We're doing our annual Christmas Party in my shop tonight. Cold temps but no snow.I see the CB Highlands got a lot of snow. We are in for snow all weekend. Never fails.... company Christmas party.... snow storm.
We're doing our annual Christmas Party in my shop tonight. Cold temps but no snow.I see the CB Highlands got a lot of snow. We are in for snow all weekend. Never fails.... company Christmas party.... snow storm.
Yes, they are snowmobiling there in certain spots, whole different world in the CB Highlands and surrounding communities than in my neck of the woods when it comes to snow.I see the CB Highlands got a lot of snow. We are in for snow all weekend. Never fails.... company Christmas party.... snow storm.
Know the feeling, major rain and wind event for us tomorrow than flash freeze, thinking no power for Christmas day to cook the turkey, our power grid is patches on patches, we had a power crew here from Vermont "thank god" to help with Hurricane Fiona mess, great guy's, hard workers, expecting lots of wash outs and downed tree's, just wonderful for the holiday's, what a nice present.We dodged a bullet. Barely got an inch of snow. Wind is howling at 20mph with blustery gusts well over 30mph. Supposed to blow like this thru Saturday morning, 48hrs. It's -5F at 9 a.m. Won't warm much today. Lows in minus teens tonight.
I've got the grader here at home, sitting in the machine shed, plugged in. I'm going to go look at roads in a minute but don't expect to crank the grader at all.
Stupid weather swings. Forecasted highs in upper 40s beginning Monday.
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Our power grid has improved steadily over the past 15 years. Rarely have power outages. I'm talking about a brief outage maybe once in 5-6 years. We are very Blessed.Know the feeling, major rain and wind event for us tomorrow than flash freeze, thinking no power for Christmas day to cook the turkey, our power grid is patches on patches, we had a power crew here from Vermont "thank god" to help with Hurricane Fiona mess, great guy's, hard workers, expecting lots of wash outs and downed tree's, just wonderful for the holiday's, what a nice present.
We would be screwed if that happened here, with all the cut backs, all our big plow trucks have been taken out of the system, not sure what a epoke will push, but that's what there replacing everything with, we do have a few graders though.Be glad you're not in Buffalo,NY. Blizzard of 2022 here. Winds 40 mph gusts have been 60 mph for the last 9 hours with heavy snow. Supposed to keep up through 10 PM tomorrow night. 36 hour duration. Snow should stop then but winds still 30 gusting to 40 . . Driving ban everywhere. Zero visibility. Glad I don't plow much anymore
We would be screwed here. Our roads are antiquated with maybe 25% of them elevated to minimize drifting. In your situation I would have 8-10ft drifts all the way across my roads in places.Be glad you're not in Buffalo,NY. Blizzard of 2022 here. Winds 40 mph gusts have been 60 mph for the last 9 hours with heavy snow. Supposed to keep up through 10 PM tomorrow night. 36 hour duration. Snow should stop then but winds still 30 gusting to 40 . . Driving ban everywhere. Zero visibility. Glad I don't plow much anymore
This is my first winter plowing snow. All my roads in the municipality are pushed back and or sloped. The other day another grader operator came through my roads and bared the shoulder on many of my roads. Leaving a ridge a couple feet off the road. Not sure how to go about dealing with it, but the snow is getting caught in the ridges and making drifts across my roads.View attachment 275410 View attachment 275411 View attachment 275412 Spent the day yesterday cleaning roads up getting the pushed back and sloping the banks I find snow will blow right on through if I slope the vs just ridging it up making a snow fence here are a few pictures I took yesterday
Welcome to HEF.This is my first winter plowing snow. All my roads in the municipality are pushed back and or sloped. The other day another grader operator came through my roads and bared the shoulder on many of my roads. Leaving a ridge a couple feet off the road. Not sure how to go about dealing with it, but the snow is getting caught in the ridges and making drifts across my roads.
OH WOW!!!!!! That's a LOT of loader work!!!!Kadoka, South Dakota on Thursday, copied from twitter. Thats an I90 overpass.
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Thanks.Welcome to HEF.
I suppose that ridge of snow is now a frozen brick? That will suck. You'll deal with it the rest of the Winter unless you can go back over them and slope it?