Jealous of all of you with an excuse to sit home and watch basketball all day.
I put mine in storage last weekend. Mother nature takes the wheel from here on out.Three driveways cleared in a little over an hour. 7 HP single stage Toro did plug a few times but for the most part, but saved my back. Now for the city to go by so they can plug the end of the driveway.
We went from “winter weather advisory for Highway 20 and north” to “winter storm warning for Linn County and east with 6-8” of snow” really fast without any preparation for thatCR is an absolute mess. Took 20 minutes to go a half mile on Boyson to get the kids to school.
Overproduced without warning at the absolute worst time
Way more than the usual 1" in Marion.
10" of snow in January. Meh, I can make it to the office, it's a short drive through town. 1" of snow in the 3rd week of March. Going to have to "work" from home today, driving conditions are too hazardous.Jealous of all of you with an excuse to sit home and watch basketball all day.
Looks like round 2 bullseye will be along Highway 23. Hoping it keeps tracking further west and north. I really don’t want to shovel heavy, wet snow.Getting closer to round #2 and it's starting to seem pretty realistic for real snow. Maybe I should test fire the Toro, hasn't run in over a year.
I do appreciate it when weather folks do a little postmortem and explain why they got it wrong when a forecast goes completely upside-down. I feel like this is a new thing … I recall many weather events in CR when a forecast was completely blown and the TV weather people the next day made zero mention of why the conditions were so far different from what they told us they’d be the night before. This is refreshing.
I give meteorologists all kinds of grace - I know how difficult it can be to predict the outcomes of these massive systems with nearly infinite variables - but it just bugged me when we’d get a forecast of something one day and the next day‘s actual weather would show they completely whiffed, but they’d get on the air and act like they never said anything different from what actually occurred. I think explaining why they got things wrong actually helps viewers understand how hard it is and why it’s not always an exact science.My sense is that forecasting gets really tricky this time of years where slight variability in temperature or moisture can make the forecast swing wildly.
I guess if they want to be known for consistency the forecasters can go work in Phoenix.
A find that a nice rack always eases the irritation.I give meteorologists all kinds of grace - I know how difficult it can be to predict the outcomes of these massive systems with nearly infinite variables - but it just bugged me when we’d get a forecast of something one day and the next day‘s actual weather would show they completely whiffed, but they’d get on the air and act like they never said anything different from what actually occurred. I think explaining why they got things wrong actually helps viewers understand how hard it is and why it’s not always an exact science.