Snow in Boston..!!

BushogPapa · Feb 16, 2015

Latest Report is there is NO need for a Tractor to pile snow..!!
They just reported kids are jumping out of 2nd story windows into the snow...!!!
How Great would that have been...!!!!

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 16, 2015

I have fallen off of roofs into snow a number of times over the years when shoveling and I have to say the falling is fun, but getting back to the ladder can be challenging when you fall into 5 or 6 feet of snow. At the back of the farmhouse there is a valley between two roofs and when we have enough snow to shovel the roof(3 feet or so) it will make a ramp from the ground right up onto the roof where it is only one story high. I don't think I have ever fallen off a shingle roof but the metal ones are slippery when you have snow on your boots.

old · Feb 16, 2015

I can still remember living in Leigh NE and we had a big snow and for class in the school I went to 2 room by the way we dug out the teachers car. He lived next door to the school. The drift it was in was as tall as the house he lived in. We dug a tunnel from his back door to the car and then dug a carport out of snow. There was an old barn behind his house and you could walk from roof to roof due to the big drift that was between the house and barn

rrlund · Feb 16, 2015

SIL just called from Lexington Ky,said they had 19 inches. None up here,the sun's coming out.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 16, 2015

You folks that live up north.
Do you all tie a rope from the hoose to the barn likem thay used to do?

paul · Feb 16, 2015

Guide rope is only for the windy days. Zero visibility.

Deep snow you just keep following the same groove in the snow, somewhere down below is the normal walkway.....

Paul

bcdave · Feb 16, 2015

In the 60s I worked on a dam in northern B.C. There was 46 ft of snow. Guys put beer out of the second story windows into snow. They used large loaders from the dam to clear streets and dug tunnels from the bunkhouse to the street, On the road they used huge snow blowers that left huge walls on each side. I wish I had taken pictures.
Dave

notjustair · Feb 16, 2015

Back when the 856 was new and didn't have a cab we had such a snow with wind. We were still calving in pastures away from the house. We got in the pickup to check on the cattle and the storm blew in so fast we got stuck in the pasture two miles south of the home place. It hadn't even been snowing when we left to chop ice. Grandma and I stayed in the pickup and dad and grandpa walked holding hands back to the farm rolling the telephone poles. They both said they would never have made it without the other pushing them on. They got the tractor going and dad held a piece of window pane in front of grandpas face while they drove back to us with a chain. Grandma and I would clear the snow from the tailpipe and run the pickup until it was warm and then shut it off. They drug us back to the farm and there we stayed for a week. We could walk out the second story windows on the west side of the house. We don't get snows like that in Kansas anymore. Al Gore must be on to something. Oh wait, it is 13 degrees here right now.

Dick2 · Feb 16, 2015

When I lived in ND, when we had zero visibilty blizzards I would hook a leash on the German Shepherd and have him lead me to the barn to feed the cows. He would also lead me back to the house. Too far between buildings to tie a rope.

WellWorn · Feb 16, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:14:17 02/16/15)
Latest Report is there is NO need for a Tractor to pile snow..!!
They just reported kids are jumping out of 2nd story windows into the snow...!!!
How Great would that have been...!!!!

It's about time they got to share in the fun we have here nearly every year.

sms · Feb 16, 2015

Wife lived on a farm in western NY, lots of lake effect snow, went across the road to visit the neighbor and almost didn't make it back, she was just able to catch a glimpse of the light on the barn to correct her line of travel, she was heading into the fields. Whiteout conditions

sms · Feb 16, 2015

February is winterlude in Ottawa, ice sculptures skating on the canal, ice maze. Last time I was there they took all the snow and piled it up, built slides for kids and adults. Great time.
Watch the video

BushogPapa · Feb 16, 2015

Yea, looks like they only give Nobel Peace Prizes to Morons now....

ss55 · Feb 16, 2015

A full cattle barn can be a pretty nice place to wait out a snowstorm. While feeding cattle during one bad April storm I found a pheasant, racoon, owl, robins, and other birds among the hay bales.

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