We got our first snow (in our yard) last night

[DeniseM]

We got our first snow (in our yard) last night, at 5,000 feet. We've had snow all around for several weeks, but this is the first snow to stick at our elevation. It was 17º when I got up, so it's not melting as quickly as it does sometimes.

 

[TolmiePeak]

Nice. Looks like Susanville.

 

[moonstone]

Such a pretty view from your yard!
We were talking to our youngest DS the other day who lives about 20 mins south of our house (about 90 min drive north of Toronto) and he said they have had a total snowfall of just over 80 inches so far this winter. That is almost the normal total winter snow fall for Barrie ON. They had just over a foot of snow fall overnight on Dec.30th which caused the city to postpone their family friendly New Years Eve celebrations in a park downtown. Meanwhile our DD who lives about a 20 min. drive north of our house says they have had maybe 2 feet total accumulation of snow this winter. We get lake effect squalls off Lake Huron, and more so, Georgian Bay.

We are so glad we are missing it all and suffering through these 80-85F sunny days here in Belize!


~Diane

 

[easyrider]

We got our first snow (in our yard) last night, at 5,000 feet. We've had snow all around for several weeks, but this is the first snow to stick at our elevation. It was 17º when I got up, so it's not melting as quickly as it does sometimes.

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Snow adds beauty to a landscape. Looks nice Denise.

Bill

 

[Talent312]

What is snow?
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[moonstone]

What is snow?
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Lol, When we arrive in Belize many of the locals (or expats who have lived here for years) ask us if we took any pictures of the snow in our yard at home before we left. I told them they can just go on the internet and search for snow photos but they like to see it in the yard of somebody they know. I showed our landlady photos our DS took of our DGDs standing in almost waist deep snow in their backyard on NYE.

~Diane

 

[TUGBrian]

nope nope nope....

 

[artringwald]

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I love the way snow looks when I'm in Hawaii watching the doorbell video of someone shoveling our front sidewalk.

 

[pedro47]

Snow is a wonderful gift for nature and animals to enjoy.

 

[Brett]

Snow is a wonderful gift for nature and animals to enjoy.

I'm thinking Juneau, AK has plenty of the snow enjoyment gift

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[Patri]

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Florda?

 

[TUGBrian]

yeaaa, i legitimately just noticed that ai misspelled it!

 

[Brett]

We may get some snow this weekend

 

[DrQ]

We are about to get .25 - .50 inches of ice/freezing rain with sleet and snow this weekend

 

[TheHolleys87]

We’re not expecting snow but instead freezing rain and/or sleet, or wet rain followed by a hard freeze of wet roadways. So we’re hunkered down at home for the duration, because so few people here north of Houston have any idea of how to drive safely on icy roads. And thankfully we have a backup generator for when the power goes out.

 

[DrQ]

And thankfully we have a backup generator for when the power goes out.

Having an all electric house with no natural gas service, a backup generator for us in the winter is useless. We could probably power some space heaters, but in a long term outage, we could not keep the pipes from freezing. I would have to cut off the main water and open the taps to minimize the damage. For refrigerated items, we could just move them to a cooler in the garage that would be at 40F or lower.

When I was a kid, our house in the Chicago area had hot water heat that used a circulator pump, but was set up so that the water would naturally circulate if the water was heated. In a power outage, you could bypass the thermostat in the living room and just set the water temperature at the boiler and the boiler was powered by the thermocouple run by the pilot light. One year we blew a transformer outside our house on Christmas Eve and it took three days to restore power, but we were warm and toasty and mom was able to cook Christmas dinner on the gas range without power. All the refrigerated stuff was put in the unfinished attic where you could go from cold to freezing depending how high you went up the stairs.

 

[PigsDad]

Having an all electric house with no natural gas service, a backup generator for us in the winter is useless.

We have a 22KW backup generator (a pretty standard size for many homes around here w/ a Generac installation) -- I think that would be large enough to keep your house warm enough to keep your pipes from freezing. It is large enough to power our place and keep the AC running to cool a 2500 sq. ft. home in South Florida.

Kurt

 

[DrQ]

We have a 22KW backup generator (a pretty standard size for many homes around here w/ a Generac installation) -- I think that would be large enough to keep your house warm enough to keep your pipes from freezing. It is large enough to power our place and keep the AC running to cool a 2500 sq. ft. home in South Florida.

Kurt

And how do you power it?

As I said, we do not have natural gas service in our neighborhood. I doubt if zoning would allow me to put a 50-75 gallon diesel fuel tank on a city lot.

 

[AnnaS]

6 - 18 inches.....not looking forward to it all

 

[Bucky]

Mainly sleet and ice coming to our area. Interesting tidbit I heard on the radio yesterday. .50” of ice can add over 7000 pounds to a mature tree!