut it from your own land, though there's a major amount of manual labor involved.

There were some years when I was a kid that Dad cut his own wood from my grandfather's woodlot, and my older brother and I had to help. We hated it, especially since Dad would make us get up early on a Saturday morning to help with the wood. There was one day I had fun though. Instead of the usual wood splitting with an axe / splitting maul, Dad rented a hydraulic wood splitter (https://biomass2methanol.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wood_splitter7201.jpg) and I got to operate it, which merely consisted of pulling a lever. My brother wasn't happy about that arrangement at all, because he had to help Dad load the wheelbarrow with the split wood, take it into the cellar, and stack it. Dad's reasoning was that, my brother, being 4 years older and thus a lot bigger/stronger, was far more useful than me for the job of loading, moving, and stacking the wood.

Our two sisters never had to help with the wood, and that irritated the hell out of both of us.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

You're getting another foot of snow? A few years ago we got 2 feet and then about 5 days later got another 2 feet- that was enough for me. The only good part was that the 5 days were enough to get the roads mostly clear so we didn't end up with 4 feet of snow on the roads. The problem was that they ran out of places to put it when plowing so roads were narrowed and had no shoulders. When I planted the gardens along my driveway I designed them so that I always had a place to throw snow; no trees or bushes to catch it.

Alpha predators are very rarely interested in singalongs.

I wish it snowed where I am.

None. It's still summer here!

They are out there hauling away snow from the banks with bucket loaders and dump trucks:

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I don't remember the town ever doing that before.

I don't dance, tell jokes or wear my pants too tight, but I do know about a thousand songs.

Are they getting ready for more snow? Is there more snow in the forecast? We just have rain in ours.




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