RDM

That about says it all for our cursed affliction.

Would love it to sn+++ so much you have to close, disband and/or otherwise strategically detonate the PR for at least the rest of the 20/21 season and at the risk of being greedy next season too.

Stepped away for a while... Upon returning 4 hours later the message ticker said "125+ messages" Brings a smile and that special feeling we all get when "it's on!"

Good to see you back Midlo. Hope you can get that snow machine going again soon in your back yard. Miss the depth reports.

Wow. Going anywhere ivo of a faulty 7.2kV feeder in the rain is brave. Seen first hand what a faulty feeder on a 2.5MW generator can do and it ain't pretty.

rotflmao - that's good. It may be a good thing neither one of us is a carpenter!

Does that mean you've lobbed of 2 fingers and all your toes? I can still count to 21.

26 currently - got down to 25. A tad chilly out.

Dunno - our home is at 385' asl. Merrifield is around 400' (at the Metro). International Drive and 123 is the highest point in FFCO (520') other than the transfer station at 66 and FFCO Pky, which at 550' is the highest point in FFCO. Sad the highest point in FFCO is on top of a landfill.

It's snowing here just outside Vienna! Ahhhhhh.....

Great - I used to hang out in 7-Sp a lot years ago before settling down. Had a group of telemark friends that were a blast to hang out with in the Foggy Goggle. 20+ years later and an untold number of additional pounds and it would be ugly to hit the slopes again. Lots of good memories from up that way.

Take em to 7-Springs in PA. Only 3 hours and if anyone around here has snow, they do. Put the kids in a ski school and head to the back side and hit Giant Steps. Plenty of non-ski things to do for the kids in the lodge too.

Next they'll be calling in Kenau Reeves and Adam Sandler as replacements... Sad situation across much of the league.

We had a 2 day 3 foot event here in 2016 (30" is close enough for me). I'd like to experience a really good LES in Buffalo. Compare it to some other events I've had the good fortune of experiencing. FWIW - Experienced the aftermath of a 3 day 3 meter event in Sass Fee, Switzerland in... I think it was 89. Had to delay the departure of our ski bus from Frankfurt because all the roads were closed at altitude in CH due to avalanche threat. We departed Fkt around midnight, drove all night and got to the resort about 9 in the morning; only to learn the slopes were closed due to the excessive snowfall, the type of snow and the continued avalanche threat (the type of snow was key as we found out later). We heard the charges all day from the helicopters and howitzers as they initiated slides in the most avalanche prone areas. Got up the next morning with everyone psyched for a great day of powder. Heading up the lift we saw only a few paths made by the snow cats with people on piste barely moving. Couldn't figure out what was going on until we got off the lift a the top and saw a lot of the Swiss riding the lift back down with this look of "don't even think about trying to ski" on their faces. Being a group of undeterred Americans we figured it was just them and there was no way we were going to miss 3 meters of fresh powder. In short order we quickly figured out the Swiss were indeed the smart ones. The sun from the day before had put a nice thick crust on top of the snow. So much so once you got on top of the crust, you were sliding out of control until something slowed your decent, like a fall. When you broke through the crust the underlying snow was so light it was like depth hoar. There was almost no substance to it. People who fell took 15 mins or more to just get oriented vertical again, if they could do so on their own. People without powder straps on their skis were in real trouble if their bindings released. I was on telemark skis, which don't release, so that was a big advantage. After about 2 hours of it, many of those in our group and around us had long lost the sense of humor in it. In some cases, people were freaking out. The ski patrol initiated a rescue operation with the snow cats in areas where they could go. In many areas, the light snow made the steeper areas inaccessible even to the snow cats. We finally made it down to the next ski lift station and rode the lifts back down to town. We don't get that kind of light stuff here and heard later from the locals that storm was a fluke. Japan gets some whopper snowfalls. If you get a chance to experience one, think you'll be impressed.

Ahem... Is that another form of slant sticking? If so, how low do you mow? Down to where a trace is measurable?

Nice ambiance. How do you keep the deer from eating the arborvitae? We've lost more arborvitae than I can count to them vermin. Even planted the "deer resistant" off-shoots. Ha, scoff at the concept. GD deer will eat about anything, so it seems. Live less than a mile from the Vienna city limits and had nearly 20 in our back yard last week at the same time. Like a bunch of Weight Watchers at an all you can eat smorgasbord as they mowed through.

