Third BLIZZARD of the year

[NancyM]

-32C here this morning. Some snow, but not the huge drifts like are in your pictures. Wow. My horses are turned out on the 30 acre hay field, digging through the snow (maybe a foot deep?) for the second cut alfalfa/grass that we don’t cut and bale for them. They eat snow at will, and/or keep a drinking hole open at the creek that they have access to, OR can come up to the winter shed to the heated auto waterer and mineral salt blocks that are there. They tend to come in every couple of days for the salt.

Our generac works. But there is a learning curve. Do you have yours set so that it comes on once every week and runs for 10 minutes? This weekly test keeps it healthy. Charges the battery and keeps the computer happy.

A couple more days and we will start getting closer to spring. Really!!!

[beau159]

@Bluey

Yep, pictures before and after the strips.
Our problem was the wrap around winds with the blizzard create a vortex.
The strips avoided that and snow kept blowing over the roof and on:

Bluey, I’m drawing a blank. Are you in Montana? Good drifts.

So far, I haven’t really gotten any serious snow inside my run in shelter. We don’t have anything else in the pasture to create any vortexing so the wind blows on by… And it’s been super easy so far to take a swipe with the Bobcat to clean off the couple inches on the ground inside (and the manure).

@endlessclimb

Since it’s too late to move the generator inside, can you instead have an intake pipe that makes it draw air from the garage? (or other indoor structure). Exhaust can vent like normal.

Well, I believe it draws in air from BOTH sides of the generator so that wouldn’t work. Of course, I haven’t paid much attention to the thing as hubby has done most things with it.

Ours looks like this model,
and there are vents on the opposite side as well.

@NancyM

Our generac works. But there is a learning curve. Do you have yours set so that it comes on once every week and runs for 10 minutes? This weekly test keeps it healthy. Charges the battery and keeps the computer happy.

Hubby has some fancy wifi app on his phone for it. Not sure if the weekly test is planned on it.

But again, it’s not that the generator wouldn’t start. It just could not keep going because of the wet air filter. Take the air filter out, then it runs fine (which is not a good idea, for obvious reasons). Hubby did do that for about 30 minutes Thursday night during the blizzard, trying to get the air filter dried out with the propane garage heater.

So serious design flaw with the “cover” that it came with, and again, mad that we didn’t know we’d need to build protection around it. And my husband works in construction, so it’s not like we didn’t ask several well-trusted individuals!!! (the store we bought it from, the electricians, the propane company, etc etc)

[endlessclimb]

That’s just general breathing for the unit inside the encasement. My mom has three of these exact generators.

I’d go right from the air intake, not from the vents on the encasement. Cut the encasement so that your pipe can get out, and then it punch it through the wall of the structure with the filter inside. Use some rubber flashing to make it air tight.

If you instead tried to route the vents from the encasement, you’re going to route exhaust to your structure which is an obvious no.

[Bluey]

@beau159

Bluey, I’m drawing a blank. Are you in Montana? Good drifts.

So far, I haven’t really gotten any serious snow inside my run in shelter. We don’t have anything else in the pasture to create any vortexing so the wind blows on by… And it’s been super easy so far to take a swipe with the Bobcat to clean off the couple inches on the ground inside (and the manure).

TX panhandle and yes, we get some Blue Northerns, full size blizzards here also.
Nothing to stop them coming down from the North Pole.
Wish Canada had better fences and closed their gates.

[clanter]

Cooperstown, ND forecast for tonight

TONIGHT TUE 12/20 LOW -21 °F

57% Precip. / 0 in
Cloudy. Snow showers developing late. Low -21F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 60%. Snow accumulations less than one inch.

[ReSomething]

It’s already -20 f at 10 pm in cooperstown. All I can think of is that old movie where people out in the open get frozen on the spot, I hope everybody has their livestock sheltered in some way.

[OnAMission]

That stuff is brutal, I don’t miss it a bit even though it’s so beautiful in that kind of country. When we lived in Central MT I called it Siberia. The wind, man. I have a picture somewhere from when the temp was -36 and the wind speed was 36.

[beau159]

@clanter

Cooperstown, ND forecast for tonight

Last night when I checked on my horses, the air temp was -21F with a “feels like” temp of -47F.

Pretty chilly. And the wind has been blowing all day again. I made it to work in my new F350 but I’ll like need to meet my husband at the road with the Bobcat to make it the 2 1/2 miles. I’m not getting stuck again!!

[clanter]

@beau159

Last night when I checked on my horses, the air temp was -21 F with a “feels like” temp of -47 F.

that was why the first Morgan we got from North Dakota had scar tissue on the tips of his ears…frost bidden… once here his winter coats were never more than a 1/2 inch as I guess he thought he was in the tropics