Plowed and salted...no driveways. Was banking on salt only when I went to bed, got up at 3 and had to mount the plow. It was fun, used way too much salt somehow, guess I gotta shake the cobwebs out. Anyone else get any work?
Typical first storm for me...plow was blocked in so moved cars and miscellaneous junk to hook up, had to fish the plugs out from behind the grille, threw not enough bags of salt in, went out...ran out, ran out of CaCl, came back...more salt, more CaCl, throw the roof light on since it's getting to be traffic time, went back...everything dusted over again, salt again...luckily its only 10 minutes from home...but I felt like a real amateur this morning, my pride is damaged. I built new shields to control my salt spread but I think my pattern is too narrow now, the things you need a storm to figure out I guess. Hope next one goes better!
question for you guys....i did my brakes last oct./nov. well, they are pretty low...i had the plow on from sometime in dec. until early march. i put about 20k on the truck....did the xtra weight of the plow make the brakes wear so quickly??
question for you guys....i did my brakes last oct./nov. well, they are pretty low...i had the plow on from sometime in dec. until early march. i put about 20k on the truck....did the xtra weight of the plow make the brakes wear so quickly??
Plowing puts wear on everything, depends really on how long you drove with the plow on. By the way this weather is rather unpleasant. Accuweather says snow the 19th and 25th but I dont know how much I trust that.
looks like another brake job in the spring...i heard possible snow on sunday.....reports of something occurring on the 18-19th & around the same time there should be a significant weather change.
Just be patient...it'll come. Remember 2010-2011 winter, I plowed some minor stuff right before Christmas then from the 26th until Mid February...every Tuesday and every Friday. It can happen but lets hope it doesn't.So happy this morning to get up at 4 and see 38 on the thermometer.That means BACK TO BED!!!
yeah, your right. i remember 03...albany had a lil left in the shaded areas. I was in Placid & headed to Montauk for xmas....Albany got nearly 3 feet!! shocking driving back & seeing that!
http://www.wxrisk.com/
this guy is a long range forecaster, based out of VA....ive been following him ever since he correctly predicted Sandy, her intensity & he nearly bullseyed the landfall at over 10 days out.
Love the wind...dries everything before it freezes! Damn lake effect snow tomorrow...it's so unpredictable this far east, you never know who will get what, just gotta be ready. Maybe a small salt event for Christmas morning. That'll suck, only because all the radio will play is Christmas music. Pray for rain Wednesday night!
I was supposed to head to LI for xmas...but that was before I picked up a very sick little boy. I'll see how he feels in the morning but, I think we are staying here for xmas. maybe we'll go down for new years
Merry Christmas dad! I didn't know what to get you so I gave you the flu. Hope you like it!! NWS says 1-2 inches today.
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