It rains here. A lot. I still don't want snow though.

I am guessing you don't want to hear about how its 18 (65) here in Ottawa today?

the silence is kind of cool.

and at night, it's so bright..
you can see everything.

today, it's beautiful, blue sky and bright sun...
and the snow is almost blinding.

 i live in a neighborhood that, because of it's topography, captures a lot of cloud action, blowing from the west, which is over the great salt lake, and that's why we get a huge amount of lake effect snow.

here's a google map of my neighborhood (mt. olympus) , i live a couple of blocks northeast of churchill jr high school....

https://maps.google.com/m...&mra=prev&z=15


 if you zoom out, and look just due south of olympus cove, you'll see two roads going up into the mountains, big and little cottonwood canyon...

Brighton and Solitude ski resort is up big cottonwood canyon, and Alta and Snowbird (where i go) is up little cottonwood canyon.

these are 'box canyons', which means they dead-end... and are at about 11,000' elevation.what happens is, the clouds march across the desert, hit the great salt lake, pick up all that moisture from evaporation, wrench out as much snowfall as it can at the end of these canyons...

the water content is about 4-6%, which is referred to as 'cold smoke'.
i'm about a 15 minute drive from solitude, another 10 minutes to get to alta

They have to dig out before they can open. That's a big Avalanche Canyon. Most time's they have to trigger the Avalanches before they can allow people up the canyon.

oh, they are pros with handling the avalanches.

they use big howitzers....










http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIsdCtG54Q

Yes indeed, that valley and Alta and the crew up there pioneered a lot of Avalanche removal methods. Just once I'd like to shoot an Avalanche down. They could sell those shots big time.

even with all the control efforts, they still have them come down and cover the road

Have you considered moving??? It is dark thirty here and 51 degrees outside... was about 70 this afternoon and I am about 45 minutes south of Chattanooga. It is nice! I have a friend who used to live in Jamestown, NY just north of Buffalo. They had snow all winter, just nasty... it is pretty at first but then after it gets dirty in town it just looks nasty.
 
Sort of like frozen Detroit. Good luck with it...
 
J

 
THAT is a job I would pay them to let me do!!!