[Rockhounds] Winter Weather

[Tim Fisher]

Arco? I think that's the definition of "middle of nowhere"! Oh well they do
have some pretty rocks :)

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[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of J Bryan Kramer
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Winter Weather

I just heard something the other day that I have never heard of before. Some
guy in Colorado was talking about 'Non Avalanche Snow Death'  (if I got that
right) where people apparently step into very deep powder snow, sink to the
bottom, and suffocate. I think they had 100 inches of powder there.

The area I spent a winter in Idaho at, Arco, got just about zero snow being
in the wind shadow of the mountains. It did get to 42 below and we had 6
weeks of never above zero temps. That was more than enough for this Florida
boy.

BK

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 17:09, John Siebel
<john at pandemoniumgraphics.com>wrote:

> Lanny Wrote:
>
>> You know it's winter when you spend a lot of your time shoveling the
path
>> to the outhouse!
>>
>
> Nah Lanny,
>
> The path to the outhouse is well traveled. You know it's winter when you
> have to shovel the roof! Last year I had to trench the front of our cabin
> several times to keep the snow from bashing through the front window as it
> slid off the roof. And our woodshed collapsed under the weight of over 20
> feet of snow. We've got a mere 34" to date. But our neighbor's Cat is
busted
> and he can't plow us out so I am parked a mile away where the county plows
> the road. In the mean time I am cuddling a piece of, "Freshly Cooled Lava"
> that Kitty sent me from Hawaii and pretending that I'm in the tropics.
>
> John
>
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""It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored
than the day."

                      Vincent van Gogh
J Bryan Krämer
North Florida, USA
photos at:
http://pbase.com/photoburner


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