Moved this here to avoid cluttering up the main thread. With respect, I want it to snow more than anyone! (joking - we ALL want it to snow more than anyone else). I'm nearly 60 and still have an insatiable appetite for snow. My wife of nearly 25 years knows it's coming every season. The hope, the despair, the sleepless nights hoping... Just happen to live in the wrong place for it apart from our occasional KU shellacking we all dream about. FWIW - you must add one thing to your bucket list. That is to experience one of the dumpings ivo the western facing slopes of the Japanese Alps on Honshu. The moist flow off the ocean with upslope effect results is unbelievable volumes measured in meters, not feet. Zao is known for their "Snow Monsters", which are the wind-swept snow-encrusted tops of pine trees barely peeking out of the 60+ feet of snow. It is a sight that we must all experience at least one time in our lives. Anything else anywhere is a distant 2nd.

Nice shot. Happy Thanksgiving PSU. Is that wine with a beer chaser?

Interesting tidbit... My 62 Gravely walk behind mower uses the same piston, Delco starter and oil filter as a small block Chevy. They are OEM components not something that just happens to fit.

Can relate to the 400. One of my best friends in HS had a Firebird with the 400 small block. Warped heads were an issue too. The larger bore took away stiffness in the block and made for smaller water jackets. All meant meant too much heat. Think he and his dad replaced the heads a couple of times. They even put in a new short block too before Ohio winters and GM shoddy corrosion techniques of the time prompted the onset of cancer. Believe the 400 was the same block used on the 305, 327 and 350, which were all great engines. Think the difference between the 350 and the 400 in the Firebird of the late 70's was only about 10 hp. Hardly worth it. Across the board, the era from 72 to the early 80's is forgettable wrt performance from the big 3 domestic manufacturers. Of course, as losetoa6 can attest, the 3.8L turbo in the GNX really helped amp up the performance factor again, at least for GM.

Dunno - it happened again. You have two posts numbered 57. haha. Just curious about the oddity of it.

haha - funny video. That snowball is as big as the victim. That sort of experience can be traumatic for a 4 year old. I was expecting to see a snowball about 3x the size clobber the dude in the blue jacket, but alas that was not to be. I hope none of us have to visit the panic room this season, for anything. Hope the lights in the room stay off so there's nary a glimmer of light under the crack at the bottom of the door's threshold. That way from even a long distance off everyone can see the panic room is closed and shall remain so. Hell, if Jebman can stay optimistic from way out in Texas on our chances this year, we gotta muster the same on our end.

Hummm - how do you have two posts, both number 54? Interesting. 10 foot drifts would be great. If we had wind about 20mph stronger in Jan 16 we would have had some 10' drifts around here.

I've heard about 93 from colleagues and neighbors who lived here then. Sadly, I was overseas in 93 and missed that one too.

It was hard to say how much snow we got. They say in our area it was between 12 -18" but it all drifted. On one side of our house it was bare grass. On the other the drifts were several feet hight. It was a challenge even for our dad's Gravely with the snowblower. The night before the storm hit my dad and I were at the local private airport just outside New Carlisle working on an engine rebuild. The official forecast still called for just snow showers the next day. The driving rain was accompanied by a sudden drop in air pressure. So much so our ears were popping. My dad said something was afoot when he noticed how rapidly the pressure in the altimeter of our small plane was dropping. Altimeters work off of air pressure, so if you know your altitude, you can determine the air pressure. There were times we could adjust the altimeter every 2-3 minutes. When my dad saw that he said we need to get going. When we arrived home a few minutes later my dad immediately starting calling the sheriff, his fellow fire fighters and the owner of a small farm implement dealer north of town. He told them all to meet at the firehouse in town where they had a big meeting about an hour later. They all thought our dad was nuts because it was still raining and a little breezy, but nothing major. He told them about the pressure drop and said something special was going on. They all went home, got supplies and the waited for it to hit. The changeover was about 1am and by 6am people were already calling in with lost power, reports of people stranded etc. Everyone used the firehouse as the ops center and went out in the areas outside our town to rescue stranded people in cars with a parade of vehicles. Snowmobiles lead the way to survey the terrain for downed trees, power poles and ID cars encased in the snow so the following entourage didn't run into them and get stuck in the drifts. Next went the a large Case loader with a 12 foot angled blade from the implement dealer with several 4wd Jeeps following. The Case even had chains on and it got stuck a few times. The crews would go out for a few hours and come back with the rescued people. Everyone huddled in the firehouse until someone would offer to take them in. We had a family of 6 who we didn't know before stay at our home for over a week and a farmer who stayed several days. Half the fire department took in someone who they didn't know before. That's what people did then because it's the right thing to do.