Think we A'skert 'em off????

Farmwithjunk · Feb 13, 2008

civesnedfield said:
Junk you don't know what snow is. So far to date at the house I believe we are over 96" of the white stuff. 10" to 12" more on the way for tonight with more on the way Friday and Monday.

4" + a little bit of rain is child's play.

Ed

Oh, I know what snow is alrighty. (Spent a winter at Minot ND back in the late 60's)

You have to understand the normal weather around here and how people deal with snow. It's such a rare occurance, when it DOES snow, it's total pandamonium. EVERYTHING is shut down. EVERYONE panics. Wrecks galore.

And also understand it was 71 degrees just a few days prior.

jbrumberg · Feb 13, 2008

To All for the sake of "transparency"; my PM to the 'Ol Dougster this AM:

Dougster :starbucks:

:

Good Morning :tiphat:

. Life got in the way of weather geekdom last night

- I got involved with cooking which does happen quite regularly.

I hope you got more out of this event than some sleep loss :unhappy:

I got snow until it started to switch to sleet around 2:00 AM. At 7:30 the sleet was starting to switch to rain/freezing rain. I got the 'Ol Ice Foot taking this AM's snow readings- 6.50" of snow packed with sleet (better than nothing

). It looks like your local weather weasels mouthed what they were told to say, but they hit it better than I did . I do have a weather guru- Joe Bastardi who is a retired PSU meterologist professor, very active with AccuWeather, and a TV weather announcer. His blogs rile up the meterologist "establishment" on a daily basis it seems

. His blog this AM was a less than complimentary comment on himself and meterologsits in general. His basic advise was do not trust us (i.e weather weasels); empower and trust yourself, just use the available weather data provided and interpret it yourself- you can not do worse and the "weather weasels" who are just telling you what we are telling them to say. I could go on, but the day and fuu-fuu :starbucks:

await . Will get some tractor seat time though

Jay

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PS: Sunday into Monday looks to be like this current event :pat:

so far.

And to Ed- you have "lucked out" in the snow department this "Winter" so far. All the systems have tracked your way. So far this winter I have had ~63.00" of frozen stuff, but I have been able to go snowshoeing about a half dozen times so far this year as part of my "rehab". Jay

Dougster · Feb 13, 2008

jbrumberg said:
I hope you got more out of this event than some sleep loss I got snow until it started to switch to sleet around 2:00 AM. At 7:30 the sleet was starting to switch to rain/freezing rain. I got the 'Ol Ice Foot taking this AM's snow readings- 6.50" of snow packed with sleet (better than nothing ).

I may have blown the opportunity to make a full push's worth of revenue out of this storm.

Turns out that my 5AM depth measurements and assessment may have been a bit too conservative. I measured 2 to 2-1/2 inches (powder with a hard crust) and decided it was best to make today a "customer's option" day... particularly in view of rising temperatures and a flood of rain expected later to wash most of this snow away. Turns out there was more like 3" (town average) apparently with some some pre-sleet drifting... and most of my competition is out running today... going for the gold!!!

A couple of customers with hills called for a push, but no one else so far. I mean... this storm was awfully marginal.

Meanwhile, my competition is out there cashing in.

This is a perfect example of why putting the customer's best interests first doesn't always pay.

Dougster