Greg G, "golden snowball award city" my..............(OT)

[_shel_ny]

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Edited September 20, 2011 by shel_bizzy_48

[Dennis Hemingway]

When I left the VA Hospital in Loma Linda at 9:30 this morning the temp was allready 81.

Dennis:eek:

[greg g]

Shel, I feel your pain. Any venison coming with that????

For those unenlightened regarding the Golden Snowball, it is a trophy awarded between Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY which commemorates the most seasonal snow fall accumulated among the three.

Buffalo usualy starts with a bang as the wind from the southwest gives them an early lead from Lake Erie, But as the winds change during the winter to a more northeasterly direction, Rochester and Syracuse usually surge ahead.

Shel's area is directly east of the lake where the air starts climbing to pass over the Tug Hill Plateau, and teh Adirondack foot hills. We all know what warm moist air does as it climbs. They do get more snow but not bing a city they don't get any rewards cept lots of snowmobilers and skiers.

Hey Shel, it will be gone before Independence Day, I can say that with out

a doubt.

[RobertKB]

Where I live in western Canada we think spring has arrived. Today was 15C (60F) with lots of sunshine. Winter will get here but I hope it holds off for a while yet. The more days we have like today, the shorter the winter.

[Don Coatney]

I had the pleasure of viewing a full winters worth of snow while flying over the rockies Sunday. Here in San Francisco it was 75 degrees F when I arrived, but has cooled down a bit. Not yet cool enough to wear a coat to work. Sorry but I have not seen any road killl here in the city worth eating:cool:

[mackster]

When I left the VA Hospital in Loma Linda at 9:30 this morning the temp was allready 81.

Dennis:eek:

I feel you pain. Here nearby was hot but the air quality is horrible....

Glad the fires are done....if we feel like some snow, we can just drive up the mountains in like two hours...and back to the beach in the afternoon...

[greg g]

Yep we are +20, but you guys must be above that. Picked up about 5 inches at the house since last night. Airpor got a coupl more. I see Redfield or nearby got 19. I have already used the snowblower about 2wice as much as last year. Gone through 5 gal of gas since it started this year, glad it cheap again.

[dezeldoc]

Hey Greg, Went through your area last month, can't say much for slc but trey pines(?) and a couple more to the north east was beautiful. kept trying to find a job around their and I would have been set. I hated to come back to ca, got to get outta here!!

[greg g]

splain slc and trey pines, as I don;t know what you are referencing.

[Dennis Hemingway]

Greg, I think he is talking about your Location: Just outside the Salt City.

I think he is thinking about Salt Lake City.

Dennis;)

[greg g]

Owwwwhhhhh. NAH! the Salt city is not SLC. We are in central NY and the nickname comes from the salt industry in the early 1800's to early 1900's Thie area was the top salt producer for many years. They pumped brine from wells to the south of us then boiled or evaporated it for shipment on the Erie canal.

It was not named as popular beleif would have you think after the amount of road salt spread.

[Don Coatney]

Interesting pictures. There are still active salt mines in your area. There is also lots of salt under lake Erie. I heard lots of stories about the salt mines when I lived in Buffalo. They would hoist mules down into the mine and use them as draft animals. Once the mules were lowered into the mines they never again saw the light of day. They lived and worked the rest of there lives at the bottom of the mine. And of course without the salt mine brine condensors salt potatoes would never have been invented. Yummy!

[LAKOTA169]

Detroit is on top of a salt mine. 1500 acres and 100 miles of road.

http://www.detroitsalt.com/home.htm

[greg g]

It is surmised that the employees at the boilers discovered the Salt Potato deal. Purchasing or picking up culled potatoes from the farmers on the way to work, tieing them up in cheese clothe or burlap and tossing them in the brine to be recovered when the lunch whistle blew.

If you're interested in old photos go here for general views of Syracuse and environs;

http://cnyhistory.org/Upload_Project/index.php

[dezeldoc]

My bad!! guess I got a history lesson today.

[JerseyHarold]

Western New York has lots of salt mines. Just outside of Geneseo, NY is the salt-mining town of Retsof.....which is the name of the original salt company (Foster) spelled backwards.

[greg g]

Geeez, I always thought it was a play on Rust off.

There are a few at the south ends of some of the finger lakes. Watkins in Watkins Glenn at the end of Seneca lake.

[Norm's Coupe]

Actually, if one looks back into history, they'll find salt was being harvested from the eastern part of the country even in the days of the pilgrims. The Indian's use to trade it for items with the pilgrims when they first settled in the US.

[1940plymouth]

Another item that was important in central NY, especially Onieda and Madison counties were HOPS

Just wanted to pass this along:)

[greg g]

Funny you should mention that. I am thinking of putting in some Hops on about a 1/2 acres of property I have. (cut down on mowing) Cornell university is assisting interested people get grants from the state ag and markets department to reestablish the Hops market in the state.

Maybe start with a quarter acre, so all you home brewers give me a shout in the Fall. I am a bit nort west of the old area but up here I don't need to contend with rocks.

Also this was a good area for tobacco, may have to put in a couple hills for Coatney's pipe. Connecticut shade grown stuff probably.

[Don Coatney]

Also this was a good area for tobacco, may have to put in a couple hills for Coatney's pipe. Connecticut shade grown stuff probably.

I started growing my own backy last summer.