On Jan 8, 12:07*pm, "Fred" wrote:
On *8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

*I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.

On *8-Jan-2009, DaveS wrote:

*I love weather, but 2 weeks of horizontal rain
can find every imaginable way into a structure.

Dave

I don't live tooooo far from you in NW MT and we have similar weather
but Luckily no high winds
We had 3 ft of snow which I loved as we do back country skiing
Then we had 4 days of heavy rain and the skiing is gone - all ice
Its crazy to even leave the house - dangerous driving - You can't drive on
ice

Re leaks - us too - in some places we never had them before

Fortunately our structures and barn are sound - I had to shovel the roof of
my hayloft and chicken pen

So for now just staying home and fiddlin' around
Drinking a bit and a puff or 2

Like you - I am headed out for warm sunny Long Beach CA in 2 weeks for
business

TL
Fred

Wow, 3 ft! No we don't get anything like that in the Puget lowlands. I
think the max above sea level for this Island is about 350 ft. I love
the deep stuff to play in (carefully). Every couple of years we go up
to Scottish lakes High Camp, in the East slope of the Cascades. Nice
dry powder, real deep. They snowmobile you into primitive cabins/
outhouses. Miles of back-country and Xcountry trails (kinda trails:-))
The Special forces guys do some training in the area. Mostly for
hardcore, but non-whiner kids love it and fact is even reasonably fit
old-farts can enjoy a week of this stuff. At weeks end its real fun
to ski all the way down for miles to the valley. But with all the
screwy weather this year, avalanches etc this is probably not the year
for it.

Do you fish up into Canada? Like up the Frasier past 150 mile house or
wherever?

Dave