NEW ENGLAND SNOW VENT Please add your own

I always take pics.....& I LOVE walking in my woods after a beautiful snow storm....my dogs love wandering around my woods with me also. It's so fun to see the critter tracks in the snow so you know what's wandering around your home & your woods that you wouldn't know about otherwise.

Just hoping I can make the drive to the city tomorrow & that they don't close the MD's office....but they might not have anyone making their appointments anyway. It could have snowed any other day than the one day that I need to make it to the city. The road I take is winding & through the palisades of the KY river. The other way around is far out of the way.....but hey, my huge truck has 4x4.....that's what it's for is getting around in bad weather (& hauling my horse trailer)';/

It can be pretty but for the most part when there is this much of it I consider it winer wonderland of white s***. But more than the snow, that am concerned about besides being buried as it it already up over part of the windows and more is coming this week, are the sub zero temps with roads that aren't completely cleared, for ice and black ice. Not looking forward to the commute into work this morning.

Hope everyone meanwhile is staying safe and warm. ((((Y'all)))))

OK, we officially have SNOW.....probably about 8 inches...LOL. I got a call from the pain specialist office....they want to reschedule.....so they rescheduled for tomorrow then before I got the call back on the confirmation I got a call that they will be closed tomorrow also because of the weather & it's continuing to snow (yep, that's what the weather said....all day today) but it's supposed to stop tonight at 1am......guess they would rather let it melt than have to deal with it.

But grrrrr, I have a perscription they messed up & didn't sign last week when they gave it to me & I was distracted with another issue they were having with my MD being the one that only does consoltations there so I didn't look closely at the prescription......& the migraine isn't doing well...cold weather messes with that.......shoot, my truck would make it there but no one wants to be driving in this....& THIS is NOTHING like you all are having in the Northeast.....& things have to go on functioning through the winter there......tis frustrating......

But at least I get to see beautiful white snow & not have to unbury my truck to drive anywhere. It's now a mound of snow in my front yard.....I call it my snow truck instead of my snow man.

We can enjoy it when it's not something we get ALL WINTER or for several months.....a day of snow & a week of enjoying it....makes it FUN even though an inconvenience at times like this when there is something I desperately need taken care of

eskielover you got it, you found the good in the bad. That is what has been keeping me going all winter. All this snow is really frustrating me, but I can't let it bother me. This morning, I looked at MrEm and said, "Ya no what honey? No matter how bad this winter has been (and its been one of the worst) I would not move south. I could never leave New England." and I have friends helping me find the good and the funny Here Comes The Sun, dodododo

Brrrrrrrrrr

- vital

I have to laugh here in KY......when they give a snow warning like this....everyone piles into the grocery store & buys the shelves empty.....for 1 maybe 2 days of snow.....LOL.....like their kitchen isn't FULL of food anyway that they wouldn't have to go to the grocery store for a week or more anyway.......it's not like they will be stuck in their house for more than a day or 2 max.......

Shoot, my kitchen has enough food to last me 2 months if I ate constantly all day.......yet I laugh at the parking lots of the grocery store....overflowing the day before snow is predicted.

We actually have about 12 inches of snow here....it's piling up as it's snowing continually & the temp is only 15F.

LOL....our storm is going to dump on DC....at least you won't be getting much of this storm.....it's gone south from Columbus down to below Delaware.

LOL, the snow plow hasn't touched out street. (a minor numbered highway)...they are focusing on the main highways......not many tire tracks going by either & my truck is soooo pretty, it's a pile of white snow.....just need a couple of eyes & a carrot nose & we will be all set.

Spring is coming Bostonians!

I saw the first mailbox of spring and the bicycles are starting to poke out of the snow.

- vital

Thanks for this Vital. I dug out of another 6 inches today. I just kept thinking that this could be the last time.
I saw your snowie sidewalk I am so grateful I am not responsible for sidewalks, fire hydrants, or a mailbox.
Today was beautiful. It got above freezing.

UGH, Kentucky Snow Vent.......we got a beautiful dumping of 12 inches. A wonderful neighbor on the huge farm was plowing the long drive across the street for the work entrance & the rental home...& just came across & plowed mine.....WOW.....while my truck was not sitting in the driveway, I always drive in onto my lawn close to my front door....I'm usually lazy in the cold weather. Dump came on Monday.....Tuesday they plowed my driveway & we got another 2 inches (wow) of snow that night. I didn't bother going out anywhere as they closed everything down around here & cancelled my medical appointment in the city.......well, Thursday came....I got a call just after 11 telling me that I could have my appointment at 1pm.....I had a foot of snow on my truck & on the windshield & I hadn't even started my truck since the weekend....didn't even know if would really start as the temps had dropped into the single digits.....& I never had an engine block heater put on my truck because I didn't think KY would get anywhere as cold as it does in Wyo where we used to winter vacation for several weeks each year enjoying the snow, downhill skiing, snow shoeing & x-country skiing (yes, I LOVE winter as long as I don't have to live in it all winter like you guys do).....they have snow birds that fly to Florida for the snowy months....those of us in the warm areas are reverse snow birds....we fly to the snow to enjoy it at least for a nice long vacation.

