I know this is an old, ongoing complaint, but I am truly getting tired of this cold winter. Last week I had to take a day off work because the water line coming from under the road froze deep because of the clear roads allowing the frost to go deeper than normal. It has never happened in my 24 years of living in this house. I've lived here in Western NY all my life and you would think I would be at least a little used to the colder weather. Tonight's low is expected to be -8 to -5 degrees F in March!!
Walking our small dog is becoming harder and harder with each passing artic front, followed by a cold front, followed up by another artic front. All of our quick neighborhood places for her to "go" have become isolated and barricaded off with huge plies of snow and ice. More than 10 times this winter I have to leave the car run after work, put her in it and drive 200' to a side road because a lot of neighbors don't snow blow their sidewalks leaving us to walk on the side of a major road, which we don't. It could be worse I know, but I'm just tired and cranky tonight.
Starting the car almost every day for almost 2 months now and praying for it to start gets tiresome too. Average temp here last month was 11 degrees F breaking a record. Intersections getting hazardous because visibility is hindered with tiered snow plow banks 4' high or more. Furnace seems to run every 10 minutes around the clock.
Local baseball/softball games are scheduled to start in a few weeks, but there is almost 2' of snow on the level of the fields with a concrete texture of grass underneath the snow. Good luck getting snow fence/stakes out before July.
I know I'm exaggerating and whining, but at this point I don't care. Almost everything you do on a daily basis is 5 times harder than normal and it's been going on for months now. I feel bad for coastal cities like Boston with incredible amounts of snow and the bitter cold up in Minnesota. I don't want spring temps to come, I need them to come. My rant is over, and I'll feel like a complainer after I sign off. For that I am sorry guys.
Walking our small dog is becoming harder and harder with each passing artic front, followed by a cold front, followed up by another artic front. All of our quick neighborhood places for her to "go" have become isolated and barricaded off with huge plies of snow and ice. More than 10 times this winter I have to leave the car run after work, put her in it and drive 200' to a side road because a lot of neighbors don't snow blow their sidewalks leaving us to walk on the side of a major road, which we don't. It could be worse I know, but I'm just tired and cranky tonight.
Starting the car almost every day for almost 2 months now and praying for it to start gets tiresome too. Average temp here last month was 11 degrees F breaking a record. Intersections getting hazardous because visibility is hindered with tiered snow plow banks 4' high or more. Furnace seems to run every 10 minutes around the clock.
Local baseball/softball games are scheduled to start in a few weeks, but there is almost 2' of snow on the level of the fields with a concrete texture of grass underneath the snow. Good luck getting snow fence/stakes out before July.
I know I'm exaggerating and whining, but at this point I don't care. Almost everything you do on a daily basis is 5 times harder than normal and it's been going on for months now. I feel bad for coastal cities like Boston with incredible amounts of snow and the bitter cold up in Minnesota. I don't want spring temps to come, I need them to come. My rant is over, and I'll feel like a complainer after I sign off. For that I am sorry guys.
