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Winter's last gasp....
maratsadewrote:Some areas that are getting bad weather aren't used to that at all. Time to adapt, I guess! I wasn't used to violent weather, because the UK doesn't get the same type of weather as over here on this side of the ocean. I remember some high winds, and there's snow in the winter, but it's nothing like over in this country.
When I was a young kid there was this family that moved to my village from some place down south (Florida, maybe). They were talking about how they were all prepared for the winters and such, which they had never experienced. They had two kids that were near the age of my brother and myself and they rode the same bus.
When we got our first snowfall it was a sizable one, and that family was shocked that the the kids still had school. We found out from talking to the two kids on the bus that their parents forgot to buy one vital thing that people in this area need and always have..a snow shovel. They were out there, at first light, trying to clear their driveway with a spade. :p It was hilarious. I wish I would have seen it.
Their first winter here was that wicked mild one we had in 2016.
We met them just after and they kept telling us "how cold" winter was.
We hadn't even gone subzero that winter! But the year before, we spent WEEKS in subzero temps, and I well remember because I was the one schlepping out to break water for the chickens three times a day.
Needless to say, they have not enjoyed their station here in NY and are looking forward to their return south later this year.
Sweetpea3829wrote:
We hadn't even gone subzero that winter! But the year before, we spent WEEKS in subzero temps, and I well remember because I was the one schlepping out to break water for the chickens three times a day.I remember that winter VERY well. I developed an ice dam on the west side of my roof. It just kept building up and building up, never having time to fully melt. The even bigger problem was that the ice underneath was slowly melting from the heat of the roof and the water was running down through my outer wall and under my floor. That was awful.
Two bags of rock salt and a lot of work got the ice dam broken up, but that wasn't fun being up on that slanted roof that was covered in sheets of ice. And, of course, do I have mold in my wall? I doubt it, as I've since seen part of the inside of it and it was dry and mold free, but I didn't see all of it, so it's still a little scary. To make matters worse, it damaged the edge of the roof where it was worst, so that's got to be fixed this summer. We planned to last year, but some things came up.
It was one of the coldest winters I remember. I do remember there were a couple of nights during the winter of '92-'93 that got down to at least 22 below, but the extreme cold at the time didn't last for weeks like it did with the winter we're talking about. It was awful, that's for sure.
"I do remember there were a couple of nights during the winter of '92-'93 that got down to at least 22 below,"
YIKES.
maratsadewrote:"I do remember there were a couple of nights during the winter of '92-'93 that got down to at least 22 below,"
YIKES.
Yep. It was a bad one. I only remember it due to moving down south in March of '93, so it was my last winter here unitl I moved back in 2002. Still, it was the coldest winter, I believe, that I've ever experienced here. I had to go outside to smoke. :p
