01-27-2025, 11:01 PM
I come from the Copper Country. I can't figure out why they are closing down cities around the country with a few inches of snow. I now live ten miles from Marquette, there is a lot less snow down here than in the copper country yet the news lately is saying we are going to have a severe storm and makes six inches sound like a disaster. Twelve inches in one day is my idea of a storm, not twelve inches over three days.
It is nice up here this winter, only about maybe eight inches on the ground in the back yard presently. We will be getting about three or four inches over the next few days, but That's nothing, sometimes in the middle of October we get two feet of snow in a day and a half. I have a snowblower and a plow truck. Sure, my snowblower is six and a half feet wide on my tractor, but the last two winters I have only used it once, it has been so nice up here in our area, almost like october or March. Now the copper country has got quite a bit of snow compared to here, but they are saying it is a nice winter there pretty much too. Our idea of a nice winter is if you do not have to shovel or blow snow every day for two months in a row.
About twenty years ago it did not get up above zero for three weeks....It was kind of nice actually, the snow was real light, it blew really fast with my snow blower on the tractor, an eight of a mile of circular drive would take two rounds when it is light...twenty minutes to blow a foot of light stuff.
We are used to driving in winter here, but lately a lot more people believe that a black highway is safe, black ice is dangerous. They don't sand much on the highway, I guess people do not like sand colored dirt on their cars, and salt in water freezes at around eight degrees and the sand is not impregnated into that ice if they don't use it. I think that our society is getting dumber, the country road commissions knew for many decades they needed sand mixed with salt...and now they are using mostly salt which is harder on the environment and more expensive than sand is.
I think that it is good that people in the lower states are getting experience with snow. Maybe now they will insist that car companies make windshield wipers that can be more easily cleaned around to free them up in the new cars. Our Subaru and most new cars suck for cleaning around the wipers. Before it just took a tiny bit of scraping, now it takes five minutes to chop the trapped hard snow in the corners where the wipers are sunk under the hood.
Also, these new shovels suck, sure they move snow, but the plastic breaks when trying to clean some harder stuff. Got to get a good Canadian shovel I suppose. I do have metal ones with wood handles, but they are gaining weight as I am losing weight. Plus, with a heavy duty metal shovel, I was tossing big chunks of heavy snow near the garage door ten feet up onto the bank and tore the muscle in my upper arm two years ago....talk about a hell of a sore arm and a big black bruise all over my big muscle. That sucks, I usually did that working with firewood or making logs to cut into boards. Maybe that is why I kind of like the plastic shovels now, can't lift enough to rip a muscle, the shovel would break with a thirty pound chunk of packed snow in it.
It is nice up here this winter, only about maybe eight inches on the ground in the back yard presently. We will be getting about three or four inches over the next few days, but That's nothing, sometimes in the middle of October we get two feet of snow in a day and a half. I have a snowblower and a plow truck. Sure, my snowblower is six and a half feet wide on my tractor, but the last two winters I have only used it once, it has been so nice up here in our area, almost like october or March. Now the copper country has got quite a bit of snow compared to here, but they are saying it is a nice winter there pretty much too. Our idea of a nice winter is if you do not have to shovel or blow snow every day for two months in a row.
About twenty years ago it did not get up above zero for three weeks....It was kind of nice actually, the snow was real light, it blew really fast with my snow blower on the tractor, an eight of a mile of circular drive would take two rounds when it is light...twenty minutes to blow a foot of light stuff.
We are used to driving in winter here, but lately a lot more people believe that a black highway is safe, black ice is dangerous. They don't sand much on the highway, I guess people do not like sand colored dirt on their cars, and salt in water freezes at around eight degrees and the sand is not impregnated into that ice if they don't use it. I think that our society is getting dumber, the country road commissions knew for many decades they needed sand mixed with salt...and now they are using mostly salt which is harder on the environment and more expensive than sand is.
I think that it is good that people in the lower states are getting experience with snow. Maybe now they will insist that car companies make windshield wipers that can be more easily cleaned around to free them up in the new cars. Our Subaru and most new cars suck for cleaning around the wipers. Before it just took a tiny bit of scraping, now it takes five minutes to chop the trapped hard snow in the corners where the wipers are sunk under the hood.
Also, these new shovels suck, sure they move snow, but the plastic breaks when trying to clean some harder stuff. Got to get a good Canadian shovel I suppose. I do have metal ones with wood handles, but they are gaining weight as I am losing weight. Plus, with a heavy duty metal shovel, I was tossing big chunks of heavy snow near the garage door ten feet up onto the bank and tore the muscle in my upper arm two years ago....talk about a hell of a sore arm and a big black bruise all over my big muscle. That sucks, I usually did that working with firewood or making logs to cut into boards. Maybe that is why I kind of like the plastic shovels now, can't lift enough to rip a muscle, the shovel would break with a thirty pound chunk of packed snow in it.
