What a beautiful sight! Photos Added

[West R Lee]

Trying to get me to bite there Jerro? I'll resists for now, but I am locked and loaded :wink: ! :lol:

By the way Jerry, I posted your boot pictures over in LTG IV.

West

Thankee sir - I have already seen it and expressed my thanks there too Of course it prompted a facetious comment from Carl, but I rose above it and ignored it :wink:

We're much bigger than that, aren't we Jerry :wink: .

West

 

[West R Lee]

Jim,

How much does it snow at Casa de West?

hf

Gosh I don't know Darryl, about once a year maybe. What we do get just about every year are ice storms. Many times, since the ground isn't cold here, we'll get rain, sleet or snow that will freeze on the roads, in trees and on power lines.................can be pretty ugly. There were places in my old hometown that went 3 weeks without power a few years ago. A plain old snow fall that covers the ground is pretty rare here, always has been, that's what makes Houston snowfall pretty unusual.

West

 

[dreadnut]

Yeah, West, we got some snowflakes one day when I was stationed in Jacksonvillle, FL back in '72. They said that was pretty rare.

Our average snowfall here is about 80-85 inches, but almost ten feet of snow fell here last winter, I think we ended up around 115 inches for the season. Of course, it doesan't all stick around, we had at least 2 complete meltdowns during that time. But we had some whopper snowstorms :shock: We also get "lake effect" snow here, being just east of Lake Michigan, like there will be no snow in Milwaukee or Chicago, but it just keeps coming down here. Often, right on the lakeshore about 35 miles west of me, they'll get twice as much snow as we do.

Its pretty amazing to me - during the winter here you can walk out on the Lake Michigan ice sometimes and you feel like you're at the North Pole it's so stark and windswept, with wind chills of minus 40F or 50F, then a few short months later we'll be body surfing the waves in temps of 75F or better (sometimes )

The Big Lakes are funny that way, the water temp at the beach can be 78F one day and 58F the next depending on the sunshine and wind. I remember one day about ten years ago we had big 8 foot waves rolling in along the pier and the water temp was 80F, it was a fabulous day for body surfing. It was a hot week, and the wind must have been pushing all the warmed up top water inland.

But none of that warm beach stuff for us hearty Michiganders for the next several months!

At least I don't live in the Upper Peninsula, up there they describe summer as "two weeks of bad snowmobiling." :lol:

 

[West R Lee]

Yeah, West, we got some snowflakes one day when I was stationed in Jacksonvillle, FL back in '72. They said that was pretty rare.

Our average snowfall here is about 80-85 inches, but almost ten feet of snow fell here last winter, I think we ended up around 115 inches for the season. Of course, it doesan't all stick around, we had at least 2 complete meltdowns during that time. But we had some whopper snowstorms :shock: We also get "lake effect" snow here, being just east of Lake Michigan, like there will be no snow in Milwaukee or Chicago, but it just keeps coming down here. Often, right on the lakeshore about 35 miles west of me, they'll get twice as much snow as we do.

Its pretty amazing to me - during the winter here you can walk out on the Lake Michigan ice sometimes and you feel like you're at the North Pole it's so stark and windswept, with wind chills of minus 40F or 50F, then a few short months later we'll be body surfing the waves in temps of 75F or better (sometimes )

The Big Lakes are funny that way, the water temp at the beach can be 78F one day and 58F the next depending on the sunshine and wind. I remember one day about ten years ago we had big 8 foot waves rolling in along the pier and the water temp was 80F, it was a fabulous day for body surfing. It was a hot week, and the wind must have been pushing all the warmed up top water inland.

But none of that warm beach stuff for us hearty Michiganders for the next several months!

At least I don't live in the Upper Peninsula, up there they describe summer as "two weeks of bad snowmobiling." :lol:

Body surfing in that water? Doesn't that make your willie turtleneck? :shock:

West

 

[killdeer43]

Body surfing in that water? Doesn't that make your willie turtleneck? :shock:

West

In the jargon of the Seinfeld crew, that condition brought on by a cold water dip is known as "shrinkage!" :lol:

Joe

 

[JerryR]

[quote="West R Lee":2whz4vk0]Trying to get me to bite there Jerro? I'll resists for now, but I am locked and loaded :wink: ! :lol:

By the way Jerry, I posted your boot pictures over in LTG IV.

West

Thankee sir - I have already seen it and expressed my thanks there too Of course it prompted a facetious comment from Carl, but I rose above it and ignored it :wink:

We're much bigger than that, aren't we Jerry :wink: .

West[/quote:2whz4vk0]

We sure is

 

[dreadnut]

What, 75-80F water isn't warm??? I don't swim in the 58 degree water! Not only would that cause shrinkage, it also causes a situation similar to "brain-freeze", called "nad-freeze"

 

[Frosty]

First snowfall of the season in progress now... only 5 inches by morning, but it's better'n nothing. Let's play!

 

[killdeer43]

Now that's a great snow/dog shot. Frame it!

Joe

 

[dreadnut]

Wow, Frosty, what a sweetie, she looks just like ours, brown nose and all. How old is she?

 

[Bing k]

We had 5-10 inches fall today and were headed for 19 below.

 

[West R Lee]

We had 5-10 inches fall today and were headed for 19 below.

Shiver me timbers...........how do y'all survive that stuff. I can hear the water pipes breaking as we speak.

West

 

[dreadnut]

That's mighty cold, Bing. We only get that cold maybe 2-3 times per winter. Wind chill is minus double digits a lot though. Lake Michigan also acts as a big heat source for us so the frigid air blasting into Chicago and Milwaukee warms as much as 10 degrees as it passes over the big lake.

 

[Frosty]

Wow, Frosty, what a sweetie, she looks just like ours, brown nose and all. How old is she?

Thanks, Dread... the apple of my eye, she is. Three years old. Her nose turns black in the summer!

 

[killdeer43]

Northeast wind is blowing in tonight from British Columbia with low teens for the overnight number. Clear and cold and quite possibly a three dog night.

Shivers our timbers! Wish they could prevent it from crossing the border!!

Joe

 

[Bing k]

yeoowzer! update.

Look at the number for Monday night.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... it=0&lg=en

 

[FNG]

That's mighty cold, Bing. We only get that cold maybe 2-3 times per winter. Wind chill is minus double digits a lot though. Lake Michigan also acts as a big heat source for us so the frigid air blasting into Chicago and Milwaukee warms as much as 10 degrees as it passes over the big lake.

Except it turns into snow! :lol: :lol:

 

[taabru45]

Northeast wind is blowing in tonight from British Columbia with low teens for the overnight number. Clear and cold and quite possibly a three dog night.

Shivers our timbers! Wish they could prevent it from crossing the border!!

Joe

I sure agree with you Joe.....It usually originates in Alaska. :lol: :lol: Do you know what "three dog night" actually means? Steffan

 

[dreadnut]

Frosty, I thought she was a puppy from the picture! My wife looked at her and said 'When did you take that picture?", she thought it was our KoKo. Our dog even hides under the same kind of grass/plant in our yard
I bet she doesn't shed either?

 

[Frosty]

The photos is from our last snowfall... early spring '09, so in that shot she is more like 2 1/2. She is called a "miniature goldendoodle" and now, at 3 years old, she is smaller than the standard size doodles weighing in at about 40 lbs. Great dog, very friendly, athletic and smart as a whip. I'm sure Koko is the same, every doodle I have met has been a fine example of a family pet.