Wheeeee!

[cokeoven]

Its not christmas, but just this past spring we had 8 in. of snow on April 16 (Easter weekend) in Milwaukee WI. The storm came out of the blue with blizzard conditions. It was the heaviest snow i ever had to shovel.

[Rex in Pinetop]

Walt,

Pinetop does get cold in the winter and we do get lots of snow up there.  This year we got 4 feet in one day.  That sort of closed down things for awhile.  There is a ski resort not too far from Pinetop which comes alive with ski and snowmobile rental places.  We don't particularly care for snow having lived in Pocatello, ID, Dearborn, MI, and West Point, NY where it really gets cold.  We love our desert home in Gold Canyon in the winter and our summer home in Pinetop when it gets into the 120's in the desert.  Right now we're getting our afternoon thunder boomers with flash floods in the desert washes.

Pinetop is a resort area in both the summer and winter so the cost of living isn't real great.  We managed to get our lot purchased and home built on it before the real estate market went crazy.  Now that I'm retired our plan is to spend 6 months at each home after the wife retires next year.  By that time I should have a lot of track down and well on to having fun with the kids.  I've never done the winter snow/Christmas train thing but I just might have to give it a try this year.  Anybody have any Christmas snow stories to tell?

Rex

 

[grandpopswalt]

Rex,

How cold does it get in the winter at 7,000 feet? And how much snow do you normally get? If your summer's are as you describe, highs in the mid 80's with low humidity, and your winters aren't cold and snowy then Pinetop might be a real good place to consider for retirement. How's the cost of living?

Walt 

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

"Brian,   Rain is like sex, when you finally get some you like to brag about it!   When you're getting plenty, you keep rather quiet; too much and you complain!   Haven't gotten to that last stage as yet!"

I don't think its possible to reach that third stage, in ither topic. Now all I need to do do is find that classic news footage of some whitetrash dude saying "thats the fifteenth time the riiifer warshed away our home." Ah there it is.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Brian,   Rain is like sex, when you finally get some you like to brag about it!   When you're getting plenty, you keep rather quiet; too much and you complain!   Haven't gotten to that last stage as yet!

I'm looking out my window and see a few tinges of green in the yard.  Havent had to mow the weeds in over 3 weeks due to drought!    15 acres of feed corn crop shot, rain came too late!

[kimbrit]

We are having all of the rain so we can save it up and start selling it to the world. Trouble is we haven't built the resevoirs yet, the devils always in the detail! Anybody over there caught the news that we have a great white cruising off the cornish coast, just where the surfers go and the experts reckon there's actually two of them - great whites that is, not surfers.

[altterrain]

Fourteen replies from a post about some rain!?!

[ttrigg]

Like Vic said:

We'll take it, Air-Mail it to Southern California, we only got 3 inches all of last year

[vsmith]

 How about I send you some from little old England weve had a months rain in two hours 30mm so much rain cities are under 2 to 4 feet of water thats not the first time that has happed to some people

 

We'll take it, Air-Mail it to Southern California, we only got 3 inches all of last year

[two tone]

 How about I send you some from little old England weve had a months rain in two hours 30mm so much rain cities are under 2 to 4 feet of water thats not the first time that has happed to some people

[Rex in Pinetop]

Its only humid in August and Sept.  The rest of the year is normally very dry.  Furniture drys out and splits if you don't add some interior moisture.

Rex

[FJ and G]

always thought of arizona a hot and dry. Didn't realize it was humid as well.

 

Here in N. Virginia, it's been dry for so many summers it seems cacti would grow better here than anywhere else. The rains come in Winter when nothing is growing except moss. 

[Rex in Pinetop]

We're in our monsoon season here in the AZ desert.  So far we've gotten about a 1/2".  Normal for the year is around 7" but we've been in a drought for the past 15 years or so.  All it does is get cloudy in the late afternoons.  Dew point is up to 67 and humidity is up from 6% to about 75%.  That makes our 106 degree days seem very hot.

Pinetop on the other hand has gotten over 4" of rain this month with highs in the 80's so its down right comfortable.

Rex

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Day 1, about 3 hours heavy rain.

Day 2, 2 hours heavy rain and 4 hours steady light rain!

Today, Day 3, Been raining heavy about 2 hours!

Corn crop shot, rain came too late!  Grass only starting to show some green!

No training today!

[imrnjr]

We got over 2 inches yesterday in good ol' dry wet Texas.... which briings us up to close to 18 for the year and to over 3 inches more than we got all of year last year... but I ain't gripin' nosir... nor siree bob!!

It will however slow work on the railway, until the rather raw garden dries a bit,

 

mark

[RR Redneck]

Good for you!  We haven't had rain here in months.  It's the dryest season on record.

Complete opposite here in Texas. It is one of the wettest summers on record down here. Grass is goin like nobody's business.

[Rastun]

We're getting our first measureable rain in 2 months!   maybe the grass will turn from winter brown to something resembling green!   will help settle in the dirt we've been moving on the layout so we can get down to laying more track!

 

Oh quit bragging  

I'm glad someone's getting some rain because we sure aren't here.

Jack 

[S&G Rute of the Silver River]

Opsite end here in wet western Worshington, no grass but lots of moss, and intill you walk barefoot on it one would never know my lawn is 1/2 moss. Its the half I don't need to cut. and it does wounders for holding evrything just so. but never change your mind in two months by then the roots are a foot deep and it'd be eazer to remove concrete.

[Anonymous]

Good for you!  We haven't had rain here in months.  It's the dryest season on record.

[bobgrosh]

...
Save water plant a rock. 

No rocks in Florida. We paint the dirt green.

[ttrigg]

Rain + Recently Moved Dirt = MUD

Break out the hip boots boys, it's gonna be a gully washer!

Grass?  What is "Grass"?  Are you talking about that pesky green stuff that needs to be watered, fertilized and mowed?   

The more you water the grass, the more it grows.  
The more you fertilize the grass, the more it grows.
The more it grows, the more it needs to be cut.
The more you cut it, the more you need to water it and fertilize it.

Save water plant a rock. 

[Capt Bob Johnson]

We're getting our first measureable rain in 2 months!   maybe the grass will turn from winter brown to something resembling green!   will help settle in the dirt we've been moving on the layout so we can get down to laying more track!