after parking the sleigh on the roof

Spring can't get here fast enough!

up here in Big Sky Country...which is normal, and expected. I must say, I am losing my enthusiasm for it the older I get. It's no fun shoveling it from one place to another. The dogs love it, however. Chickens hate it.

storm totals of 4-6 feet! Six feet?

NYZ005>008-262230-
/O.CON.KBUF.LE.W.0012.000000T0000Z-171227T2300Z/
NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF FAIR HAVEN, OSWEGO, WATERTOWN,
AND LOWVILLE
923 AM EST TUE DEC 26 2017

...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST
WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT...HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW OCCURRING. TRAVEL WILL BE VERY
DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 3
FEET ARE EXPECTED IN THE MOST PERSISTENT LAKE SNOWS, WHICH WILL
BRING STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS TO 4 TO 6 FEET IN THE
HARDEST HIT AREAS ACROSS THE TUG HILL.

* WHERE...NORTHERN CAYUGA, OSWEGO, JEFFERSON, AND LEWIS COUNTIES.

* WHEN...UNTIL 6 PM WEDNESDAY.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...WINDS GUSTING AS HIGH AS 40 MPH WILL CAUSE
AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY SNOW WILL FALL IN RELATIVELY NARROW BANDS. IF TRAVELING, BE
PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING ROAD CONDITIONS AND VISIBILITIES.

SUBMIT SNOW REPORTS THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR SOCIAL MEDIA.

I don't know how they do it - they get some serious snow.

I am near rochester.. We do get some lake effect snow ( which, contrary to popular belief, is the exact same stuff as snow snow.

And between roch and BUFF is BATAVIA where there is often a band of lake effect snow.. then sometimes before and after that 5-8 mile stretch.. nothin.'

Actually, the winters of 2013 - 2015 were brutal. Not Erie brutal, but still.

Right now we are going through a bad cold snap, but I'll take that over heavy snow, any day.

where lake effect snow is a strong possibility every winter, it's important to remind ourselves how grateful we should be to the Great Lakes the rest of the year -- and to the bordering states and provinces (like mine) who recognize their incredible value.
Still -- 6 feet of snow in the space of 48 hours is f'ing ridiculous!

And we get some serious snow now and then. In the past 15 years I’d say the worst one-day was about 3 feet.

You've got to spread out your snowfall, and not have it all at once.

Using snowmobiles as getaway vehicles. How would they ever catch you?

Where else would you go after robbing a bank with a snowmobile?

And, of course, that's where all the cops are keeping warm, waiting for the thaw.

Busted.

I mean....Let me have a few weeks to scope the area out first!

... http://www2.erie.gov/sheriff/index.php?q=snowmobile-atv-unit


As Smeagol explained to Frodo "No! No! No Master! They'd catch you! They'd catch you. Don't take it to Him."

...let me know how that works out.



As far as tracks go, when the snow is falling at >1-ft/hour, they'd have to be right behind you or lose your trail.

So, check the weather and hit the job in the middle of the storm, not at the end.

leave 'getaway' tracks?

I'm from Florida. I'll just drag a palm frond behind me to hide my escape!

That oughta do it..

And BTW, I was in Florida, NAPLES, for 1 day Dec 9, my ONLY time ever in the state.(well, except for once in Tallahhasseehhssee, but that's really Alabamama) and it rained and was cold, like 40-55... What's up with that???

I mean, I come there one time in my life and it freakin rains and freezes my ass off.

And I couldn;t find the gulf of Mexico. I walked and walked, followed the path that said THIS WAY.. Finally had to turn around and go back to my car to drive to Ft Myers for a flight back to upstate NY.

TWO ACCEPTED METHODS;

1) Wait till late in the day, around tea time, and walk in the general direction of the sun. When your feet get wet, you're there.

2) Take I 75 down through Leatherheads, take the M5 Motorway toward Brighton, left at the rock that looks like a turtle and then ask.


Oh....BTW, the sign that said "This way" didn't also say, in very small letters,
To The Nude Beach", did it?

As far as the temp during your visit...yeah, that was the only day in the last 375 years it was like that.


Sorry.

With no snow, I don't live to far from this area. Big, farm area around here with many hills. Snowmobiles could actually work.

They have their limits.

the lake effect machines will eventually turn off.

See this book cover:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UGNZBR8

Just got back from a holiday visit to Buffalo. There was snow, but nothing like what was pictured. It was very beautiful, actually, with tree branches "frosted" with an inch or two of snow. We had an entire day of lovely, gently falling snow.