If you think your snow is bad....

[midhilldexters]

This is just north of me. Some have had a whole year of snow in 3 days. Some have been trapped in their cars for almost 2 days. It's a mess.

Carol K

[RedRidge]

Ugh... And I thought 11 degrees while milking this morning was bad.
Kinda puts things in perspective.
Stay safe up there.

[ladena]

Oh my goodness, I can not even imagine living somewhere with that much snow. You can barely see a little daylight in the upper left corner. Stay safe and keep us posted so we know you are okay.

[legendrockranch]

OMG I been wondering how things are going for you? Are you able to get out and about?

Barb

[ssimons]

About the only thing I can think of to say about the first picture is WOW! And not in a good way. It almost makes me thankful for merely having to break ice out of the water troughs...........NOT! Seems every geographical region has it's own good and bad situations. Hope you folks can see to the chores in spite of the weather , and all the creatures and caretakers make it through ok.









SSimons
Simons Bros. Livestock
Magna, Utah

[lonecowhand]

That is amazing, I almost forgot about that kind of winter. Get out the snowshoes and check on those old neighbors!

Carole, where are your cows during these times?

[Fran]

Wow!

[midhilldexters]

I'm doing fine here, the thing with lake effect is that the bands can be narrow and you can get hammered in one area while 20 miles away you have sunshine.
Unfortunately the next band of a 1-2 feet will hit the same places that are already buried. We will just get about 8". Feel so bad for the farmers in the high snow area, and hope they are ok.
People got trapped on the thruway for almost two days, getting buried in their cars, frightening. There are still cars and trucks stuck there. Driving bans are still being enforced, for obvious reasons. It's something we are used to in this area, if you are in a band it can be feet at a time, as in this case. Home of the Buffalo Bills team has 4 feet of snow inside the stadium, they generally pay people $10 an hour to shovel, lol they have a game Sunday so they better get shoveling soon.
My cows are pretty tough, but we had high winds and their hay bale was way over the other side of a pasture. I had noticed they were not going out as much as they should have been, so we got a bale out nearer the barn for them. They don't get locked in the barn at all, they come and go as they please, they make trails through the snow so they do fine. I'm not sure how we would have done with that amount of snow at one time, we may have locked them in just so it was easier for us!
Just thought I'd share the pic as it's sometimes hard to describe the conditions you sometimes farm in to people in different parts of the country.

Carol K

[lakeportfarms]

Carol, you were pretty fortunate that the wind direction was blowing a bit North of you. Like you said, with lake effect the streamers can set up over one area for quite a while, and when you have the optimum conditions (early season warm lake, cold temperatures, long "fetch" across the lake), you can get clobbered with feet of snow, but drive 20 miles out of the band and there will be little to no snow.

The bright side is if the cold temperatures continue Lake Erie will be freezing up early and shut down the lake snows. The down side is that the temperatures are due to warm up this weekend with rain. That's going to be a mess, and I bet you'll hear of more than a few roof collapses next week in the hard hit areas with the rain soaked snow unless they get up there and shovel them off. At least it's easy to get up to the roof, and if you fall off it's no big deal

And some of you thought us Northerners only had to shovel our sidewalks and driveways...lol.

[hollydzie]

Oh my gosh, I can not even fathom that. I am now 51 and still have not ever even seen snow. :0) I think I will keep it that way too....LOL

[midhilldexters]

Holly sometimes I wonder why I never stayed in Texas or Florida!

Hans some roof tops look scary and some with the high winds we had don't look bad at all. I'm sure there will be some tragedies though, unfortunately it's the old barns that succumb the most. Like you said it is due to warm, so after dumping another possible 2 feet, by next Tues/Wed it will be in the 40's and raining, that's another nightmare waiting to happen.

Carol K

[legendrockranch]

How is everyone up north doing? Would like an update.

Barb

[midhilldexters]

Well, I am due to get 12+" tonight, not to be complained about since so many just 45 minutes north are buried.
We are now hearing about roofs collapsing, a local BJ'S was the first big place I heard of this morning. They are now getting pounded again in the same area. The I90 is still closed for 130 miles, and even in my small area they are stopping big trucks from even going to the area.

We now have some of the stores that can open, running out of produce, some gas stations running out of fuel. Of course they can't get refilled as the trucks can't get through. People running low on meds, and troopers and others running to get them meds.

Death toll is up to 8. Very sad.

After Friday, the temps go up and then it rains. That will be another mess, the snow that fell was very heavy and the rain will make it worse. Some have had their windows and doors cave in with the pressure from the snow.

Carol K

[zephyrhillsusan]

Wow, so sorry people are going through that, but I'm glad most of you are okay. We had arranged with my 83-year old aunt and a younger aunt to meet them in south MO (near Springfield) to get stuff from my dad's house and bring it back. Of course we picked the worst possible weekend to be pulling a horse trailer! We ended up on tiny back roads, one lane in each direction, covered with snow and more falling. In about 50 miles we passed four accidents, one of which looked quite serious. We almost ran out of gas in the Ozarks--had no idea you could drive so far without finding a gas station! By God's grace we got to a little two-pump place in the middle of nowhere after the indicator was already on E. We finally pulled over in a church parking lot and while I tried to raise AAA on the spotty cell phone, my husband went in and found out there was this tiny station a mile on. Whew! The trip back was lots easier without the snow, just a loooong 11 hours. I now realize why we live in Georgia, and I'll try to remember next time I'm melting in the summer humidity!