Effing 3-5" of snow forecast for tomorrow night!!!

[longship]

And another 1-3" Thursday!

And I am in the midst of getting a new roof put on my well over century old house. The poor guys working on it got rained out today until mid afternoon. My entryway carpet is now a pool of water due to leaks and a day full of rain while all the prep was finished.

BTW, I am going with a steel roof, which could last another century. I chose a very dark burgundy color. The building is a rennovated one-room schoolhouse that was built in the latter part of the 19th century. It was already old in 1900. Now it is my home.

I live in the midst of the Manistee National Forest which is very pretty. However, I've had it with this mother fucking snow on my mother fucking property. I have to pay a guy to plow my driveway or I don't get out. And the roofers won't work on a snowy roof, let alone in the rain. (I wouldn't either.) And I have scheduled a fuel oil delivery for my furnace -- that truck won't be able to get in here through the snow either. Hopefully I won't run out before they can get in here.

ARGGGGH!!!


All the roads here are dirt/gravel!!!

[samnsara]

1. yikes i thought you said 3-5 FEET!

I live in the middle of a forest as well. Had tons of snow but we need it. I still cant walk out my front porch as all the snow that slid off my roof is still frozen solid and about 3 feet deep. Oh well..no one cam sneak up to my house without crampons!

[longship]

6. Well, I wouldn't mind it as much...

If my roof wasn't all torn up by the roofers, and if I wasn't expecting delivery of 400 gallons of heating oil.

I need a snorkel and swim fins to get across the carpet in my entryway. (Either that, or chest waders.) the roofing prep has made lots more leaks than there was. But the whole job was to take 3-4 days at the most. Then it started fucking raining after the roofers had done most of the prep.

Glub, glubb-ub-blubble-plub!

[brush]

35. Sorry about the roof situation. Good luck. I do like your channeling of Samuei L. Jackson...

"I've had it with this mother fucking snow on my mother fucking property."

[longship]

36. The entire post is intended with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

If you get me.
😝

[Warpy]

2. A lot of strong storms have come through NM in the last month

giving us mostly rain here in the valley but bits and bobs of snow on the mountains. We've needed it desperately, so we're grateful, but every time another one comes through, it's a nail biter for friends to the east. Anything that has enough punch to rain or snow on NM is likely to turn supercell and tornadoes when it moves east and hits moisture from the Gulf.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Had to go look up where you are

You are in Michigan!

I hear ya - this winter can't end soon enough. The last of the plowed mounds from the 4+ inch sleetfest that we had here in Philly a couple weeks ago, finally disappeared this past weekend in my neighborhood.

[longship]

24. I think we are beyond the ice storms.

But it's just like Michigan to dump a foot or so of wet snow on everything in one spring day.

Everybody here hates it.

[democrank]

4. Keep on keepin' on.

By the way, your place sounds wonderful. Good luck with the steel roof.

[MuseRider]

5. Being out in the boonies has it's advantages

and it's disadvantages. We are sitting here with our 4 acre pond now about a 5 acre pond with a beaver frantically trying to make it flood our house. Possibly 3 more inches of rain coming, this little community (down from my elevation, nobody ever called me stupid) will likely be under water again if that happens. I know all about having to get people to do things for you when it is nasty out. Normally all is fine but I remember having to walk through drifted snow up to my waist for 1/4 mile to get to my horse barn a few years ago. Nobody get even get to us to plow the way and my tractor is not quite big enough for that!

Good luck. I hope you do not get all that snow. You place sounds outstanding and from the little time I have spent in Michigan I imagine it is just the most beautiful place to live. Aren't dirt roads a trip? LOL.

[longship]

9. My standard operating procedure, Re dirt roads.

Keep the pedal to the metal. Fortunately I have a 20-some year old four cylinder Volvo, rear wheel drive! One of the best cars Volvo ever made.

It is the most predictable driving cars ever. The suspension is tight, as is the steering. Good rubber all around -- new top-rated snows in back. Yup, it has some issues, but none in drive-ability.

Fortunately, I live on a school bus route, so the roads are well plowed and graded. Like the farmers around here and their pickups my normal speed during dry weather is 55 on the gravel. But things get slip-slidey in the wet and horrendous in the snow to the point that one cannot always tell where the road is, or isn't. I generally stay home those days.

[teezy]

7. I'm on Georgian Bay in Ontario, right in the middle of the snow vortex.

It's supposed to snow on Friday. I just started cleaning out my veggie gardens and I'm pissed that I'm being delayed AGAIN. The struggles of being Canadian are real.

[GWC58]

8. I suppose you have

take the good with the not so good.

[longship]

11. But does the "not so good" have to pile on???

I mean, let me get my new roof, or my heating oil delivery first! I would prefer the former.

[GWC58]

13. I do hope all goes

well for you.

[malaise]

10. I feel it for you

[longship]

14. I am trying to be humorous, my friend.

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Difficult in a text forum.

But I am going a bit crazy about my roof being all tore up in the midst of an on-coming snow storm.

I guess I picked the wrong week to stop smoking.

As always, my friend.

[malaise]

17. You picked the best week

If you can last this week, you'll never smoke again.
I stopped cold turkey years ago.

OK I know you're joking (ADD)

[kentuck]

12. We got about 8" of the heaviest snow I have even seen last night.

It broke a half-dozen limbs out of the trees in my yard.

It is almost all gone right now and most of the lilac bushes and trees have sprung back to form.

[longship]

18. Funny thing is it's forecast to go into the 60's this weekend!!!

Fuck early Michigan springtime.

