Old Man Winter is alive and living in my front yard. I don’t think he plans on moving anytime soon
I would tell you, “I feel your pain”, but I don’t really. There is a reason I have never lived north of Memphis and winter is a big part of the reason. We have had two little episodes and are currently over it, although I expect another slap or two before Spring truly arrives. So as the natives say in Georgia “Hunker Down” and stay warm.
He’s retreating a bit now. But am on guard.
Currently I have 3 feet of snow on my property in White Bear Lake MN. The last snow fall from noon on Thursday thru noon on Friday dropped another 9 inches of snow. All weekend people in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, were top speed on the highways and byways was 40 mph…driving in 2nd gear, and when coming to a stop sign, drop the transmission into 1st gear.
Today is Monday, and overnight into Tuesday more snow is on it way…
Looks like another Late Spring in Minnesota, last year Spring did not arrive until the 2nd week in May!
~Parnelli~
PS: As things stand from “I Feel Down & I Can’t Get-UP” article in “Sound-Off” Section, I still have a injured “Left Shoulder & Left Clavical” having a slow recovering, I am schedule to see my Doctor again on March 7th, I still have a long way to full recovery, if I can get that far!
I’m heading to Florida early Wednesday morning. Daytime temperatures are forecast in the high 70’s to low 80’s. I hope to suffer through it for a week before heading back north to some fresh, clean, cold air. This old man loves winter.
My wife says, “Don’t go north of I-10 in the winter.”
Officially 35’’ of snow on the flat, but snowbanks are over 7 feet. Official morning low where I live (Embarrass, MN) is -24*F this morning. Does not appear that winter is going anywhere soon!
Yeah, but it keeps all those Southern tourists from getting in your way when you go out.
Come July it will be all but a memory …!
S1bc,
What do you do in the Embarras area?
I looked on Google Earth, whatever he does, he does it in the woods.
Is there mining in that area?
There is a very good reason I left MN behind me when I retired and these threads are reinforcing my decision. In the 40+ years I spent there I remember two winters in particular when living in Finland on the north shore of Lake Superior inland from Silver Bay. One was the snow winter. Only reason you knew you were snowmobiling over your junk cars in the back forty was because you’d see an occasional antenna tip. Then there was the year of the cold. A guy who lived in Isabella MN kept track of temps every day and every night. We had 45 days in a row where day or night temps never got above 0. Those two years stand out and it was before we knew we were in a Polar Vortex.
Kind of sounds like the north is doing it’s best to combine those two winters this year into one “to be remembered and talked about” winter. The only snow we got here was gone in two days. All 1 1/2" of it. It has been the coldest winter most of the family down here remembers tho.
We are setting records here…but I seem to remember winters being like this all the time as a youngster. I think the NE just got spoiled with light snowfall over the past 10years or so.
That’s what I remember as well. When I was a kid, there was snow on the ground most of the winter. We’d go sledding and such just about every day, at least during Jan and Feb. Most backyards in my neighborhood had ice skating rinks, that again lasted all winter.
Childhood memories aside, I remember in later years that it wasn’t unheard of to have one’s ice fishing auger botom out on the handle because the ice was so thick.
As you say, the past ten years or so (not counting this year) were definitely less sever than what I had been used to seeing.
Moved to Cape Cod to dodge the worst of MA winters (central MA)…not this year!