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neb
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# Posted: 15 Feb 2015 10:08
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Man the NE US are having rough winter. I feel for them and know what they are going through,
TurkeyHunter>> how is the north camp?
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beachman
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# Posted: 15 Feb 2015 10:10
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Used to live in Boston, glad I moved north.
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 15 Feb 2015 10:56
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Quoting: neb TurkeyHunter>> how is the north camp?
UNDER SNOW!!!! ...glad I am here in da south!!!
My friends in Boston/ Cape Cod got lots of SNOW for everyone!!!
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bobrok
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# Posted: 15 Feb 2015 11:11 - Edited by: bobrok
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This is the reason I'm in FL. 60 years of upstate NY winters has taken its toll.
This is my neighbor's kid cleaning our roof.
God bless them!
Edit: well the pix didn't upload probably due to snow weight or something like that, but you know what I'm saying.
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SandyR
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# Posted: 15 Feb 2015 20:47
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It is ridiculously cold here! It's been around -10F all day.
It's not just the cold though. We've been under a crazy amount of snow this year. It's always a big joke here about whether we will have a white Christmas or not because we like a dusting of snow for Christmas. Well, before Thanksgiving we got hammered with 90 inches in 4 days, and it it hasn't stopped! Our sidewalks in the village of East Aurora are like tunnels. Some of the drifts go from the ground up to the roofs on the houses on the hills. I can walk from the ground onto my chicken coop roof. I think we have a packed three foot base. I have had my ceiling leak in two rooms so far.
I feel like I am living one of those silly things we say to our children. "Back when I was a kid it snowed a foot every night, and man let me tell you we were up on that roof shoveling for hours. Yup, back when I was a kid those were the real winters of the good ole day".
That's now. It has snowed a foot every night. I am tired of having the kids shovel the roof.
There is a guy on here close to me. Maybe 50 miles. I forget who it is ( Ravvy?) He is north of me and doesn't normally get as much snow as we do. I wonder if he is getting more than normal this year as well.
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smallworks
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2015 23:09
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We're slammed too, but last year the snow was like concrete. At least it's good for snowshoeing... Really cold, too.
SandyR, I hope your roof holds up. It's surreal up there.
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rayyy
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# Posted: 17 Feb 2015 07:33
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Hi Sandy.This is by far the worst winter of my entire life!(including 77)40 years ago I loved the challenge of winter but now days it's no longer fun.It's a struggle to survive.-14 with a wind chill of-35.that's just crazy.
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neb
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# Posted: 17 Feb 2015 08:44
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I feel for you folks. Any pictures would be awesome.
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bobrok
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# Posted: 17 Feb 2015 11:42 - Edited by: bobrok
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Mod, might as well delete my post. Can't put up pictures for some reason
application octet/stream error.
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SandyR
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# Posted: 18 Feb 2015 07:11
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I will try to post pictures tonight.
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 18 Feb 2015 20:47
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Live Rochester, NY and cabin is hour south in Granger, NY which we use year round.
Snow we are use to. The amount of snow this year are more than normal and reminds me of my childhood days when winters were a wee tad worse. We know how dress, handle, remove and drive in this.
As a boy scout here we winter camped. My scout leaders were mostly European WWII vets. They trained us well and I owe them for my love of the outdoors and how to survive in it no matter what the conditions. Dress in wool, layers and stay dry. Cover exposed flesh.
The people that are hardest hit are the ones that are now getting the enhanced amounts and temps that never did before.
Locally what is nailing us is ultra cold temperature with wind chills of -35 degrees F. These can be dangerous even for short periods of time. This year it has been continuous days of conditions like this. Many folks are going to be quite surprised when the thaw comes.
They will soon learn what froze as burst pipes and such that are currently closed by ice will flow readily. Ice damns will also start dropping from high roofs. I've seen thousands of pounds of ice hanging from roof eaves. There has been some roof failures. We are also running out of places to put snow that has been removed. Parking lots are getting smaller and streets are getting narrower.
I have found one perk. The snow is fluffy, cold and dry. It's the best cross country skiing snow ever. I'm in the process of building a biathlon range at my cabin. I've always wanted to try this as it puts together two skills I have but combining them isn't easy.
Given lemons make lemonade. The climate will never drive me away from where I live. However taxes and my idiot Governor may.
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neb
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# Posted: 18 Feb 2015 22:11
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Yes the thaw could be the worse to come for many. Like here when it starts to thaw the flooding and damage it does is way worse then the snow itself. Thanks
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rayyy
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# Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:48
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Lol,you definitely live in new York state huey.we also pay the highest price for gasoline in the country.(they never have a good reason for that)I am also maxed out for space to pile the snow.This is just like the winter of 77 in my opinion.I am so thankful for my little j d bucket tractor.
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 19 Feb 2015 19:15
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Rayyy
Senator Chucky is looking into the gas price thing. Should be any day now he has an answer. Maybe he can research while we also pay some of the highest utility rates too yet we live next to world's cheapest source of electric power, Niagara Falls. Of course we have the Public Service Commission to protect us from such excesses.
I still love the Great Lakes, the Finger Lakes, Wineries, Adirondacks, the Catskills, our Fall season, The Falls, our farms, the Amish, quaint little towns that time has passed by and the diversity of our population.