I remember spring, 1967 at Michigan State University. It was March; it started snowing on a Friday afternoon. By Saturday afternoon there was 38" of snow on the ground. The drifts swallowed entire buildings on campus. Every fucking thing ground to a halt. Into May, there were still piles of unmelted snow on campus. There was that much snow. The plows piled it up so high it couldn't melt quickly.

[peacebuzzard]

15. I spent months up in Michigan years ago

That is an amazing home you have! A friend bought a real deal in Michigan, I also spent some thought on the matter, until I remembered the snow. I just can't drive in it. There are some beautiful areas though where you are. I wish I could have spent more time there. Spring will be there soon! Hang in there!

[LunaSea]

16. This thread is useless

without pictures…..
Gotta hate bad timing, but that metal roof is going to be sweet once it's finished.

Hang in there!

[longship]

19. I try to keep my exact location private.

Online and all that. My house has a long local history here, well before the 20th century. So you'll forgive that I don't post pictures of it.

I am okay. Just couldn't resist venting for a little levity sake.

Still mad enough about the situation to chew neutronium, as Commander Scott once said.

However, I may open up a SCUBA diving school in my entryway. Cheap tuition. There's already octopus in there, I fear.

[MrScorpio]

20. Come on down here to Macomb County

No snow down here in civilization.

[longship]

26. I grew up in Detroit.

Cooley High Graduate, class of 66.

And I was at MSU in spring 67 during the big blizzard. My all male dorm played tackle football against our sister dorm (Yakeley) in waste deep snow drifts. Yakeley won.

The worst part was the trudge to and fro a mile through waste deep snow to get to the game right in front of the Yakeley dorm. Maybe that's why we lost. Still, it was a lot of fun.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

31. All hail the Cardinals!

Except those of us from Henry Ford, (class of 68)

[k8conant]

27. I remember when it'd be snowing up in Southfield and Bloomfield Hills,

raining on the west side of Detroit and absolutely nothing on the east side and in the Grosse Pointes.

I thought I moved south to West Virginia to get away from snow, but we get MORE: 3 to 4 feet every five years or so.

[PasadenaTrudy]

21. I can't imagine dealing with snow

I don't think I could handle it! Best of luck, maybe you will get less than the forecast

[GulfCoast66]

22. 92 today in central Florida

Predicting high 40's as lows this weekend.

WTF

[JDC]

23. We had 8" at my house last Fri/Sat in NH

I had to break out the snow blower and quad/plow again. It sucked. Raining now, so hope the warm continues and all is melted by the weekend.

PS- my wife said the exact same words: " I have had it with this m f'ing snow"

Good luck

[Dem2]

25. Broke a shovel on that shite!

That was some heavy ass snow!

[sarcasmo]

28. Smart move going with the steel roof. I'M down in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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Keep that Damn snow up north.

[longship]

29. Western Michigan, N of Grand Rapids, in a very rural county.

from across the lake.

[sarcasmo]

39. Yeah, you're not far from the casino in Manistee. My uncle used to work for the DNR up your way.

[trixie2]

30. Detroit area chiming in

The snow belt is a real thing and I am always amazed by the difference.

Good luck!

[hrmjustin]

32. So sorry! It is a parting kick in the ass from winter.

[longship]

33. Yup! Last month it got above 60 here.

This weekend's forecast is 65 on Sunday.

But we're going to get 4-8" of snow by Thursday!!!

Fuck this shit.

BTW, hope you are well, Justin.

[hrmjustin]

34. I am well.

We had some nice weather in February and March but then we have an ice storm in NYC.

Sleet is not your friend and harder to get rid of than snow.

[longship]

38. We get power failures here during sleet.

And loss of power here means that the toilet stops flushing!!! So when sleet or ice is forecast I fill up the bathtub with water and stop bathing. I also fill up jugs with drinking water. The tub is to flush the terlet.

Wells only work with electricity.

Things begin to freeze within a day or so.

[hrmjustin]

40. That is hard.

Our power lines are all underground throughout the city to prevent that from happening. The main problem is falling ice after the storm. The city is fairly good at storm cleanup now. After the 2010 Boxing day Blizzard which saw the city get as much as 30 inches, the city is much more politically aware of the consequences of not staying on top of things.

[Luciferous]

37. Snow is just about the only thing I don't miss about living up north!

[CentralMass]

41. Nice country up there.

My brother went to school at Michigan Tech, although he transferred to Michigan State after two years. This was in '78 snd '79. My father and I drove up from Massachusetts to pick him up and drop him off a few times. On one trip up it was snowing so hard we had to pull into a hotel in Greylock or Gaylord (i cant rember which).. the town had a McDonald's and i think it was a Holiday Inn wr stayed at. In the morning when we went to leave and opened our door, the snow had drifted up about 4 feet in front of the door.

[longship]

42. I am in west central lower peninsula.

Michigan Tech is truly in god's country. Only a God, or a crotchety old Finlander could survive in Houghton in the winter. That's where people still eat raw meat and where the best science and engineering school in the state is.

Also home to Suomi College, now called Finlandia College, a small private Lutheran school.

SISU!

It sounds like Gaylord. In the north middle of the lower peninsula, right in the middle of the snow belt.

There's not too much snow where I live. I am far enough away from Lake Michigan that I don't get much lake effect snow, but close enough that I don't get the mid state snow dump, like at Gaylord.

[CentralMass]

43. The upper peninsula is a different world. I remember eating pasties at small

roadside places there. Touring up there on a motorcycle is on my bucket list.