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The WORST snow storm of the Season 4K

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This project documents the extensive and challenging process of managing snow during and after a severe winter storm, including operating heavy machinery, dealing with fallen trees, performing equipment maintenance, and ensuring safety in hazardous conditions. It covers activities from initial mobilization through post-storm cleanup.

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back here at home though we have the blizzard morning still in place that begins at nine o'clock tonight this is going to be one long night there's just so much freaking snow everywhere [Music] ground yesterday let's go see what's going on we got the we we got the water we just thankfully don't have the cold we've gotten about two inches of rain today which would have uh one inch of rain equals about 10 inches of snow that what's going on she was dead yeah she was deader than a doornail didn't want to start and you got her fired up though huh yeah yeah I put the charger on it fired it right up we've got five to eight inches of wet slop just depends on when the temp drops will determine how much snow we're gonna get and it's going to sit and roll over the top of us tonight so there's not going to be any uh any relief hope you guys if you're South to me in that tornado zone I hope you stay safe you guys I hope you got to shelter but uh well let's uh let's wait for this this to turn to White and then see you then ah the when they said 40 50 mile an hour winds they weren't choking this one just hit right here right now where's my flashlight go forward tough that's for sure oh God look at that yeah I think a couple of these trees might be going down before this night's over here grab that autop off there will ya yeah it's not done with us yet is it Minnesota doesn't give us much break [Music] well if that's Giddy and push it off the road right what do we got a tree I think so I'm not sure I don't want anyone to slip around no you stay where you're at yeah let's go around it let's go around it [Applause] [Music] snowstorm and the snow that night was as thick and wet and heavy as any snow storm we'd seen all year and that's saying a lot since we'd seen over 103 inches or our third snowiest season on record oh [Applause] I'm gonna start getting all the equipment set up but after you get the ASV dropped off and the trailer dropped off fire up that Sledge lift up that blade and check that front tire yeah not in either that's what happens when you have an actual two weeks off with no yeah coming off of it being up north of the cabin and then coming good evening kids in the next scene we're gonna see how many pieces of equipment we can fill into a really tiny lot why just because it looks kind of cool I send out this list and I say I say please confirm and then I say please confirm again but I don't have John on there because here hey John does your please confirm button not freaking work I tried I was pressing the button no it doesn't phone don't work dog is that yours yeah buddy let's say come here Lucy come on come on Lucy come here what are you oh why why is she so skittish tonight it's been acting funny ever since you got shot so if you guys didn't know it Alex's dog the neighbor shot her yep what's his name do you know no I don't know because if you want you could say his name I don't if I knew anything that shoots a freaking dog because that's I went through what it wasn't attacking nobody she wasn't hurting nobody it was just walking through his yard so he shot her with what he used rubber pellets though no it was a 2016 first shot 22 bird shot yeah it's okay Lucy come on it's okay hey Jay thanks for confirming was that hard to do to hit the I'm coming to work tonight button oh I talked to Alex and I talked to talk to Tim Alex said he did talk on me yeah okay well then thanks for confirming with me Alex texting there either yeah what the hell I never thought of it everybody's like nah it's just gonna be rain it's gonna be rain well Alex was that [Music] oh they said it too the ground's too warm dude that just means the snow is going to suck more yeah oh a kid just called me that wants to work do we have enough equipment but we got the cat oh look at that look at how much snow you kicked up how deep that is just from where you were standing this is going to be one long night and day tomorrow yeah of course every time you make plans then then it's Gotta snow of course I have a hot day tomorrow and oh you see girly coming into town boyfriend has your boyfriend coming into town that would be nice and technically it is gonna be it is it is April Fool's Day today yes oh I got one planned for Tim oh do you what do you got planned for him crashed into this into this building oh you're gonna do that I need a ride okay boy are you staying out there for a moment or two and you don't look the same when you're done foreign [Music] I'm gonna try to hit a curb and see if that straightens it out look at that thing don't get your fingers in there actually you know what I'm gonna put it right up to that curb right up there here just take the camera let's see if it does something hmm okay still jacked yeah don't get your fingers I got them all I can stare I can try hitting the uh hitting The Cutting Edge hit it with a hammer nope but we got to get it to ship back over yep foreign Pole or something solid so or maybe you can come up if you can get up halfway on a curve and then try to back and twist so it's kind of pushing it's if it can catch that right there on the curb and push it a little this way that might do it yeah I just kind of made it the way it hooked it kind of made it a little worse but uh let's try this let's try the excerpt over there all right you're good let's see how bad this is every single window in my truck was so fogged up I couldn't see out nothing everything was froze up yep I just got to plow all night long for a bumper snow plow and makes tons of money how'd that happen how would you how did your sensor thingies not go off nothing went off I couldn't see out any window none of the sensors would work it was so fogged up and what and and and caked over nothing was actually operating oh yeah that's right those stupid sensors if they're ice on it so but did you end up meeting up with was it a snow pile or what it was something harder than my bumper let's just put it that way I was even looking at it like son of a duck if I could have tagged the hitch dread dead on that thing that's like a that wouldn't have been that would have that would have been the other thing it would have stopped yeah yeah that's like a freaking Rock Mountain oh geez look at that thank you we got another backyard to see what's going on over there it's just so much freaking snow everywhere ground yesterday had that gut feeling that this was this one was going to be hard on the trees let's see it definitely was [Music] thank you huh what nothing I just want to go see your bumper no yeah no I can't even tell Stan you hit something with it I know it's hardly nothing it's it's fine man it'll be good it'll be good it'll buff out yep now this has got to be just one section and the plastic piece these are it's a split bumper right it's just two pieces isn't it I swear it's a split bumper right yeah yeah so it's just that plastic piece and uh in the bumper that's like a thousand and that's like that's like 10 000. that's probably like Amazon from China for cheap yeah but it's so it's only got a crack you can use uh Super Glue so you can get them back off Amazon yeah I'd get them off of eBay because eBay's cheaper than Amazon all right you guys so that's calling it for tonight and today's festivities you didn't get a whole lot of plowing footage because it was a freaking frustrating moment on the weekend though for what the horse coupling place oh we're we'll get it next week we'll we'll have you stay back one day and fix some crap and haul some crap and do some crap and so we're not holding tonight we're not hauling tonight we may come back tonight to do some cleanup touch-up but I don't know if we are or not so but I gotta get everything punched out all right and you guys you guys got to go do something too with your life so that's all we got for you on this one God bless go get em you guys

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