Winter's here - Event Date: 26 Dec 2017

Blessed with 7+ inches of snow here this week. Wait, this is the SOUTH and were not suppose to get that four letter word from the sky because here the world shuts down! No school, business close, heck my newspaper or mail didn't even come. Hmmm .... no mail maybe that's a benefit? Oh well our little winter hibernation soon ended because the high the day after was near 50. Go global warming!   

Originally posted by mcarter I used to do tech rep work at Camp Ripley, in the 80s the NGB folks took me ice fishing near Brainerd, MN. First and last time I went, but a blast. I was amazed how deep the snow was and the cold.

Driven by (through?) Camp Ripley hundreds of times going between Brainerd & Minneapolis. We could hear the "big guns" on the Ripley firing range from the north end of Gull Lake (at least 50 miles north of Camp Ripley IIRC). We would listen and try to discern whether it was Ripley or thunder. Wasn't always clear.

Originally posted by Leo B We have people driving trucks and cars on the ponds and lakes up here. I will bring my snow machine on the ice but not the van or truck.

There were a couple of big lakes that they would plow a road across in winter for a shortcut. Everyone drove on that. Not too big a deal when the ice is > 3' thick.

The coastline of mass has ice. Gotta be pretty freakin cold to freeze the ocean. Our forecast is for -25 wind chills for the next day or so. A high of about 3 i think they said. On a positive note, I'm working on booking a few sites for the fourth of july week