February 4, 20232 yr Cool photo... My God, the horror!!! How'd our Forefathers ever survive w/out jarred gravy...
February 4, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, Parliament said: What time did you lose power and water? And how are your trees doing? 3 hours ago, Captain Ron said: Water & Power- never (out utility companies are prepared) Trees - fine (New England varieties are tougher than the Texas ones) We bought a full house Generac a few years ago best money we've spent as it seemed we lost power at least once a month even if it was a beautiful summer day.
February 4, 20232 yr 25 minutes ago, Underdog said: We bought a full house Generac a few years ago best money we've spent as it seemed we lost power at least once a month even if it was a beautiful summer day. This year we plan to install solar in Vermont. Given how often we have zero use there, we can probably go with a lot lower solar coverage, install batteries and store a ton of energy for power outages (which we haven't had - knock on wood).
February 20, 20232 yr An all timer snow storm set to hit the upper Midwest this weekGood bye and good luck
February 20, 20232 yr I won’t get hit quite as hard as you guys, but it’s going to be 36 hours of non stop snow removal
February 20, 20232 yr All our hog barns, bin sites, farm shop, houses we own for H2A employees, and a bunch of our land owners who live out in the country. It takes 3 guys most of a day.
February 20, 20232 yr Author 30 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said: Apartment renters say what? That's the joke. (I rent.)
February 21, 20232 yr 40 minutes ago, Parliament said: That's the joke. (I rent.) Good to know. I was about to get aggressive. I'm just glad we've had a couple of weeks of mild temps. Driveway is completely clear. Roof is mostly clear. Still a lot of snow on the ground but whatever. Did manage to get a lot of dog shit cleaned up in the thaw.
February 21, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said: All our hog barns, bin sites, farm shop, houses we own for H2A employees, and a bunch of our land owners who live out in the country. It takes 3 guys most of a day. well that isn't a humblebrag that we see every day 👍
February 21, 20232 yr Denver has generally been glorious. snow every 7-12 days, for like a day or two, sunshine and 40-60 degrees in between. weeks on end it feels like 😎 usually below freezing every night tho, so snow sticks around on the north side of things. lakes and ponds are still mostly frozen. my understanding is that it has actually been colder and more snow than average around here this year. that's a positive bc honestly it's been lovely. 😊
February 21, 20232 yr So we had 60s last week (ok it was 1 day). Today I wake up to a dusting of snow. That has already stopped. All in all no biggie.
February 21, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, Wally Fairway said: well that isn't a humblebrag that we see every day 👍 Some of us have unusual paths to Surly 1%er status.
February 21, 20232 yr I suggested to my family that I wanted to put a yardstick on the deck in advance of snowmageddon. I got the rare triple eye roll.
February 21, 20232 yr 16 hours ago, mchookem said: Denver has generally been glorious. snow every 7-12 days, for like a day or two, sunshine and 40-60 degrees in between. weeks on end it feels like 😎 usually below freezing every night tho, so snow sticks around on the north side of things. lakes and ponds are still mostly frozen. my understanding is that it has actually been colder and more snow than average around here this year. that's a positive bc honestly it's been lovely. 😊 Yeah SuperBowl Sunday through last Tuesday were shorts and a hoody weather. Then we drove home in blowing snow until the Texas border last Wednesday.. The beautiful days prior were worth it!!! Edited February 21, 20232 yr by slorch
February 21, 20232 yr 16 hours ago, mchookem said: Denver has generally been glorious. snow every 7-12 days, for like a day or two, sunshine and 40-60 degrees in between. weeks on end it feels like 😎 usually below freezing every night tho, so snow sticks around on the north side of things. lakes and ponds are still mostly frozen. my understanding is that it has actually been colder and more snow than average around here this year. that's a positive bc honestly it's been lovely. 😊 I'd rather have it consistently cold. The bounce around bullshit makes it to where your body never acclimates to the cold. I preferred the upstate NY winters over Denver winters.
February 21, 20232 yr 21 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said: I won’t get hit quite as hard as you guys, but it’s going to be 36 hours of non stop snow removal I got a sunburn yesterday.
February 21, 20232 yr Just now, SimonBolivar said: I got a sunburn yesterday. I got one Sunday. Was out gravel biking in balmy 40 degree weather with my face exposed. It was probably windburn, but whatever.
February 21, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said: I'd rather have it consistently cold. The bounce around bullshit makes it to where your body never acclimates to the cold. I preferred the upstate NY winters over Denver winters. So you prefer straight up misery without glimmers of hope/ comfort?
