Ot:i Hate Winter!

Matt Shade

Matt Shade

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I'm supposed to be delivering hay and straw to the racetrack (thoroughbreds) in about half an hour. It snowed all day yesterday, sunup till about 6:00 at night when it turned to freezing rain.It was still raining when I got up at 5:30 this morning to find out we were under a level III snow emergency.
Then at about 6:15 they decided it was just a level II for our county and level III for all surrounding counties. The rain also switched back to snow.
So I went out to feed the horses. I couldn't even open the side door to our house. It was frozen shut.
So I go out the front door and what do you know, there's a friggin snow drift as high as the front porch. I step out onto it, and there's a slight pause as the icy crust on top supports my weight and then crunch, I break through and almost land on my face.
So I started crunching my way to the barn, the snow is up to my knees and every step I break the ice on top and sink. 25ft into the hundred yard trip I decide I know what a heart attack feels like. My poor old dog has bad hips but insists on going to the barn with me. She loves cold weather, and was waddling along real happy when she broke through and fell on her face. She just laid there and looked at me like WTF? I started to pick her up, but she got moving again, and 15 ft later she's on her nose again. Poor dog must have fell down 10 times on the way to the barn.
So I got the horses fed, made the death march back to the house and shoveled out the side door. Then had to take my knife and chisel the ice off the latch, and all around the door to get it open.
The boss called and we're waiting till 11:00 to haul hay now. But in the end that probably just means more traffic as idiots decide that shopping is an emergency and head to town :grumpy:

Anyone else ready for spring?
 
I feel your pain, Matt. Imagine it snowing like that quite a lot more, and you'll be close to what I have to go through here. I live in the place that always gets dumped on real bad every snowstorm - so much so, the local news delights in making comment about it. :grumpy:

On the lighter side, we got maybe two months and it'll be over. :rolleyes:
 
It doesn't snow here but once every couple or three years, but it only takes that to make me think about a warmer climate. I hate the cold, and the snow just reinforces that feeling that much deeper.

I feel for you guys that get dumped on. I really do hate it for you.

Good luck, and be safe.

Doc
 
I know we don't get it bad that often Jeff. Thats part of the deal though, 2 inches is enough to make people panic. The news has been going non stop telling people to stay at home, where to go if your power goes out, stay off the road, its snowing, stay off the road, its freezing rain, stay off the road. And in the end, the damn news reporters are out driving all over the state to do a special report telling us to stay off the road. And the morons who think they can drive 55 in this **** are still gonna be out there trying to kill me! :grumpy:

Alabama is sounding pretty nice right now Doc :D
 
So do you work for the track, or what's your job there? Your dog sounds real nice, but completley opposite of my dogs. They won't go out in rain, or wheather below 45 if there isn't snow, in which case they devour the sad little bit of snow that we get.
Can't really comment on the cold part- I start complaining at 40degrees, and it just got to 17 last night, and freezing this morning- nothing like yalls, but I feel for ya as much as I can in Texas.
 
Okay so I know I had it coming when I moved to the far north of Canada but I still gotta say this winter thing is really sucking!!! I used to love winter but now I hate it. Yesterday was -41 degrees and we've had snow since early October.

As for my dog she loves the snow too, although she should since she's a Malamute. Winter is probably the only time she's truly comfortable. It's unreal how thick her coat is!

Oh well we're going to Las Vegas in January for the knife show and staying a little while for some holiday time so that'll be a nice break from the cold.

Sean
 
I grew up in MA and we had plenty of snow there, but the last five years we were stationed in Germany cured me of liking snow. We settled in Alabama when I retired from the military, this is where my wife is from. I don't do the snow thing anymore. I have to walk with forearm crutches and they aren't fun to use on wet surfaces, let alone snow and ice. We had a couple of light flurries here the other day, until I went out on the back deck and had a little chat with Mother Nature. She immediately stopped the snow when I pointed out the error of her ways.
 
Tom Militano said:
I grew up in MA and we had plenty of snow there, but the last five years we were stationed in Germany cured me of liking snow. We settled in Alabama when I retired from the military, this is where my wife is from. I don't do the snow thing anymore. I have to walk with forearm crutches and they aren't fun to use on wet surfaces, let alone snow and ice. We had a couple of light flurries here the other day, until I went out on the back deck and had a little chat with Mother Nature. She immediately stopped the snow when I pointed out the error of her ways.
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Yep!!! Fairhaven is a nice place to live since you moved. :barf: :D
It is warm up here today in the 50's, but it is starting to rain. Beats snow every time. :D
My youngest dog loves the cold weather. He is a Keeshond part of the Arctic Breeds.
 
It's +9 here right now, and -10 to -20 with the wind chill factor. Nice, huh? It's supposed to cool down tonight. Matt, too bad about your lousy weather, youngster. I am still waiting for winter to really get here one of these days, and get cold. Sunday, it's supposed to get to +40, a regular heat wave and a good day for squirrel hunting. IG, fried squirrel and gravy!
 
northern ohio is having the worst snow in like 7 years! i got 2 ft. in my back yard! im really upset though, because its wont be here when we go back to school. doesnt that figure? no snow days for us. hope you guys got better luck. at least it'll be a white cristmas.
 
With your money, what's $8.99? Heh heh heh, you ain't fooling me, those dogs would prefer squirrel! Actually, the lobsters are probably a lot cheaper than the squirrels, considering the price of the squirrel rifle, squirrel dog, etc. You are still a rascal, too!
 
John Andrews said:
With your money, what's $8.99? Heh heh heh, you ain't fooling me, those dogs would prefer squirrel! Actually, the lobsters are probably a lot cheaper than the squirrels, considering the price of the squirrel rifle, squirrel dog, etc. You are still a rascal, too!
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Please!!! I can shoot them out of my window with a $30 pellet gun. :p :p
 
weatherman said 3-4 inches for us....more like 3-4mm....:rolleyes:
 
I know what you mean Matt. In Maryland it could be warm one day then you freeze your a$$ off the next. I used to like the snow when I was younger, but the older I get the more it sucks. :grumpy: I'm sick of after almost 30 years of going out at nite to scrap my windows and clean snow off my truck to go to work. Nite work sucks in the winter because they don't worry about cleaning the roads right away. You want to talk about beating the pi$$ out of the news reporters when they scare people with snow, try working in a grocery store with everybody stocking up like it's the end of the world! :mad: The one thing I can't understand is WHY do people feel they need to stock up on toilet paper? Do you really wipe your a$$ more when it snows? :confused: :D It was minus zero wind chills Mon. and 60 degrees Wed. and now 27 on Christmas. Go figure.
Scott
 
Scott....

I find that fact about people stocking up crazy too. I see it here when they even think about calling snow. Everything including bread wiped up off the helves like it is gonna be a blizzard....hell....it melts off in 3 days max!

I had some lady look at me like I was nuts the last time it snowed. I went in to get the makings for dinner that night, and everyone else was pulling 2 carts around behind them! I just don't get it.

Doc
 
Milk and Bread....Milk and Bread....Don't forget the Milk and Bread. :D

I guess if you are snowed in for a few days then a Milk Sandwich might not be bad :eek: :eek:
 
Here, people just stock up for the huge family get togethers. Texas has allot of BIG families- the usual low being 5 people, and the usual max being 12. During Chrismass time, there is absoloutly no b.b.q. whatsoever, but there is always plenty of milk. The bread always leaves with the meat though, but thats just the way Tx is. If there was ever snow, the only other thing to leave en- masse would be the charcoal or propane.
 
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