The Mountains In Minnesota

Well, we dont get these "mountains!". I liked your photo & wrote a comment. It must be a real nuisance having to rake up your driveway & footpaths. I visited a close family friend yesterday, who is on holidays from Toronto,Canada, & he was saying that in winter they usually can't travel anywhere. The snow is so bad, that the only way to leave the city is to fly or go by train.

I don't have to worry about that too much. We don't get very much snow here. And if we do get snow they close pretty much everything down because people go crazy so I just stay at home then. LOL I wish we would get a bunch of snow like that because I love snow. I wouldn't like it heaped up like that in my driveway from the plows though.

Yes. Especially after a slight thaw and deep freeze. This gives me an opportunity to try out my super-max power chisel...lol. You guys in Minnesota can't hog all the fun.

Ohhhhh how I LOVE those types of mountains. Growing up, the plows would always pile snow on the corner of my parent's property. When they were done plowing the street, the pile would end up being at least 15' tall. Perfect for snow tunnels/caves. I remember one particular year the pile was it's normal 15' tall but it spread out along the property line 20' one direction and 15' the other direction. A week of no school from all the snow meant some serious cave building. I made that pile into a house just about. It had 5 rooms all connected by tunnels with 2 entrances. Never collasped either. Now, as for blocking my drive. That's one thing I talked to them about. They now push the snow into the ditch along both sides of the drive so as not to block it in. Even after plowing my drive out, we still have a very hard time cause it slants up by the road so our tires spin forward while our cars slide backwards. We have to get a good speed going from where the cars are parked in order to make it up the drive and onto the road.

I haven't seen anything like that since I lived in Michigan. I can understand how that would cause you back breaking work trying to remove the snow from your drive way. Ick!

That really doesn't seem like much, compared to what I've been seeing on the news. I don't know where exactly you are in MN, but I was watching the news and MN has been having some horrific snow storms lately. Well our snow storm fizzled. We had a storm on Sunday, luckily I did a major grocery shopping thing the day before. The snow we had wasn't too bad, but later that night it turned to rain, washing all the snow away..drat. Since I live in a city type area, cars are simply parked in the streets. Whenever we do have a really big storm and the plows come, they literally bury the cars under feet (or is that foots of) snow--the owners of the cars just love that..NOT

LOL when I first read your post, mountains in minnesota I was like "no way" until I read on more of your post. I too do not like it when the snowplow blocks my driverway after they plow the streets. It is alright though because it gives me chance to get in some exercise.

Yes, yes...I hate it when the plow comes by. I live on a 4 lane county road. Seems like just after you get the drive clear, here comes the snowplow again. I hadn't thought about this since last year. Looks like you have already gotten quite a bit of snow.

brb

i don't hate it when the plows block the drive after they plow the street cos it doesn't snow in my country! it's still relatively warm over here in the tropics. just rainy. it was raining this morning, sunny for a little while over lunchtime (which was good) and now the dark foreboding clouds are in the sky again. so it's not the snow here that gets to me, it's the monsoon rain... it's flooding in some streets too!

Hi GRANDPA BOB! We don't have snow in our country, only heavy rainfalls. haha.. So, right now i will love to have that much snow so i can play in the snow with my nieces and nephews. LOL! Although, I have experienced the snow when I went to London in the winter time, but from where i stayed, the city didn't get that much snow. I think i am still one of those people dreaming to experience a white christmas with a 4 feet tall of snow piled up on my frontyard! haha.. Take care and have a nice day. :)