February 21, 20232 yr 8 minutes ago, slorch said: So you prefer straight up misery without glimmers of hope/ comfort? Our winters have changed over my life from the upstate New York style to something closer to the Denver style, and I'll say unquestionably that I'll take the upstate NY style every year. When I was a kid, it would start snowing a week or two after Thanksgiving. Well before Christmas, we'd have full ground cover of snow, and you could be snowmobiling, skiing, building snow forts, sledding, ice skating, etc. It would be like that all the way until the end of February, and then by early March the snow would all be gone and you'd be enjoying normal outdoor activities. Nowadays we might get a weird shot of snow in late October or early November. It will melt in a few days. Then we get another shot maybe in December that melts. Then after Christmas we start getting some legitimate snow. Once we finally have just enough of base to engage in snow related activities, it warms up for 4 days and melts the snow that's not in shaded areas or piled in ditches and fence lines. Then the temperature crashes and we get a blizzard. Which will maybe return us to snow activity levels. Or maybe it won't. This cycle repeats on and off for awhile. Some years, March is good to go for regular outdoor activities, but usually it's a cycle of swinging up into the 60's, crashing in a big wet snow that melts over a week, and repeating. We're also usually good for a blizzard that occurs in April, usually after we've gotten up into the 70's or 80's. That never happened when I was growing up. We don't have the months of straight unbroken cold and snow like we used to, but the constant cycling of snowing, warming up, melting, temps crashing with a big snow is so much less conducive to maintaining outdoor activities than our old Winter starts on December 1st and ends on March 1st clockwork. Edited February 21, 20232 yr by Al_4_ISU
February 21, 20232 yr Only snowed once so far here. Usually snows 3-5. Going to be in 70s this week. Crazy shit
February 21, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, slorch said: So you prefer straight up misery without glimmers of hope/ comfort? You get used to the cold. I'd go cut and stack firewood when it was in the teens. I'd go outside to grab firewood off my porch at night in a t-shirt and boxers while it was single digits. The highs in the 50s followed by days in the teens or single digits means you just freeze your ass off all winter.
February 21, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Schulz2.0 said: You get used to the cold. I'd go cut and stack firewood when it was in the teens. I'd go outside to grab firewood off my porch at night in a t-shirt and boxers while it was single digits. The highs in the 50s followed by days in the teens or single digits means you just freeze your ass off all winter. Yup. You never get in a routine. It also gets hard to enjoy the "breaks" because you know it's ending quickly. This meme is a pretty accurate lay out of Midwestern weather (and yesterday was definitely Spring of Deception):
February 21, 20232 yr 52 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said: Our winters have changed over my life from the upstate New York style to something closer to the Denver style, and I'll say unquestionably that I'll take the upstate NY style every year. When I was a kid, it would start snowing a week or two after Thanksgiving. Well before Christmas, we'd have full ground cover of snow, and you could be snowmobiling, skiing, building snow forts, sledding, ice skating, etc. It would be like that all the way until the end of February, and then by early March the snow would all be gone and you'd be enjoying normal outdoor activities. Nowadays we might get a weird shot of snow in late October or early November. It will melt in a few days. Then we get another shot maybe in December that melts. Then after Christmas we start getting some legitimate snow. Once we finally have just enough of base to engage in snow related activities, it warms up for 4 days and melts the snow that's not in shaded areas or piled in ditches and fence lines. Then the temperature crashes and we get a blizzard. Which will maybe return us to snow activity levels. Or maybe it won't. This cycle repeats on and off for awhile. Some years, March is good to go for regular outdoor activities, but usually it's a cycle of swinging up into the 60's, crashing in a big wet snow that melts over a week, and repeating. We're also usually good for a blizzard that occurs in April, usually after we've gotten up into the 70's or 80's. That never happened when I was growing up. We don't have the months of straight unbroken cold and snow like we used to, but the constant cycling of snowing, warming up, melting, temps crashing with a big snow is so much less conducive to maintaining outdoor activities than our old Winter starts on December 1st and ends on March 1st clockwork. Son lived in NY, albeit just 50 miles up the Hudson from NYC. From November through April it was just dreary gray depression, with regard to the weather. He hated it. They measured how bad it sucked by weather it was worth the walk to the ‘Student Center’ from the ‘dorms.’ Many times, they just stayed put. I’ll gladly take all 4 seasons with a little variety thrown in for good measure. SB weekend in Denver was fucking great!
