@Rookie said:
No early spring here; just a never ending winter. With DST came six inches of snow and winds gusting to 45+. Power went out this morning (just as I was preheating my oven to bake bread) and like kayamedic, crazy high snowbanks because temps have been so cold. Maybe it will melt by May, but doubt if Lake Superior will.
Us too . Its still snowing.
Am guessing your temps have been 15-20 degrees below normal like ours.
Time to make some snow paint and brighten up the monochromatic landscape.
Edited to add it’s snowing again. I was so hoping for the simple pleasure of seeing no new snow on the driveway tomorrow morning. Bah humbug.
Nuther day— nuther few inches of snow. Picture from a couple of weeks ago. Might even be more now as we are getting a couple inches almost everyday.
All the white is very fresh and clean, but beneath the fresh white lies layers of ______________. We have 3 dogs, I leave it to you to fill in the blank.
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Well, darnit, winter barged back in. It left only a skiff of snow last night this time instead of a boatload. We keep getting persistent waves of wet storms.
This weather is making me downright edgy. I might as well go sit-on-top a bed of snails or maybe slap my scull.
@pikabike said:
Well, darnit, winter barged back in. It left only a skiff of snow last night this time instead of a boatload. We keep getting persistent waves of wet storms.
This weather is making me downright edgy. I might as well go sit-on-top a bed of snails or maybe slap my scull.
Canoe fathom why?
If the forecast is right, a tsunami of snow is headed your way Wednesday. And if the track is correct, it will miss the Great Lakes (fingers crossed).
Last Saturday on the Ortega River, NE Florida. Summer is coming. Those leaves are all a week or two old.
Freshly hatched leaves have an amazing intensity. Not harsh, just very rightfully showing us they are out in force.
Gonna be rather wet here for awhile. Precipitation on and off with high 30s and mid 40s for a few days will really get the spring melt underway, and there is a lot of snow to melt. Everything is off the basement floor, floor has been vacuumed and squeegies are ready
Love the first blush of leaves in spring for their softness and color. Also the scent of emerging wild leeks and of course, hillsides covered with flowering trillium. Everything smells so wonderful and fresh! Maybe in eight weeks…
@Yooper16 No basement here; just a garage entry and garage, plus half the back porch filled with water when I got home. Lived here quite a few years and this is a first. It’s not just the snowbanks melting, but the snow on the roof as well. Yikes!
Spent 2.5 hours using a WaterBug pump to clear it, then another hour of pumping later on. It will be flooded again in the morning and just hope I can get home in time to pump out again tomorrow before the temps drop and it freezes.
@pikabike I don’t think a leaf blower has the power to lift water over the snowbanks and away from the garage entry. I attach a 50-foot Zero-G hose to the pump (which needs just 3/16" of water to operate) and run the other end of the hose into a snowbank near the end of the drive. It’s slow, but works…but I have to monitor the pump as it has no automatic off switch. Zen moments listening to gurgling water. Mini-lake present this morning, but not in garage and only partially in porch, thanks to colder temps. Back at it after work. Two-three inches of snow forecast, then the temps drop into the teens. It’s kinda fun playing with the water and watching the level drop. But I’d rather be paddling.
Spent 2.5 hours using a WaterBug pump to clear it, then another hour of pumping later on. It will be flooded again in the morning and just hope I can get home in time to pump out again tomorrow before the temps drop and it freezes.
A trench drain with sump pump well would be one answer. $$$$, but your
Pump is likely $ more economic. Of course drains are good, if they’re not frozen. There are utility 110 vac pumps with floats that could be installed there. Maybe set with 1/2" residual. As long as the discharge hose doesn’t freeze.
