The big winter storm a comin!

[JEBar]

Sunday Feb 1st .... for us, measurable snow happens but not too often .... our snow is heavy, wet icy and does make good snowballs .... fluffy dry snow is rare .... last night we had 2 - 3" dry powdery snow ..... first time I remember being able to take a broom and sweep snow off of our steps ..... they say our low tonight will be 7 degrees .... for us that is really cold, as a side note, our temp has only fallen below 0 four times in recorded history .... in the 3rd picture Maureen can be seen walking Zena

[Hatchdog]

Great pics all, I kinda forgot what snow looks like.

[Ernie]

Got to do a little touch up with the blower. Down to 2 neighbors to help as the couple behind me went to Florida for a week.

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[dave77]

We have many private operators who have expensive plows on the front of their trucks. My neighbor has a nice plow on his 2500 Chevrolet. He goes all over plowing before and after his regular job.
The town I used to live in allowed the DPW plows to plow out all churches after the roads were done. Then one person complained and that was the end of that.

The school district I worked for had snow plows on most of the maintenance trucks, they'd have to start plowing around 3 AM to get all the parking lots cleared before people started arriving. I didn't have to start until around 5AM to get the sidewalks, ramps, etc. cleared.

The district was funny about purchasing trucks for maintenance. When the district across the river needed a truck they would go buy a new one. Our's would go buy a surplus truck somewhere that would have 150k miles on it. I remember one of the guys telling me that when he went to get one of the new Boss V-blade plows installed on his truck the guy said "you know the plow were putting on this truck is worth 3 times more than the truck is worth".

[JEBar]

I remember one of the guys telling me that when he went to get one of the new Boss V-blade plows installed on his truck the guy said "you know the plow were putting on this truck is worth 3 times more than the truck is worth".

based on 30+ years working for the state of North Carolina, that sounds pretty much like they do here .... well not exactly, I don't recall them going to the expense of buying a V-blade plow .....

[dave77]

I remember one of the guys telling me that when he went to get one of the new Boss V-blade plows installed on his truck the guy said "you know the plow were putting on this truck is worth 3 times more than the truck is worth".

based on 30+ years working for the state of North Carolina, that sounds pretty much like they do here .... well not exactly, I don't recall them going to the expense of buying a V-blade plow .....

I think they only bought it because the way a new school's parking lot was set up pretty much required it for efficient plowing. When I started working there I had floor care equipment that was over 30 years old. I only had a small rubber blade snow blower, the only reason I got upgraded to a heavy duty track drive snowblower was because the city changed from plowing the street snow to the center of the road to plowing it to the side of the road so I needed something powerful enough to blow plowed snow off the sidewalk onto the playground. Couldn't leave a berm of snow on the street as that was where the buses picked up and dropped off the kids.

[Hatchdog]

Got to do a little touch up with the blower. Down to 2 neighbors to help as the couple behind me went to Florida for a week.IMG_0900.jpeg

Bad week to travel to Florida. Brrrrrrr

[fortyshooter]

Time to celebrate around here....the temp has hit 39F !!! Hope more of our ice will melt away from last week storm. Can't wait to see sunny 60+ degrees again!