Climate change (global warming) have you run a snow blower-shoveled this year? [View all]

At our house we had one occasion a week ago to shovel less than an inch of wet snow. First snow this season. We usually have had snow by Christmas.

The predicted ice storm for MLK Day missed us for the most part. We had some rain since then.

First year in the 10 we have been here we got this far without running the blower.

We have had two Christmas blizzards since we got here.

We had a pipe freeze and bust in five places a week before Christmas when it was -13 (-35 wind chill). The seal (boot) around the dinning room fireplace had cracked. The water ruined the ceiling above the pipes between the bath rooms. It collapsed and we didn't know it.

Remodeling should be done in a week to ten days. We ran a heat vent into the space with wifi temp-water break detectors: http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/products/monitoring-systems

We learned from the experience.

OS

You might remember we had heavy snow last Christmas Eve that was not a blizzard.

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