SNOW!! SNOW!!! sick of it....

[streettrains]

*** it's snowing again...
sick of it already & have had enough..

couldn't be that I have to work out in it....

so sick of it .. I will NOT MODEL ANY WINTER SCENES ON MY LAYOUT!!!![xx(]

ok I am done venting!!!

[Anonymous]

I feel your pain. Night before and last night. Again with the snow........

[streettrains]

snowed all day yestarday... then stopped.. then I think about 3am it was snowing like a *** outside again!!!!!
hoping it will clear so I can make a trek to the LHS.. which is about 1/2 hour away...

Have some things I have to pick up!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Yes, the neverending winter!

Here's a shot from a few years ago of me clearing snow from the roof of our garage:



(Click on photo to enlarge)

Bob Boudreau [:D]

[TurboOne]

Bob, that is cool. Being from socal I have never seen that. How do you get the blower on the roof? And in the picture did you already do on top of the house?

GFR, I feel for you. I have CA sunshine in a can, but everytime I send some out, the rain returns here. Tired of having a Florida swamp for a back yard, so if all goes well, I will send a can your way. [:)][:)][:)]

Tim

[streettrains]

BOB....!!!!
that is how we do it at work at some of buildings of the school!!!!!!

TIm.. think your CA sun has arrived!!!!

sun just popped out, snow has stopped.... let the dogs out... then time to head across 2 state lines to get to the hobby shop..(yup all in 1/2 hour)!!!!!

[Anonymous]

yea it is snowing here not all that bad [8D] but yesterday the driving was horible (at least what everybody said)
anybody else from ri espetialy ri's south coast

[streettrains]

driving wasn't bad last night.. this morning it looked lik eit was... hell I have the day off, but my wife went to work.....!!!

roads are jsut clearing off as I type!!!!!

hitting the road soon....

making my hobby shop list!!!!

[Anonymous]

you can send some my way to SD.

[Anonymous]

or you can send it to Sandwich,Ill

[Anonymous]

I know the feeling, though we haven't had any snow here in a couple of weeks now. This winter has brought the most snow our way in all the 12 years I've lived here, and more than most winters I can remember when I didn't live here. During one week right after Christmas we had about 4 1/2 to 5 feet of snow, and we've had snow several more times since then. We've also had quite a bit of rain (from the warmer storms), so all the snow we've had has melted.

Fortunately, though, since I am in SoCal, the sun does come out and warm things up, so our snow doesn't usually last too long. With the weather we've had the last few days, it feels like summer is not far off. Hopefully the rest of you (at least those that want it) are not too far from it.

[Anonymous]

All snow welcome here - we've not had any really good coverings in recent years. I have a couple of photos in a local history book showing the main street during one of the hard winters of the 1940s - snow was at least 7ft deep and people were having to dig trenches through it to get around!

[selector]

Snow....um... is that that, like, whitish powdery stuff that some guys shake over their, like, mountain tops in their layouts? So, what's the problem...not sticking in one place enough? [(-D]

(left coaster)

[Anonymous]

Sun Sun Sun, ugh!!!!!!!, I'm sick of bright Sunshine, spring time temps in the winter, swamps, hurricanes or the threat there of, dumb, stupid, tourist clogging up the roads, McDonalds, Burgerking, and KFC. Gimmie a nice North Country Winter for a change. Lake Placid, here I come[:D][:D][:D].

[selector]

Hey, Fundy, that is a greaaatt photo!! How did you do it?

[Anonymous]

Here's one I took the same afternoon as the previous one:



Bob Boudreau [:D]

[Blind Bruce]

I like the snow.... up tp a point. Here in Winnipeg, the snow arrived last October 3 and it is still here under all that subsequent falling. We expect it to still be here in June. UGHH TOO LONG

[brothaslide]

The weather you described is what caused my parents to move from Chicago to California in 1963.

It will pass. . .

[howmus]

Snow? Snow means Camping Weather! Skiing, tobogganing, snowshoeing, sleding, ice skating, snow man building, warm fires at night, crisp winds, rosy cheeks (I'm starting to make myself sick here). [soapbox] Up here in the Finger Lakes, we have a saying. "If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute..........."

This is some of the partly cloudy we had up here earlier this winter.


