It Snowed at My House

[roadweasel]

http://www.motorworldonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=12&pictureid=379
It snowed 30" at my house, 20 miles north of Spokane, WA! No, that's not my house, that's the woodshed in front of my house.
In Spokane the old record was 13" in 24 hrs and we blasted that out of the snow-park with 19" in 24 hours at the airport.
Police are asking everyone to stay home, businesses are closed, snowplows can't keep up. It's something to see, the snowstorm of the century.

[J_Simmons]

since you cant go any where good time to do some MWO work haha

[hos1981]

I'd be out on my snowmobile, I thing? I don't know, I mean I don't know if it could go in 30inches of snow, It's a 1980 Skidoo Blizzard a year older than me.

[hos1981]

Ya, Give the snow mobile a break.

[camarokid]

hey there now thats looking like saskatchewan! welcome to my world of snow at the moment lol!

[hos1981]

Sorry to post so much but I got what I though was a funny story, A friend of mine moved to canada and they had a little 1 foot deep swiming pool in there backyard for his son. He woke up one day and looked in the yard and there was a moose laying in it. LOL I never seen a real moose. Atleast not down here in Pa. If I find the picture I'll post it.

[camramrod]

yeap that loos like snow to me...lol thay aer saying we are getting am ice storm here tonight in central indiana

[roadweasel]

Funny you should mention a moose - had one in my front yard last year twice during that big snow.
http://www.motorworldonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=12&pictureid=331
Lookin more and more like home, eh camarokid?

[Ayce]

And I hit one in July. 6-700 lb @ 100 kph will do a number on a 96 Grand Caravan's window, which my wife can attest to. :eek:

[Wraith]

Ah, yes, the classic moose tales of lore. They must be retold for the new generation.

[roadweasel]

Just got this one in today's email. Another story for the youngsters to ooh and ahh and check on snopes about:

Pogo Moose Incident - Fairbanks , Alaska

'They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles.

The moose are rutting right now and very agitated.

He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables.

When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment,

the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went

searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground.

He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly peeved!'


http://www.motorworldonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=38&pictureid=382

[wcmich16]

Just got this one in today's email. Another story for the youngsters to ooh and ahh and check on snopes about:

Pogo Moose Incident - Fairbanks , Alaska

'They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles.

The moose are rutting right now and very agitated.

He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables.

When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment,

the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went

searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground.

He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly peeved!'


http://www.motorworldonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=38&pictureid=382
wow man, and about the moose in your yard, be careful, they can charge at any time. ive seen it happen and wouldnt wana piss one off!

[hos1981]

The big thing down here in Northeast Pennsilvainia are Deer, Though I hit a bear once with my exgirlfriend's 87 Buick Lasaber. At the time I was still in high school and a few friends in autobody fixed it for free. All it really needed was a grill and headlight, they pulled the hood out alittle to. I was going about 40mph when I hit the bear and it flew about 10-15 feet and yiped real loud. I drove anothere mile or so before I got out of the car to check the damage. Afterwards we went to the police department and they called the game commision and from what they said we probably only bruised it.
On a side note we got about 8 inches of snow and we're suppose to get snow christmas eve, Can't wait Snow+Snowplow=$$$ Merry Chistmas Everyone!!!

[camarokid]

that is so weird lol./

[[WC]streetrod]

No school that day lol.

[JustMe]

I'm reporting no snow!
I live in Sydney Australia, it's 40 degrees celsius right now, and has been for a few days.

I wish it'd damn snow.

[roadweasel]

We have parents ready to kill or sell their children - they were supposed to go back to school Monday, but because of all the snow (now rain and flooding) school is still closed. The sidewalks are so snowed/iced in kids trying to walk to school would have to walk in the middle of the road.
We have had almost 70 local businesses roof collapses and countless private property collapses.
The local stations were advertising that anyone who shows up in Spokane with a snow shovel can be put immediately to work at $20.00 per hour.
It's been an amazing record snowfall, and now it's 40 (f) and raining, almost 2 feet of snow melted yesterday alone so now if you come to Spokane you should wear hip waders.

[camarokid]

we had about a foot of snow just fall over night. its crazy and fun to watch people drive in this weather. Weather has been decently warm this winter, we just have that lovely cold as hell wind lol!

[CarLuva]

Hey you all are making me miss home with all of this talk of moose and snow. I grew up in Maine, but we don't have much of either of those in northern Virginia where I live now. :(

[CarLuva]

Well, just because I said that, we're getting 2-4 inches of snow today. Yay! :top:

[ForcedInduction]

We gots snow in Indiana too...heh. Not that much by any means, but I think it's measuring about 6-7 inches depending on where you measure. We will also be getting more snow~ Here's the scene directly in front of my house, I just went outside and snapped this(when I first started writing this post).

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/6232/09snowstratte5.th.jpg (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=09snowstratte5.jpg)
(It's a bit darkened...and I even brigtened it a few notches...but too much brightness and it washed out. My Cannon Power Shot is pretty good at auto correction, so it is about as good as can be expected with that much white.)

Needless to say, there's school closings and the whole lot here too. If we got 30" people around here would probably go into shock and have no idea what to do, heh.

[J_Simmons]

yah here in KY we are gettin just ice..

[gcountach]

yah here in KY we are gettin just ice..

Yea, I've been up since 10am and only now been able to look at the forums. Electricity has been going out all around us (in surrounding counties too). Raining on everything and the ~20 degree temp makes it freeze before it trickles off, causing a ton of ice build up. Already had one major limb come down on our dog fence...

crap, lights are flickering again. Thank god for this UPS.... GOTTA GO!

