![]() ![]() ![]() A week later, half of the reflectors would be face down on the ground, either blown over by the gentle Lake Erie breeze or knocked over by vicious, malevolent deer. The markers that WOULDN’T go in got the persuader treatment, aka the hammer, which generally ended badly, with splintered fiberglass and shards of shattered blue plastic strewn around the yard. The markers that WOULD go in seldom took root in a pleasing, perfectly vertical fashion (picture a short, extremely skinny Leaning Tower of Pisa topped with a cracked blue plastic reflector). These efforts met with mixed results, as the ground there is fairly hard (especially when it’s frozen because I waited too long to install the markers - hey, who knew it was gonna get COLD in December…). ![]() In winters past, my efforts to chart the driveway’s location consisted of sticking a 4’ fiberglass rod with a reflector on top into the ground near the driveway at 75’ intervals. In winter, however, with the hay mowed down and a foot or two (or four) of snow covering everything, the driveway could be just about anywhere. In spring, summer and fall, we can generally navigate the driveway without too much difficulty. Our place is on a dirt road, with a 750’ gravel driveway, which is flanked on both sides by hay fields. Welcome to the Frozen Tundra Mark it fast, before it disappears again! En route, they pick up approximately five billion gallons of murky water from Lake Erie, freeze it, and dump it directly onto our roads, roofs, driveways, heads, and any other surface large enough to accommodate a snowflake. In a frozen nutshell, it begins with frigid winds sent southward by our Canadian friends. In the realm of the persistent snow band, however, we experience the TRUE meaning of the lake effect. We have a small piece of farm property south of Lake Erie, in an area designated by the professional weather-guessers to be within the “persistent snow band.” Anyone living in such an area is intimately acquainted with the sight of snowplows, snow blowers, show shovels, salt trucks, rusted vehicles as a result of the salt trucks, and, oh yeah…snow.Īnd the driveway is right…here…somewhereThe term “lake effect,” if you live in California or Texas, may conjure up images of cooling off on warm, sunny days, magnificent red sunsets and drinks on the dock. ![]()
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