Snow at critical mass here in NY, 4 1/2' in two days

We got about a foot and half of snow day before yesterday. Real heavy and very hard to plow.
Spent all day moving it, plowing it, shoveling roofs, etc. Then last night? Got over three more feet and again super heavy snow.

I've got snow around my house with depths 3 foot to 6 foot depending on how the wind blew it. Back door of the house is buried and some lower roof eaves now lower then the snow.

And like an idiot what did I NOT do? I did NOT put my Deere 3 point hitch 6 foot snowblower on a tractor and have it ready to use. It now sits out in the middle of a field and I don't think there's any chance of getting to it. I'm on the side of a steep mountain. My tractor with chains might make it down the hill across the field, but will never make it back up.

I've got chains on all four wheels on my old 83 diesel Blazer plow-truck and have gettting stuck a lot. I blame Al Gore for me not having my snowblower mounted on a tractor. I've been sitting here waiting for some "global warming."

Spring IS around the corner,correct??

I put out my maple taps a few days ago, and this sort of snow always seem to come after I run some sap-lines.

Many of these photos were taken after I already plowed twice and just show new snow since late last night.

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Look close and you can see my old Dodge 1969 Powerwagon buried by the side of the road.

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Back door no longer in sight

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Solar panels not working so good, and maybe I should not have parked an SUV there?
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View from shop roof while shovelling it off, before the extra 3 feet of snow came down

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My little kid enjoys it . .

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Woke up this mornin with a five foot drift in front of the porch door. Driveway had about foot and a half. Took me 30 minutes to go 25 yards to the shop. Weather channel showed PA gettin it now. Hope they take it and keep it. Nice Pics, Thanks,

Toby.

Geez,not to rub it in about your other place,but there's barely enough for good snowmobiling in Northern Michigan.
Are you wishing you were there?

Good luck with all of your shoveling. Those roofs will keep you busy for a while. We only got a little less than a foot, so we were lucky.
Zach

JDM What part of New York state?

(quoted from post at 09:00:33 02/26/10)but there's barely enough for good snowmobiling in Northern Michigan.

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Then your not truly in "northern" Michigan :lol:. UP north here there's more than enough snow for good snowmobiling. ha.

There's a reason you always got to have the big snow blower handy as you never ever know when you'll need it.

We normally get piles of snow over the winter. We have like 3" right now and many fields are bare. No frost in the ground. Grass was greening up.

I've only used half the normal fire wood so far...

With all that snow, there should be some stories on here pretty soon about roof collapses. Hopefully not yours.

Oh WoW, But it's only a "spring fling" It'll melt off here shortly, I promise.

hey, quit hogging all the snow

Can you get to the snow blower with your John Deere crawler?

Sort of reminds me of way back about 45 years ago when I lived in Leigh NE. We spent the whole day in school digging out the principals car and back door of his house. He lived next door, Lutheran School by the way. We made a tunnel from his back door to his car and made him a snow garage. I'd bet the snow over the top of his car was at least 5 feet think if not more

You should be down here in south Texas.

JD, my friend up in east berne text messaged me a photo of his back porch, extra overhang for the snow coming off his metal roof, it"s unreal, almost a tunnel created from what came off the roof. We got close to 18" total but most has melted off, and or compacted down. Seems the air temps in the slightly higher and or higher elevations made a huge difference in acummulation, Bennington Vt got a lot more than us, 25 miles west.

I can"t recall the last time we got this kind of heavy wet snow in such amounts, I think its the worst kind, heavy on buildings and hard on equipment to handle.

Those photos sure look serious, an awful lot for any roof to handle.

In the late seventies, we had an unusual high amount of snowfall here in S. Illinois. Neighbor had a smaller International dozer. He was working on a big drift on our township road, and I guess he got up on the snow, then spun it out from under the tracks. I could drive all around him with a 630 JD, but I and another neighbor with a WD 45 couldn't budge him. It sat there for a couple days until the twp motor grader got him out. At the time, my mother in law was on kidney dialysis, and we were all trying to bust out the road so she could get her treatment. Mighty good neighbors.

It's hard to deal with deep snow with just a blade. You run out of options pretty quick.

Paul

Boy that's wild!! Is this a record for your area or is it not unusual to have that kind of accumulation? I know Buffalo and the Lake Ontario shoreline get buried like that from time to time but didn't know that Albany area was subject to that kind of snowfall.

I just on the news about two dairy barns coming down and a lot of cows and calves getting killed.

I've been here for 30 years and this is maybe the third time we got this much snow, this quick. We are in the lake-effect area a little further up north where they someimes get storms that last a week and drop 12 feet.

I've been debating trying it. I've got a crawler loader and a crawler-dozer. But, I'm on a mountain sidehill and steel tracks can be awful dangerous. They skid sideways like iceskates. But since the snow is so deeps, seems I couldn't slide too far.

Otsego County. Funny thing is, Albany is only 60 miles away and the news says it only rained there.

Snow collapsed a dairy barn in Westerloo, I think it was, killing 6 out of 75 cows. I heard another 12" coming tomarrow ,from my Father in law. Stay safe.

wow...I thought we had a lot of snow...I was wrong. I don't use my tractor much in the winter, but before I put her away in the barn in the fall I always make sure she has her snow shoes and gear on.