Anyway.....I threw on my layers, took my dogs out with me so they could enjoy the snow. I finally got the door open & started the truck after 4 tries, turned on the defrost, & started scraping the 10 inches of snow off the hood & windshield of my truck. Took about an hour.....then I prayed that I could at least back out to where the driveway had been plowed.

All this time....Leo, really wasn't interested in being in the snow...so he jumped into the truck & sat & supervised from the passenger seat......the snow was as deep as my towing hitch & the bumper but under my truck was virtually free from snow & putting my truck in 4x4 obviously helped. I just had to worry about backing up too far because there is a down slope on the other side of my driveway. Managed to get back to the plowed area & then it took me about 10 little back & fourths in order to get turned around & face OUT the driveway to the street. Too far back & there was the slope....too far foward & there is a ditch. Couldn't get my window open to look outside either (frozen shut).....so I inched my way around....& SUCCESS.

Put Leo back in the house because it was way too cold for them to hang around in my truck for the several hour appointment I was heading for (migraine treatment that I had missed for 2 months.....first I was sick with bronchitis & last week them messed up my appointment). I didn't even bother changing my cloths as it was already 15 minutes to make it to my appointment 50 minutes away. I had to go the long way around because the quick way, is through the winding road which goes down through the KY river palisades....beautiful but not safe in this weather. I made my way over to the highway through simi plowed country roads & when I got to the highway & tried to go 60 mph on the clear road, my truck started riding really rough......hmmmmm found a clear plowed parking lot to pull into & got out my slower than slow air compressor & checked my tires......low but not horrible but too low to safely drive on that far......so I sat there & filled the tires with air. My aluminum wheels don't hold their seal in the really cold weather. I had one tire resealed already this year...wish they had just done all of them.....so another 15+ minutes & I was back on the road.

Honestly I was really proud of myself, I arrived only 1 hour after they wanted me there.....I had already called & let them know the time I was on my way & when I thought I would be there & I came close. Heading home it was after 5pm. I needed to stop at my house to get a charged phone battery & check with a neighbor who I saw was totally snowed in still (she lost her husband to cancer just before Christmas). I thought, hey, just pull into the drive enough to be off the road & run into the house.....however, when I tried to reverse my way out even in 4x4, the tires just spun & I went nowhere up the small slope. So in my infinite wisdom, I thought....hey, just pull forward & turn around where you turned around before....if it worked then, it should work now.....but the snow was more icy & I had packed it down so it was more slippery & oops, that slop that is next to my driveway.....well, I found it. Backed up just a little too far & got my truck STUCK. Spinning tires just made piles of snow. I really needed to get to the pharmacy....has to do with the date of filling the prescription & really needed it done. I didn't give up on my truck even though it was now after dark.

Got my cell phone light on, got my snow shovel & started moving snow away from under the back tires. Gunned the accelerator & poof, I was free. Ended up getting turned around & out to the pharmacy. Sat there for awhile & then headed home. On the way home I decided to check the outside temp that registers on my truck....I actually took a picture of it because I didn't believe that my truck would even register anything that cold (-19F)......but I accomplished EVERYTHING I had set out to do that day.....worked at it from 11am until after 9pm....but I got through it without any damage.

It was too cold to even go outside on Friday....it never got above 0F. Then Saturday.....we had a winter weather advisory.....snow, sleet, then RAIN!!!!.....crud, RAIN most of the day. It turned the snow into a snow cone made of water.....we still have a lot of snow but it's so wet & then freezing. What a horrible way to end a beautiful week of snow....I like it better when it just melts itself away rather than getting washed away.

I had to get out into that on Saturday to take a friend to run some errands (doesn't own a vehicle). Had to fill my tires again.....didn't have a rain coat & my down jacked ended up socked along with ALL my layers.....not a smart thing to do.

On the way home, I live on a curving, sloping, country road....it was so beautiful I wanted to go back I get pictures.....got turned around, started down the road toward the creek & my house & there was a car behind me. I pulled over a bit too far & ended up in the ditch with 2 wheels.....but the guy got around me....couldn't get the truck out until I realized I wasn't in 4x4 at that time....I put it in 4x4 & slowly went forward & right back onto the road where one NORMALLY drives. Don't know what I would do without my truck.....it gets me into & out of a LOT OF TROUBLE.

