Mother Nature Has a Cold Heart

I'm just going to cover January and February weather in general with a few comments as I'm not disciplined to write daily on the blog   Anyone that likes snow would have loved January and February in Ohio as we virtually had snow almost everyday.  We were fortunate in that all of the snow came down gently and we didn't have any wind and blowing snow to speak of causing drifting or we would have had a real mess to contend with.

We had plenty of snow the weekend that we got back from North Carolina and without much drifting the road crews have done a great job in our township to keep the roads passable.  I decided however that I would rather mow the grass twice a week in the summer than run the snowblower four or five times a week and sometimes twice a day in the winter.  Below is a photo of some driveway clearing with the snowblower.

From the last week of January and through February the snow just kept coming down almost on a daily basis. We didn't see the ground until this week (3/9).

Where did we park the van?

An excellent example of an "ice dam" or put another way damn ice.

I had to try this - it didn't hurt much and came right off after Joan poured the warm water over it.

The birds have been really hungry. 

One of the worst disasters that happened was the collapse of ten hangars at the airport where we keep our plane resulting in the destruction of 10 maybe 11 planes.  I think that one hangar may have had 2 homebuilts in it.  Ouch!!

Fortunately ours held up fine in spite of the heavy load of snow you can see on the roof.  Here's 25Whiskey poking its cowling out of the hangar.

Looking forward to Spring.