White Christmas in Central OR, maybe: update
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12/09/22 08:49 PM
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We live 3 miles south of Bend, OR. our house is right at 4350 ft altitude according to my old portable aviation GPS moving map device, I started snowing lightly several weeks back off and on, todays snowstorm looks serious It was sunny earlier today when I was using our snowblower to clean both driveways and as soon as I started blowing snow it resumed snowing, put down around one inch in 90 minutes where I had clear off to begin with. I took this picture about 20 minutes ago off of our front porch around 4:30 PM Pacific time. We have lived in this house since the summer 2005 and usually have snow in the winter, last winter was very mild and I can't remember if we got snow or not One year, 4 or 5 years ago, we had 48 inches of snow in the back driveway. We have had a low of -28F several winters ago so I guess I should be happy it isn't like that now. Merry Christmas to all, enjoy life all you can now I took this latest picture about 1/2 hour ago out the back door, it is really slick out there now due to additional snow falling on the base that had harden making it like ice Merry Christmas and have a very good new year
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/09/22 09:07 PM
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You can keep that stuff out there. The highest point in Md. is 3300ft.
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/09/22 09:59 PM
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Too cold for me, but it sure is beautiful.
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/10/22 07:50 AM
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Merry Christmas from SE WI....we got a solid 4" of wet heavy crap today. All cleaned up now but....the older I get the more I dislike snow. Exactly!
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/10/22 03:04 PM
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I like Sandpoint, we looked at buying there on one of the small airparks north of the amusement park, but when we saw how high the snow could get up the trees we passed The lowest pine tree limbs were around 25 Ft. off of the ground
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/10/22 04:52 PM
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Amusement park ? That sounds like the Athol area, about 20 miles South of Sandpoint. There was a small airstrip there, and they ran 1/8-mile drags, but that ended when Silverwood bought it so they could expand, the year I moved. Would've been great to use. There are airpark properties near the Sandpoint airport, but I've never heard of an amusement park here... Haven't seen 25 ft of snow - worst so far has been about 12 ft accumulated over the Winter. It's probably my OCD, but it's frustrating to plow our shared private road and a few of the neighbors' driveways, only to have to do it again the next day. I want to dial back on that...a bunch...
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/10/22 11:45 PM
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Is Sandpoint where Michael Furman and a lot of other LAPD and L.A. Fireman retired? If so, sorry for the confusion. I looked at a western U.S. map and the little amusement park I'm thinking of is on Hwy 96 north of the 90 freeway on the north end of Cour d Alene, sorry. We landed their first and then flew up about 5 miles northeast of their to the Airpark I'm thinking of, there was another small airpark a little further north and a little west of the one we look at. I was thinking the deer ate the lower limbs off of those trees when they were a lot younger, and they had all got taller and older
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/11/22 08:34 PM
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I was born and raised in SO CA, mostly in the Mojave Desert where you have Cottonwoods and Joshua trees around where we lived mostly. There are a lot of different trees around us here in Bend, our home is surrounded by tall pine trees of two different versions, Ponderosa and two others pine trees I can't remember the names of now. I now hate Pine Trees, Pinecones and Pine needles falling year around, pitch dripping on anything left under them I've twisted both knees and ankles stepping on them dang Pinecones Done with the griping, more snow here last night, around five fluffy inches
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/24/22 04:00 PM
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looking like we may get one in seattle also this year... How much snow did you guys up there get?
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12/24/22 08:30 PM
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Re: White Christmas in Central OR, maybe
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12/25/22 03:05 PM
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Yesterday I went into town in the middle of the afternoon and the banks, library, gas stations, ect all had made no attempt to clean up their lots or sidewalks from Friday's snow. Normally they do, but perhaps since it was Christmas Eve they could not find anyone to do it? Supposed to warm up by the middle of next week for a few days so maybe most of it will go away.
Here people push the snow into their gutters, but then the gutters freeze up at night so that is where it stays. Common to have clean and dry sidewalks and the roads still have broken snow floor and ice stuck on them because the storm drains and gutters are blocked with ice.
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