Snow's a comin'

[boreality]

Snow\'s a comin\'

I don't know if this is post worthy as it happens every year. But here goes.

I thought I was fairly ready for the winter but a foot of rain and snow with drifts and Swallow Street swallowed us. All shoveling no trees. Left our shovels in the driveway at home, duh, be prepared. The rakes were actually not bad for the conditions. It's a glaciation situation that's my inspiration for preparation.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: Snow\'s a comin\'

Jim 454 said that they expect 3-4" of snow in the Twin Cities.

 

[boreality]

Re: Snow\'s a comin\'

More like 1-2" of ice the plows can't touch and a foot of snow with some thick drifts. That would be the old Keewatin (NW wind) bringing down some nice fresh artic and boreal filtered air to get repoolluted.

 

[GregManning]

Re: Snow\'s a comin\'

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Jim 454 said that they expect 3-4" of snow in the Twin Cities.

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Two (2) weeks ago the "snow-belt" of NE Ohio (Chardon, OH) had 4" of snow.
Many leaves still on the trees, so lots of 3 & 4" branches broken off.

At my place, mostly Tulip & Maple.

 

[boreality]

Re: Snow\'s a comin\'

I've started doing damage work with the ice still bending the tree to snapping. Following being nothing but stuck trying to finish cleaning up a yard of logs and stumps. All I did there was almost stick a pulp hook into my shin.

 

[Oroboros]

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I've started doing damage work with the ice still bending the tree to snapping. Following being nothing but stuck trying to finish cleaning up a yard of logs and stumps. All I did there was almost stick a pulp hook into my shin.

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That sounds like a quote from a frontier memoir.

 

[boreality]

Re: Snow\'s a comin\'

Late in the morning the three set out in the faithful Suburban. The Beagle was driving as always, the kid from Toronto riding shotgun and the almost fearless Melon Collie with no name stretched out in the back. The roads were improving in advance of the coming snow. They set their rigging up and lifted two trees off a cabin. The trees came down as if by magic but one of the retrievable blocks had it's retaining line Jimmylocked into a strangling included branch. That was the only time the Beagle had to climb all day so he ascended a slippery ladder to the top step and threw his lanyard around the old Jack Pine rigging tree. There was only one branch between the ladder and the hung up block so he made a move that made him want to yell to the world, did you see that. He stood on the branch and wondered how did I get here. Soon he felt a stabbing pain in his groin and knee.
The pain kept him up all night and here he sits wondering if it was just the stress of another off season or the mistake of climbing by lanyard alone.

As he sits with the numbing roar of the nightly Dr. Ho infomercial coming from his free one channel television in the background getting grumpier and grumpier he declares, winter conditions are dangerous and the pace of everything needs to slow. And I need a second climber or a bucket truck.