Saturday cruise

[Wandering_About]

Came back to the farm in northeast Nebraska for the weekend for a bit of relaxation before going into a couple very, very busy weeks. We have lots of snow here. Lots of snow. So I decided to do one last cruise in the old F150 to take a bit of a record of the snow cover for future generations. I've seen some bad winters here, but this is the worst I've ever seen it by far. Hope you enjoy the pictures:

A drift about 8 ft high right along the highway. There are tons of drifts between 4-8 ft deep on the highways in the area, they have put a lot of miles on the snowblowers this winter. This is the first time I've ever seen snowblowers used on the highways around here.

Snow piled up on the road by the farm

With the pickup for scale

The view from the top of the snowdrifts a ways west of the farm. Those are broken-off highline poles in the background.

Deep snow in the valleys... Normally this is deep native grasses and excellent game habitat year round, now it's pretty much worthless and offers little cover since it's under so much snow.

Because of bad weather during harvest, there is a lot of corn still in fields. Around the edges, the drifts can be as deep as the corn is tall.

After getting closer to the river and into some timber, I found a few critters scratching for food.

 

[velo0826]

those are some great pictures its crazy to see so much snow on the highways and stuff...around here if they even say the word snow in the forecast all of the grocery stores sell out of bread and milk (which I do not understand since they spoil the fastest) we are lucky to get more than one snow a year which is 1-2 inches usually. I live in SC btw

 

[smustian]

That is one of the reasons that I could not wait to get the hell out of Nebraska. The USAF made me stay there for 4 1/2 years. Never been back since then.

Glad that you enjoy it there. Takes a special kind of person to endure the extremes in weather/temps year after year.

 

[333rm]

Those are some really good pics, I can't believe that you guys got that much snow. So much for "global warming".

 

[ratamahatta]

i like them turkeys!!!!! great pics!!!!!

 

[amroc]

I'm over in Fort Collins, along the Colorado front range. I know how it is seeing the huge snow drifts. When in high school, we had a snow day start after we had 2 feet dumped in one day, with drifts up to 8 feet forming in the school lawn. Just don't get stuck out there!

 

[1066vik]

nice pics - we're having the storm today - so far only about 6-7", but drifting pretty good.
At present visibility is decent. When the wind was blowing more an hour ago it was less than 100 feet.

 

[Danito]

Love the pics mate, thanks for posting. Are they fallow deer there?

 

[sweet_hitch-hiker]

I wish we would get that much snow here once. we had a little less than 2ft total accumulation/

 

[Mistwalker]

Awesome pics! As long as it's not white rabbits you're after that snow makes hunting easier, here the animals and the woods are pretty much the same color all winter.

If we got that much snow here it would shut everything down for days!