Cold Update...

 

...It's damn Cold.

 

 

 

It also appears that in my last post I spoke a little too soon regarding the "lack of" snow.   I think as i clicked on the "publish" tab for my last blog it started snowing.  Since then we have been locked inside and as of today (2/21) we can't see any grass out on the course.

 

Here in Northport the totals were in the 25-30" range during that monster NEMO storm.  Most of us were unable to leave our homes for at least 2 days, as the municipalities had huge issues trying to clean the roads.

Here are a few photos of the cleanup adventure at the Club

Miguel Flores manned the skid steer to help dig out

Lisandro Ortiz scooped all day in the pouring rain

drifts were well over 3 feet, here on our deck 41" 

At the locker room entrance, it was halfway up the door

The guys had to dig out before the plow could cleanup

Assistant Phil cleaned up with the plow post dig out

Bob from the Clubhouse helped all day in the rain too

I was on the snowblower, it was so deep that we needed all of my 6'6" for leverage

 

It certainly appears that we will not be enjoying golf in March as we did last year.

Looking forward to a little warm up to get the melt underway.  Currently, we do have some solid ice on the greens, which may cause some problems if we are stuck in this freeze much longer.

Our deep tine aeration should allow a bit of air under the ice but we wont know how this is effecting our turf until the melt is under way.  On top of the cleanup from Sandy, that was just about complete prior to the snow, the weight of the snow combined with the massive 60mph winds brought down even more branches and trees.  So, we have a mountain of work to do once we are able to get on the course. 

 

Our equipment repair work is nearing completion and I just received word from the Owners that I can move forward to schedule more drainage work and order a few pieces of equipment to replace some very old, and very tired machines we currently use.   

 

Thanks for tuning in, see you relatively soon.

-JohnnyP