Where's winter!
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Driving my fence line looking for damage and checking for stray live stock, -8deg we expecting a blizzard tonight or tomorrow morning.
now that looks very very cold
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You can actually see the top of your fence posts. Most of mine are buried. We had a foot of snow last night and freezing rain this morning. High winds and more snow today.
Stay warm.
Teesdale northern England.
when? I didn't think the storm had reached the UK yet. forecast says Scotland, Northern England and all down the East Coast to expect snow, don't expect much-if any- here in the South West although Dartmoor might get a light dusting around Princetown.
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Since the beginning of December we haven't had more than two days without it snowing. Some days we only get a couple of inches and other days we get over a foot. Yesterday was the first day it got above freezing (34) since before Thanksgiving. Saw some deer last night and they were really struggling in the deep snow. It was up to their backs. The wolves are eating well this winter. The elk are doing a little better. Went to town yesterday and saw 4 barns that had collapsed under the weight of the snow. Im sure there will be many more going down before spring. The long range forecast is calling for snow almost every day for the next 10 days. It's just about impossible to keep the road open now. It takes 8 hours to make one pass with the plow. If the snow doesn't let up soon we may have to abandon this place.
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Next winter I'm getting a bigger plow and a snow blower.
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The dale nearest me.
And the only way to get to the Highest pub in England in winter
Weardale
And the only way to get to the Highest pub in England in winter
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I LOVE the days I don't have to go anywhere!! Oh and its like 79 f here.I FOUND IT!Winter is here in the Potteries. It's snowing a good 'un and I don't have to leave the house til next week.
We have about 4 inches lying snow and at the moment it's blowing a gale but bright and sunny. I'm sitting indoors wth a cup of tea and biscuits watching the kids playing on the green outside. There's one little chap out there with his mum, they walk three steps, he falls over, she picks him up only for him to faceplant, she picks him up for him to fall on his backside. It's a hoot, a little while ago she tried to get to him to make a snow Angel...... that went well, he just wafted his little hands around in front of him! Who needs TV when there's all this going on outside your window.
Here's how each region of the US handles snow... Keep in mind they talking about Portland Oregon not Portland Maine
I used to envy you and maverick on your choices of location.....
I was missing Florida weather last week!
Add a splash of acetone to your diesel its a Cetane booster and help stop Diesel from waxing up.
And plug the block heater up!
we've had a few days of frost-back along, all we've had here since is rain. I don't know what all the fuss is about!!
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/753975/snow-storm-stampede-artic-weather-supermarkets-blizzard-winter
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/753975/snow-storm-stampede-artic-weather-supermarkets-blizzard-winter
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We went to Miami Beach right after Christmas where it was in the 80s all week. My daughter lives in the D.C. area and when she moved there last winter, they had a blizzard that buried her car. I mean the very day she moved! She wanted to go somewhere warm for Christmas.
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Each of my vehicles have oil pan heaters, trickle chargers and battery pad heaters. All connected to a junction box with and single plug to connect to power. I replace the batteries every couple of years too. For my diesel equipment I add some anti gel treatment to the fuel and plug it in a couple hours before I need to start it.
Daughter coming back from the post office. She checking on the vehicles for occupants that where not there when she left earlier this morning
900 foot level, apparently lost it on the turn
2000 feet, the driver missed the turn (lucky he hit the tree otherwise 45ft more he would have been over a 2000 foot cliff), ended up dropping the back seat climbing out through the trunk, the driver was on foot walking when she picked him up roughly 6 miles from this spot.
The stretch (center of photo) we call the knife's edge, too the North of the road avalanche problems, to the South of the road a nasty cliff, the vehicles were on the knife's edge, during the winter it takes an hour and half to drove the edge.
900 foot level, apparently lost it on the turn
2000 feet, the driver missed the turn (lucky he hit the tree otherwise 45ft more he would have been over a 2000 foot cliff), ended up dropping the back seat climbing out through the trunk, the driver was on foot walking when she picked him up roughly 6 miles from this spot.
The stretch (center of photo) we call the knife's edge, too the North of the road avalanche problems, to the South of the road a nasty cliff, the vehicles were on the knife's edge, during the winter it takes an hour and half to drove the edge.
i hope that the houston folks are alright..funnel clouds have been seen.their under a tornado warning..21.000 + are without power..and it's moving this way..it's been raining here since 6:000/6:30 this morning..
oh i am.... mom is still in the hospital..and because of that.i figure she's at least some what protected,from the this storm.if not completely.in which im comfortable with that.but yet i got my 2 dogs n me to worry about.so im keeping a eye on things the best i can..the tv is on.and i have it on the weather channel..i have a internet window open,in which i have on the live-streaming-radar page for the local tv station..all the rechargeable batteries are charged up..im keeping my smart phone charged.
.. mom is still in the hospital..and because of that.i figure she's at least some what protected,from the this storm.if not completely.in which im comfortable with that.but yet i got my 2 dogs n me to worry about.so im keeping a eye on things the best i can..the tv is on.and i have it on the weather channel..i have a internet window open,in which i have on the live-streaming-radar page for the local tv station..all the rechargeable batteries are charged up..im keeping my smart phone charged.
