Do You In The UK...

[SketchUp Guru]

...have snowblowers? My father needs a larger one.

 

[RobertMP]

There is enough snow left on the driveway to bring London to a standstill!

never seen snow like that here. Well maybe once in the 60's when I was a kid.... but I was smaller then :lol:

 

[caretaker]

Make me a snow man please...
Reg

 

[PowerTool]

Used to have,but have all long-since been decommisioned.
Remember snow in the mid-eighties in Northern England with drifts the same height as the wagon cab,and only being able to see the road because the snow blower had been through (far too deep for snowploughs to cope with)
The road had been cleared,and so had the local pub car park,but everything else was white (the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge,if anyone knows it - where the local custom was to go there if the weather was bad,and hope to get snowed in :lol: )

Andrew

 

[WellsWood]

S - n - o - w ??

What's that then?

 

[SketchUp Guru]

That thin layer of snow wouldn't be enough for us to bother with but the snowplow had just gone up the street and filled the end of the driveway.

Make me a snow man please...
Reg

OK, you're a snowman.

Actually that's the snow at my father's house. He's in southern Wisconsin while we're north and west of him in southeastern Minnesota. We have quite a lot of snow compared to what we've had in the recent past but not as much as he has now. He got 14" in the last storm.

Here's the snowman my son made. My son is the one on the left.

 

[Digit]

I lived in a 5 bed bungalow years ago and woke one morning to find it buried to the roof along the entire length!
It's banned here in west Wales.

Roy.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I know you've had a lot of snow over there Dave my niece was stuck in Lake Tahoe last week they had two foot overnight. :lol:

This is what you call deep

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I imagine you've heard about the trains trapped by snow and the cars swept off roads and houses swept off their foundations. Thankfully we don't have those problems here on the "edge of the prairie."

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I imagine you've heard about the trains trapped by snow and the cars swept off roads and houses swept off their foundations. Thankfully we don't have those problems here on the "edge of the prairie."

Yes I was on the phone talking to my brother inlaw last Sunday he was telling my all about it. You mentioned about the trapped trains, that happens in England every year even when we have had about 1/4" of snow :lol:

What about the tornado's then, that is something awful

 

[Digit]

We have twisters here as well my friend, I know, I survived one!
An awe inspiring event I promise you!

Roy.

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Yes, the tornadoes were pretty bad as well. There were some in northern Illinois only a few weeks ago. That's within 75 miles of my father's place. Quite near weather-wise. Strange things are happening.

 

[wizer]

I don't like snow.... I'd love a snow blower though!

 

[RogerS]

Dave, there seems to be something wrong with your camera. All your pictures are coming out very over-exposed and very white.

Jealous - moi?

 

[CNC Paul]

I know you've had a lot of snow over there Dave my niece was stuck in Lake Tahoe last week they had two foot overnight. :lol:

This is what you call deep

I went there a few years ago for a bit if skiing, we had 6 Feet in two days
after they cleared the roads there was loads of cars smashed up the rear ( read write off) by the snow plows.



Paul

 

[Pecker]

When I moved from Southampton to Wales I really thought "great I'll be able see to real snow". Unfortunetly as Digit has said, it's banned here in West Wales. Hummpphh!

Woody

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I went there a few years ago for a bit if skiing, we had 6 Feet in two days
after they cleared the roads there was loads of cars smashed up the rear ( read write off) by the snow plows.

Paul

That's because the drivers of the cars either leave them where they should or get too close. On the prairie where the winds can really blow the snow alot, it isn't too unusual to read of someone driving their SUV into the back of a snow plow. Think of driving your Range Rover into a locomotive.

there are some places where they'll run two or three plows staggeered across the highway to clear them. With their wing blades down they make quite a sight.

I need to think about my sailboat but it is very difficult to do so when the weather is like this. On the bright side, today the high is forecast to be 21°F sometime this morning (it is 22°F as I type) and then cool a bit to a low of -20°F and windchill around -40°F. :roll:

 

[RogerS]

Dave

I have always been impressed with the way the US is organised to keep things moving. While working for a Long Island s/w company, we held a sales rally in January. They curtailed it to fly us Europeans home early as the snow could close the airports. What snow? Blue skies. Heck...I was staying on so I wasn't fussed. Next day ..bit quiet with everyone gone...still no snow and then suddenly at noon the skies darkened and, boy, did it snow. Must make weather forecasting easy seeing the weather progress across 3000 miles of land!

Come the next day, despite 10" of snow, most of the roads were cleared, the mall carparks cleared by freelance contractors who were simply commissioned to stick a blade on the front of their 4x4 and go earn a bit of extra cash. Impressive.

The Scandinavians are also geared up well. While waiting at Oslo airport, I saw 10..yes 10..snow ploughs in staggered formation scrape the snow off the runway followed by two phalanxes of blowers and brushing machines. That was spectacular.

 

[Gordon T]

We had about three inches of snow to wake up to last saturday morning.
It was fantastic, the dogs and I loved it.........it had all melted by dinner time. I suppose thats it till next winter now.

GT

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I've shoveled the sidewalk twice today and it's only 13:10. You can't see it in these pictures but the wind is blowing hard, too.