hey old man winter... what gives??
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High Country
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Made reservations for news years ,if conditions dont change by then,ill be bringing the quad along also,thatll be a first, guess i better get a heated shield plug in on it.
firefighter1
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I do agree with this, it seems to never work out when it snows early. Always have the dreaded holiday meltdown, maybe we can avoid that this year.
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Deleted member 10829
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John's journal tonight is promising for things to change later this week! We will know more when John's forecast comes out. 
WorkHardPlayHrd
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We just managed to get the last of the corn off by driving over frozen swamp with a 40,000 lb combine. So the cold has done it's job. Now the crop is off. Yayyyyyy!!!! Please, please let the storm come back up here.
I'm a city boy. Where does your corn go now? Do you know what it gets used for?
WorkHardPlayHrd
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Some of our corn got shipped to the river (Mississippi) to go on barges. That likely will get shipped internationally for feed grain for cattle or swine. The rest which is yet to actually be sold will likely end up going for ethanol. There is a chance that if Gold n Plump in Arcadia gets low on grain for their chickens that they will pay a premium then we would haul it there.
Perhaps we can all chip in and "seed" the clouds for snow?? Desperate times call for desperate measures!!!
"The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. This can produce ice crystals at higher temperatures than silver iodide. After promising research, the use of hygroscopic materials, such as table salt, is becoming more popular.[3]
When cloud seeding, increased snowfall takes place when temperatures within the clouds are between −4 and 19 °F (−20 and −7 °C).[4] Introduction of a substance such as silver iodide, which has a crystalline structure similar to that of ice,[5] will induce freezing nucleation."
"The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. This can produce ice crystals at higher temperatures than silver iodide. After promising research, the use of hygroscopic materials, such as table salt, is becoming more popular.[3]
When cloud seeding, increased snowfall takes place when temperatures within the clouds are between −4 and 19 °F (−20 and −7 °C).[4] Introduction of a substance such as silver iodide, which has a crystalline structure similar to that of ice,[5] will induce freezing nucleation."
Aside from my cloud seeding idea I was thinking about the UP overall and then suddenly it hit me......LES....the UP gets most of its snow from the great snow making machine Superior! So, what we're all holding onto is an actual storm to hit (which we need and would be welcomed of course) BUT, we just need the Lake Effect Snow machine to fire up (Well, if you're one with reservations in late Dec to snowmobile in the UP like me) so hopefully that starts to happen and we can all get our sled fix soon!
