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I know u guys hate me.....lol lol.

Enjoy it, I see Tuesday the low is 37 and high is 48 in Orlando where I'm headed. It warms up after that.

High of 81* today, beautiful & sunny day with a slight breeze. Too bad I was at my 2nd job most of the day. :(

You weather is about to change as Tony is on his way down and he will bring some of this crap down with him.

I hope he drags it out of here. So far about 10", they're saying another 6" before it stops sometime after midnight. That's right 15.9" predicted for us, 16.5" in Flint. I could use Tony's Ford SS tractor, have 4' piles of snow we've been pushing off the drive. My tractor isn't big enough to push them any more so we're running out room to put the snow.

Oh, and it get's better, temps are going to keep dropping to about -4 tomorrow afternoon. That's right, not overnight but what should be the warmest time of day.

Hank, I am feeling your pain. I don't have a plow, but a small snowblower. Right now I think we have about 7" on the ground. I don't know about you, but the roads are really crappy right now. And with the temps dropping, it will turn into a sheet of ice underneath.

My son asked me if he was done using the snowblower today. I said no, he is probably going to have to do it again around 8pm, and first thing in the morning when he gets up. He was not happy. Teenagers.....

Can ya'll post pics of the equipment youre using to clean off the snow ,just curious as I've never seen it before .

Snow blower for us would rarely get used. We get about 2 inches every 6 years or so. Sometimes I wish we got a little more once in a while. We have only about a 2 percent chance of having snow at Christmas. If we had 14 inches of snow in our part of the country we would be paralyzed. No one knows how to drive in it.

About the same as here in GA.

Well we got around 15", they said 15.4" in Howell which just a little west of here. I'll have to go clean the drive again this morning, there's another 4-5" out there. It's 14* now, don't want to do it this afternoon when the temps are supposed to be close to 0.

We had a snow blower but with the way the shed and garage are I had to blow snow in front of me for about 30' instead of to the side. So you keep running into the snow you already moved getting deeper and heavier. The tractor has worked good but this is just too much for a small garden tractor.

Went out 3 times yesterday with the small snowblower. Gotta go do it again in a bit, after I use the roof rake on the driveway side of the house roof. The snow drift on the roof is about 3' so its gotta come down. Think I'll bring out the 2 stage blower today. Damn, just saw that it 9* and windy. Oh well.

Here ya go.........
 

Here ya go John and Ray. Black one is a 26", 8hp, 2 stage Yard Machines. Yellow one is a 21" 125cc, single stage Cub Cadet. Both are in the driveway. The one pic is the Mail truck at the end of the street getting stuck......he made it out.

Ken, I wish my snowblower was as big as yours. We just have a small one and this today my son has been out twice. Our biggest problem was the 4 ft of ice that the snow plow left at the end of my driveway. It took 3 trips outside. It was too damn cold to work for more than 1/2 hr at a time.

Just got a call from the schools, no school tomorrow. This from the school district that usually never cancelled school. So far they called no school last week Thurs, Fri, and this week Mon and Tues. I am sure that they are going to try to make up the 4 days somewhere. But for now, we are going to stay inside cause it is 8 degrees....with the low tonight supposed to be -15. Just a littl chilly.

Ken, how many inches of snow did you get ?

Hank, how many inches of snow did you get ?

Tony, how many inches of snow did you get ?

I am pretty sure we got around 10". I haven't actually measured, but it is close.

We got 15"-16", it's been snowing on and off today, not too heavy though. I let the dog out a few minutes ago. Instead of doing her business in the area I shoveled some of the snow off, she made her way down the hill into the snow that's up to her chin. She's 13 yrs old and she struggled trying to get back up the hill. Plowing her way through didn't work and she stopped and looked at me. Then she tried hopping up and over the snow, that didn't work and she stopped and looked at me. It's 0* out, I had slippers on and had to go out and drag her out by her collar.

We just got the official total for our area of 19.1 inches of snow. They shut down our business for weather. Here are some pics of what we a dealing with.

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This is what my dog had to deal with this morning.

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That's alot of snow, Another problem may be when it all starts to melt and how fast!

We got 13" and 3' drifts. Right now the weather is -2* and windy with wind chill at -30*

In that one pic of the stuck Mail truck, my neighbors front yard is untouched so you can see about how deep the snow was.

Nancy, when we bought the 2 stage blower (around $800.00) Judy says to me "For your sake you better f-----g hope it snows this winter"........that ended up being one of the mildest winters we've had in a long time.......oh-oh. That was a few years ago and I've used it plenty since then.

It's -2* and windy here too. The swirls of snow look like little tornadoes moving across the open areas. Pretty sure it's snowing again, hard to tell with the wind blowing so hard. There's a lot blowing off the trees and roofs.

These were taken from inside the garage. The snow pile goes pack 4-5 feet and the ground slopes down so the pile is over 4'.

Henry said something to his boss on Saturday about working from home today. His boss said he needed to come in. That's just wrong, 16" of snow, temps are below 0, it's dangerous to be out there especially when he has a 100 mile trip to work and back. He can work from too and then his boss was 'sick' today and didn't go in. Henry had a hard time getting out of the sub this morning and he has a new full size 4x4 pickup. He said no way any one was getting out in a car.

We just set a new record......its -8* with a wind chill at -36*.....S.O.B. WHERE DA HELL'S SPRING???

