Shenango Valley in winter time

Bill Cravener · February 13, 2010, 08:04:51 PM

Note the length of the shadow from the house below me. It was but 2:00 pm eastern time in the afternoon when I took this photo out my window. Days are starting to get longer though!!

Shenango Valley Winter Photo

dedndave · February 14, 2010, 02:19:46 AM

that looks like a nice little town, Bill
i was raised in Michigan, but moved to Arizona in 1971
it has been almost as long since i have seen icicles hanging from the eves - lol
when i was a kid, we used to throw snowballs at them to knock them down

Bill Cravener · February 14, 2010, 04:14:01 AM

It really is a quiet little town Dave, about 13,000 population. Twenty five years ago before the two steel mills died the population was near double that. But if you can manage to make a buck somehow it's a great place to live.

We are reaching near record days of consecutive snow and low temperatures. Most of the snow we get here comes from the Great Lakes (lake effect we call it). Perpetual snow squalls, it snows and blows the sun comes out, it snows and blows the sun comes out, etc.

Cabin fevers beginning to set in me thinks, he, he, he. . .

dedndave · February 14, 2010, 10:02:29 AM

i know it gets cold there
when i was in the army, we went to Camp Drum for winter training - brrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!
coldest place i have ever been :P

hutch-- · February 14, 2010, 12:42:03 PM

Bill,

Cabin fever sounds like an extreme case of what I get when I am geared to work but the rain will not stop. I try to put in regular time with software but I really must get more of this building work done and we have just had a number of days with really heavy rain for hours like in the tropics that makes the ground where I am working wet so you can't work there.

oex · February 14, 2010, 12:52:24 PM

I like the icicles, we dont get them that long in the uk maybe 5-10 cm tops I've seen :lol

Bill Cravener · February 14, 2010, 01:48:48 PM

The ice sickles get so large up here if you happened to be in just the right place and one fell it would skew you from head to foot. You get accustom to looking up before entering high buildings. :bg

We received a couple fresh inches overnight so I'm going out for some exercise by shoveling more snow, ugh !! :tdown

rags · February 15, 2010, 12:29:47 PM

Nice picture Bill. I know all about the damn drifting since I live in the countryside. Last weeks storm
left over 2 ft of snow with the drifting in the driveway. With snowblower not working,
it quite the bit of fun shoveling it out.

Bill Cravener · February 15, 2010, 01:08:56 PM

I have a small parking lot that must be cleared and I'm to cheap to have it done so I snow-blow it. Walkway and other areas I shovel. I honestly don't mind the exercise and try to stay fit. There's been a few times when shoveling away that I'd have to stop to catch my breath and I'd think,"God, hope I don't have a freaking heart attack!". :eek

Snow is beginning to get old though. :tdown

Bill Cravener · February 15, 2010, 03:23:51 PM

I'm losing my mind !!

Mon . Feb . 15:

"THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ADVISES THAT SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE 4 TO 7 INCHES FROM THIS MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS LOW PRESSURE CROSSES THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. SNOW FALL RATES MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS AND BLOWING SNOW CAN BE AN ADDED HAZARD DAYTIME TUESDAY."

hutch-- · February 16, 2010, 02:06:16 AM

:bg

Bill,

You will get over it, its called summer time. Just approach the shovelling of snow drifts like a frree gymnasium class, turn into superman for the summer time and be highly modest when the ladies notice all those rippling muscles. :P

Bill Cravener · February 16, 2010, 12:28:26 PM

Steve,

The old back complains a bit but you're right it is great exercise. I've lived here in the area off and on for 50+ years and I lack that big belly roll all my friends I grew up with have. Of course they are not as cheap as I am and pay to have their snow removed and lawns cut.

Life here in the northeast near the lakes is 8 months of pushing a lawnmower and 4 months of pushing snow. Another two months and things begin to green a-new. Spring time, my favorite season! :bg

hutch-- · February 17, 2010, 12:27:16 PM

:bg

Bill,

Mines feeling a little ancient as well, I have been digging out clay and rubble mixed today and I am about half way through the cleanup. Very pretty area you live in and I understand why you like it, I doubt I would survive a winter their unfortunately. I am floating around in my normal builders labourer outfit, stubbies and a T shirt and can manage such bad taste until about mid autumn.

dedndave · February 17, 2010, 01:07:48 PM

i go for the "maximum coverage" look
the less of me that shows, the more people seem to like me

Bill Cravener · February 17, 2010, 02:36:04 PM

Steve,

There are days the lower back pinches my sciatic nerve and my right leg goes numb. A life of body abuse I guess. Should have know years of motorcross and hill climbing would come back to bite me.

Dave,

That was funny! :bg

I have 8 or 9 scares on my back, torso and legs from getting basal cell carcinomas removed but the lady's seem to be attracted to men with scares. Guess they think you are tough and have had a very hard life. I'm not telling them any different.

A snowy day in the Shenango Valley

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Shenango Valley in winter time