SNOW!!!

[winky]

Alabama has had some crappy weather this month. first time in my life (only 21) that i have seen it in the single digits. Two weeks ago we had a cold-front come threw that everyone knew was coming... or at least i thought everyone knew because so many people kept reminding me to do this or do that because the weather is going to be harsh. Well... Alabama DOT i suppose wasn't ready or under estimated how bad the weather was going to get and we had MaJoR ice problems on the roads in this part of Alabama (Birmingham,Tuscaloosa,Marion, Etc.) It was pretty bad everyone was flipping out, the interstate literally tuned into a massive parking lot/ice strip. People were stranded and countless people had accidents it was rough...
    I guess the reason i bring all this up is because on my way home today it quit raining and started snowing! heavy snow! the kind i always wanted to play in when i was a kid haha. luckily the temp has not dropped enough to start icing over most roadways and hopefully it will continue to stay warm enough to prevent that. I wanted to go play around in my truck today but i have the drag link out replacing tie rod ends . but i believe first thing when i get up i the morning me and my little boy will go play in the snow before i head into work. He seemed pretty amazed today seeing it fall and feeling it hit his face, this is the first good snow he has been alive for so he had some pretty funny reactions. I must admit.. Im pretty excited lol... its not every day in Alabama that you get a good clean snowing that isn't mush within 2 hours . Just thought i would share my experience and see who else is having snow fun, Be safe and stay warm!

[Irish_Alley]

we are getting it now. but i need to replace my wheel bearings before i can drive

[winky]

its always something when its time to go play

[87V20Kansan]

When mother nature puts a good snow down around KC I have the most fun running a plow for a buddy if he needs a driver. It's like reliving childhood for me. A close second for me is taking my 4wd and some straps, chains, and my insulated bibs and helping stranded motorists. If the snow fall's timing is just right I can stay busy for hours doing that. To me it's just playing in the snow, my sled just got a LOT bigger!

[MANCHU1-9IN]

My parents in Augusta GA. got nothing but ice. Trees are down everywhere, no power for more than 24 hours. My uncle had a tree fall on his power line, ripping a square foot hole into his attic. Its crazy down south right now. Reminds me of that movie "Day after tomorrow" lol

[bake74]

     That is just enough to play in, I lived in Michigan for the first 11 years of my life and remember having groceries delivered to our second story window from the grocery store clerks on snow mobiles.  It was snowing so heavy for a week straight that the snow plows actually gave up on the residential streets, they had enough mess just trying to keep the main roads and highways clear.
     Now that was fun to play in, you could actually sink and get lost in the snow.

[jarhead76]

we got a little snow. just enough to freeze up the roads. so the wife and i when out to play a little in the truck. and in the middle of a turn the rear passenger drum locked on me and throw use in to a guard rail.  bent the bumper a bit but did more damage to the guard rail then my truck.  a few people stopped to watch or help not sure, i just backed up off the rail and drove home. bent the bumper back out and fixed the drum and all is well.

[78 Chevyrado]

All I can report from the last storm in GA is, my tractor battery finally failed after 14 years of service, and I didn't feel like jumping it off so I could charge to pull ppl outa my ditch like I usually do... 

I usually charge $50 to get you outa the ditch and past my yard.. its 2900ft long on the roadway.  but I lazied out this year.  one year I made around $600 in an afternoon...  just ppl in front of my house.   this time no dice I drank hot cocoa and watched things unfold, which basically meant if they wrecked it was 3 days till they got free. 

hey if someone hadda been to cold and need a place to warm up ida gave it to em for free...  but hauling you out costs...  warmth and hot cocoa is always free where I come from... 

[Greybeard]

Here in Iowa we have been getting little 1-6" snows pretty frequent this year usually accompanied by a backblast of wind that re-arranges all of it. For the first time a few years I have about a foot of standing snow in the yard. That's actually a great thing...spring moisture hopefully...we need it bad. That is of course unless we get a really hot day and all melts and runs off before the ground thaws enough to absorb it. 

Have fun in the snow! It's 0* as in zero degrees here right now at 11:49am. The low tonight is dropping to near 15 below (again!). This has been one long COLD winter....things seem to be back to normal actually after about a thirty year hiatus. It used to get this way every year but ....

[Tazman]

Formerly of Illinois I have been there done that and do not miss it at all !!!

[Elpresidente]

I'm sitting up here in northwestern Ontario and I wish the 10 foot high snow banks would melt soon so I can see when i'm backing out of my driveway.

[Greybeard]

Hehehe, But you live in Canada! That's great! Snowmachines, ...uh snow machines....oh and snowshoes!   

We have had those conditions once here in Iowa since I've lived here, actual 10 foot snowdrifts, not mechanically piled snow. I blew up the engine in my 78 CJ7 that year trying to bust through one. It turns out it was a good thing, the drift turned out to be over a half mile long and was 12 feet deep towards the center. Didn't look that bad from my vantage point. When I finally got to work that week I brought the rubber tired Clark loader home. I was following the gravel roads and breaking drifts as I went. I came up on a crossroads that I knew was going to be bad but I underestimated (again) just how bad. I worked on that snow until I was inside the drift and the snow was taller than the top of cab on the loader (about 10 feet) I was only in the drift about about ten yards. Still had hundreds of feet to go. I turned around and took the highway. That drift it turns out was over 15 feet deep. They said it took an auger snowthrower three and a half hours to make one cut through it.  Never seen snow that bad here before or since. I never seen that much snow except up on Vail pass in Colorado.