AsktheBuilder.com News - April 2, 2017
Dear ,
It shouldn't be a surprise to you about the number of people that have a fascination with the weather.
That's one of the reasons there's a very popular channel on most cable TVs about it and any number of very good websites about the topic.
Here it is April 2, 2017 in central New Hampshire and I have DEEP snow everywhere around me. I'm talking piles 7 and 8-feet
tall.
Yesterday morning I was up at 4:45 a.m. blowing snow so I could drive my youngest daughter to work. She had stayed the night and there was no way her low-clearance car was going to navigate the 8 inches already on the ground.
Four more inches
fell before the storm had spun off over Nova Scotia.
I had to fire up my Ford Super Duty F-250 4x4 and claw through the deep snow. I love doing it and if you've never driven a 4x4 in snow, you should. You'd be stunned how stable a 4x4 vehicle is in snow as the wheels on both axles churn.
That said, you just have to watch your speed in slush as it's easy to get over confident and loose control. Stopping 6,500 pounds of metal is also nothing to shrug about. But I digress.
Here are two photos I took yesterday around Noon. If you're playing my Snow-Be-Gone Contest and picked an earlier date in April, the pile GREW by 16 inches
yesterday!
No need for me to rake it like all my neighbors have to do!
All that snow funnels down to the ground from the main house, the connector between the house and garage, and the north fourth of the garage roof. You can just see the tip of the pile that's part of the Snow-Be-Gone Contest under the one
window.
That pile yesterday, when I took the photo, was just under seven feet tall. Because the snow was so wet and heavy it compressed within a few hours.
Just before taking the first photo, the roof had released all the snow except for what you see trapped by the skylight.
The snow
was at least 8 inches deep on the roof. Believe me, it's a lot of snow as that's a big roof.
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