Snow watch

[AlanM]

Shorty would have liked this snowstorm.  He liked lots of snow, not dustings.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I was going to do a little shoveling at a time. ?I shoveled the 2nd time at 9:30. ?I went out at 11 with the intention of pushing a couple of inches around. ?It had snowed 5 Inches! Still snowing, although they forecast sunshine this afternoon.

[Kat Kanning]

Looks like yours is about to turn to slush, Lloyd.

[Russell Kanning]

It got darker around 11 and it has been dumping.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Looks like yours is about to turn to slush, Lloyd.

I think the sunshine claim is a lie.

[Russell Kanning]

It stopped here .... the place we were shoveling had 15"

[Russell Kanning]

Our place keeps getting a little more off the trees .... it is hard to measure at our house.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Sun's out!  I've been out shoveling my sidewalk (Corner) .  Now, I'm waiting for the plowtrucks to put some of it back.

[Michael Fisher]

Looks like 6" in Newmarket.

We unfortunately missed the bright white radiance from the golden sunset this evening.  Perhaps tomorrow...

[Pat K]

Well I see some nice green brown grass here. Listen you guys, try to have that snow all spiffed up for me on Sunday.

[KBCraig]

So, as "real winter" sets in and there's no melting, only more accumulation, do you have to develop a strategy for "snow storage"?

I know a lot of it will sublimate, and some will compact down into ice, but do you reach a point where you've got more snow than you can pile off to the side of your driveway? I'm guessing that if you have a sloping lot, you have to be careful not to build a dam that would channel water into your house or basement.

We had about 3 flakes fall yesterday. High today was 32, low was 15, light breeze, blue sky. Nice cool winter day, so Texas didn't suck quite so bad today.

Kevin

[Kat Kanning]

3 flakes?      So are you running into the snow storage problem?

[Russell Kanning]

So, as "real winter" sets in and there's no melting, only more accumulation, do you have to develop a strategy for "snow storage"?

I know a lot of it will sublimate, and some will compact down into ice, but do you reach a point where you've got more snow than you can pile off to the side of your driveway?

Many times last winter it all melted or it rained on it. It rained last year right before Christmas and it was all gone. You only have to do so much planning here.

I am planning to push the snow up agaist our trailer skirting this year and iglooize a bit. But with runoff from the roof and general melting, my best laid plans might melt away.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Most winters, at least, here in S. New England, the snow cover dissapears between storms, but, the year before last it didn't. ?Last year wasn't as bad, but, close. You're right, it does sublimate, melts and freezes, turns to ice, dirty ice near the roads.

[Pat McCotter]

Last year Concord had to put it in trucks to haul away.