Weather in your neck of the woods?

[chisag]

1 hour ago, EasyPutter said:

It was 50" thereabouts at my house just 3 miles north of Highmark Stadium where it was over 70", brother in law was closer to the all-time snowfall record for NY State of 77"

 

.... Just crazy weather. In '77 I was working at WZZD in Philly and thankfully the girl with the shift after me made it to the station before the serious snow started. Station was about 1/4 mile down it's own driveway and we got snowed in. Our cars disappeared beneath the snow and we had to trade off 6 hour shifts for 3 days til they could get a plow to clear the road/driveway. Ran out of coins and with no food we had to break in to the snack machine. Might sound great to a teenager but 3 days on chips and candy really sucked. Glad you had the equipment to conquer the massive amounts of snow! 

[EasyPutter]

15 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

.... Just crazy weather. In '77 I was working at WZZD in Philly and thankfully the girl with the shift after me made it to the station before the serious snow started. Station was about 1/4 mile down it's own driveway and we got snowed in. Our cars disappeared beneath the snow and we had to trade off 6 hour shifts for 3 days til they could get a plow to clear the road/driveway. Ran out of coins and with no food we had to break in to the snack machine. Might sound great to a teenager but 3 days on chips and candy really sucked. Glad you had the equipment to conquer the massive amounts of snow! 

Front loader arrived on the street just about sunrise and opened it up one bucket wide.  Much better than Snovember 2014 when a similar snowfall had us shoveled to the (nonexistent) street before it was similarly opened by a front loader 5 days after the storm passed.

1977 was delivering the Buffalo Evening News as the presses did not stop printing through that whole storm, we had to go out into those blustery conditions every afternoon once the papers were delivered.  Streets were down to frozen ice but snow was drifted to house height and some required climbing the drifts to slide down, duck under the porch roof and put the paper in the mailbox at the feet that was normally too high to look inside (and I am 6' or 72"/182cm).  Kept the house closed up with access to outdoors through the downwind attached garage door where all snowy clothing was removed, fireplace kept glowing with cherrywood smelled great, well stocked basement food shelves and vault size topload freezer with no loss of power made it just one great adventure.  

January 1984 as member of NYARNG was activated to dig out South Buffalo streets socked in with up to 8 foot drifts in neighborhoods where there is no room to put snow from the streets.  12 hour shift commander so spent the whole event outdoors except for down time at the Armory.  Local news reporters came to find me for daily updates, awesome times to remember...  

Edited November 21, 2022 by EasyPutter
Getting it right

[funkyjudge]

5 hours ago, EasyPutter said:

Actually...

Me and my shovel...
and by the time Sunday morning rolled around, Town Plow pushed in the street snow across the bottom widening the street by about 4 feet and drifting from the westerly winds with upwards of 30mph gusts completely filled in that space on the left in front of the snow covered vehicles.  You gotta be tough to be a WNYer   snowbirds are those who retired the field of battle from winter weather... 

Guess what keeps me fit for shoveling?  That's right, GOLF! 

I grew up in Western NY (Lockport), and lived in Lockport-Batavia-Rochester until age 31. I did lots of shoveling like that, except that our house sat more than 220 feet from the road and at the top of a hill. I lived through the winter of 1977 in WNY and got up every morning that winter at 3 AM to plow driveways, gas stations and small shopping center parking lots with my Jeep before going to work at 7:30.

Since 1981, I have lived first in NJ and now in Bucks County, PA. We have had a few brutal winters here (most notably 1983-84, 1986-87 1993, and 1996-97, plus one about 12 years ago (not sure if it was 2010 or 2011). Never got 77” of snow, but we got 34” in less than a day in January or February of 1997. Luckily, I had just purchased the first of two Subaru Outback wagons that I owned in late December of 1996, because my wife was an emergency services worker for NJ Transit and got called to come in to work at the command center outside of Trenton, NJ (about 15 miles from where we live) while that 34” of snow was still falling. After shoveling out, I immediately drove her there in the Outback. Of course, both NJ and PA Governors had declared states of emergency and ordered all non-emergency vehicles to stay off of the roads. I asked my wife “what if we get stopped?”, to which she replied that she would show them her ID and we would be fine. Then she said “just don’t get stopped or get stuck on the way back home”.

Edited November 21, 2022 by funkyjudge

[funkyjudge]

4 hours ago, EasyPutter said:

Front loader arrived on the street just about sunrise and opened it up one bucket wide.  Much better than Snovember 2014 when a similar snowfall had us shoveled to the (nonexistent) street before it was similarly opened by a front loader 5 days after the storm passed.