February 21, 20232 yr 19 minutes ago, slorch said: Son lived in NY, albeit just 50 miles up the Hudson from NYC. From November through April it was just dreary gray depression, with regard to the weather. He hated it. They measured how bad it sucked by weather it was worth the walk to the ‘Student Center’ from the ‘dorms.’ Many times, they just stayed put. I’ll gladly take all 4 seasons with a little variety thrown in for good measure. SB weekend in Denver was fucking great! It’s not that grey here. Especially when it’s cold.
February 22, 20232 yr It has begun... We’re bringing a team down for girls state hockey tournament. As of now, plans are it’s a go. The idiots at the MSHSL who came up with the decision probably won’t be helping team buses trying to get to the X when they’re stuck. Just my guess. But the team just got to maple grove and are cruising at 55 so that’s a minor victory. Tomorrow night should be a doozie
February 22, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, slorch said: Son lived in NY, albeit just 50 miles up the Hudson from NYC. From November through April it was just dreary gray depression, with regard to the weather. He hated it. They measured how bad it sucked by weather it was worth the walk to the ‘Student Center’ from the ‘dorms.’ Many times, they just stayed put. I’ll gladly take all 4 seasons with a little variety thrown in for good measure. SB weekend in Denver was fucking great! The thing I didn't like about upstate NY (I was 3 hours north of NYC by Saratoga Springs) was the short days in the winter. Sucked working 6 pm to 6 am shifts and not really seeing the sun.
February 22, 20232 yr Going camping for the weekend in Delaware starting tomorrow. It’s going to be 80° when I get there and 24° forty-eight hours later. Guess I’ll bring layers!
February 22, 20232 yr 19 hours ago, TexasHooch said: I suggested to my family that I wanted to put a yardstick on the deck in advance of snowmageddon. I got the rare triple eye roll. Here in New Orleans, the beads piled up pretty high on Tuesday. It’s rough, but the street crews are out clearing the roads.
February 22, 20232 yr 13 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said: The thing I didn't like about upstate NY (I was 3 hours north of NYC by Saratoga Springs) was the short days in the winter. Sucked working 6 pm to 6 am shifts and not really seeing the sun. That mid December to mid January stretch can be a mother fucker for this reason. I have a head lamp I use to cross country ski or run after work that time of year.
February 22, 20232 yr Going camping for the weekend in Delaware starting tomorrow. It’s going to be 80° when I get there and 24° forty-eight hours later. Guess I’ll bring layers!How in the fucking fuck is the north east in the 80s??
February 22, 20232 yr The Los Angeles office of the National Weather Service just issued their first "blizzard warning" in their history. Mt. Baldy is expected to get 100" of snow over the next week.
February 23, 20232 yr Boston area has had one of the milder winters on record. One of the lowest snowfalls all time (bottom 10 this far). Might change today/tomorrow. Going to bed to a light snowfall, might wake up to 1”, night be 10”, who knows?
February 23, 20232 yr I feel like I must live in a 3rd world country (or maybe Texas) - ice storm started yesterday afternoon, the area around me was in the transition zone, just south of me all the way to the Ohio/Indiana border got it worse; all kinds of power outages there starting late last night. My power didn't go out until around 8:30 this morning......and now the estimated restore time is 6:45pm, on Tuesday 2/28. FML! Sure makes for a pretty mozaic of outages though - seems like losing my power late into the outage has put me near the bottom of the list of being restored.
February 23, 20232 yr I’m in short sleeves, with the grill on, in February, in Washington DC. At least one cherry tree on my street is in bloom.
