Noisy Snow
Nanuq907
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We're having a weird weather pattern this week, it dumped a bunch of warm humid snow, then the temperature abruptly dropped and THEN the wind came up. In that order. So I've been out walking in the snow and noticing it sounds really strange.
When it's cold out, the snow has a crunch to it. When it's really cold it squeaks. This stuff sounds like I'm walking through a dumpster of discarded McDonald's soda cups, with a hollow "graunch" sound to it.
Anyone else noticing this? It's getting colder and colder, and that darn wind is nobody's friend. The smoke coming out my chimney looks like woodsmoke but it drifts away and disappears... it's the humidity inside my house coming out, and dissipating.
Boy do I need a week on a beach somewhere. I need vitamin-D in the worst way. If you hear reports of a pale white polar bear sighting on a beach you'll know it's me.
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I have a spare room just waiting for you. No beach but a sea wall and easy chair on the water front.
Before Judy retired, after being a rural mail carrier for 37 years she loved squeaky snow. Driving 40 miles a day on the shoulder of the road, squeaky snow meant she wouldn't get stuck. Refrozen wet snow meant the same but could be bumpy and could slide you into a mailbox if you weren't careful. Wet sloppy stuff meant her blazer stayed in 4WD and she could still have problems. Me I prefer no snow and the smell of a new mown lawn.😀 Bob
My father was a rural letter carrier in upstate New York for over 30 years. Growing up I would help him on his mail route when ever I didn’t have school. I remember the squeaky snow riding in his 4x4 Jeep Wagonerr.
This latest snow here in the MidWest is more "granular" than usual making traction in the deeper snow non-existent. Good snow tires aren't getting the job done so Son's been using the old standby--tire chains to get around in the field and even the tractors need chains to get around . I haven't been totally stuck 'yet' but being very careful to prevent that in this below zero weather.
Once the snow is somewhat packed, it's giving the squeak sound when driven or walked on.
I got back from Florida just in time to experience all the cold weather and snow in SW Missouri.
Same storm that knocked out Texas.
This was way more enjoyable:
the USAF once thought it was necessary for me to spend a year at Shemya AB, Ak. the land of the sideways snow. i do remember once remarking that the snow was so dry there that it would take a pickup load to make a glass of water. i dont remember it making any noise though, but then the wind was usually blowing above 30kts and you couldnt hear anything anyway.
Wow! You should sell real estate up there, it sounds so inviting. I will just stay here in the desert. We had almost 4" of snow and it was "creaky" when you walked, but ours is gone now.
That the bear that bit the lady through the outhouse seat last week up there?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alaska-woman-outhouse-bear
@varian Shemya?!!! Boy somebody was mad at you!
Ever seen the “snowdrifts” behind the roadside reflective stakes? 1” wide and 100 yards long.
Shemya AK was a fantastic place at one time. There was a girl behind every tree.
I got to see the radar site at Cape Lisburne AK. Remembering wondering who did you have to pizz off to get stationed there????
I did go thru cold weather survival tng in Alaska, but we did not do any jumping in the water- because you were NOT going to chop a hole in that ice. We had C-130s landing on the lakes. Figure out how thick THAT has to be. We figured aircraft at about 75 tons.
@chme yeah that old joke, a girl behind every tree... most people don’t know there are no trees.
75 ton aircraft? That needs about 54” of good ice.
Not the same bear but it could have been the polar bear that attacked the submarine periscope that had surfaced through the ice a short time ago!
That out house story is a good one! It made me laugh out loud when I first read it but after a bit of thinking, it would have scared the crap out of me literally had it happened to me!
I just read that story... those people have obviously never been to Alaska! Brown bears "up to 900 lbs"? Black bears "topping out at 200 lbs"????!!!
Good Lord, those are the yearlings. Those are the ones we chase off our deck.
The AK out house bear should be easy to identify.😀