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A few camp and road to camp pics. All in the UP of MI and snow had been good here this year. The night tracks are the resident moose.
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I am jealous, had to leave the snow, and now in the warm Philippines for 8 months to keep the wife happy. Problem is the nice weather in WI (winter and snow) is also the only time the Philippines is bearable. Rest of the year is too hot or too many storms.
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I love seeing all your snow pics - the dogos sure seem to love the new camp - big win!
Thanks, I'll post more when we get some. Its below zero here now which is unusually cool for us. Still snowing flour like snow. Below is the city snow dump. Lowest is our yard.
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Thanks, I'll post more when we get some. Its below zero here now which is unusually cool for us. Still snowing flour like snow. Below is the city snow dump. Lowest is our yard.
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Now you have some forum members wondering just what the heck a snow dump is. ;)

We only see piles of snow that high in parking lots, not in our yards.

Those pictures of downtown Houghton are great - they remind me of my hometown on Lake Huron.
 

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The phoenix area has a huge pigeon problem, I've never seen anything like it. When I first bought my house in Goodyear I heard this God awful noise in the morning coming from the roof. Went out back and looked up and there were pigeons all across the peak. They're nothing but nasty flying cockroaches that love to nest under your solar panels. I started shooting them with my pellet gun and they would move on to the next roof but every spring it started again. When I sold the house the house inspection asked why there were so many dead pigeons on the roof and under the solar panels. :oops: I had to go up there with a trash bag, gloves and mask and get rid of all of them. lol One thing I was glad to see is the area we're in now don't have this problem which may because of the hawks here.
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Thanks, I'll post more when we get some. Its below zero here now which is unusually cool for us. Still snowing flour like snow. Below is the city snow dump. Lowest is our yard.
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Nice, I like your "flour like" snow description.
 

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Now you have some forum members wondering just what the heck a snow dump is.
Cities that see much snow, need locations to store it at until spring that are a convenient location for dump trucks to get to. Here are trucks being loaded and more of our snow dump. Yes, these storage areas are large. There is a payloader there to keep the snow left there pushed into walls.
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Cities that see much snow, need locations to store it at until spring that are a convenient location for dump trucks to get to. Here are trucks being loaded and more of our snow dump. Yes, these storage areas are large. There is a payloader there to keep the snow left there pushed into walls.
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Thanks for sharing Arly. Knowledge is a great thing and folks will benefit from knowing that snow is collected, dumped, and stored much like waste at a landfill. I’m glad you included a picture of a blower filling a dump truck as they move along the street - reminds me of combines filling trucks, on-the-go. In northern regions, this is just part of regular winter operations.

It’s also important to know that these dump sites are very well thought out. Not only do they have to be large, flat, and accessible, all the frozen water has to go somewhere in the springtime. Site selection is very important.

I remember the first time I saw the snow dump site when I lived down east in New Brunswick - it was massive!
 

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A few photos taken the past few days. Seems we have rolled over 150" for the year cin town. Up in the high points its more. We plan to get to camp on Friday.
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