Whats it looking like up there? (Caribou, Washburn: suburban, car, trees)

[cvanripe10]

It is very colorful in NJ right now. Chilly, but not cold. The leaves are still on the trees. Most are orange, red but we still have some green. Some trees are completely bare, but few. It doesn't feel like november because i don't remember the leaves staying on this long. It feels like mid october.

But anyway, I like how Maine looks, but i'm afraid of what people say about winter being over half the year.


Are the trees completely bare, cold outside, frosty, looking like winter right now??? People tell me maines winter comes a month earlier and summer comes a month later. Is this true?

[Mark S.]

Peak colors are pretty much over where I'm at. Some of the trees are still hanging onto their leaves, but most are pretty bare. Today was a soggy, windy day. Chance of snow this weekend.

[Bydand]

Leaves have been gone in my section of Maine for a few weeks already. Some years yes, winter will come much earlier and stay much later. Other years, not so much. Last winter was not much of one here. Snow didn't come until just after Christmas and was bare ground by mid to late April. Usually it is any day now we could get a snow that will stay and not melt, and snow on the ground until late April.

[mainebrokerman]

bydand, when i first started travelling up in your neck of the woods years ago,,,i pulled over,,got out of the car and took a picture of the car next to the snow bank,,the snow was up over the telephone wires!!
they snow-plow the fields (a swath at the edge of the fields before the road)way up there, to prevent snow drifting in the road,,
when you first witness this,,you look over,,and say to yourself,,wtf is that guy doing??
but when you get to driving around such wide open spaces and strong winds,,you understand why,,very quickly,,,,ive seen them close down the road from caribou to presque isle,,,because of white-out and drifting,,

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by mainebrokerman

bydand, when i first started travelling up in your neck of the woods years ago,,,i pulled over,,got out of the car and took a picture of the car next to the snow bank,,the snow was up over the telephone wires!!
they snow-plow the fields (a swath at the edge of the fields before the road)way up there, to prevent snow drifting in the road,,
when you first witness this,,you look over,,and say to yourself,,wtf is that guy doing??
but when you get to driving around such wide open spaces and strong winds,,you understand why,,very quickly,,,,ive seen them close down the road from caribou to presque isle,,,because of white-out and drifting,,

Yeah, I love the looks people give when they see the "roads" plowed through the fields parallel to the main road. Almost every year they have to close the stretch between PI and Caribou for at least a bit. Worse is the road between Washburn and Caribou. That is why we have a big ol' 4X4, the wife is an ER nurse in Caribou and sometimes she just HAS to get through. 4 Wheel drive Suburban with extra weight and studded snow tires .