Gotta see to believe - SNOW in NY.....

[lisa l aka marci]

I got these a few minutes ago from a coworker, the pictures are of NYS Route 11 in Oswego County.....

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/49811Oswego1-med.jpg

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/49811Oswego2-med.jpg

And for a better perspective!
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/49811Oswego3-med.jpg

[Barbwire]

I'd be looking those pics up on the Snopes site, I highly doubt they are really from NY.

[Mellifluous]

my bro sent these to me last week. he has been using them for shock value for a while.

[CarolU]

I am a little suspicious about those pictures. I seem to remember them - or pretty identical pics - from Russia a few years ago. Not that there aren't areas in NY that have that much snow!!!

It a typical winter, our ski resorts have over 150 inches of snow and the roads to/from them look like that last picture - except there is a 2-lane black top road at the bottom.

[Terry Wallace]

HEHEHE...Looks like Monarch Pass in Colorado some years....
Or Crested Butte, Gunnison, or Red Mountain Pass.... ;-)

[Beth Worden]

I believe these are the real deal. My brother's betrothed lives in Auburn, NY (Oswego County)and she says there are roads (probably this is one) that she will not travel down because it is too eriery due to the banks of snow. I'm a believer, of yes indeed

[CarolU]

Why would she be afraid of the snow banks? That is when mountain roads are the safest! You have a nice 'cushioned' guardrail there! I've had the 'pleasure' of pulling many cars out of snow banks. They rarely even have body damage (of course, now that cars are all plastic, who knows?). Much safer then hitting trees!

[Beth Worden]

She is afraid of them collapsing on her. And...believe me, we have had our share of snowbanks, but this is just unreal. It is bizzare.

[CarolU]

Interesting.

Just for comparison...the banks in those pictures are 30-40 feet high. I really do think those are of that highway in Russia.

[Beth Worden]

You know, they COULD be, but it IS american machinery moving that snow. Yes, the banks are 30 feet I'd say, but these folks got 7 feet in 3 DAYS, then more and more and more lake effect snow (6 inches at a time) plus the big 4 feet last week on TOP of their already 10-12 feet. Oh yes, it is entirely possible. Is it for real? WHi knows. How can we check?

[Terry Wallace]

I bet you won't find John Deere or very many caterpillars in Russia...they have their own brands of equipment too.... The name of it escapes me at the moment...

That could sure be Colorado...

[Beth Worden]

Well, I have tried snopes and googled record snows, etc, etc. and cannot find these. If someone finds out they are bogus (or not) let us know. I DO know that Lisa works for the State (of NY) and it is highly likely a colleague sent these who works in the area. I still think they are righteous

[CarolU]

You bet they have John Deere in Russia...in fact, all over the world!

http://www.deere.com/ru_RU/index.html?location=jdhome&tm=corp&link=ru

But, the only reason I say Russia, is that what sticks in my mind from when I saw these pictures before. It could have been in Serbia or Finland or someplace equally miserable. LOL

[Jane Hurl]

Terry ... One of the bigger lines of equipment in Russia is, I think, Belarus. (Pronounced Bella-RUSE, not Bell-AIR-Us. Translated, it means "White Russian".)

As to those photos, it would not surprise me one little bit to find out they were taken in Newfoundland where snow like that is not the least uncommon. Often people have to dig out their HOUSES after a blizzard, never mind the roads. And JD is common enough anywhere in Canada.

[Jane Hurl]

Found it! CarolU ... are these the photos of which you spoke? They ARE from Newfoundland.

http://keithf.homedns.org/snow.html

Them Newfoundlanders are tough!

[Terry Wallace]

Ease up CarolU...I dod not say you would not find ANY there!

yes Jane... Belarus sounds very familiar...I think there was one at Con-Ex
(Contractor's Expo) in Las Vegas last year....

[CarolU]

Found it! CarolU ... are these the photos of which you spoke? They ARE from Newfoundland.

http://keithf.homedns.org/snow.html

Them Newfoundlanders are tough!

Yeppers!! There they are! I knew I'd seen them before!

Anyway you look at it, regardless of where it is, that is TOO #$@% much snow!!! :D

As for New York's snow...I'm sure there are some awesome snowbanks there too. We used to live in upstate Maine and get 10-12 feet of snow in the winter. You had to have a 2-story house to see sunshine in the daytime! It was horrible.

[lisa l aka marci]

Found it! CarolU ... are these the photos of which you spoke? They ARE from Newfoundland.

http://keithf.homedns.org/snow.html

Them Newfoundlanders are tough!

Yep - they sure do look like the same photos! Oh well........could have been true with all the snow out there!

Gave people something to do for a little while too.....:D :lol:

[Jane Hurl]

Terry ... when you come for the Western Canadian Paso Fino Friends Get Together and Ride, you will see a Belarus tractor. Ours. We quite like the little critter. 80 horse with a fabulous "Eeze On" front end loader.

[Beth Worden]

Jane - you are GOOD. Good detective work. I did not see these before. Are they from this year?

I know my husband flies into Newfoundland on occassion. As you are aware, we are ferenheit and you are celcius. One evening my husband and his co-pilot fly into (somewhere in Newfoundland) and it was very, very cold - minus 40 degrees C. He was trying to figure what it was in our US ferenheit and it dawned on him it becomes the SAME at minus 40!!!

Oh yes, I KNOW ALL the Newfie jokes, too.

[jodiTowne]

I have not read through all of this but i know for a fact that these are not actual because I live off rt 11 and travel it daily as does my husband. this is not here!!!!! The pics I posted last week are as bad as it gets and nothing like this....thank god!!!!!

[Jane Hurl]

Yep, Beth ... -40 is -40, no matter how you calculate it ... and I HATE it. Poor critters don't like it much either ... though this year it's nicer because they have a couple of run-in sheds and a barn to hide in.

We lost a calf a week ago because it was -40. Poor little bugger came into this world and went out all within a space of an hour or so.

It's up to just below freezing right now with no wind. I like that. Calves can get born any time today!

[CarolU]

Hey Lisa...don't feel bad. I got this this morning in e-mail from my husband's uncle in Cooperstown. Apparently the pictures are making the rounds in New York.

And thank you AGAIN Jane...I was able to send him right to the sight for Newfoundland! LOL

[Beth Worden]

OK Carol - Cooperstown (where I am at work right now) is a small town, without the tourists. So...pm me and let me know this uncles name, if you want. If he has lived here very long (I am a native) I must know him!