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Topic: stormagedon
Posted By: A square 10
Subject: stormagedon
Date Posted: January 17 2020 at 8:29pm
well , all week been hearing of this awful snow storm , don't get me wrong - not dissin the weatherfolks , the predictions were good all week so i took this seriously ...as did the schools and all but a few events that were planned for the area - there is a big craft beer event tomorrow at the civic center 

3" is a normal winter snow - it doesn't really affect anything much save the snowplows and drivers OT to plug my driveway , we have had a bunch of those so far - will get a bunch more before winter is done , 

so far i've got about three inches - maybe more since noon way less than half what was predicted today of 6-8 inches , we have gotten a good amount of the predicted wind and drifting but its a bit calmer now , 
we shall see what tomorrow brings - predicted the same 6-8 and 25 mph with 35-50mph gusts , ill not say its not gonna happen but i'm starting to doubt it , i'm happy if that is the case as i hate starting the snow blower and spending a couple hours clearing it ,



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Posted By: 42rocker
Date Posted: January 17 2020 at 8:35pm
Well Been there done that. Stay warm. 
Down here in Fla we have broken two records for heat. Cut the grass last weekend, 1st time this year. Had temps around 80 to 85 this week and the lows were never below 70. 
I'm thinking that I'm not going to be moving back to White Bear Lake, Minnesota. 
Like I said stay warm. 
 
Later 42rocker 
 


Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: January 17 2020 at 9:49pm
How bad have things been? Weeeellll... My work sent me home at noon on Wednesday and let me work from home that afternoon and Thursday and Friday. The wind.... Oh Lord, that wind. It's been awful. We haven't gotten a lot of snow but 30 mph winds with gusts north of 50 have blown about what we do have. My roads here in the country are impassable and will be until the wind dies down. Hold on to your hat, A_Square, because that wind will get much worse LOL


Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 5:23am
Bear..you folks on the prairie are a different breed of cat.
If you aint gettin dried-out, flooded-out, or burnt-out..yer gettin blown-out, whited-out or froze-out!!

I don't think God intended folks to live there

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Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 6:06am
Me and the wife just got in from shovelling. Wow! Still nasty! 60 km winds, snow and hard drifts! Prairie life!


Posted By: 42rocker
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 6:30am
Used to live in the City of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Row after row of houses and with the wind whip between them we used to get 2 or 3 inches of snow then quick up into a 6 to 7 foot drift. Remember one year seeing 10 foot plus drifts. Not on the Prairie, but in the city. One of the things that I did think of was of my Grandfather and Great-Grandfather living in Loman, just to the West of International Falls, Minnesota and how cold they had it.  
You Folks still up there stay warm. 
 
Later 42rocker


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 6:33am
I have to go pick up Girl Scout Cookies in a couple of hours for my teenage Girl Scout to sell. I'll have to shovel some sunshine out of the way to get the truck out from under the parking canopy. It's cold enough that I might have to resort to wearing long shorts and my Van's instead of flip flops...😎


Posted By: Pukka Bundook
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 7:26am
Not warmed up much here yet.  Minus 27 yesterday, but with the stiff breeze it felt colder than when it was minus 42 I believe.
Only a foot of snow on the level here.


Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 10:00am
Here in BC the Fraser Valley got hammered with snow big time.

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Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 10:05am
A side from the ritual front weirdness of 70F to 28F in less than 12 hours it has been a mild winter in Texas

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Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 10:32am
I for one want to thank Justin Trudeau for the Carbon Tax. When people that it was just a tax grab, he has now proved them wrong! In just a few short months after forcing the tax on us, Canada has recorded record lows from BC to Newfoundland! We did it! We stopped Canadian Global Warming!


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 10:35am
Aren't you guys due for another ice age???


Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 10:43am
Right on, HT!!

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Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 1:45pm
Yeah, we are a bit different here on the prairie. We complain about the weather being so drastic and yet we stay. Hard to beat the peacefulness that comes with it.


Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 3:24pm
I agree... In Manitoba, we've had two weeks of extreme cold. Daytime highs of -25c, wind chill -35c. Some evenings for our walk, -40c, with the wind. Relentless. We must be getting old because last night before our walk, -44c with the wind chill, my wife asked me if I might finally want to put on my mittens? I wear the same Canadian combo I've worn for 50 years... wool mitt liners with pull on leather mittens. Red ribbon on the bottom of the leather. Every Canadian (at least west of Kenora) knows what I'm talking about!


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 4:21pm
well , we got 6" not the 13-18 predicted , yes we had some wind but not the 50+mph predicted 


Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: January 18 2020 at 9:04pm
I am glad you missed out on the wind, it was really brutal. At one points my cats were even nervous because of all the noise in the house from the wind. Truth be told, I was too. I'll be checking for damage tomorrow.


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: January 19 2020 at 7:57am
glad its still standing - i read of the wind you got - not nice at all , nice working from home tho , 

by noon yesterday it was clear and sunny , as of this morning cloudy and light snow - i am ready for spring now Angry


Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: January 19 2020 at 10:25am
Just a lot of wind & a nasty ice storm here.


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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: January 19 2020 at 11:08am
I got some rain.

The weather will turn cold next week, down in the 20's. Have to burn a little wood.

Can someone send me a photo of snow please?

One of my pitbulls  is three years old and never seen snow.


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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: January 19 2020 at 4:27pm
Hows this, it the white stuff at the bottom.Clap




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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: January 19 2020 at 7:39pm
Thanks!

Like the hat!


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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.


Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 6:30am
My warm skonk!Star


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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)


Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 6:42am
Before my father-in-law retired, he was the accountant at there local fur coat store (not in business anymore.) I remember him telling me skunk hats and trim on coats was pretty popular. I thought he was joking!


Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 9:17am
Anyone on the forum live in south eastern Ontario in the early 1970's?  If you did, you would not have forgotten the winter of '70/'71 (or may have been '71/'72). 
That was the most snow I've ever seen fall over a few days.  Our front door faced West, the drifting snow was right to the eves of the roof.  We opened the inner door and it was a white wall.  The side door was drifted up over half the height of the door, could not push it open far enough to get out.  We got out of the house thru the back windows which were about 6 feet above ground level at the window sill and protected from the drifting snow.  Took us days to dig out.  The upshot is that we got out of school for a while! 


Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 9:38am
I think a skunk hat would be cool but I am sure it is not cheap.

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Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 10:11am
I believe it used to be called American Black Sable.


Posted By: smerdon42
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 10:37am
hey guys be glad you are getting snow I have returned to Boston from Australia and here is some pics of my New Years stormamgeaddon 


Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 10:54am
Originally posted by paddyofurniture paddyofurniture wrote:

I think a skunk hat would be cool but I am sure it is not cheap.

It wasn't!
I got it from a vendor at a French & Indian Wars rendez-vous some years back.
They do it at Fort Frederick & its the biggest RV in the area. It basically kicks off the beginning of the reenactment season every year. They frequently have over a hundred & fifty vendors. This guy specializes in trapped furs. Its a huge problem nowadays as every state has lots of regulation about having & importing furs & so on. & He has a very wide assortment, each of which has to comply with all of them.
https://friendsoffortfrederick.info/market_fair.htm" rel="nofollow - https://friendsoffortfrederick.info/market_fair.htm



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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 1:13pm
Originally posted by britrifles britrifles wrote:


Anyone on the forum live in south eastern Ontario in the early 1970's?  If you did, you would not have forgotten the winter of '70/'71 (or may have been '71/'72). 
That was the most snow I've ever seen fall over a few days.  Our front door faced West, the drifting snow was right to the eves of the roof.  We opened the inner door and it was a white wall.  The side door was drifted up over half the height of the door, could not push it open far enough to get out.  We got out of the house thru the back windows which were about 6 feet above ground level at the window sill and protected from the drifting snow.  Took us days to dig out.  The upshot is that we got out of school for a while! 



You would be reffering to "The Blizzard of '77". It wasn't just eatern Ontario...it caught all of us off guard (cuz if the weather people didn't have a window in their office - they wouldn't have a clue as to whats going on!! )
Anyway..I was working in welland Ont..they told us anyone from out of town better leave..some didn't. The ones that stayed had to have food & stuff dropped thru the roof skylight @ the plant courtesy of the Lincoln & welland reg't. I finally made it home (in my '69 dart). We lived right beside a school yard. We were drifted in for 5 days - IN TOWN, on a major road!! Fortunatley, there were some people out on ski doos. We would flag one down & they would go to the beer store for us.(Beer was only $8.75 per case back then ). If you were scheduled to work @ 1 of the hospitals - the Army would pick u up & get you there. You still see the occasional T-shirt with "I survived the blizzard of '77" on them. A book was written about it called "White Death".
Busses & trucks were abandon on the highway. Some snowmobilers flew up what they thought was a large drift on Hwy # 406. Turned out to be a couple abandon busses drifted in. Nothing on the reverse side. Some got killed-others got injured. Quite a storm. When it was over the skiing in upstate N.Y was great!! Best we EVER had!!

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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: January 20 2020 at 1:52pm
Might have been worse in '77 Hoadie, but in '71 I was only 10 years old, so maybe it just seemed like a lot more snow then!
I grew up in Cornwall, and we had the added "lake affect" snow, all the moisture from the great lakes just added to the snow fall amounts if you lived east of the lake (west winds prevailing).  Somewhere I've got a picture of our house from the street and all you can see is a few feet of the roof ridgeline.  In those days, people would drive their snowmobile on the roads to get to work because the plow couldn't get thru. 
 
 


Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 3:14am
Compared to today, we used to get alot more snow in winter. Late 50's to mid 60's we had snow banks & snow drifts that would shock you today. (Down easters excepted).
In Niagara - we're sandwhiched twixt 2 great lakes..w/ west winds. These days south Niagara gets the brunt of it off Lake Erie.
Course - everything east of lake Huron (like the hunt camp) still gets hammered on a regular basis. Snow brakes are almost mandatory in those areas!

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Posted By: 42rocker
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 6:57am
I believe that it was 1966 or 1967 that White Bear Lake, Minn got hammered with snow and drifts. Did not make that top 10 storms but made the top 20. Of course I was smaller those days and the tops of the roofs was much higher. LOL
Down here in Fla, I had to put a long sleeve shirt when I was working outside. A cold snap in Summer, what can we say. Broke into the 50's overnight. Warmer today.  Not sure when spring was but I believe that it came and went and we are now in Summer time. 
 
If you are up North stay warm and safe. 
 
Later 42rocker


Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: January 21 2020 at 7:12am
Here's the storm I was thinking of, winter of 1971.  I grew up in Cornwall, about 70 miles from Montreal.  It was the drifting snow that made it so bad in places, complete whiteout conditions. 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Canadian_blizzard_of_March_1971" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Canadian_blizzard_of_March_1971
 
It's been below freezing here in ATL GA.  That's enough winter for me. 
 
 



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