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This white crap is getting old fast right now. Last nights weather said that the average cumulative snowfall total for this day in the winter is 32". We were at 44" at the time of the broadcast, it was snowing then and still snowing now at 11 the next morning. I blew another 7" at about 8 this morning and have no idea how much we've gotten since then but blowing 4"to 6" of snow every other day is getting pretty old. Done this three times in a week now and if todays trend keeps up I'll be doing another 7 tonight. The wind has ramped up in a big way and there are some whiteout periods happening on the street in front of us. The accident incidences are going to be big by tonight's news.
 
MrTom.. we share your feelings also here in northern MI. The wind at 30mph and weather is coming directly off Lake Huron and dumping that white crap. They're talking another 15", which will be on top the 1/2" of ice I can't get rid of on the landing area and driveway. Lots of branches came down during that ice storm. It sucks to plow snow up and over so high, you have to find another place to push it so you don't run into the overhead wires.
We run 2 snow blowers at times, plus we purchased a Polaris XP1000 Ranger with a 72" plow to move this stuff. I'll say this, you throw 300# in the back of that Ranger and it'll move snow.
I know, some places are even worse yet.
 
We had 2 inches yesterday morning, all is melted away now. Darn, not enough to even take the grandkids sledding. “Poke”.;)
 
I would say we got close to 2 Foot last night, and through the Day today. My new 4wheeler and 60” Snow plow is Priceless :)
 
Yesterday, 20's with 40-45 mph gusting wind, I was surprised to see many deer out in the fields. Today supposed to be around 50. Ohio weather changes before it can be forecast.
 
On my way over to Buffalo Arms this morning, There is an area on the way over called the “Rock Cuts” about 2 miles of it, The entire 2 mile stretch looks just like this, a Solid Wall of it, Actually WAY more ice on most of it. Every Spring when it starts to Thaw there is BIG Chunks of this stuff that ends up in the Highway. I have witnessed LOTS of it Fall

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We’ve had 30 mph winds with gusts of 50 mph for the last 24 hrs, very strange weather conditions. I never saw this before here in Indiana. Reminds me of Kansas.:(
 
We have those winds today here too. It’s crazy. We had the most snow ever for the month of February in MN this year. Now with this wind I got 3-4’ drifts covering our entire 200 yard driveway and I just cleared it all yesterday.
 
We pretty much got hammered by that wind all night long. Many of the counties have issued states of emergency and they completely closed down all roads to travel. I-75 has been closed since yesterday afternoon, and they closed the Big Mack early yesterday. Once it gets daylight I'll survey for damage around here.

Travel remains extremely difficult, if not impossible, early this morning across much of northern MI due to significant drifting overnight. Conditions will begin to very slowly improve later this morning into this afternoon as winds gradually diminish. Until then, stay home this morning if at all possible and give plows time to start tackling the drifted roads.
 
I’m ready for Spring time, Turkey’s Gobbling! At this point I’ve had a full diet of Snow and Fridgid Cold
 
It took me four hours of blowing yesterday to get dug out. I had around 14" of fairly wet snow, then we got drilled with winds with 62 mph gusts, 50 mph sustained. In a neighboring county the national guard was called upon to help retrieve stranded motorists trapped in a bus. They guard sent out a tank-like tracked vehicle to get the people. The tank got stuck. Literally. Here in the SE corner of the state every interstate, state and county road was shut down to traffic. literally. We'd set records for February snowfall before this dumping so yesterday's crapola should go a long ways. This morning the air has a bite to it at around zero.

My daughter lives in Rochester and works at Mayo Clinic. She can't get to work because the city crews haven't gotten to her area to clear snow yet. It seems that about half of the entire Mayo Clinic empire is unable to get to work today, not surprising with the state of emergency we're under here. We just heard that on Lake Erie a "sunami of ice", driven by high winds, has closed a huge are down along the shores. Maybe Encore has more info on that.
 
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WE see that quite often in the spring when Lake Mille Lac breaks up. Other lakes here do the same thing but Mille Lac at almost 30 miles long and broad in a bowl shape so when wind finds a place to get waves going it turns ugly in a hurry. This stuff will flatten a house in a short time.

Thanks for the video Encore. Its something to see.
 
That looked like "Break Up" in Alaska.

We got all he wind you guys got, up to 50 and 60Mpg gusts, They had Truck Traffic stopped at the bridges for a while this am and lots of Delays at LaGuardia and JFK. But this wind is nothing new to us here on the coast. Happens more often here that I would like. It is the "Rare" day when we have no wind or breeze. What has been very odd for us is all the blasted Rain we got this winter.:mad: Probably only had 5 inches total snow as best I recall, but the rain has been crazy. Its like Mother Nature has kept trying to wash Long Island off the map! If we had snow in the Equivilent amount to the rain, we would look like that movie Day After Tomorrow, really!
 
Here Lewis.... try this when you're looking for something to pass the time.

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Painted Rocks area of Lake Superior in the winter.
 
MrTom looks like a bunch of folks have tried that as yellow as that ice is.
 

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