Walkin' 'round in women's underwear.....
 

I mean WINTER WONDERLAND!!

18 degrees outside and it finally SNOWED!

I got called out to plow snow this morning at 5:30 and spent 4.5 hours plowing a good bit of "the white stuff". It's been darn cold the past few weeks so it's about time we have a REASON for it to be cold. :woot:

Plowing with a plow truck? Or just a pickup plow?

I've only plowed a few times with my brother's pickup plow. He plows with a plow truck for a local township when the normal guy takes a vacation down south. I'm thinking its going on 3 years now, but the time during that vacation has always had some sort of snow storm.

Today was the 4-wheeler and shovel; just getting close to curbs and doing sidewalks so the actual owner of the equipment (driving the Bronco-mounted plow) can get the big areas out of the way.

He and his wife usually do the plowing, but she's going to be "calfin'-out" in February and doesn't want to be outside.

He's got quite a few accounts in town here....10 or 11 of them...so he makes really good money during the snow season.

Dang......

Just keep it over there until a few days before Christmas!

Ah, what is this "snow" thing you both are talking about? Is it kind of like a "fungus" that appears in the cooler months? I don't think we have anything like that here. :shrug:

- Jack

Yeah, that is what I'm wondering. Maybe they are just drinking their party eggnog early and are seeing things. A "WINTER WONDERLAND" sounds like a drink. :hehe:

I LOVE to plow snow, its addicting!

So far this year there has been pretty decent snowfall, and it hasn't been to cold yet either.:happy-dancing:

Ok, now I KNOW there is something wrong with the air up there. :hehe:

Maybe.........

Or maybe its the way the engine labors when the snow is curling off the top of the blade.

Or maybe it is the sound the snow makes as it scrapes along the bottom of the cab when things get deep.

Or maybe it the way you set up a "snow lane" for those long strait pushes to your pile.

Or maybe its the pride you take in your technique/ strategy to get snow cleared out of a tight area.

Or maybe its the sound of a strait piped 350 as it tachs out as you begin to loose speed.

Or maybe its the way the snow mists after a big push into the pile.

Or maybe its the challenge of seeing how high you can get your snow pile.

Maybe it is in the air, the cool, crisp clean air as it wisps throughout the cab when the windows are cracked open a bit.

:hehe:

Hmmm, good points...but I think your still crazy, just not as much as before. We only get snow for about 5 minutes a year. :hehe:

It is just that 2 days of ice that is dangerous.

LOL

No, you are right, I am. :notallthere:

GOOD!!!!


That makes two of us then. :hehe:

I think we get even less, but, would you believe, shortly after we moved into our current home, we had snow here on Easter! (We were out walking in the undeveloped space behind our home at the time.)

When I left Pennsylvania, back in '84, I left my snow shovel as a housewarming present to the new owners! :hehe: Then, a flippin' snowstorm followed us all the way from the Philadelphia area to just south of Albuquerque! It was like a "We're gonna get'cha - you can run, but you can't hide". I'm happy to visit snow in the mountains now, but that's about it.

- Jack

Got our first shot Sunday morning.....it was ice.....
Took the dog with me and his misjudging the conditions landed him curbside......poor thing did have no grip!:hehe:

We saw alot of vehicles abandoned in the ditch that morning....

Today is a rain snow mix.....with no accumalations expected here......

Well, since Friday morning, our COUNTY ALONE has had about 300 EMS calls for reported slide-offs, rollovers, wrecks, etc. on the interstate. This does not include those folks who run off the road and are able to get back on and continue on their way.

The scanner hasn't shut up in about 55 hours.

For what it's worth, the length of the interstate through Stillwater County is only about 40 miles.

Dang Cody, that might out number the number of calls down here. But the smart people over here just call in sick when there is frozen precipitation. We usually get one or two bad days but they usually produce nothing but black ice and sleet. But we also have many emergencies because the municipalities dont carry salt and barely any sand. I dont understand why they dont use beach sand over here. That has natural salt mixed in and is only a few hundred miles away.

Luckily it has been in the 70s and low 80s the last few days so I could get my bike running.

I really wish that the county and state would just quit putting de-icer and sand on the road. That would force more people to either stay off the road or learn to drive. Seriously. In the 18 years that I have been driving in this kind of crap, I have never once come close to running off the road....but then again, I have a head on my shoulders and EXPECT it to be slick. The only people I feel bad for are the ones who are the victims of the idiots' actions.

I couldn't work for the county or state driving the trucks that have the sand/salt or de-icer in them.....my conscience wouldn't let me destroy other peoples' vehicles. That's the main reason I don't drive nice vehicles during the winter. I like to be able to keep my vehicles rust-free.

My dad works for the power company so when the roads get covered in ice and the power lines start coming down he has to drive out. What has really had him mad the last few years is that they give everyone ONE PAIR of snow chains. He drives a huge bucket truck that probably weights 10 tons with all the tools and machinery. Funny thing is he always had the least amount of damage compared to the other guys. His secret was putting one on the front driver side tire and the other on one of the following dually tires.

My only experience with driving on ice was riding my mountain bike. I also remember the front brake working a little too well, the tire getting REALLY good traction and I went flying over the handlebars like superman. My conclusion, a belly flob on frozen water hurts even more than one on regular water. :hehe: