Okay, we are buried in snow! - The first cband 10' rim of dish is 5' above ground. I am officially digging the first foot of the rim out from under the snow. The second Cband dish, i put the rim up higher. The snow is about a foot away from touching the rim. In the last week, we have gotten so much snow, and the winds have been shifting directions so drifts are building up everywhere. Our 6 foot high fence that keeps the cows/goats in is officially invisible and buried in many areas. Luckily, the cows goats won't walk into deep snow, so they stay to there packed down trails they make.
Yesterday, i had to feed the cows with a 1000lb bale. The snow had drifted the gate corner where there water was to 5' foot in one night. I used the blower on the tractor to blow it all out. Jeez, i just walked out there to to do chores, and give water to the animals, and im gonna have to blow again today. We have gotten so much snow, we are living in a HOLE. Our driveway , courtyard and path to the cows is now about 6 feet below ground level. So, when we get high winds accompanied by snow, it just fills in all the holes, and things can start to get bad fast, because you blow it out build up a higher wall which then makes for deeper holes and deeper drifts the next time. For this reason, i never blow during a blizzard. I wait the blizzard out, because if you blow it all out, 2 hours later, its like you didn't do anything, and all you have done is make the problem worse because of the wall building i mentioned.
I remember one year, we had a 3 day blizzard. We have a 1000 gallon metal tank. The tank is about 6 feet high on its side. We cut a hole in it and the goats take it as shelter. After the blizzard, i walked out to the animal yard, and the 1000 gallon tank was GONE! And i don't mean just the tank was burried. The entire field was at that depth. Crazy! I grabbed a snow shovel and started digging. It took 2 feet of digging before we hit the top of the tank on its side. About an hour of digging later, we managed to dig a small tunnel down to the hole on the side of the tank. All the goats emerged out of the tank. The snow was so deep the animals could not vacate. We put on snow shoes and walked back and forth a 100' foot for about an hour tapping down a path in the snow between the tank and the cow shelter and the food/water so the animals had a path to walk. The snow was SO deep. The animals were very motivated as they probably hadn't had any food or water for a couple days. Slowly and cautiously they walked/crawled the path and made it to water/food. THAT was a crazy storm!
Luckily, i have a DW news IP stream i can watch.
I'm done with the Aspen brand for the 5x8's.
