El Nino and La Nina

[Puller]

The article I read said that the La Nina was likely to be weak, making forecasting tricky. How much of that statement is just to cover the bases I cannot say.

I wish my career was like weather forecasting where I could be wrong 50% of the time and still keep my job.

 

[lihpster]

Winters are never rough around here. We might have one or two storms a year, either ice or snow, that really effects things. They say we are going to have a weak La Nina, with more precip and colder temps. How much more and how much colder is up for debate. I really don't worry about the winter storms but if we get lots of snowpack, the spring may bring flooding. Even then, I'm not worried about my place. The river would have to come up about 260 feet to reach me on top of my little hill.

 

[riverrat38]

"A problem with trying to salvage downed trees after a disaster is the conflict the process creates with the utility crews working to restore power."

Another problem is electrical safety. A person doesn't need to contact the wires to get electrocuted. The line crews don't go into the area until they get a clearance from their power control center and install working grounds on the high voltage lines. Their working philosophy is "It ain't dead if it ain't grounded"!

73,
Rick

 

[ridewv]

Nice firewood set up and overhang to stack wood under Faulkner. L series Kubota?

I've enough stacked for this coming wood burning season and half of the next but I'd like more covered places to store wood.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

As we heat with wood we have a shed full and some stacked out side. Pretty nice when it's snowing out and the wood box is full.

 

[Kevin G]

Faulkner,
You mentioned taking down some Elm trees. Has the Dutch Elm disease impacted trees in your area?
Here in the north east it's pretty much wiped out the Elm population.
Thanks, Kevin G


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[Krogen]

I am reminded of the old quote "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Some say it was Mark Twain which seems to fit.

I'd add that smart people know the weather can be brutal. So they do something about it; like many of you, they prepare for the worst.

 

[Faulkner]

Nice firewood set up and overhang to stack of wood Faulkner. L series Kubota?

I've enough stacked for this coming wood burning season and half of the next but I'd like more covered places to store wood.

Kubota L3901. I've been pleased with it.

Most of my firewood is stacked out in the open at the end of my driveway. I keep a cord or so in the dry under the overhang of my shop. I use it when the uncovered wood gets covered with snow or ice. I keep a weeks worth stacked in the dry on my front porch for easy access when it's raining. I also have a wood box that holds two or three days worth I load from my garage that I can access from my living room

Faulkner,
You mentioned taking down some Elm trees. Has the Dutch Elm disease impacted trees in your area?
Here in the north east it's pretty much wiped out the Elm population.
Thanks, Kevin G

The Dutch Elm disease has certainly thinned out the herd here as well. I had two very large elm trees on my property that I had to take down because of it. I let them stand a few years after they died because I had a pileated woodpecker build a den in one, then the next year a pair of screech owls nested in the abandoned den.

I've got another elm tree started to show signs, seems when I first see sign of the disease it takes about 4 or 5 years or so to kill the tree. I still have a pretty good stand of elm trees that seem unaffected so far.

 

[LVSteve]

The Dutch Elm disease has certainly thinned out the herd here as well. I had two very large elm trees on my property that I had to take down because of it. I let them stand a few years after they died because I had a pileated woodpecker build a den in one, then the next year a pair of screech owls nested in the abandoned den.

I've got another elm tree started to show signs, seems when I first see sign of the disease it takes about 4 or 5 years or so to kill the tree. I still have a pretty good stand of elm trees that seem unaffected so far.

Back in the UK, Dutch Elm disease did a real number on the place, aided and abetted by the UK insurance industry. If a tree or one of its limbs could fall onto a home, shed, garage, or driveway where a car might be parked, then a millisecond after the disease was found your insurance company would tell you to take it down or we cancel your home insurance. Of course, given the size of most home plots in the UK, this policy kept the tree fellers very busy.

 

[BC38]

Fire wood warms you twice!!

My grandpa always said THREE times....

Once when you cut it,

A second time when you split it,

And a third time when you burn it!