Mother nature is really pissed

Gary Reeder
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 09:39 (1230 days ago)

It snowed hard for the last 36 hours. This gave us several feet of new snow. Yesterday afternoon Kase climbed out to see how deep it was on the roof. He was standing on at least 4 feet of snow.The dogs are loving it. Standing on drifts of 6 or 7 feet of snow that is leftover from last weeks 8 feet of snow, they enjoy standing on the drifts and looking in the windows.

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Overnight it snowed hard until about 2AM, then it turned into sleet and then rain. That several feet of snow is now 12 inches of slush. I went out and placed some sticks to outline the driveway. Colleen is opening the shop today while Kase and I try to see what we can do if anything about this mess. I told her to hit it hard and stay between the sticks as it is even worse on each side of the drive. She knows to floor it and don't let up until she gets pavement under her wheels. She drives a Nissen 4X4 Armada and she managed to make it out. Now it is up to Kase and me to make it thru this mess. There was already maybe 2 feet of snow and packed ice in the drive before the snow and rain hit us last night. Now it is a bog and thank the Lord we have good 4 wheel drive vehicles. Even then it is hard driving thru all this mess. With probably 6 or 8 inches of packed frozen ice, then at least 2 feet of new snow that has turned into slush it is hard going. Plus late yesterday the county snow plow plowed the road and left a 3 foot berm of snow at the end of the drive. In the pictures you can see the large berm of snow the plow left us. So not only do we have to get thru 65 yards of slush, then we have to get over almost 3 feet of packed snow.
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We are really having a great time.

Building codes

AkRay
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 12:43 (1229 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Does Flagstaff have extra stringent building codes so you don't get a lot of buildings collapsing under the snow load? I'm glad I don't have to deal with moving that amount of snow all winter!

I would expect Flagstaff to be covered in Swiss chalets,

Mike H.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 17:31 (1229 days ago) @ AkRay

but, it's not.

The rain and melting snow has caused several

Gary Reeder
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 21:59 (1229 days ago) @ Mike H.

towns to be evacuated. Bridges are under water and some have been washed away. In the next 5 days 3 are forecast for snow. Our house has enough pitch so it really isn't in danger of collapsing. But years ago the first owners had an eating nook added to the back side of the house and it is almost flat so we have to watch the amount of snow that ends up on it.

I didn't make it to work again today due to

Gary Reeder
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 22:05 (1229 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

the rain and melting snow that is causing a lot of problems. There are over 500 homes in this little part of the county and all have septic tanks. These tanks tend to fill up if the leach fields end up under several feet of snow. Our tank has had to be pumped out twice last week at over $1000. So I have been running sump pumps to get the grey water out of our septic tank. It is a real pain in the butt but nowhere near as much trouble as many of the houses are having. Our house is at the top of a small hill so no real bad problems. The pictures I showed today is the worst we have had in a few years. But the folks at the bottom of the hill are really having flooding problems.

Actually, and before you mentioned snow melt,

Mike H.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 06:41 (1229 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

I was thinking Flagstaff really should be covered with Swiss chalets separated by Dutch or Venetian canals. Same as your area, mine has dry washes but which are inadequate for snow melt and heavy rain. Am half expecting overflow and neighborhood flooding later today and overnight what with a series of heavy rains of late, but we also are looking at golfball sized hail, 70mph winds and tornadoes, which are all pretty common during any rain, any time of year in the Southern Plains. Last time the neighborhood went under water, I watched from inside as my septic tank lid lifted under water and blew lovely large brown bubbles. Kinda ruined the idea of a backyard swim.

Sorry to hear about the snow and flooding

Darryl T.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 10:57 (1229 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

I wanted to stop by and see you when I went to AZ in January. Had to bypass flagstaff both ways due to weather. We can blame global warming!

we have county snow load requirements that

jthomson
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 20:04 (1229 days ago) @ AkRay

vary 20 lbs/ft within a mile. What you dont realize that living in this snow country is that you can clear your driveway every day for a week and you end up with no place to put the snow. I still have snow from Nov LOL

Hang in there Gary

ChrisG
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 10:02 (1229 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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