1.5' snow left....rain today could get to +40

Good morning, where's the scoop shovel?

Marty b at least we dont have all that snow and ice in our corner of the state. The scene out my back window looks OK...but hiking through bean and corn stubble yesterday to pull traps, well, the 2" of rain we did get here isnt fun. I fished traps out of standing water, waded ditches and creeks running full, and in some places could barely pull off to side of road to walk in to sets I put way back in middle of sections. The road sides were so soft you had to be real careful where you pulled over to side without sliding into the ditch.
I know, waaaaa right? But this was quite the storm system and it's still going today.
Water on top of frozen ground doesnt have anywhere to go, it just sits or runs and everything is soft goo.
Yuck.

Jim

Hit here last night not a lot of snow yet but drifting will be a issue with the wind. My snow plow guy is out of town so we sit and wait if it gets worse.

I am about 45 miles SW of jabNE. Here we just had about 2" + of rain. Starting to freeze a little now. I drove and checked my few bobcats sets I have out. Pastures ain't to bad to walk in, and most gravel roads are packed in the center, but get off to the side and watch out. Mud will suck your truck into the ditch if you are not careful. I did see a pack of 3 yotes on running down the middle of a gravel road as I popped over a hill. They put it in high gear and took off like a rocket. The pictures are of my little creek (Swan Creek) that runs about 40 yards from my cabin door. Usually about 1 to 2 foot deep and about 10 to 15 foot wide. Today it's about 12 to 14 foot deep and 50 to 60 foot wide. I hope that's as deep and wide as she gets.

Well I gots enough staples to make peanut butter cookies, and clam chowder.


And I'm stocked on bacon, coffee, chaw, cigsars, whiskey, and birdseed for my little friends.

I'll survive till they dig me out.

I was raised in S.E. Nebraska and will trade you winters any time,,,,,,, summers not so much LOL. There is a lot of the U.S. north of your latitude (with poorer fur populations) so enjoy your weather conditions as they are worse the farther north you travel..

Loud and clear Pa Trapper! I’m in south central Pa and it’s all mud and very mild. My New Years wish
is to have a winter with temperatures below freezing with real snow. There are so many mice and other
prey still about for these canines.