February 23, 20232 yr On 2/21/2023 at 3:09 PM, Al_4_ISU said: Our winters have changed over my life from the upstate New York style to something closer to the Denver style, and I'll say unquestionably that I'll take the upstate NY style every year. When I was a kid, it would start snowing a week or two after Thanksgiving. Well before Christmas, we'd have full ground cover of snow, and you could be snowmobiling, skiing, building snow forts, sledding, ice skating, etc. It would be like that all the way until the end of February, and then by early March the snow would all be gone and you'd be enjoying normal outdoor activities. Nowadays we might get a weird shot of snow in late October or early November. It will melt in a few days. Then we get another shot maybe in December that melts. Then after Christmas we start getting some legitimate snow. Once we finally have just enough of base to engage in snow related activities, it warms up for 4 days and melts the snow that's not in shaded areas or piled in ditches and fence lines. Then the temperature crashes and we get a blizzard. Which will maybe return us to snow activity levels. Or maybe it won't. This cycle repeats on and off for awhile. Some years, March is good to go for regular outdoor activities, but usually it's a cycle of swinging up into the 60's, crashing in a big wet snow that melts over a week, and repeating. We're also usually good for a blizzard that occurs in April, usually after we've gotten up into the 70's or 80's. That never happened when I was growing up. We don't have the months of straight unbroken cold and snow like we used to, but the constant cycling of snowing, warming up, melting, temps crashing with a big snow is so much less conducive to maintaining outdoor activities than our old Winter starts on December 1st and ends on March 1st clockwork. On 2/21/2023 at 3:17 PM, Schulz2.0 said: You get used to the cold. I'd go cut and stack firewood when it was in the teens. I'd go outside to grab firewood off my porch at night in a t-shirt and boxers while it was single digits. The highs in the 50s followed by days in the teens or single digits means you just freeze your ass off all winter. explained this way, i can kind of see the logic in preferring a consistent, solid, cold winter, though i obviously can't relate spending my entire life in Texas 😊 but part of my 'pitch' to my husband in persuading him to make this move was that the winters here are NOT like the Ohio winters of his youth. i mean he's quite a bit older and was really reluctant to move to a climate where he was convinced he was going to be buried in snow for weeks/months on end - exactly like y'all are describing lol. once we got here and our new neighbors/friends all reiterated what i'd been telling him (winters are actually fairly mild, it gets cold but the SUN keeps it pleasant, there's really not as much snow as the mountains or midwest, etc.) and especially now that he's experiencing it first hand, i think he's actually enjoying it. the sunshine in particular makes a HUGE difference and what i think is really distinct from his midwest upbringing - 'bitching' about how bright the sun is is pretty much a daily occurence 😄 (also...HOA for the snow removal for the win! haha) we were talking about the comparison the other day (while hiking in a state park lol)...here, spring, summer and fall are all awesome. especially summer which is heavenly. you can comfortably be outdoors doing whatever pretty much all those seasons, most every day (although i'm anticipating spring being pretty muddy). winters are generally mild and while there are some extreme days (0* yesterday, we're up to 9* right now haha), they really aren't the norm - overall the winter is not much more extreme than Texas tbh, so you can also spend most of the winter outdoors easily. i'd say the climate is conducive to outdoor activity without being uncomfortable like 90% of the year! versus...late fall in Texas was generally lovely and by far my favorite time of year, especially on the coast...but i was sick of having to run the A/C while cooking Thanksgiving dinner. and getting mosquito bites trying to put up Christmas lights. and any extreme winter weather is likely to be apocalyptic now as we've seen in recent years. spring tornadoes, fall hurricanes and oppressive heat. for ME - it had become basically unbearable a good 4-5 months of the year. all i wanted to do was go from my air-conditioned house to my air-conditioned car to an air-conditioned wherever. forget hiking or camping or even going to the beach (which i HATE in the summer). forget sitting on a restaurant patio or doing anything other than getting in a pool...which even that ceased being refreshing when the water temp was 90* for two months! anyways...this first winter has had some novelty (that Christmas spell was unlike anything i've every experienced - it genuinely hurts to inhale once the temp gets below zero!) but overall has been exactly what i hoped for, and i've been able to say 'i told you so!' to my mate 😊 Edited February 23, 20232 yr by mchookem
February 23, 20232 yr There's a big difference in sunshine in the eastern Midwest vs the western Midwest. A buddy of mine moved to Indiana for 5 years and bitched about how cloudy it always was. We had a blizzard yesterday, and today is bright blue skies with an intense sun. Edited February 23, 20232 yr by Al_4_ISU
February 23, 20232 yr The elevation in the Denver area means the UV rays are much stronger. The low humidity also makes the temperature feel much more moderate.
February 23, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said: The elevation in the Denver area means the UV rays are much stronger. The low humidity also makes the temperature feel much more moderate. That’s the god’s honest truth. A few years ago we were climbing a 14er and then had to go straight from the trailhead to DIA. We stopped to get gas somewhere on the front range, got out of the car and long sleeves and felt comfortable. Passed a bank and it was 97. If I was swearing sleeves in 97 degree weather in Iowa, I’d be passing out from fluid loss.
February 24, 20232 yr Just finished digging out in the Twin Cities. For you sane folks that don't live above the Mason-Dixon, that's a mailbox- you need to dig it out so the mailman can get to it. They're making sure my last winter here is a memorable one.
February 24, 20232 yr On 2/22/2023 at 2:12 PM, Gil Bang said: Mt. Baldy is expected to get 100" of snow over the next week. I understand the words individually, but the sentence has no meaning that my brain can comprehend. Meanwhile - Got a sunburn working on the yard last week. Getting the inflatable pool set up for the kids this weekend.
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