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Barbara — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:15:41 +0000

I find my conscience bothering me after reading all of these memories and current events of the winter. Once again I find myself in rehab for the winter that makes three in a row now road now. ( call me strange but I love to jump into my four-wheel drive and go for a spin in the snow. Find a big empty parking lot and make donuts.! ) about 2 months ago I went home from rehab and I managed to stay for a week and then ended up back in the hospital with another surgery (that makes 7 now in the past 2 years) and then as usual back to rehab. Here in Spokane we have had about 10 in of snow in the same time. That you guys were talking about it so it must have been like a nationwide storm, and it did snow yet again today but just a little bit enough to make it pretty to look out the window. I guess I'm lucky to have missed having to walk around on icy streets and sidewalks since I'm not really walking all that well yet. Anyway once again I have been a spectator to the snow and the Sub-Zero temperatures. Hope you all made it through safely at are looking forward to a beautiful spring I am.

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LK — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 06:09:39 +0000

Thank you, I must admit I was a bit in tears after writing that because it did bring forward more recent memories of my hubby and winter. Doug took a friends granddaughter outside and started a whopping snowball fight that went went on for an hour. The young girl must have had as much energy to burn as he did. Also, my hubby was a bit of a "lets have fun with this" type of guy", water fights in the house and such. He started a dare at the fire house to do a first for our town "polar Bear swim" on New Years Day. If I remember right there were 7 guys that went in that first Jack Frost winter. We had had a foot of snow and they had to cut the ice with the chain saws to find the water. The water was steaming in the cold and wind, but they all went in. The year he was diagnosed with cancer, a group of firemen that always went Ice Fishing, invited Doug along. They provided all the warm equipment he would need. Unfortunately, being on the thin side, he just found it too cold to stay outdoors for more then an hour at a time. They trucked him back and forth on the skidos. Not wanting to risk his health. He did a fair deal of the cooking that weekend, something he loved to do. The thing is, this is something he always wanted to try, and he had a great time. They told me when they dropped him off at home that they had never eaten so well on these weekends. It was talked about at his funeral. One last little diddy, the winter his Mom was dieing cancer we traveled four hours one way every weekend to see her in the hospital. Winter is nasty on our big highway. It pays to take caution and pack blankets, pillows, hot drinks, and very warm clothes, candles and matches when travelling in winter. We used them all. The wind was blowing and a heavy snowfall began about an hour in, on our way home. The highway dept. could not keep up with clearing it. The snow was being sucked under the car and into the fan area eventually freezing it useless. We had to stop every five or so mins. of travel to clean it out. At one point, we could not start the car again. No help in sight. I remember being terrified that someone would nail the back end of the car that very cold dark night. We were praying that God would get us out of there and keep us safe and warm. About an hour later and feeling the cold in the car, and thru the heavy blankets and such, we see this really high up bright light coming straight at us. When it stopped, and the wind shifted we saw flashing orange lights. A knock at the window, and a man was standing there asking how we were doing? He said the highways dept. sent him and his snow plow to find us. Not your regular snow plow, one where you could stand in the wheel well and have head space. Turns out we had been counted, and missed. We never showed on the other side in a timely fashion, so, they looked for us. He helped get the car started and with the engine warmed, we followed him closely to get off the highway. We are still ever so grateful to those who counted, looked, found us and saw us safely off that highway. They were not expecting snow for that area that night, but clouds had rolled in and the snow fell heavily. Talking to the police on the other side, they told us that no one else was let on that highway after us that night. We had not thought to ask someone to, but the police had received three phone calls that a family was in trouble on the Connector. Memories are special gifts. Write them down and tell them to the grands. It is family history. I miss the man and all the adventure he provided something fierce. We had 4 inches of snow last night, a bit of a melt today, and the white stuff is falling again tonight. I rather love winter, but there IS something to be said for spring!

