Anybody want our snow? PLEASE....? Two of our farmer neighbors have come over and plowed us out 6 times. Once we could not get out the front door. The back door was frozen shut. Had to use the hairdryer to thaw the back door then flounder through the drifts to dig out the front door. Mr. ale is 89 years old and he was falling in the stuff. It was thawing yesterday enough to make ice. The heap of snow where the plow scraped off the driveway must be 10 feet tall. Come on over and load up! Yeah....global warming. Right. 😛
Originally posted by ale1552Don't forget to tie a rope from your back porch to the out house so you don't get lost in a blizzard. Is it true that cows are so stupid they'll eat through the snow until their breath freezes their face to the ground and they suffocate ?
Anybody want our snow? PLEASE....? Two of our farmer neighbors have come over and plowed us out 6 times. Once we could not get out the front door. The back door was frozen shut. Had to use the hairdryer to thaw the back door then flounder through the drifts to dig out the front door. Mr. ale is 89 years old and he was falling in the stuff. It was thawing y ...[text shortened]... the driveway must be 10 feet tall. Come on over and load up! Yeah....global warming. Right. 😛
GRANNY.
Originally posted by smw6869That is something I have never heard of. But perhaps they were thinking about cows who have suffocated in a blizzard because the snow plugged up their nostrils. Happens to pheasants, too, and quicker! When I was a kid the winters were so bad that all the livestock was kept in barns. Not anymore. Range cattle were the unlucky ones. We are seeing a lot of dead pheasants along the sides of the roads and the ditches right now. Extreme cold and wind did them in...not the snow per se.
Don't forget to tie a rope from your back porch to the out house so you don't get lost in a blizzard. Is it true that cows are so stupid they'll eat through the snow until their breath freezes their face to the ground and they suffocate ?
GRANNY.
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Originally posted by SmookiePapart from parts of scotland and maybe the higher ground of n. ireland the uk and ireland get very little snow. maybe once each year would there be a few centimeters of snow but rarely any more than that.
Is heavy snow that uncommon there? It snowed in the South?
we're to low to get consistent snow but every so often we get the end of a Russian storm blown our way.
i'm no more than 100 meters above sea level here and i can only really remember it snowing heavily twice in the last 6 years. and by that i mean 5-10cm. sure we get the odd flurry of snow each year, a lot this year actually but it never amounts to anything on the ground.
if we where on higher ground or part of the continent we'd get a lot more snow, snow clouds have a great ability of turning to rain when they travel over seas. the joys of living on an island.
Originally posted by trev33The same places in N. America with your latitude get tons of snow..
apart from parts of scotland and maybe the higher ground of n. ireland the uk and ireland get very little snow. maybe once each year would there be a few centimeters of snow but rarely any more than that.
we're to low to get consistent snow but every so often we get the end of a Russian storm blown our way.
i'm no more than 100 meters above sea level h ...[text shortened]... great ability of turning to rain when they travel over seas. the joys of living on an island.
Thank the warm Gulfstream current for keeping you warm!
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Originally posted by SmookiePi think the storms blow in from the rest of the states or canada to give northeast US all it's snow.
The same places in N. America with your latitude get tons of snow..
Thank the warm Gulfstream current for keeping you warm!
we often get freezing conditions but not very much snow, islands in general don't tend to get a lot of snow, not without a large country near them blowing it in for them anyway.
it's anything but warm here.
Originally posted by trev33I meant relatively warm.. the British Isles are at the same latitude as Hudson Bay in Canada, -40C is the norm there.
i think the storms blow in from the rest of the states or canada to give northeast US all it's snow.
we often get freezing conditions but not very much snow, islands in general don't tend to get a lot of snow, not without a large country near them blowing it in for them anyway.
it's anything but warm here.