Another Polar blast and more snow

[Dozclan12]

Baymule..know what you mean. I used to live in Florida, so GA. being right next to it..doesn't usually get the snow and ice either. We have a son that is going to be there until Oct. I told him that they sure made a big deal over a little bit of snow, and that he should be used to it. He comes back with, noo..you have no idea with how bad this is. You can literally
snap a tree branch like a nothing. The ice is so bad, there is no way you can drive on it..obviously..after what we saw on the news with that back up in Atalanta. Guess it was a lot worse than I was thinking..plus, power outage for long periods of time. What's up with the our weather..all across our country?

 

[hilarie]

Although I dont love driving in the stuff, thru many years of practice I'm good at it. What I hate is trying to get my biggest goat, Melba, to walk across the ice into the milk room. All the king"s horses and all the king's men can't make this 180 lb girl go where she doesn't want to. (visual: me piggy-backing Melba across the ice, which hasn't happened yet, but it might.) My mother, raised in Savannah, said when we lived in Michigan that she was going to throw a snow shovel over her shoulder and start walking south. First one to ask her "what'chall got there?" was where she was chucking it and settling down. Mind you, this year that wouldn't have worked anywhere in the continental U.S.

 

[Baymule]

It would work here, I don't know what a snow shovel is. We got snow, don't mean we know what to do with the durn stuff.....

 

[greybeard]

We have had an abnormal winter here in East Texas as well. A very WET winter, and temps lower than normal. Nothing like up north, but the effects are going to be lingering into summer. If we have a very wet spring too, there are places on my property I will not be able to traverse on anything other than the tractors, and even then, will have to be careful not to break thru the surface. Yes, we too had an ice storm last week--power was out for 2 days.
These warm spells, then more hard frosts is hard on my pastures--they grow a little, green up, then frost knocks the forage back to brown. My ryegrass should be almost knee high by now but is not. Haven't seen a bit of bahia or bermuda grass green yet. It's a good thing there was an over abundance of hay last year--I'm still feeding hay, and have already fed more hay per animal than any other winter in memory.
Calving season has begun, there are 5 on the ground already and more on the way--sure would be nice for them to hit the ground dry and warm.

The snowfall up thru the midwest and into Canada has a potential to be problematic once thaw arrives--for the Mississippi River valley, both upper and lower. It won't affect me, but if rains come the same time with snow melt, flooding is almost a given on the big river. Hydrologists with US Army Corps of Engineers monitor both snow and rain when forecasting flood levels on the Miss, Ohio, and Missouri River basins. Going to be an "interesting" spring I'm afraid.