If only winter was like this the whole season.

[747mopar]

I dread winter but only because of the mud, lack of life (no leaves) and the freezing and thawing but this I love! We've finally had over a week of snow covered ground and temps averaging around 20 degrees, perfect for cleaning up the property and burning brush.

 

[Don selleck]

used to love winter, the brutal morning temps up here are a little rough on my beat up body but no mud is good.

 

[Roger63]

After reading the title I kinda figured that it was all about the ground being solid. I used to feel the same way, we were always on private right of way building new transmission line. Winters in iowa with large equipment necessitated freezing temperatures.

 

[conv67bdere]

And I'm getting "more" rain and have mud galore around here to contend with . . . Yuck !

 

[SgtSuperbird]

Or you could be dealing with this, in my "neck of the woods". I'm downstream and everything is safe, where I'm at.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/898643

 

[Ron H]

While no winter fan, enjoyed, if it's to say enjoy, the milder winter weather in SE WI with temps in the 30's and more than the typical amount of snow we've had for a number of years making snowmobilers happy. But then the polar vortex set in week or so ago below zero and highs of 10-degrees. Gonna stick around for a while...this sucks. Well, this is where I live and bitching about it is useless...but still do anyway, lol.

 

[69a100]

I'm downstream and everything is safe, where I'm at.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/898643

If you're downstream and safe now, what happens when the dam/ice bursts? What's up stream has to come down!

 

[SgtSuperbird]

If you're downstream and safe now, what happens when the dam/ice bursts? What's up stream has to come down!

The water is actually down at least 6" at my location, presently. When the ice finally decides to let the full flow of the water through, there's three large channels that the water drains through - so I would (should) only get roughly a third of the flow.

The unfortunate people upstream are probably going to deal with this for awhile. At one point, there were 7 US and Canadian ice breakers working this past week. They kind of had to give up, because with our connecting lake pretty much freezing over, there's no place for the jammed ice to go. It is a total mess, but a beautiful mess.

 

[Brandy]

Here in VT we're having a very mild winter..it's like 6+ out right now...

 

[VANDAN]

Been Cold here in WNY lately, mornings both sides of Zero, F. The GOOD thing about that is, Lake Erie is freezing over, meaning Less Lake Effect snow, and Less Clean Up !

 

[dadsbee]

Nice... I could only wish. -22C here today and the snows a bit much for bush work..

 

[Budnicks]

if you can't sled, quad or ski on it
it's not to my liking

I'll take the sun & warm anyday

I don't deal with much mud, mostly granite & gravel, snow on top

 

[Brandy]

Been Cold here in WNY lately, mornings both sides of Zero, F. The GOOD thing about that is, Lake Erie is freezing over, meaning Less Lake Effect snow, and Less Clean Up !

I remember growing up in North East, Pa, just over the state line. There were winter storms that hurled VW sized hunks of solid ice up onto the Lake Erie shore down at Freeport Beach. It's a big, violent lake.

 

[747mopar]

used to love winter, the brutal morning temps up here are a little rough on my beat up body but no mud is good.

This is the first winter that I've started to notice the cold related aches, mostly the knees but it could be all the flooring I've been doing?

 

[747mopar]

And I'm getting "more" rain and have mud galore found here to contend with . . . Yuck !

It's been a very mild winter up until February, we've had plenty of mud up until now.