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FrogMan

03-09-2008, 06:48 PM

I meant to post these pics a couple weeks ago but forgot about them until today with the latest storm. Just some pics showing how much snow we have around the house. Just so you know, as of yesterday, 420 cm of snow had fallen on our head in the area since the beginning of Winter. That's over 4 meters of snow...

Taken a couple weeks ago, pics of our back deck before I'd shoveled the snow off it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6852.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6852.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6853.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6853.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6854.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6854.jpg)

And after I'd been done shoveling it...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6868.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6868.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6869.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6869.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6870.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6870.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6871.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6871.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6872.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6872.jpg)

As a comparison, here's a point of view you could have in the summertime...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_home002.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/home002.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_home003.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/home003.jpg)

Pic taken from the front porch, looking at a neighbor's house
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6855.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6855.jpg)

That's our house, seen from the street
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6856.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6856.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6857.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6857.jpg)

A stop sign nearly buried by the snowbank
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6858.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6858.jpg)

Driveway seen from the street
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6859.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6859.jpg)

That's our garden shed, where I keep my snowblower
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6862.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6862.jpg)

View of the other side of the shed. That fence you see behind the kiddie slide is four feet high.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6863.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6863.jpg)

Door window pic take from the inside before I'd shoveled the back deck clean that day.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6866.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6866.jpg)

More driveway pics taken from near the house
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6875.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6875.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6876.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6876.jpg)

That's me, I'm 5'11".
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6877.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6877.jpg)

And these are from today, the day after another storm brought another 12 inches of snow and with whirlwinds made some crazy accumulations in the backyard and on the deck, again.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6879.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6879.jpg)

That's the kitchen sink window. On the outside, I can not touch the bottom of that window with my arms outstretched, so it's possibly 9 feet high at the bottom and the snow is coming at about half of it... (edit to add that the cable you see on the top right corner is the main power line cable feeding the house. If not that my feet are going in the snow, I could probably touch it, crazy)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6882.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6882.jpg)

Again the window door, from this morning...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6883.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6883.jpg)

Simply a crazy winter...

FM

DaddyTorgo

03-09-2008, 06:50 PM

good god man! praying for global warming much!?!?

finkenst

03-09-2008, 06:58 PM

wow...

and i thought felt a little guilty making a colleague go to the office in montreal (dorval) last night . . .

Sigh.

I wonder if we can send him a valorous medal or something.

or maybe a model of our product to him.

FrogMan

03-09-2008, 06:59 PM

Toddzilla

03-09-2008, 07:05 PM

Holy crap, dude, do you live in a community of pirates?

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4198/1006858ot2.jpg

FrogMan

03-09-2008, 07:08 PM

nope, only a French speaking community :p

Arret = Stop

FM

finkenst

03-09-2008, 07:23 PM

french speaking community...

at least internationally the shape of signs is agreed.

octagonal = stop.

vtbub

03-09-2008, 09:18 PM

I thought we had it rough, but the handy dandy google converter only has us at 266.67 cm of shi...snow for the winter. FYI, I'm 90 minutes SE of Montreal.

FrogMan

03-09-2008, 09:23 PM

I thought we had it rough, but the handy dandy google converter only has us at 266.67 cm of shi...snow for the winter. FYI, I'm 90 minutes SE of Montreal.

there's a big cutline at about Drummondville, if you know the area a little, in terms of snow fall. I always laugh when we hear Montral TV stations saying they've had a "rough" storm, or when we watch some Vermont news show with people in hardware stores buying every shovels they can find or storing up on bottled water when a storm is announced... ;)

FWIW, 266cm has been our averaged of the last 5 or 6 years so this year is a big one for you too I'm sure...

FM

vtbub

03-09-2008, 09:26 PM

there's a big cutline at about Drummondville, if you know the area a little, in terms of snow fall. I always laugh when we hear Montral TV stations saying they've had a "rough" storm, or when we watch some Vermont news show with people in hardware stores buying every shovels they can find or storing up on bottled water when a storm is announced... ;)

FWIW, 266cm has been our averaged of the last 5 or 6 years so this year is a big one for you too I'm sure...

