Thu, 07 Jan 2010

Snow on the Prairie

I took this video this morning looking southwest panning to the southeast - snow was falling at a rate of about an inch an hour. Overall, we probably have about 8 inches on the ground, four or five of which came in the last 24 hours.

Measuring snow out here is not an exact science - or at least not with the tools I have available. That's because of the wind. Take a close look at the gate and fencelines in the background (on the right) when the video first starts up. Those are four foot fences, and some of the drifts go right up to the top. The wind right now is out of the west at about 20 mph, gusting to 30.

It's so flat out here that on a clear night you can see the lights of Crawfordsville, 15 miles to the west.

We put a snow fence up this year on the west side of the driveway, and it sort of worked. The drifts in the driveway are only about 40 inches instead of 48. So I'll have to call my buddy Larry and get plowed out. Again.

The only real solution is to either find a tree/hedge hardy enough to tolerate the herbicides with which my neighbors spray down their fields and plant then all along the west side of the property, or get a bigger truck and put a plow on it.

But we won't be doing either in the next few months.

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