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Old 01-07-2012, 05:37 AM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Pine Grosbeak hanging out at -27F...
Looks like this guy is doing pretty good.. lots of food source for sure

My squirrels and birds are pretty plump too.. just bought another 20 lb bag of gourmet bird food... 6 birds at once land on my feeder and argue over position.. my 2 cats love it.. squirrels sit at the bottom and clean up any seed falling.. Hawks are enjoying this no snow and they are eating well..

enjoy what nature gives you.. that's my motto
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Old 01-07-2012, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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A few new snow pics, mostly around the house.

Teenagers on a snow pile.


Driving into town.


My house, looking a lot like it did before we shoveled it last week.


Side of the house. The various snowy lumps are a woodpile, a flat-deck trailer, and a truck.


More lumps. The same truck, the neighbor's truck, and the neighbor's house.


That lump is the top of my compost bins, which are made of pallets. The duct tape on the greenhouse over there is from our first bad windstorm when I thought the roof was going to come off.


The back yard from the greenhouse roof. That's the neighbor's garage. There is a 6-foot fence in there somewhere.


Looking the other way across the yard.


The greenhouse after three hours of shoveling the roof. The lower edge is five feet high and you can walk up it on packed snow now.
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Old 01-07-2012, 11:41 AM
 
Location: Ostend,Belgium....
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tigre79, that's what you call snow..not the two inches some people get wild about over here!!
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Old 01-07-2012, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Seattle, Washington
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In Seattle a fine dusting of snow puts people in a panic and shuts down the entire city. I wonder what would happen it we got something like that in Valdez around here sometime!

Really enjoying the pics Tigre!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Old 01-07-2012, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Bliss Township, Michigan
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Thanks Tigre ... I really like the "The back yard from the greenhouse roof." one. Hard to believe there is a 6 foot fence in there, but just looking at the building, you can tell there could be. Nice
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Old 01-07-2012, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Seattle, Washington
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There is a 6-foot fence in there somewhere.

Amazing!
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Old 01-07-2012, 04:36 PM
 
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When it's that deep, is it unsafe to walk on?
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Old 01-07-2012, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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When it's that deep, is it unsafe to walk on?
In places where it's been blown into piles or otherwise packed down, the only risk is slipping or falling off. Where it's not packed you don't walk on it, you wallow through it. Even on snowshoes I was in up to my waist and falling down quite a lot yesterday. If you don't have anything to use for leverage it can be difficult to stand back up. I have heard of people falling off roofs and becoming hypothermic before they could get themselves out or anyone came to help them. And you could potentially hurt yourself if you fall on something hard or sharp that's buried or fall off of something you thought was solid and wasn't, like a cornice on a snow berm or something like that. And ice and snow can be very dangerous when it falls off of a roof. When big slabs of snow shed from a metal roof it makes a distinctive rumbling sound, and you'd better not be under it when it comes down.
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Old 01-07-2012, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Naptowne, Alaska
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Years ago when I worked in Wrangell, we used to don raingear and basically swim through the snow. There was no walking through stuff like that out in the woods.
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Old 01-07-2012, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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