FM

Top ten winter snowfall wise here for us. One more big blast could put this in the top 5.

Maple Leafs

03-09-2008, 09:29 PM

Here's what things looked like today in Ottawa...

Our cars are under there somewhere.
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2598/cars2yb6.jpg

Our snow banks are eight, maybe nine feet high:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9875/kristigi2.jpg

Our neighbors hadn't shovelled yet.
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/2073/neighbour3jh2.jpg

Some homes have drifts up to the second story windows:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5615/acrossstreetlm1.jpg

Just another day in Ottawa...
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8087/shovellersnx9.jpg

Lathum

03-09-2008, 09:32 PM

thats insane

FrogMan

03-09-2008, 09:33 PM

Maple Leafs, that street looks pretty much like ours today, crazy times...

FM

kcchief19

03-09-2008, 09:56 PM

Caught a bit of The Day After Tomorrow on TV today. Had no idea that thing was a friggin' documentary. Holy cow.

Autumn

03-09-2008, 10:01 PM

FrogMan

03-09-2008, 10:13 PM

How could there be people who live in Vermont who don't own a snow shovel? I mean it snows here, every year. And they buy bottled water? ... you must be watching a Burlington station I guess.

I live in Vermont, and where we are we have about the same amount of snow as you. It's insane. It feels rather claustrophobic having the windows get covered up with snow, and having to dig a tunnel out each new snow. Ugh.

yeah, the feed comes from Burlington. Maybe it's not happened that often, but the one time it happened on the news, we thought it was pretty funny... :)

And yeah, it feel a bit claustrophobic, especially here in the basement, where my computer is. Power was out for most of the day today, and I tell ya, there wasn't much light down here...

FM

Autumn

03-09-2008, 10:22 PM

And yeah, it feel a bit claustrophobic, especially here in the basement, where my computer is. Power was out for most of the day today, and I tell ya, there wasn't much light down here...

FM

You know, when the power goes out, you don't have to stay seated at the computer? ;-)

I'm definitely ready for summer, but I can't imagine how muddy spring is going to be.

FrogMan

03-09-2008, 10:27 PM

You know, when the power goes out, you don't have to stay seated at the computer? ;-)

I'm definitely ready for summer, but I can't imagine how muddy spring is going to be.

LOL! Yeah, that sounded stupid. Basement is also where the woodstove is, thus it's where it was the warmest and best to sit and read a comic book or two. :p

FM

Autumn

03-09-2008, 10:37 PM

Ah, a comic book, well now you're talking. My home office is the coldest place in the house, so it's not where I would hang in a power outage. Then again, I finished working and I'm still sitting here, so who could say? My excuse is that my comic books are on my hard drive.

Lathum

03-09-2008, 10:42 PM

Autumn

03-09-2008, 10:54 PM

Let's see...

They feature the adventures of scantily clad men and women who possess abilities and physical proportions unlike those of normal humans. The dialogue is stilted and filled with cliches. Most of the plot is only an excuse for them to get involved in some strenuous physical exertion with each other. And it's something kids keep stacks of in their closet.

Gosh, I'm actually not sure which it is.

duff88

03-09-2008, 11:08 PM

I was at my brother's appartment to watch the Canadiens-Kings game last night and when I decided it was time to leave at around midnight, we weren't able to open the door because there was so much snow in front. Well we could have opened it, but there was literally 4 feet of powderry snow that we would have need to walk through to get to the car, and I wonder how the hell we could have even gotten out of the parking. I decided to stay there for the night.

When we went back home this morning, there were cars caught in snow on the sides of the highway.

DeToxRox

03-09-2008, 11:15 PM

Our snow banks are eight, maybe nine feet high:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9875/kristigi2.jpg

I wouldn't mind getting five minutes for boarding her.

DeToxRox

03-09-2008, 11:18 PM

Dola I'll even take a third man in if needed.