When we get a couple of feet of this stuff, we just push it aside and keep on going. What do you people out in California do with 20" of Rain???????? (My nephew out there says to find the shallow puddles!) [:D]

[randybc2003]

Snow? Send some our way!! In easstern Washington & Northern Idaho we have a shortage. Only 25% of normal snowpack, and farmers & power operators are woried. Gov. to (or did, I'm not sure) delclare a "drouth emergency". Ski & Winter resorts closed early, etc. Haven't had anything to speak of since Christmas.

I grew up in ALASKA. Most depressing Christmas I ever had as a kid was in Southern California. Stop & Think: while you sit and stare into the fire in the fireplace with you best friend (Snow bunny or Pooch, - take your choice) the poor schmo in SoCal is out mowing his grass!! [8D]

Don't get me wrong - I model Snow scenes as well as Desert scens. A number of my family are "snowbirds" - they migrate to sunny climates during the winter. As I age, I may join them!

R.B.C.

[JohnT14808]

[:D] GrandFunk.....snowed in, huh?? Seems like a good opportunity to plan that siding extension...or perhaps to add some additional detail to that bare spot on the layout. At least your SO isn't suggesting that you go outside and mow the grass, or aerate the lawn, or turn the garen, or all thecrap I know my SO is thinking of.......
Here is WA state, we are officially in a drough, according to the non-elected govenor. We need all the snow and rain we can get. If the weather gods want to dump on someone, please send them our way. We are seeing the bottoms of lakes that haven't been seen in decades....Talk about your stark landscapes!!
(Son of a gun...she just came in and "suggested" that I go outside and help the 13 yr old mow the yard.....Gads....GIVE ME SNOW!!!)

[dave9999]

Sunny and 75 here today... chance of snow 0%. Dave

[tatans]

10 months of snow and ice, 2 months poor sledding, welcome to Canada, aka Siberia now you know why we all live within 200 miles of the U.S. border

[Anonymous]

Snowing off & on here today as usual, but it's above zero & not windy, so I'm happy. I'm getting itchy to get back out to the abandoned D&H roadbed where the dirt I'm using on my new layout lives. I suppose I could dig down through the snow and chip frozen blocks of dirt loose, but that seems like more work than I care do.

A few years ago, March brought several storms that buried us in about 11 feet of snow. Die-hards were skiing Whiteface Mountain until mid-May. This winter is mild in comparison.

Wayne

(We have two seasons: Winter and the 4th of July.)

[cefinkjr]

All of you folks describing your snow reminded me of why I moved to Texas 17 years ago. It's 80 degrees here this afternoon. [:D]

OTOH, you folks have railroad rooms under your "thick roofs"; all I've got is a @#$%%^ slab. [sigh]

Thanks,
Chuck

[bbrant]

Hey all,

If it's any consolation, I got stuck in a snow drift going to work about a week & a half ago. I can almost hear Jeff Foxworthy using that as part of his stand-up routine. "If you've ever been stuck in a snow drift at 4:00 in the morning...you might be a redneck." LOL

Look at the bright side. All the snow is a reason to stay in and do some work on the layout.

Brian

[retsignalmtr]

when i was in upstate NY around watertown and buffalo i saw a lot of houses with doors on the upper floors with no decks or stairways to them. a local told me that that is how they get out of their houses with all the snow they get. i guess i can get used to getting 4 or 5 inches at a time. it's almost over.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by retsignalmtr

when i was in upstate NY around watertown and buffalo i saw a lot of houses with doors on the upper floors with no decks or stairways to them. a local told me that that is how they get out of their houses with all the snow they get. i guess i can get used to getting 4 or 5 inches at a time. it's almost over.

[:D] We tell that same story around here, too. Usually though, the reason that door is up there is because the stairs fell down years ago.

Wayne

[rexhea]

Very nice 81here in BAMA country. Even got a slight sunburn catching a few rays instead of working on the layout. We would take a few inches of snow from you guys every now and then. If we get 1/2 inch, everything stops.

Sorry California, you can keep all your rain. [:D][:D]

REX

[dave9999]

Rex,
You had a warmer day "up north" than we did. Must be all the hot air coming out of Bryant-Denny[:D].
Just messin' with ya. Dave

Edit: I thought I'd start the smack talking a little early[;)]