[KEN]

I feel your pain guys. Thinking about calling off and working on MWO tomorrow lol!

[J_Simmons]

I feel your pain guys. Thinking about calling off and working on MWO tomorrow lol!

Now thats what i like to hear.....get a lot done so u can release betta beta before the planned sunrise date lol.

[FuzzyDice21]

I feel your pain guys. Thinking about calling off and working on MWO tomorrow lol!

Ya but it cant be all work and no play when it snows you got to go sledding and build forts and of course the all american snowball fight *starts throwing snowballs*:aetsch:

[ROC'N 86]

well its been a frozen hell around here in KY. We had around 2 inches of ice and 4-6 inches of snow. Where i am at, we (the fire dept) have been going around clearing roads and trying to help the ambulance get around. We are running low on the cities water supply and dont have any power. Im on because of our little generator and they said it will be anywhere from 1 week to 3 weeks till its all fixed. No stores are open and no gas is being sold around here. Power polls were snapped like twigs. Its been pretty crazy. So i understand where you guys are comming from. Good luck and be safe. -Matt

[gcountach]

Incase no one has noticed, me, ROC'N 86, and J_Simmons all live in the same (or adjacent) counties in Kentucky. Ice was awful. It rained for what seemed like 18 hours straight in ~20 degree temps. Everything froze, trees couldn't handle the weight and snapped, and a lot of telephone poles and wires couldn't bear the excessive weight of the ice and just snap or broke in half.

I lost power after my last post in about 2 hours and I'm right now only online because we got a 5000 watt generator cranking. We were lucky enough to be able to live on a highway that was cleared quick and was able to get to town to get plenty of gasoline. ROC'N 86's county in in worse shape. Last I heard, their water pumps are offline and without generators they'll run out of water.

Bad for me is a huge branch came down on our service line (the line from the main pole to your house) and knocked off the neutral (ground) wire. That means our house is going to be on the later end of that 1-3 weeks estimate as power companies will try to get power to substations before they go to individual houses. But so long as we have gasoline it's not much different from normal. I just can't get online as much as I have been and I got to carry around a flashlight so I'd say I got off pretty easy compared to a lot.

Oh, and all our snow froze after it fell, so I couldn't make a snowman:( Funny enough, first thing I did when I got to get online was check email and then head directly to this forums to check out all the news. I may have a problem...:p

[roadweasel]

Good luck! Don't be like them idiots who ran their generator in the garage (attached to the house) and asphyxiated themselves. Generator needs to be OUTSIDE so the exhaust is not venting into the home. Also when we had our ice storm 10 yrs back people were trying to use hibachi's and bbq's indoors and dying of asphyxiation. Please be careful, and good luck getting your power back on. Ours was out for almost 3 weeks back then - I'm glad I have a wood stove!

[ROC'N 86]

Well the Ky National Guard came today to give out food and i believe that they will be here for a while until its all fixed. Which i have heard around 30 days... *sigh* But oh well you cant rush it. We still dont have power. This is day 6. -Matt

[J_Simmons]

we got lucky ours came back on today...Feel sorry for those who didnt get it back because i was miserable with out it.

[ROC'N 86]

we got lucky ours came back on today...Feel sorry for those who didnt get it back because i was miserable with out it.

Yea it sucks. Since the weather head was torn off it will be longer for us. The neibors house has power now even though they arnt there. All the lights are on... Must be nice. Our lights are on but thats thanks to the huge generator lol. I cant wait for the power to be fixed :(

[Big Popps]

You guys have it lucky.

I currently have 45-60 cm (24" +) on the ground, and it keeps coming. Canada really isn't all it's cracked up to be. I scraped about an inch of salt/sand mixture off my car the other day and it's coated again.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caon0562

[FuzzyDice21]

good luck to all you in KY and all the other states that wacked with ice I wish the best for all of yall and your families. try and stay warm and dry and find your way to shelters if possible.

[ROC'N 86]

good luck to all you in KY and all the other states that wacked with ice I wish the best for all of yall and your families. try and stay warm and dry and find your way to shelters if possible.
Thanks man, The national guard is set up at both schools here and then across the street at a church. Also we got i believe all the parts to get our weather head so that we can get it back together and inspeced and then get hooked up with the power. There is about a block on my street that doesn't have power yet... to bad im in that block lol -Matt

[ROC'N 86]

well about 20 minutes ago we finally got power after 10 days. The inspector still needs to show up but we are back up with power!

[gcountach]

Lucky.

I've been spending the last week at my friends LANing it up every night because our house STILL has no power. You can go down the highway we live on and the houses go dark at the same point today as they did a week ago.

[ROC'N 86]

that sucks man but at least you have a place to go and hit up LAN parties. I havn't played 360 in like a week and a half.

[gcountach]

Well, we just now got our power back last night... longest 3 weeks ever... Got to see some neat thing working on a power line nearby though. Just as I said I would do earlier in this topic, here's some pictures.

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q243/gcountach/Jan%2009%20Ice%20Storm/PDR_1206.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q243/gcountach/Jan%2009%20Ice%20Storm/PDR_1186.jpg
R.I.P. Corvair (1963-2009)

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q243/gcountach/Jan%2009%20Ice%20Storm/PDR_1234.jpg
Some neat little rig they were using in fields to fix and put up poles.

[Nismo240]

I live in the northern part of KY and one of my friend's cars got crushed by a tree. It was a brand new charger. It was a sad sight, the roof was caved in about 3 inches and the back glass was busted out.