Lathum

03-09-2008, 11:26 PM

Dola I'll even take a third man in if needed.

lol

you may get 2 minutes in the box

DeToxRox

03-09-2008, 11:28 PM

lol

you may get 2 minutes in the box

That's what I'm trying to coax ML into.

ZING

bbor

03-10-2008, 12:32 AM

We in TO received a nice 45 centietmetres yesterday.

My house looks much like ML's..except with snow:D

Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

03-10-2008, 10:31 AM

If SirFozzie had started this thread I would come in here and tell y'all about the sunburn I got at the beach this past weekend.

But he didn't so I will refrain. :D

SirFozzie

03-10-2008, 10:34 AM

........

I KEEL..

Nah. Never mind.

Young Drachma

03-10-2008, 10:36 AM

Schmidty

03-10-2008, 11:16 AM

Buffalo, NY and western Michigan can relate, but that's crazy.

Coffee Warlord

03-10-2008, 11:17 AM

I do not want to live there.

MikeVic

03-10-2008, 11:30 AM

Crazy! We haven't gotten that this year, and I don't remember the last time we got a crazy-ass snowfall like that. I remember something big a few years ago when I was in University... everyone would drive as far as they could into parking lots and just leave their car there. It was awesome.

And Maple Leafs, who is that in the pic?? Not your wife, or your daughter...

Autumn

03-10-2008, 11:40 AM

Ooops, wrong pic Maple Leaf. The cat's out of the bag now.

Maple Leafs

03-10-2008, 12:11 PM

That's my sister.

Proceed under advisement.

MikeVic

03-10-2008, 12:13 PM

Alright. I'll just say that from that distance at least, you have a cute sister.

Kodos

03-10-2008, 12:19 PM

This is giving me flashbacks to my childhood in Rochester, NY.

I hate snow.

johnnyshaka

03-10-2008, 12:43 PM

Talked to my little brother on Saturday...in Ottawa...literally standing in line to board a flight to South Carolina...and he had his fingers crossed because the snow started coming down about 30 minutes prior to me calling. The flight left as scheduled but I think he was a lucky duck as not many more left after that.

My folks are having fun...thankfully they're retired and don't need to be out of the house for any particular reason so they are enjoying the Winter Wonderland views from the family room.

rkmsuf

03-10-2008, 12:45 PM

snow

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1317/1362606206_1adf49e9ce.jpg?v=0

oliegirl

03-10-2008, 02:53 PM

It's about 65 degrees and sunny here in Atlanta, most people are in short sleeve shirts, some in shorts...no jackets.

Just to make all you snow-bunnies feel better ;)

johnnyshaka

03-10-2008, 03:57 PM

Another thought on the snow...the spring melt is going to be very, very detrimental to a lot of people as there just isn't going to be any place for most of it to go. I hate to say it, but the worst of it is yet to come.

Lathum

03-10-2008, 04:08 PM

FrogMan

03-10-2008, 08:45 PM

five new pics taken today, so a couple of days after the big snow storm of Saturday...

View looking down the street from in front of our house, similar to what Maple Leafs posted
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6884.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6884.jpg)

This is the postal box where the mailman delivers the mail for everyone on three streets around ours. It was completely gone under the snow this morning when I left for work. See how deep they had to shovel to get to it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6885.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6885.jpg)

Remember there was a stop sign there before?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6886.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6886.jpg)

This leads to the back deck, that's the snowbank you can see from the kitchen sink window...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6887.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6887.jpg)

Same neighbor's house as before, the snowbank now a little higher than before...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/th_100_6888.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/QcFrogMan/home/100_6888.jpg)

FM

Izulde

03-10-2008, 08:53 PM

We're still with a ton of snow and ice on the ground here in Wisconsin, at least the SW part of it.

Worst February we've ever had and the spring melt is going to be absolutely brutal.

I so can not wait until warmer weather appears. Like, real warmer weather, like 70, 80, 90, 100 type weather.

Crim

03-11-2008, 08:13 AM

french speaking community...

at least internationally the shape of signs is agreed.

octagonal = stop.

Yeah, I found video evidence of this phenomenon.

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