WOW guys and gals ,I dont know how you do it ,that is a massive amount of snow to keep moving around .And the cold is another thing altogether ,I could not do it .It is bitter cold here and we just had snow flurries ,none sticking .We are down to 11 degrees so far ,expecting to be around 7 by morning with high winds .I spent a good part of today hauling firewood in from the pasture on my tractor ,Im still not warm yet .

We are at 41 and party cloudy, with rain coming in tomorrow. I'm flying to Florida tomorrow but with all the delays and cancellations I hope things go smoothly. I layover in Phoenix Az to avoid the cold weather on the east coast during the winter. Glad I decided to do that 6 months ago when I purchased the tickets.

Ken it's -8* here too and going to get colder.

John 11* in Georgia? I heard they all ready canceled school for tomorrow in Atlanta. You guys got furnaces/central heat that will keep up with that cold? Here most homes have furnaces that will maintain the heat up to 10 or 20 below. Wouldn't think they planned for such cold temps down there in Georgia. Stay warm, stay safe.

Just have to wait now and hope our son makes it home from work safely. Traded in the Chevy Z71 last summer so I couldn't even get out of here to help him if he needed it. Maybe I should have kept the pickup, of course 2 cars, pickup, Chevelle and motor home is overkill for 2 people.

Can't image how many frozen pipes there will be. I know the pipes are buried deeper then here, we only bury our water lines 2 feet down max. The snow can act as an insulator keeping the ground from freezing to deep. Everyone take care during this cold weather snap and be careful if you are traveling around the area.

Ken it a hell of warmer here in Fenton.

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What? It's -9 now and your about 25 miles north of me and how did you 19.5" of snow? Highest reported total I saw was 18" in Eaton Rapids, 17" in Flint.

Okay, you left out some words in your post, lay off the Coke. Maybe you meant warmer where Ken is than in Fenton.

I believe the frost line here is 42". There will be plenty of frozen water lines under roads that have been cleared, freeze will go a lot deeper with no snow, pavement and the hard packed dirt. We have a well and the line comes into the basement about 5' below grade, that plus close to 20" of snow on the ground we should be okay. Can't even see the well head, it's out there somewhere but not visible anymore.

My water meter sits out in a metal box on the front corner of my property...less than 12" down. The water supply line I just had replaced 2 yrs ago is probably 8-10" down. All the houses around here are on a slab.
Got double glass thermo windows in the house, about 3 1/2" of insulation in walls, about 8" in attic. All that mainly for the summer A/C cooling.
Most of the ceilings on 1st floor are 18' high.

I ran the Florida tractor yesterday doing some brush hogging. I shoveled all day today. Sand, not snow. Kathy is having a hell of a time with snow. It is supposed to cool off here for a day or so. Have fun up thereguys.

Its down to 9 degrees now and still going down ,coldest its been here in a long time .My furnace could keep up if needed but I try to keep the fireplace insert full of wood to save propane especially since I have not ordered any propane since last year. Water mains down here are usually only 4 ft deep and service lines to homes are 18" to 24" deep so we will be seeing lots of broken lines too. I was out on my tractor earlier and its all I could to to stand the wind and I was really bundled up ,bone chilling cold .Im just now getting good and warm with the exception of my face ,its on fire from wind burn.

Bill ,you might want to let your faucets drip tonight as shallow as your line is .

Goin Down, Down, Down......-14*, wind chill -39/40* Might need another blanket tonight.

Thankfully no frozen pipes here this morning. I left all the kitchen sink cupboard and bathroom vanity doors open last night.
It's 5 degrees here right now with a -11 chill factor. Coldest temps here since I moved to GA in '85!!
My 2 yr old hi-efficient Trane hasn't stopped running since about 6pm last night. I even heard it go into higher speed turbo mode a couple times. :D

It was 1 above when I left for work this morning ,I loaded the fireplace with wood before I left and upped the furnace a bit .My feet are freezing here at work.

Had to run some errands and meet friends for lunch.
My 1st stop was to make a deposit so went thru the bank drive-thru. All the windows on the truck were frozen...I guess from that rain the night before last. :(
But, parked the truck out in the sunshine while at lunch. Windows now are working fine.
Weird!

We use a 3 stage nitrious system on our furnace and said no to Turbos on our furnace years agol.

Do I look like a weather man? I just report what I read in our local paper. My measurements show 22" but that is on my deck. It was -17 when I left for work. Oh by the way, you are only 18 miles away...but then I don't expect you to be a GPS unit....ha

So in conclusion, we have a shit load of snow and it's colder than hell and it takes less than a tank of gas to your house.

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By the way guys, this is from Hell Michigan which is in the same county that Hank and I live in...I don't want to guess the distance as I would be wrong anyway.....ha

The sun is shining bright today but its still too damn cold to suit me .

Well the plow finally came down our street. Took him 6 passes to clear but not completely remove the snow. He also covered up all of our driveway ends. I tried using a flat shovel to clear ours, but then decided to get the 2 stage blower out. With the temp at -3* and breathing the exhaust from the blower along with COPD (what killed Phil Everly) it just about did me in. Got it cleared and made it back to the garage and took a few puffs off of my Ventolin inhaler so I could finally breathe again.......that was scarry.

Mapquest says Hell is 22.26 miles from my house. That's probably wrong though since it says Fenton is 22.34 miles not 18 miles.

They still haven't plowed the our side streets. We live in a township so the county is responsible for our roads. They just showed on the news some freeways closed, police forcing cars off because they're a sheet of ice. The snow has been cleared off, just ice left now, too cold for salt to do anything.