SNOW PHOTOS

O.K. You Guys in the Northern States, lets See some of those Snow Pix, I know You all get mighty Tired of Working and being out in it, But Us here in Ga don't get Much....If any in the last few Yrs, We Only get "Ice' Thanks!! Larry KF4LKU

How about a poor New England robin too stubborn or too old to head south this winter ? He'd kill to be in Georgia about now.

I snapped this New Years Day from the kitchen window, a snowy 7 degrees outside. This small flock was down to their last holly berry.

Global warming sign ? Sure hope not....

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I wonder what the "snow load rating" is on the wife's deck?

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They've been here year round too, lot of Staghorn Sumac buds for em to eat, about the only thing I have seen them eat. Robins may be ordinary to most, but if you have ever raised a fledgling, they are something else, used to find them in the yard, northern cardinals are also fun to raise/rehab

She told me she'd been trying to get you to shovel it off!

BBQ's will be here qicker than you think. LOL Looks like a nice day to fire up the grill.

Nice saw how many in. bar is that. Did you happen to get any pictures of some (hot) snow bunnies ??

my guess is its a 36" bar. Dunno bout the bunnies.

closer to 40". Biggest is a 52"

I didn't take any photos, but the 4' deep drift on top of my house concerned me enough so I spent many hours up there shoveling it off with my aluminum grain scoop. The snow was really packed and heavy.

What really worried me was that the weather forecasters had predicted 1.5" of rain in a storm that was part of a "chinook" system that lasted about a week. It got really warm, into the middle 40's and the total snow volume went down quite a bit. But that drift was large enough that it didn't seem to get that much smaller and I was worried about it soaking up that much rain and becoming too heavy for the truss system. So I shoveled, and shoveled and shoveled. And then we got less than 1/2" of rain. Oh well, at least I didn't have to worry any more. I am sure glad I don't swing a shovel for a living--that is incredibly hard work!

We had the largest amount of snowfall of any December on record in the Spokane area, just short of 6 feet. Considering that we average about 4 feet of snowfall for a whole Winter season usually, the December we had was really amazing. Last Winter we had the second most snowfall of any year since they started keeping records in the 1880's, and this Winter is on a pace to break the previous record of 1949-1950 easily. We are within a foot of that record and we usually get some snow out into March. January is usually the snowiest month.

As I type this, it is snowing outside. But it doesn't look like today's snowstorm will amount to much. I am hoping that the temperature will remain moderate, with highs somewhat above freezing and lows in the mid-20's. That way the snow will continue to slowly melt and the melt will hopefully sink into the ground with relatively little runoff. Right now we have about 2 feet of very dense, wet snow on the ground. A fast meltoff could cause flooding and soil erosion problems, as well as wasting the water down the creeks and rivers.

2008 is for sure going to be remembered in Spokane as the YEAR OF THE BIG SNOW!

Geez.. Those are Some REAL Nice Photos Guys!! HAL: Was thinking about Your Snow Accumulation on the Roof, I Saw up in Canada a Yr or so ago, this House that had a Valley, the Guy had a Heating Element in the Gutter, or "Something to that Effect" I thought that was pretty Ingenius to do that<> I DO see the Potential for a problem,!! Larry KF4LKU