treefarmer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:40 pm
Alright Folks, we finally get to play here in the Florida Panhandle!
Look here at Miss Joy's Ford Flex after 1.5 hours of snow falling.1000001079.jpg
Supposed to do this maybe through midnight.
Treefarmer
Welcome to Minnesota Daves world Farmer stay warm pal the gulf coast ain't seen nothing like in a while if ever.
I heard a couple of days ago that the panhandle was going to get snow and couldn’t believe my ears. I bet it shut down everything down there. I’ve traveled in the south when it snowed and just an inch is enough to cancel schools and shut down government and businesses. Around here an inch is not considered to be a problem. Like others, I remember the blizzard of 78 when we got over 30” of snow. The extreme cold is a problem though and this morning it’s -5 degrees. Our 6 inches of snow is hard pack now and very difficult to walk on since it slightly melted last week on one day. Can’t wait for a warm up.
We lived just south of Cleveland Ohio in 78. I remember it described as a white hurricane as we had sustained 70 mph winds. Snow drifts so high they covered semi trucks. They had to get the National Guard to help clear the interstate highways.
doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:25 pm
We lived just south of Cleveland Ohio in 78. I remember it described as a white hurricane as we had sustained 70 mph winds. Snow drifts so high they covered semi trucks. They had to get the National Guard to help clear the interstate highways.
That might have been the same storm that drifted our driveway shut at the farm, 6' deep drift. In the early 70's that happened also, when I was about 3 or 4 years old, and there's a picture of me on top of the drift with my mother standing beside me on the shoveled out path. The wind blew all of the snow off of the field surrounding the farm house and deposited it in the driveway.
Pocket, fixed, machete, axe, it's all good!
You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:27 pm
Scenes from Starvation Plantation after the 6 inches of snow:1000001080.jpg 1000001081.jpg1000001086.jpg1000001087.jpg
Can't hear any I-10 traffic this morning, we're a mile south.
Just plumb amazing!
Treefarmer
Nice pics! One of my favorite things about a good snow is how quiet the outside world becomes.
treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:27 pm
Scenes from Starvation Plantation after the 6 inches of snow:1000001080.jpg 1000001081.jpg1000001086.jpg1000001087.jpg
Can't hear any I-10 traffic this morning, we're a mile south.
Just plumb amazing!
Treefarmer
Nice pics! One of my favorite things about a good snow is how quiet the outside world becomes.
And it covers all the trash here in the City, including those damn scooters.
Pocket, fixed, machete, axe, it's all good!
You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
We had a frost quake yesterday. One of the loudest ones I’ve heard. People heard it all around us as well as far away as about 10 miles north of us. Unusual but it does happen when it stays this cold for long here in Indiana.
Proud to say most of our snow is gone! A few tiny white patches visible coming home from church and we got up to 68°. Rain supposedly coming tomorrow, had a south wind this afternoon.
Question about the ice fishing, is there a logic to placement of the holes or is it just drop the bait in the water and wait?
Treefarmer
A GUN IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A COP ON THE PHONE.
treefarmer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:31 am
Question about the ice fishing, is there a logic to placement of the holes or is it just drop the bait in the water and wait?
Treefarmer
Here in our chain of lakes the bait shops and guides openly share the good spots as well as the ice conditions on their Facebook pages.
Protected by a large LOUD dog, and Smith & Wesson...
Ice Fishing is not something I could or would want to take part in.
Currently in Ponder it's clear skies and 28 degrees with a wind chill of 20.
High today will be around 53 degrees with the winds out of the NNW @ 7 mph.
David L Roberts
U.S. Navy and D/FW International Airport Retired
Kid: "Wish we had time to bury them fellas."
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales