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A journal for Jim Muller.

Yahoo, more snow!

Filed under: family, outdoors — mullerj at 9:46 pm on Thursday, February 8, 2007

We have about 30″ of snow on our lawn. Fortunately we have been on the fringes of the Snow Belt. It is cool to watch the weather radar show it oscillating N-S, but I would just as soon it stays north. 

I would make the real triangle be Camden, which is west of Rome, Syracuse to the south and Oswego to the north. This past week they have had 90+” of snow in that triangle. Whereas we are expected to get an additional 2-4″ of snow tonight Oswego and areas up there are expecting 6-10″ of snow. This is all pretty remarkable considering that 12 days ago we didn’t have enough snow to go snowshoeing. The daily snowfall map pretty much says it all.

On my way into work today the roads were snow packed, but not bad until I got into Rome. As I turned onto Black River Blvd - the main drag - there was a car off the road in a snow drift. No one was hurt, the woman just slid off the road. A trooper was putting a towing belt on the car to pull her out. There were a couple of cars waiting to make a left turn against the slow moving traffic flow. It caused a back up of traffic through the intersection. I heard someone in back of me beeping their horn. Probably someone pulled into the Ridge Mills intersection and couldn’t pull through - thus causing a momentary gridlock. In Rome NY! Imagine. 

Tonight we shoveled off our deck and dug a path so Trey could get out into the lawn to poop. Then we played on the snow piles our show plow guy had made. Since he has been plowing 4-8″ every day it makes for some sizeable snow piles. We made a small snow cave and then played king on the mountain before coming in for dinner.

Daily Snowfall Link

Filed under: outdoors, winter camping — mullerj at 11:09 am on Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Here is a great link that provides a map of daily snow fall amounts and shown as an example below.

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This daily amount is accumulated here and shows total accumulated snowfall - good for predicting suitable snowshoeing /winter camping locations.total-snow-depth_20070206.jpg

Lake Effect Snow

Filed under: Eric, Jim Muller, family, outdoors — mullerj at 3:52 pm on Tuesday, February 6, 2007

With the unusually warm winter we have had to date Lake Erie remains unfrozen and we have prime conditions for lake effect snows. Yesterday we got 5-6″ of snowfall and another 8″ last night. I left work and picked up Eric at the baby sitter. Arriving home I found our friend Hobart with his 4WD truck parked overtop our lilac bushes and halfway out on the lawn. It appears Hobart had stopped by to drop off some money to Kathryn to help pay for his wife Jean’s upcoming trip to St Johns. No one was home so Hobart graciously started to plow our driveway and backing up using his mirrors he ventured off the driveway.

I hustled Eric into the house, got him settled in front of the TV and donned my coveralls over my work clothes. We chained my truck to his and easily got Hobart situated back on the driveway where he graciously completed the plowing job and left. The pictures below show the snow after an additional 8″ fell overnight.

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Phil’s official forecast as read 2/2/07 at sunrise at Gobbler’s Knob

Filed under: family — mullerj at 2:16 pm on Friday, February 2, 2007

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El Nino has caused high winds, heavy snow, ice and freezing temperatures in the west.
Here in the East with much mild winter weather we have been blessed.
Global warming has caused a great debate.
This mild winter makes it seem just great.
On this Groundhog Day we think of one thing.
Will we have winter or will we have spring?
On Gobbler’s Knob I see no shadow today.
I predict that early spring is on the way.

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