1977 was delivering the Buffalo Evening News as the presses did not stop printing through that whole storm, we had to go out into those blustery conditions every afternoon once the papers were delivered.  Streets were down to frozen ice but snow was drifted to house height and some required climbing the drifts to slide down, duck under the porch roof and put the paper in the mailbox at the feet that was normally too high to look inside (and I am 6' or 72"/182cm).  Kept the house closed up with access to outdoors through the downwind attached garage door where all snowy clothing was removed, fireplace kept glowing with cherrywood smelled great, well stocked basement food shelves and vault size topload freezer with no loss of power made it just one great adventure.  

January 1984 as member of NYARNG was activated to dig out South Buffalo streets socked in with up to 8 foot drifts in neighborhoods where there is no room to put snow from the streets.  12 hour shift commander so spent the whole event outdoors except for down time at the Armory.  Local news reporters came to find me for daily updates, awesome times to remember...  

Since you were in the NYARNG, you may have known my late father, Doug Mael (same name as mine). You would probably have known him at Lt. Col. Mael. He died in July 1983 at age 60, but was still active in the Guard at that time.

My dad was a far better, and even more avid, golfer than I am, if that is possible. At his best, he played to a 2 handicap, and I never knew him to have a handicap index above 7 for 18 holes. What made that most remarkable is that he was essentially playing on one leg, as he lost the lower half of his left leg when he was wounded and captured by the Germans in WWII.

Edited November 21, 2022 by funkyjudge

[funkyjudge]

5 hours ago, chisag said:

 

... Sometime in the 80's I had rehearsal and it was -83 in Chicago. Yup 83* below zero windchill. Obviously everyone was advised not to go outside. I started planning my departure that day. BTW, this was before cell phones and when I got to rehearsal there was a sign on the door "Rehearsal cancelled due to dangerous cold". It was a 3 block walk and one of my eyes froze shut when I blinked and thankfully saw on the news not to try and open it until I got indoors and thawed out naturally or I could have torn my eyelid off!   

That was probably 1983. My sister got married in December 1983 in Minneapolis and as her oldest brother I was asked to “give her away in marriage” (a quaint old tradition) because my father had died earlier that year. We were in Minneapolis for about 7 days, and the temperature never got above -8* F that week. Several days during the week, temperatures were as low as -50 to -55*.

[EasyPutter]

1 hour ago, funkyjudge said:

Since you were in the NYARNG, you may have known my late father, Doug Mael (same name as mine). You would probably have known him at Lt. Col. Mael. He died in July 1983 at age 60, but was still active in the Guard at that time.

My dad was a far better, and even more avid, golfer than I am, if that is possible. At his best, he played to a 2 handicap, and I never knew him to have a handicap index above 7 for 18 holes. What made that most remarkable is that he was essentially playing on one leg, as he lost the lower half of his left leg when he was wounded and captured by the Germans in WWII.

The name is not familiar to me and the NYARNG as big and diversified as it was and still is though smaller makes possibilities of paths not crossing.  I had been commissioned 2LT for one month in July 1983 so it is possible he knew of me depending on what and where he was assigned.  God bless your father for his dedication to serve and to you also for being part of the rock that every family is to someone in service, just as my son is to me.  I retired as LTC in 2011.

Your father sounds like many of my friends who are fellow graduates of the local PGA HOPE program that serves military members, with golf as a means to improve physical and mental health following service to nation.  The adaptive techniques taught and the positive supportive attitude of PGA Pros who work with us are key to drawing Veterans together with golf as the venue for open communication and wellbeing.  Some of our guys do get to your dad's level of handicap but my focus is different, it is to find my peaceful place that is there on every course as a place aside from all things connected to stress - and watching someone melt down over golf to me is just hilarious.

[Kenny B]

Started snowing yesterday afternoon; woke up to this...

About 2 inches of powder and 27º at 9am.  My wife didn't even call the clubhouse to see if tee times were delayed.  

[chisag]

16 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Started snowing yesterday afternoon; woke up to this...

About 2 inches of powder and 27º at 9am.  My wife didn't even call the clubhouse to see if tee times were delayed.  

 

... Gotta love snow! It is so beautiful ... in pictures.   I hope to never see it in person again. 

[Kenny B]

3 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

... Gotta love snow! It is so beautiful ... in pictures.   I hope to never see it in person again. 