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sjlovestosing — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:31:33 +0000

Wow, Linda, lots of good memories. We here in Vermont are getting a lot of frigid temps. Zero or below at nights and no more than 15 - 19 degrees fahrenheit during the day. I must admit, I'm beginning to long for spring, but usually, that doesn't come till mid to late May around here. However, I am keeping busy with my crafts and jigsaw puzzles and am enjoying having my granddaughter over twice a week. I am also back to doing my yoga - a modified version, but it works!

Today, I might do a snowshoe as I am taking care of my daughter's dog for the day, which means I have two dogs to accompany me. We'll see as the snow is deep and both dogs may have trouble walking through it.

Happy Winter!

Stella

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john68 — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:39:15 +0000

Hi Linda, love your walk down memory lane, you had me at Bulldozer 🚜❄️⛄️

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LK — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:13:08 +0000

I really enjoyed reading everyones stories and temps. and what we do in the cold freezing chill of winter. I also take the time to tackle hobbies or crafts and bake. Things I may not have had a chance to complete before Christmas. I get cold quickly in winter and I wear two pairs of thermal socks on my feet all the time, even at night. I will double up on the clothes going out to take Romeo to tinkle, and I wear hats as well. Usually a toque and as of late also a hoodie hat. My glasses steam up when coming in and as I have gotten older I can barely tolerate the minus temps especially with a wind chill factor in the mix. We have had a lot of minus 11c temps this winter and am glad to be in a home where the widows do not freeze over causing Jack Frost to sneak around decorating them. I wrote a childrens poem about this a long time ago and won an award for it. Winter will do that for me. As a kid, we would spend hours in the snow. One year my Dad took the bulldozer out to check all the fluids and he removed the snow from the driveway and made a great big pile of it in the front yard of our two story home. It was wide enough to stretch safely down the line of us five kids. Then he would let us climb in the bucket and he would raise us up to the roof top where we would take a leap of faith and trust and leap all at once into the pile of snow. This was repeated often in one day. To this day my Dad says he does not like the snow, yet he always made sure us kids had fun outside in winter. It started with ice skating at a local arena and a place called Frys Corner. A field over taken by weeds and lots of thick ice, Never deep enough to get lost in the field if we broke the ice. Mom always joined us and she and Dad were pretty great skaters. We all had new skates from the thrift shop that first year, and eventually were gifted brand new ones as we proved our selves on the ice. Skating was every single Saturday. As we got older most of us took up snow skiing and I believe all the water skiing we did in summer credited to our balance on the slopes. I have seen the snow piled so high on the road going up Silver Star mountain in Vernon B.C., about four hours from here. (try google earth. I am sure you will see it for yourself) Snow can be easily 12 feet high or more on the driveways. I love the blanket of quietness that the snow brings around us when taking a walk outside. The diamonds glistening in the snow on a sunny morning, always wakes up my childhood imag-ination. The same pond in our neighborhood that we would go and collect frogs and tadpoles in in summer would also freeze up so it kept us busy in the week with more skating. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

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VeganOstomy — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 21:01:02 +0000

Posted by: LLNorth
Our driveway looks like a tunnel, 5-6-foot high snow bank in each side.

That sounds like a nightmare! I hope I never see that kind of snow! LOL

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LLNorth — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:11:03 +0000

In northern Minnesota we had more than 36” of snow in February. Our driveway looks like a tunnel, 5-6-foot high snow bank in each side. We had to pay somebody to shovel off the roof of the house and melt off some of the ice dams. Ready for a spring thaw!

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VeganOstomy — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:40:34 +0000

Forget the snow - today it's freezing rain! This is why I never complain about the summer!

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dogtalkerer — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:56:30 +0000

a while back I spent 3 hrs out in 30-40below zero windchills with it snowing so hard I could only see 12ft in front of me. if you dress right, no problems. i was out grooming a dogsled trail.

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dogtalkerer — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:52:28 +0000

according to a local weather guy we got 5inches in october , 40 in november.

currently at 190inches, last year at this time, 194inches. not too uncommon to still be skiing 1st of may.