Way too white Christmas

[dan lephart]

I do enjoy the season and I hope you are too. Christmas has it's trials and it's joys. Two of my sons and I just finished two and one half hours of digging and blowing 18.5" of snow. That is 5.5 man hours of hard work. Now I am looking up and down the street, no plow truck yet, with nowhere can go. The next two days will get colder - down to minus 6 or lower Christmas day. I will have a way too white Christmas. I wish all a joyous holiday season! Dan Lephart

P.S. Wow, I almost forgot! Gotta go dig out my parents...

 

[progress1vebmx]

I'm up here at Minot AFB, ND... it was freezing a few days ago. -24 degree wind chill. The next night it was around -13. The sad thing is, the locals say it's "a good winter". Ah. I walked outside the other day and said to myself, "Wow, it's not bad out here....", it was zero degrees....

Weather forcasts say it'll get up in the 30's this weekend.

 

[S2V6RACER]

Originally posted by dan lephart
I do enjoy the season and I hope you are too. Christmas has it's trials and it's joys. Two of my sons and I just finished two and one half hours of digging and blowing 18.5" of snow. That is 5.5 man hours of hard work. Now I am looking up and down the street, no plow truck yet, with nowhere can go. The next two days will get colder - down to minus 6 or lower Christmas day. I will have a way too white Christmas. I wish all a joyous holiday season! Dan Lephart

P.S. Wow, I almost forgot! Gotta go dig out my parents...

Well just think when the plow truck comes, he'll plow a nice big pile of snow in front of your driveway.....

I hate it when they do that..

 

[Roc87]

Sorry to hear that Dan! I've been watching the weather up there in Ohio since I'll be in Stow in a little over a week for Matco training and I'm dreading the cold/snow!

 

[Reaper]

its 75 here and i am shorts!

 

[DCEPTCN]

Originally posted by roc87
Sorry to hear that Dan! I've been watching the weather up there in Ohio since I'll be in Stow in a little over a week for Matco training and I'm dreading the cold/snow!

If you'd like to get a head start on getting accustomed to it, you could always drive 45 minutes east out to my house. It was 2 degrees at 9pm last night and it's s'posed to snow even more tonight!



Regardless of your climate, everybody have a fun and safe holiday weekend.

 

[Renthorin]

8 inches here so not toooooo bad.

Last weekend I was camping up north a bit and when I climbed out of my sleeping bag and stuck my head out the tent door it was -20. I went outside and discovered what -20 with 30mph winds feels like -- colder.

If we keep snow on the roads a bit longer it will give me a chance to break out the sled.

 

[bishir]

Tell me about it. I'm stranded in Clarksville, TN. The state of KY shut down I-24 and I can't go anywhere right now. This much snow in Northern Indiana or Michigan would be laughable, but down here they aren't prepared for it. I was driving on unplowed Interstate in our Jeep Grand Cherokee and was doing fine. I hope I can get out of here tomorrow. Now I remember why I live in Florida.

James

 

[denn454]

sounds like someone needs a snowmobile!

go get one and borrow the turbo for the winter. it should scream! you'll never want the snow to melt.

 

[dan lephart]

snowball

that snow plow thing that Ted mentioned...
The plow truck rolled a 3'x3'x3' ball of snow right into the middle of my driveway apron! Yeah it was way huge and way funny. I thought my wife and son and I were going to pass out with laughter. Wait a minute... I had to get rid of it to get onto my now partly cleared road ( was funny for a while )

 

[Roc87]

...........................roll that ball into your neighbors drive, put a big bow on it, They'll love it

 

[bishir]

Well, I'm on Day 2 stuck in a Hotel. What a fitting ending to a terrible year overall. If I hadn't been through hurricane Ivan this would be bad, but now it's just a hassle. I'm glad I'm not one of the people still stuck on the Interstate. We're going to turn around and go home when we can. Merry Christmas!

 

[Scott231]

Yeah well, at least you have power. Here I am at a friend's house using his computer on Xmas eve....and I expect to be here for a few days.

Merry Christmas

 

[d0n_3d]

some parts of northern indiana got 24-28" of lake effect snow...we got about 18" total over the week here...definitely 4x4 weather now!

 

[bishir]

Originally posted by Scott231
Yeah well, at least you have power. Here I am at a friend's house using his computer on Xmas eve....and I expect to be here for a few days.

Merry Christmas

I hope you guys can get power soon. We lost if for over a month at my house during Ivan, but it wasn't cold enough to kill you. It was actually hot enough to sweat you to death though.

Anyways, I just go interviewed by the local paper and they took our pictures. We're famous now.

 

[Dwayne]

Tell me about it.....

12" of snow in 12 hours here in central IN......windchill -12.....I haven't been out of the house in 2 days.

 

[bruce]

7 deaths in Dayton, OH. 6 shoveling snow, one from helping a stranded motorist.

 

[Dwayne]

Originally posted by bruce
7 deaths in Dayton, OH. 6 shoveling snow, one from helping a stranded motorist.

........damn........cheer up a little bit mfr.........

 

[QuickWrench]

F#cking snow.

I just moved to South Carolina. I'll never miss the f#cking snow. Or the salty, sh!tty roads. Or the grey skies 250+ days per year. My friends from NE Ohio tell me that the Wal-Mart near us had to close yesterday, as they're worried that the roof may cave in due to the weight of the wet snow.

...although, I will have a great time with the truck in some snowy fields while I'm up visiting next week.