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You want some snow? Here, have it … take it …
This is about 200 feet of my 1/2 mile long drive way. The snow bank on the left is the real height as it continues at that level for about 200-300 feet to the left. Height is 4+ feet.
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No Thanks!! We got smart and moved from MI to TN about 35 years ago. Still got to enjoy the seasonal changes, just not the LONG winter extremes. Since we both retired about 3 years ago, the operating plan is that if I can’t wear shorts 3 days in a row, we’re to darn far North!! Admittedly I’ve had limited success, but are enjoying the heck out of chasing those 70 degree days!!
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Snow is a dirty word down here. Of course it is easy to tell when it is wintertime up north. It seems we get the attention of a lot of Canadians that escape to come for a week or more and play golf. We can always tell them because they are the only ones wearing shorts in 30 degree weather!
Not that we haven’t had the extreme storm that hangs around for what seems like forever. Some times we get a storm that starts out with freezing rain and then turns to wet snow later at night. The one in January 2000 was forecast as up to 3″ of snow. That is no big deal as those storms usually melt off the deck by noon. Well this one turned the power off at 0200 hours. I went back to sleep after throwing on a couple more blankets. When we got up the next morning I looked out the bedroom window at the three heat pumps. Each had three inches of ice topped of with 21″ of snow, WET snow. We could hear large pine trees snapping like toothpics with their loads of ice and wet snow. We hav what are called “Lonleaf Pines” with 12″ – 16″ long needles. Of course as the pine trees fell they took out the utilities. This was one that did not melt by noon. It hung around for three weeks. We could not get off our one block because of the downed trees. Everyone on the block was very lucky as the pines that fell had not hit any of the houses.
That was a storm to remember.
1999 XLV X-6872, liberty #440
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