"Is this Heaven?......no, it's Iowa"

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This has been one brutal winter, wet fall....corn was late getting harvested....much is still in the field. Then we get 35" of snow....now it's an ice storm.

Took these photos earlier today, power is out in many rural areas, can't stand up on gravel roads without falling. Power lines are hanging down to fence posts....and the deer are struggling to survive. At least with the standing corn there's a food source.

It's scenes like this that one remembers what "Hatchet Jack" looked like when Robert Redford found him.....and what the "Donner Party" must have experienced. Fortunately we have plenty of Deer meat and haven't started cannibalism.

I hope we can make it through till spring....more snow and ice on the way for the weekend.

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I feel for your part of the country for sure it sounds like it's some very serious weather concerns to deal with. Hopefully the weather will break better soon!
 
"How cold is it?"......cold enough to freeze the brass balls off an Elk.

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Really nice photos.

It is definitely a hard winter for the critters. I've been starting to see a lot more deer where I never see them, just because they can get to some food, and certainly seeing a lot less birds the last couple of years.

I feel very fortunate to have not been born here 180 years ago.
 
This occurred to me, while I was pulling targets at Camp Perry. Camp Perry is next to Lake Erie. It was hot as blazes. Just like Alabama. But the winter is so brutal that no one goes on vacation in the winter to upper Ohio.

This lead me to wonder, given the summers are just as miserable, why would anyone want to live in the mid west?

This amount of snow caused the schools to shut down and people were let out of work at 200 pm.

Come on down to Alabama, we like guns, and we have mild winters.

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SlamFire1 said:
This lead me to wonder, given the summers are just as miserable, why would anyone want to live in the mid west?
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....uh, bigger deer?
 
That is beautiful and UGLY all at the same time. Not having lived in a place where that sort of thing happens I know I'd be at a loss as to how to deal with it. But then I'm guessing that folks that live there are prepared, have the right clothes and proper equipment for their homes and cars and the like.

And that sort of thing is a anomality is it not??? Only happens that bad every few years??

And if it is any consolation, starting some time in May and going all the way through mid-September here in NE FL., it will be 90 degrees or more every single day. Now 90 may not sound that hot but when you realize that on most of those days we have close to 100% humidity.................

With high humidity sweating just does no real good............... I don't know how many times I've hard folks from the South-West say how much more uncomfortable our heat is, even though it's not as hot. Being sticky all the time takes getting used to.

And yes, deoderant is considered on of the greatest leaps forward in these parts.

For some consolation check in on us down here during the summer, and focus on the mid-day humidity and not just the temp. You'll feel much better about the Mid-West.

And yes, 200 pound plus deer count for a lot!!!
 
Just so you know. It is in the 70's here and I am playing golf today. You can keep the cold weather.
 
For some consolation check in on us down here during the summer, and focus on the mid-day humidity and not just the temp. You'll feel much better about the Mid-West.
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Me thinks he needs to visit Iowa in late July and Aug.
 
D Rat, after last night snow doesn't seem all that bad. :eek: First tornado sighted in Phoenix Metro in decades...my little car floated across one intersection on the way home from work.:what:
Thanks for the pics, sir.
 
With high humidity sweating just does no real good............... I don't know how many times I've hard folks from the South-West say how much more uncomfortable our heat is, even though it's not as hot. Being sticky all the time takes getting used to
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Feeling dusty at the end of the day also takes getting used to.

90 degrees in Alamagordo feels like 80 degrees in Alabama. But at the end of the day, you feel dusty.

I lived in Southern Florida. Florida does not have a monopoly on hot and humid. It is a darn nice place to visit in December. :D

But you can keep the roaches which are about the size of Volkswagons. :neener:

I forgot about the Tornados in the TVA valley. Yesterday, had one go over the house of a gun club bud. While it did not touch down, bud said it sounded like a freight train, debris and lighting all over the place. And he lost power for the night.

The Mobile Home should be declared as the State Bird of Alabama.
 
But the winter is so brutal that no one goes on vacation in the winter to upper Ohio.

This lead me to wonder, given the summers are just as miserable, why would anyone want to live in the mid west?
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Ohio winters are "brutal"? Now that's one I've never heard before.

And as far as why someone would want to live in the midwest, depends. For MI, MN, and WI, it's fishing. Some of the best in the world.

For the rest of the midwest, umm, trees and cornfields? That's about what I could come up with.
 
maybe I'm a little biased because it's where I grew up! I'm starting to get to the point now where I've seen a lot of this country and let me tell you, I have yet to see anywhere more beautiful than south eastern Iowa.
The more I travel, the more I love it there! Not only is the nature wonderful (rolling hills, woods, rivers, etc.) but you will not find better people anywhere else! Not to mention world class hunting ( record whitetails every single year!) and great fishing.

I'm fairly certain that when I get to heaven, it'll look a lot like the front porch swing down home on an August evening right after the hay has been cut......
 
For the rest of the midwest, umm, trees and cornfields? That's about what I could come up with.
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I came up with all the other reasons that people choose to live in other parts of the country. Family, jobs, post-secondary education, like the people, crime rate, schools, etc etc. Different people like different things. For example, I was stationed in NC for around 5 years in total, and I would never want to live there personally. For those that do, great, but it just wasn't for me.
 
Lived in GA for 2 yrs....great weather, but made me appreciate Indiana where there
is dirt, an so many different hardwood trees...not just sand an pines...an I missed the 4 seasons of the midwest. Fall time is the best, colors, crisp mornings, ....man I'm ready for bow season already!!!!....by the way a 13 yr. old kid shot a monster buck a half mile from my house that scored over 200"!!!! Don't have the weight but it looked like 250 lbs dressed!!
 
To return to the forum :D

Critters don't have centrral heat and air. Or municipal water supplies.

So sometimes it's ice and snow and ultra-low temps in the north. Down south and southwest, sometimes, it's drouth--and no food, little water.

Critters have adapted fairly well, but sometimes the adaptation isn't enough.
 
Art Eatman said:
....Critters have adapted fairly well, but sometimes the adaptation isn't enough.
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Agreed, the fittest will make it through to spring.....bright spot is that there is so much corn left in the fields, it should help.
 
maybe I'm a little biased because it's where I grew up! I'm starting to get to the point now where I've seen a lot of this country and let me tell you, I have yet to see anywhere more beautiful than south eastern Iowa.
The more I travel, the more I love it there! Not only is the nature wonderful (rolling hills, woods, rivers, etc.) but you will not find better people anywhere else! Not to mention world class hunting ( record whitetails every single year!) and great fishing.
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amen to that! im down in the southeast too. my name is Josh too....odd aint it? ive been from Utah to Florida and from Minnesota to Acapulco Mexico and after all of that there is still no place i would rather hang my hat than right here in my own little corner of Iowa.

got ourselves a pretty good state fair too....
 
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