Light snow blankets Wind River Lake, Wyoming

[walkstall]

Snow fell on the Labor Day weekend.   

[supsalemgr]

Snow fell on the Labor Day weekend.   

Keep it up there. Looking for a milder winter in WNC this year.

[Solar]

I am definitely not looking forward to snow, because we've had a phenomenally cool august with temps in the low 80s and single digit humidity.
Coolest august in memory, but if that's any sign, we're in for an early cold winter.

[walkstall]

I am definitely not looking forward to snow, because we've had a phenomenally cool august with temps in the low 80s and single digit humidity.
Coolest august in memory, but if that's any sign, we're in for an early cold winter.

LOL this is at the 9000+ foot level and above is my understanding. 

[quiller]

I'm hoping to have a new furnace installed for this winter after lugging along about 30 years with the present unit. Last winter was heavy snow and deep cold that I don't want to risk another season. Now if only the electricity stays on. We4 had that one winter for a few days and lemme tell ya, warm never felt so good when I got it back!

[TboneAgain]

LOL this is at the 9000+ foot level and above is my understanding.

Surface elevation of Wind River Lake is 9,542' msl.

I'll bet it's a splendid place to spend the high summer.

[Solar]

Surface elevation of Wind River Lake is 9,542' msl.

I'll bet it's a splendid place to spend the high summer.

My uncle lived near there, we had snow in July, though nothing like this, but it's really not all that rare.

[keyboarder]

That's a beautiful pic of the Wyoming snow.  Heard that Montana got some snow too.

This is pretty to look at but gosh, i'll take the pics any old day as opposed to experiencing it.  Our area just goes dead in the merest mention of snow.  You don't want to be traveling on our SC roads when snow hits.  We've got some of the worst drivers in the USA. 

We've had two-three bad winters since I became an adult and the snow was mixed with sleet and got several feet deep.  Power off as much as six days and the businesses that did run offered to let you stay overnight, depending on which shift you were working but you could stay still the roads got better.  What a freaking mess and I don't want to go back thru that again.  Worst case scenario for me was being at work when the sleet and snow hit, roads too risky to drive on, children(teens) at home and the power was off for them.  Nightmare for me, good training for the teens.  It turned out ok but it didn't have to.

[walkstall]

That's a beautiful pic of the Wyoming snow.  Heard that Montana got some snow too.

This is pretty to look at but gosh, i'll take the pics any old day as opposed to experiencing it.  Our area just goes dead in the merest mention of snow.  You don't want to be traveling on our SC roads when snow hits.  We've got some of the worst drivers in the USA. 

We've had two-three bad winters since I became an adult and the snow was mixed with sleet and got several feet deep.  Power off as much as six days and the businesses that did run offered to let you stay overnight, depending on which shift you were working but you could stay still the roads got better.  What a freaking mess and I don't want to go back thru that again.  Worst case scenario for me was being at work when the sleet and snow hit, roads too risky to drive on, children(teens) at home and the power was off for them.  Nightmare for me, good training for the teens.  It turned out ok but it didn't have to.

  I think every state has them Key.  I learned to drive just outside of Glacier National Park when the snow was six feet deep all around you.  Had to take a school bus 36 miles to school every day.  There were no snow days off.  Then move to Washington state, if there was snow then there was no school.      

[JTA]

We didn't have any hills where I grew up, just a bunch of fields. So whenever it snowed we'd tie a bunch of sleds to our pickup truck and haul ass in the fields next to our house. Sometimes we'd take the truck bed liner and use that as a "sled" and have wrestling matches with the goal of throwing your opponent off the "sled". Last man standing got to drive the truck. Fun times.

[daidalos]

Hey walks, thank you. That is a pretty picture.

I would rather not hear about snow just YET!

Last winter was absolutely horrible, seemed it was either grey outside or snowing every damned day!

(Guess that's what living in the north/Ohio gets me) :)

Oh and keyboarder you've not seen bad drivers till you've seen them around here.

So help me God a drop of rain falls from the sky, and these people all forget how to friggin drive or something.

That and thursday's seem to be what I term "blue hair" day. It's as if all the nursing homes open the doors and throw all the old farts out driving down the road, doing ten in a fifty mile per hour zone. ;)

[daidalos]

  I think every state has them Key.  I learned to drive just outside of Glacier National Park when the snow was six feet deep all around you.  Had to take a school bus 36 miles to school every day.  There were no snow days off.  Then move to Washington state, if there was snow then there was no school.    

Things have changed since our gen was in school. (Mid 40's).

When we went to school, not only did I literally have to walk half a mile up hill both ways (up and over to catch the bus and then back up and over coming home)

BUT we had to walk rain, sleet, snow.

We too had very very few, if any snow days off.

Today though, again, one single flake of snow falls out of the sky, and people forget how to drive, panic, they rush to the stores, buy up all the bread and milk, call school off, and act like it's armageddon or something.

[walkstall]

Rain, sleet and snow brings out the stupid in most people.   Defensive driving comes into play big time in bad weather.  It's not like they don't know about bad weather coming a week ahead of time.  It's like it don't cost any more to keep you gas tank full then on a ¼ a tank all the time.