Snow.. I wish we had this just once :)

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just kidding.. when I live in CT I saw deep snow enough that is why I live in NC now :)

but here is my brother digging out

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This is at the end of his driveway.. yes that wall of snow in front of him is the road :)

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Geez. That's a little excessive. No telling how much crap in my yard would be lost.
 
They can have that. My thermometer says 59 degrees right now:D I remember not being able to make the 75yrd walk to the bus stop when I was a kid in PA. I don't miss that stuff.
 
Think it's time for a bigger snowblower. Lol although that looks to be a pretty good size one. Tell him they can keep it don't miss those Michigan winters at all.
 
wow...just wow. Guess I'd need a parascope to see where I was snow blowing.:eek: I just dont see that as realistic. How do the houses hold that up and not collapse?
 
as a kid in CT i loved this stuff, all the kids had tunnels going to each others house, and a hollowed out 40 ft tall mountain at the end of the cul-de-sac, now i just wish we had a ft. to play like kids in the big toys:driver:
 
Dylan that's a real problem, at least for flat-roofed houses. Luckily it doesn't take much of a roof grade for the snow to start falling off instead of piling too high. Generally areas that don't get a lot of snow have higher min. roof pitch standards than say MD or NC... of course this has hit places where this isn't exactly the norm either.
 
Oh, ok THATS why folks go to the store and snatch all the bread and milk..Snow storms like that.....^

They should have that picture on every store window around here reading ''if you;re expecting this, then get ALL the milk, if not..just get the normal 1 gallon and a 1 loaf and we'll see ya in a few days''
 
I wonder if 95yjjeep would bring me my mail in his awesome Jeep Mail Rig if we had snow like that? That would be baller seeing him come up a road like that delivering mail.
 
and here is the difference between NC and CT.. just talked to my brother.. his street is plowed and he has been driving around all day with no issues..

we would be buried for a week if that happened here :) and yes I was here in 2001 when we got 24" in raleigh
 
RatLabGuy said:
Dylan that's a real problem, at least for flat-roofed houses. Luckily it doesn't take much of a roof grade for the snow to start falling off instead of piling too high. Generally areas that don't get a lot of snow have higher min. roof pitch standards than say MD or NC... of course this has hit places where this isn't exactly the norm either.
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Roof pitch doesnt matter so much anymore. Back in the day, thats how they dealt with it. Nowadays, you just design for the load... even here in NC... although the snow load here is low enough that its rarely the guiding factor in the design.
 
In my house, apparently 45 years ago they solved that problem by just putting in virtually no insulation in the attic, so all the heat dissipation melted the snow :D:eek:
 
My ex-girlfriend's dad used to work for the power company in northern Michigan. He ran a plow truck that was built for HEAVY snows (measured in feet - not inches) He had to plow roads with a 8' tall blow blade and sometimes have to back up to get it all thrown. He would scoot down roads in this thing and all you could see were the telephone poles and he would center the truck between them. Often times, he would hear a loud crunch and see a vehicle thrown out of the snow.
 
:lol: I know it was 85 or 86 when I couldn't make the walk through the field to the bus stop. Our long driveway was blown shut with 7-8' drifts. Tunneling was awesome until one caved in on my younger brother who was 4 at the time, that was scary as hell.
Now they shut schools down up there for snows that bad. Back then buses had chains on them and I don't recall school ever closing due to snow.
 
GONOVRIT said:
:lol: I know it was 85 or 86 when I couldn't make the walk through the field to the bus stop. Our long driveway was blown shut with 7-8' drifts. Tunneling was awesome until one caved in on my younger brother who was 4 at the time, that was scary as hell.
Now they shut schools down up there for snows that bad. Back then buses had chains on them and I don't recall school ever closing due to snow.
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I was telling my second grade daughter the other day that she has already seen more snow days in her school career than I did all the way elementary school through high school. I went to Catholic schools in Michigan and if they could walk across the parking lot (that had already been plowed by 6 am) to get from their on-campus house to the school, school was open UNLESS every surrounding county's schools were closed. No 2 hour delay...no calling everyone to send them home early "in case" we get bad weather...
 
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