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heirloomgal

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This is what everyone woke up to today. What's so funny is this was already the most brutal winter! The entire city is closed down, everything, highways too. Snowmobiles are driving on what used to be streets, now winter trails. Side streets aren't plowed so nobody can move. I shoveled steps for 2 older neighbours, the kids did another 2 neighbours and DH did 2 neighbours too plus ours. Snowblower ran for 4 hours, went through 2 tanks and filled it up a 3rd time to park it. Over 2.5 feet fell in 12 hours and the drifts are 4 to 5 feet tall. The steps I shoveled were all 5 stairs, and all of them were totally buried right to the top. Craziest winter of my lifetime. So strange to see the snowblowers going through banks that are way taller than the snowblowers!

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This is what everyone woke up to today. What's so funny is this was already the most brutal winter! The entire city is closed down, everything, highways too. Snowmobiles are driving on what used to be streets, now winter trails. Side streets aren't plowed so nobody can move. I shoveled steps for 2 older neighbours, the kids did another 2 neighbours and DH did 2 neighbours too plus ours. Snowblower ran for 4 hours, went through 2 tanks and filled it up a 3rd time to park it. Over 2.5 feet fell in 12 hours and the drifts are 4 to 5 feet tall. The steps I shoveled were all 5 stairs, and all of them were totally buried right to the top. Craziest winter of my lifetime. So strange to see the snowblowers going through banks that are way taller than the snowblowers!

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that's the kind of stuff i remember from living up north too. just life. it melts eventually. the houses were built up there with the front porch and first floor about 1.5m off the ground level so you'd have someplace to shovel snow when winter kept going on and on. sometimes we'd have snow drifts half way up the ground floor windows (2-3m).

we've hardly had any snow at all recently. mostly rain. :(
 

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This is what everyone woke up to today. What's so funny is this was already the most brutal winter! The entire city is closed down, everything, highways too. Snowmobiles are driving on what used to be streets, now winter trails. Side streets aren't plowed so nobody can move. I shoveled steps for 2 older neighbours, the kids did another 2 neighbours and DH did 2 neighbours too plus ours. Snowblower ran for 4 hours, went through 2 tanks and filled it up a 3rd time to park it. Over 2.5 feet fell in 12 hours and the drifts are 4 to 5 feet tall. The steps I shoveled were all 5 stairs, and all of them were totally buried right to the top. Craziest winter of my lifetime. So strange to see the snowblowers going through banks that are way taller than the snowblowers!

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Wow that's a lot of snow! I remember one year we had such an incredible downpour of rain for several hours nonstop. At the time we lived in a neighborhood that had several water detention ponds and they all filled up to the brim! We got our dinghy out of the garage and hauled it down to one of the ponds and gave rides to the kids that were playing by the shores!
 

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the more northern part of the lower peninsula of MI got a good storm the past few days so the crews are out restoring power. still a day or two for quite a few people to have power restored. temperatures pretty cold the next day or two. glad it missed us.
 

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Areas in Colorado are under fire alert wildfires anlready started and heat dome expected to drive temps up to the 90F in southern plains of Colorado.
Weather headlines ..”

Historic March Heat Wave Headed For Southwest, California With Numerous Records Threatened; East Rides Temperature Roller Coaster​

Yesterday was 68F today cooler 51F in cloud cover marine layer rain .
 

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Snow is melting, even though it hasn't topped 32 degrees.
Snow expected overnight, then we top off above 50 degrees F, so ALL of it will melt tomorrow.
Fed ponies early, got cat litter boxes cleaned and litter bagged up and thrown in the street garbage can, along with the other bags including a rusty 2 1/2' x 4' metal tray from, WHO knows where :hu that was in the basement--can out for tomorrow morning's pickup.
My red Avalon is done. I had it towed with a dead battery last Friday. I thought the garage was overwhelmed bc of the weather, but they called to say it's done. There was a warranty on the battery, I needed an oil change and a full set of tires and back brake pads.
Since my other car is not really drivable what with the fiberglass dragging, it's good to be able to drive again.
Wish gas hadn't shot up...
 

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