Normally I love winter but this one is pushing the envelope.
Tonight is what, -15 before the windchill???
We had blizzards in 77 and 78 but the grand daddy was the 1966 one. I recall being able to walk up the snow to the 2nd story of the house. They even cancelled school for a week. Back in those days they never cancelled school for snow. We owned shovels
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SandyR
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# Posted: 19 Feb 2015 22:25
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Huey, I grew up in Granger!! Up at the very top of Old State road! Loved that place. We also used the cabin year round. I was married in Nunda, and my husband and I would go to the Nunda soda bar every week. The soda bar closed years ago.
My parents sold that cabin and I looked for years for my own place as close to Granger as I could find. Not much selling up there. So, we are in Angelica about 10 miles south of Birdsall.
No joke, we have a couple of tons of ice on our roof. Since we use a wood stove the ice build up without a thaw is really bad. I haven't been able to post any pictures. Had the fire dept out here tonight to check my chimney. I thought it was going to come down tonight from the ice build up on it.
I will take all the pictures tomorrow to share. Crazy
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rayyy
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 06:02
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I have fond memories of the blizzard of 66 yah that was the first time us kids could play out on the road and not have Mom yelling at us.We had a house full of stranded people really appreciating a warm place to be in.Sandy,we take the horses up on rattlesnake hill once in a while to ride.
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neb
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 08:46
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rayyy >>OH Yah I lived through the blizzard of "66" it was a nasty one. It was devastating and no other words for it.
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Just
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 09:09
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9 AM .FEB.20 Ontario
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TheWildMan
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 10:33
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The weather is Profitable LOL
this is the time when my excessive surplus of firewood is coveted, and i can't go more than a few days without someone showing up with handfulls of money begging to buy wood.
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SandyR
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 12:39
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I have never been to Rattlesnake Hill ( but have seen many actual rattlers in the area ) we like to go to Keeney swamp.
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 13:41 - Edited by: hueyjazz
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Sandy
Granger isn't that big. Like 450 people Love Nunda lumber and the Amish saw mills. May have the Amish build me a garage. My wife loves Angelica so much that our pup is named that. My cabin is on top of the mountain on Old State Road along with a few other cabins tucked deep in the woods. The place was originally named Golden Ponds. I have two of the ponds. My right of way takes me to a 1/4 of English Hill State forest. Is this your cabin? Well you're not getting it back. It's my slice of heaven now 
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rayyy
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# Posted: 20 Feb 2015 17:17
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I have been down and out with bronchitis this last two weeks now and I am feeling pretty low with this crazy winter weather.It needs to let up.I have piled the snow as high as I can get it and I have been walking down to the creek everyday and chopping a hole in the ice to get water for the horses. -teens and twenties.Everything is frozen solid.Spring where are you?I need you now!!!lol.
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Bevis
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2015 01:31
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Quoting: bobrok This is the reason I'm in FL
Where abouts in Fl are you ? I'm in SW FL, on Lake Okeechobee.
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bobrok
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2015 10:59
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Bevis: We stay in Cape Canaveral, right up near the port. Wanting to explore S FL and could really use an invite. Too far to drive for a day trip!
  
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SandyR
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2015 16:19 - Edited by: SandyR
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Huey, as you are going up the hill on Old State we were at the very top on the left. My parents sold the property about ten years ago . Who ever bought it ripped down the old cabin and built a new one. You can only see the place in the winter when the trees are more bare, even though there are just mostly pines. Next on the left is/was a guy named Keith. I don't know of he is still alive. He has a red cabin. Then there is a sunken foundation that my dad always called Archie's. Story was that he was building a place for his wife and she died. He never finished it he was so heartbroken. Then my favorite place to be was what we called the beaver pond. It was on what my dad called the land road. This grassy "Road" used to be a logging road a very long time ago. Someone had put a trailer on it a while ago. Lots of black bears up there.
A ways down also on the left is a super nice log cabin that you can see from the road.
One of my other favorites is the old Civil War cemetery. Is that road Parker?
Where are you compared to all this?
In Angelica we are up Peacock Hill then left on County Hill rd. Ours is the new wooden cabin on the left.
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 21 Feb 2015 17:36 - Edited by: hueyjazz
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Sandy
Really, Really close but no cigar. I do know what you are talking about as far as your location. We are on top of hill on Old State and then a quick jog onto Walbridge. Right of way is off of Walbridge. There's a group of cabins off this but we all have acreage so its private. I'm deep in the woods but have electric. Someone had a master plan to make this a deep woods resort of sorts but went belly up. I've got two ponds, two creek and a small stream. We've had the place four years now. We got it as a neglected mess but saw the potential. It's really starting to come together. I have not done or even seen the Civil War cemetery but that's right up my ally. My wife lives for the town of Angelica. What a time warp. Any intel of the area is a great help. Snow and temps have been preventing us from going there the last three weeks. Its killing us
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rayyy
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# Posted: 22 Feb 2015 16:08
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I once stayed the night at the Angelica Inn years ago and I have a buddy that has a hunting cabin in Birdsall right around the corner from the Birdsall Inn.Also rode the horses in Keeney swamp.We also make an annual treck to the Mapletree inn up in Shorttrack every spring.
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