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Choclab

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I have to drive over this pass every weekend to go home and check on the horses, look for hay and what not....I'm stuck on the westside for work during the week until the spring. I couldn't make it home this weekend due to blizzard conditions and avalanches.....so I was stuck in western Wa......sucked. These pics were from last weekend...they got another foot or two since then.

I almost feel sorry for these poor bastards

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Heres an e-mail I received yesterday.......

Coeur d'Alene snowfall sets new record
6AM sunday morn-the total is now at 133"that is 11 feet of snow so far -the flood potential is enormous


Associated Press - February 6, 2008 12:14 PM ET

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Weather watchers say a record has been broken in Coeur d'Alene.

Climatologist Cliff Harris says that as of 3 p.m. yesterday, 127 inches of snow had fallen in the northern Idaho city this season. That's nearly three inches more than the old record of just over 124 inches, set in the winter of 1915-1916.

Harris predicts another 10 or 15 inches of snow could fall before spring comes. He says everyone is going to remember this winter for years to come.

The city's normal snowfall is about 67 inches a year.
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Its really funny-- the Continental Divide has pretty much been the dividing point for moisture this year- up north anyways....Western Montana is way over for snowpack in their river drainages- where east of the divide most are around normal- with some even below again...

Lot of moisture coming in off the Pacific- and then just hanging up on the west side of the mountains...Thats plumb OK with me for now- just start letting some come across for May and June in the form of rain... :wink:
 
While I certainly feel sorry for the poor beggars who have to dig out, and I wouldn't wanna be around in the spring when it all melts, can you imagine the snowmobiling? :shock:

Rod
 
Yikes! On the other hand, when we don't get a lot of snow up there we run short of water down below in early summer. It's kind of good to see...from a distance. =)
My daughter's in Elllensburg. She is, for the first time in her life, tired of snow and cold.
 
All the snowmelt will probably cause alot of problems for folks on the west side on the state, but us on the east side are pretty excited about that snow. The Kittitas Valley ie Ellensburg should have pretty good water this year and the water might not get turned off early.

Over here in the Basin, we might actually get some good cheatgrass and annual grass growth that will help out until we get our other pastures grown up. Last year we had about two weeks of this grass and really hurt the irrigated pasture.

The worst part of all this snow is the mess it will make as it thaws and the frost comes out of the ground. Hopefully we can retain some of the moisture and it just doesn't disappear.
 
I sure hope the melt helps everyone this year, it's been too dry the past few summers. Best luck to you.
I hope no one gets flooded during it, but it's kind of a surprise that they still do. "Step away from the river."
 
Although I wouldn't care for near that much snow, I'd certainly take a little more snow and a lot less wind. Boy I'm tired of that cold flippin' wind this year!!
 
Richard Doolittle said:
Although I wouldn't care for near that much snow, I'd certainly take a little more snow and a lot less wind. Boy I'm tired of that cold flippin' wind this year!!
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We must be getting older Richard cause I am tired of that wind as well.
Just wait till spring. Then it will blow EVERYDAY. :roll:
 
GLAD I AM NOT ON THE PRAIRIES I THINK THE WIND WOULD DRIVE ME CRAZY. LOTS OF TREES HERE TO SLOW IT DOWN. THE WIND SURE WAS HOWLING ON SAT AND SUNDAY. WAS 50 BELOW WITH WINDCHILL SAT NIGHT. AND ON MONDAY COULDN'T GET OLD FAITHFUL TO START TO GO TO WORK 40 BELOW WITH NO WIND SET A RECORD THIS TIME OF YEAR. I GUESS THAT IS WHAT WE GET FOR LIVING ACROSS THE BORDER TO THE ICE BOX OF THE NATION.
 
Rain, rain, go away. At our farm, because we're just above Lake Washington, we get a heady mix of steady winds and driving rains. Still, it isn't like the winds on the prairies, that would drive me mad!
 

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