I could box some up and mail it to you.  

[chisag]

1 minute ago, Kenny B said:

I could box some up and mail it to you.  

 

... PICTURES ONLY! Anything that can turn to ice belongs in my drink or in my refrigerator. 

[Muckinfiddle]

28 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

... Gotta love snow! It is so beautiful ... in pictures.   I hope to never see it in person again. 

I feel you. You have any extra room in your house to adopt a middle-aged golf addict/buddy?

[chisag]

2 minutes ago, Muckinfiddle said:

I feel you. You have any extra room in your house to adopt a middle-aged golf addict/buddy?

 

... Well it just happens I do. My buddy should be a female between 55-65, reasonably attractive, good cook and of course loves golf golf.  

[Kenny B]

34 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

... PICTURES ONLY! Anything that can turn to ice belongs in my drink or in my refrigerator. 

Here's another one... finished shoveling the driveway; snow has stopped and the sun is trying to peek through the clouds.

[chisag]

31 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

finished shoveling the driveway

 

... the equivalent of shanking a wedge. Two things no human being should have to suffer.  

[Muckinfiddle]

1 hour ago, chisag said:

 

... Well it just happens I do. My buddy should be a female between 55-65, reasonably attractive, good cook and of course loves golf golf.  

Well 3 out of 5 is close. Let me know when you find her, if she has a younger sister just like her.

[GolfSpy_APH]

Well as most know I have been in Finland for the last couple weeks and when I got here it was cold, but not too cold. Since then though it has been freaking cold!

-15 most days which is what 10F? Maybe colder. Then we have also got record snow falls. It has made it quite pretty and truthfully it is dream weather for the event we are doing as it is helping conditions stabalize inside for the championship, but its just so cold I don't want to have to walk to my room or food because I get that chill and being in an arena is so hard to shake. 

Looking forward to getting back to Switzerland where it is still cold, but not to these extents!

[TylorJudd]

It's cold as hell here. Approaching minus 30 celsius next week.

[Bag Ratt]

Not to bad in Cali around 50 today !! Played today … couple pars couple of bogeys…

[Kenny B]

We've had snow on the ground for 11 days.  Not much, but it's been cloudy, foggy, and not above freezing very much; not going away anytime soon.  Very unusual for us; we normally don't get snow and cold until late Jan into Feb.  We were playing golf this time last year.  

[gingerbeast87]

-5°C, clear skies. Like playing off of concrete

[Josh Ross]

It has done nothing but rain for almost 2 weeks, wanting to golf so bad I can't stand it. It's usually bad cold here in the mountains but the temps have been nice. Now that we have our first couple of days without rain, we're in the 20's.

[Redhawk]

Up here in western Michigan, we had our first snowfall last night. About two inches. I still have been playing, This past Tuesday it was 35* with a 15 NPH wind and I got in 9 holes before I had enough. Played great too. Had only 11 putts and shot one under. Given the weather conditions, that was one of my best 9 holes since I can remember!!

[YamYam]

It was so cold here the other night I had to crack my dog off three lamp posts!

[dlm]

Tampa, going up to mid 60's for today's round.  Cooler weather coming in tho.

[warbirdlover]

Wisconsin, about 30° F and had to dig out yesterday and still coming down.

 

 

[dlm]

Ouch.  Been there and done that:  originally from Milwaukee and spent 2 years in Wausau!

 

[Beakbryce]

Yesterday had a 1 hour 15 minute frost delay. Was about 40 when we went out to play. Balmy. We are so spoiled in AZ with so much sun that if it isn't perfect you really don't need to play...

 

[solly5]

Western PA - freezing rain yesterday.  Christmas is to be highs in the teens.  Need April or Florida.

[wbealsd]

Compared to most of South Dakota, we've fared pretty well. If you've watched any national weather, you know the state got hit with a heavy winter storm system. In our neck of the woods, we probably got less that 6 inches of snow and only got heavy drifting across the roads yesterday. Once the roads get plowed so we can travel, I plan to drive to town to pick up some things and go bowling (my indoor sport).

It's very cold, the roads are slick and snowy but it's South Dakota, so it's just winter weather now. 

[Jack Jordan]

We had over 12 inches of snow last night and it is still snowing and predicted to add another 12 inches before it is over. We have a new 10 week old yellow lab puppy and she can barely et through it this morning...later will be worse. However my wife and I are ski instructors at nearby Belleayre Mountain so we are very pleased with the new snow.