Everything is still covered with snow....even though it's slushy now. It's going to last for awhile because the temps aren't going to be above freezing for the next week or so.......

We have only had to deal with this for a week & it's fun.....not sure I would feel like that if it went on for months.....but that's why I chose KY to move to rather than Wyo or the more northern states. Glad that my horse isn't here right now though....don't think a California born & raised Salle Francais TB mare would like this weather very much especially since I don't have a barn & will only have a run-in shed.....she's nice & warm right now in California in 75-80F weather.

You deserve much credit eskielover. It sounds like you did a very nice job maneuvering in the snow. I've been doing it for 30 years and still run into trouble.
It is worth it though. I can't stop staring at my snowy backyard. Wish my frontyard looked as pretty as the backyard

Em and Eskie, You both would have laughed at me on Saturday trying to get home from work. I white knuckled it home! What should have taken 15 minutes took an hour!!! Major panic attack, I-95 was at a standstill so I had to take back roads. It was only about 7-8 inches and then it started sleeting!
The roads were a mess. I don't know how you guys do it!!!! My hats off to you!!!

I really thought it was over. Today is the first full week of spring and there is 3 inches of snow on my car. And it is still snowing.

Yeah light snow here as well!!
Gosh when it is 40 f, we jump for joy..

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LOL....we had our dogwood winter & our blackberry winter down here in KY. No snow since the beginning of March when we got about 1 foot & more toward the north......we had a few warm days...but it's back in the low 20's & teens....ice when I went out & the cold does nothing for the oral surgery I had yesterday......I have been staying inside next to my room Heaters I have set to 75 just trying to stay warm....think body is still in a level of shock after the surgery......

Hmmmmm guess at least 3 inches is better than 3 feet?????..look on the bright side.

I was walking around in a favorite t-shirt this morning (no sweatshirtS). then hubby had to tell me temp. 18 degrees. It is sad that 18 does not seem that cold to me.

It seemed like we were warming up, two days of 40 F, then we got another 4-5 inches yesterday. It will be over when?

The poor kiddoes are going to be bundled up or buried trying to do Easter Egg hunts in 2 feet of snow still.

Lol...won't have to work hard hiding eggs in the snow...kids can use their tracking in the snow skills to try & find them. Might not find all till the melt..but at least they will basically stay refrigerated

Here we go even more.... I have heard the phrase April showers bring May Flowers. What happens when those showers are snow showers???? Yes we have had snow showers all morning!!!!

I wish our flash flooding was snow showers honestly.....I like snow much better than muddy rain.....YICK!!!!

I do remember getting a snow shower in April last year.....Every April I usually volunteer at the horse park on the decoration crew for the Rolex 3 day eventing show......but last year I was sick & trying to deal with my migraine & change of MD issues so I was having pain medication problems....but remember looking out at the snow & thinking....oh my....all the beautiful flowers were going to end up covered in snow & then they would have to replant it all.....many times with freezing weather we use that tobacco cloth they use to spread over the tobacco crops...we had over 30 jumps we had to cover the flowers on that way.......out there all night getting that done......ugh....messed up my volunteer work this year having major oral surgery done 2 weeks ago.....I'm still hurting & no energy....glad I didn't have it done in January like was first scheduled because they I wouldn't have been able to play out in the snow like I got to....wouldn't have had any energy to do that......UGH....I'm sleeping most of the day as it is.

Woke to 3 more inches yesterday. The poor crocuses and daffofils that started to come up in some actual bare spots of hope are now buried. Heard this makes 181" this winter, getting closer to the record. I have never been around this much snow and glad I wasn't here for that record. When it covers over the windows, it creeps me out. Just super tired of it.

I was reminded yesterday that snow is the poor man's fertilizer. Not sure if its true but it's what "they" say.

It might be time to close this thread until next year I have been outside for three days, sweatshirt and shoe less. I just had therapy outside. My idea, but when the other therapists saw us, I told my T she could take credit for the idea. Therapy is so much better when you not in a stuffy office. The closest people were 2 benches away and had Johnny Cash blarin'. and I almost canceled on therapy today.

Yes, our horses are now getting swimming lessons in the fields......ponds that never were ponds before......think we will be growing rice rather than alfalfa or corn this year........probably no more snow to speak of however last year even here in KY we got snow the end of April just after they put the flowers out for the Rolex 3 day eventing show.....we always worry about freezing but snow...& that was last year.....oh well.....so goes the weather....just wants to make sure we know we aren't in control.

Ah yes, I always enjoyed therapy in the park in Calif.......here my psychologist has a window to the outside so it's not that closed in feeling.....yep she rates well....huge grass lawn out in front of the building also so it's all green looking out her window.