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It's off and on here, but definitely feeling the Snowpocalypse. Right now, watching some MiniWarGaming bat reps, doing homework, and hoping my afternoon class gets canceled
You know I always have a chuckle at what the US considers a problem... despite living in Canada, we don't get a lot of snow days, and I live quite far north.
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Rainbow Dash wrote: You know I always have a chuckle at what the US considers a problem... despite living in Canada, we don't get a lot of snow days, and I live quite far north.
I know what you mean. It's always hilarious to hear southern states complain about snow when we get as much as we do. Heck, we don't get snow days during blizzards, some of you guys get an inch of snow and cancel EVER-Y-THING.
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Its because we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it guys. It's just not a common thing in the south. We have to input road salt and such and not every Joe has a plow. Heck I don't think anybody owns a truck and plow that isn't with the city/county.
I've lived in Maine and have seen the difference.
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Living in mid-state NY I've got the biggest blizzard I've seen in years. In the 8 years I've lived here nothing has compared. We've got a mound of snow that outsizes and outweighs are our pickup. (Although it's not a pick pickup truck) One of our roads (we live on a corner) had snow mounds almost as tall a smallish schoolbus. There was a industrial level snowblower hurling snow 20 feet into the air in a attempt to clear the road!
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Well, I'm working in Istanbul again until Saturday, and am currently sat on a veranda with an ice cold beer....It is weird though. The locals seem to think that 16 Celsius is fething freezing and that I'm a freak for walking around in a t-shirt and jeans. But back home in England it's wet, cold and generally miserable. So I'm loving it!
Byte wrote: Its because we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it guys. It's just not a common thing in the south. We have to input road salt and such and not every Joe has a plow. Heck I don't think anybody owns a truck and plow that isn't with the city/county.
I've lived in Maine and have seen the difference.
You ain't kidding...
I mean... Canadians have it figured out by HARVESTING the snow!
Ya'll got it down to a Science.
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hotsauceman1 wrote: it is cold here at the beach though. Still good for surfing.
I've been driving around with my windows rolled down pretty frequently as of late.
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We havnt had TOO much snow here in Michigan. But rather we have been hovering around -20 +or - for close to two months. Is been a real PITA things just arnt meant to function in that temperature range lol
Seeing your snow though, we would break down and fail totally with feet of snow.
Inch's cause problems here...
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Hasn't been horrid lately (and by that i mean in the last week, we've only gotten 5 inches here, which a fething flurry compared to the rest of the month).
Before last weekend when we had that one freak 38 degree day and some melt, i had about 40" of standing snow. The piles where i shovel / plough my driveway are over 8 feet tall, and 10 feet long, ii'm running out of places to put it. My drive is also about 200 feet long, so my driveway looks like a WWI trench.
Last saturday before the melt day, i spent four hours on the peaks of my roofs breaking up ice build up from dams. Thankfully didn't damage the house (well, the gutters are toast in terms of pitch, but that's fine i want to replace them with helmeted heated ones anyway), but it still sucked.
There's another 6 inches inbound sunday night, and there's 3 days of precipitation inbound next week, with a questionmark as to whether or not it will be snow. If its snow we could get up to another foot across that span.
In short, its been hell. The temps have been 40 degrees below average for this time of year, and my hometown has gotten 119 inches of snow so far ; about 85-90 of which has fallen in February. We haven't had 72 hours in 5 weeks without an accumulating snow event, and in the past two weeks we haven't had 48 hours without at least a flurry. I have spent 20% more in propane this year than last year, and last year was a record consumption year too due to the polar vortex.
I know places like North Dakota and Alaska have worse winters, but if you extrapolate the extremeness to your own local (temps 40 degrees lower than average, two years worth of snowfall inside 30 days), i think most people would sympathize.
Thankfully, it looks like in the next 10-14 days there's a warm up coming...
Our temps haven't been anywhere near even 'seasonal' since the first week of January. We've had regular nightly lows where with the winds, it's been close on to -40. The day's aren't much better, feeling around the -20's mark or worse.
While we've got snow, luckily we've only had 1 major blast that dumped about 45cm in one go, (hilariously that was Groundhog Day!), otherwise it's been a very pleasant & manageable 5-12'ish cm or so when it does snow.
I've put the sign back out in our front snowbank advertising "Free Snow - Help Yourself!" again, though for some reason, no one has taken us up on our offer yet.
Boston is now understanding what we went through in January '99! Though they still don't have quite as much as the western GTA got during that roughly 12 days where it never actually stopped snowing...
Mind you, our local schools never once closed during that hell, expect when the Ontario government forced them to! (not even the day it was -43 with the wind, and crapping 5cm/hour with tropical storm strength winds.)
I feel mostly though for our east coasters however. They've been getting just as much snow as Boston area, but they've had higher winds and a lot more mixing between snow/rain/ice due to the Jetstream keeping their temps jumping between artic vs. above average... It's just utterly miserable out their way.
We're finally getting a little meltdown in Boston. Next week looks to be in the 40's most of the week so we should finally be getting relief from this snowbound hell! This winter wasn't even that bad except for Like a 3-1/2 week span where it snowed 60" or so. Like until January the temps hadn't dropped below 20 and we had mild rain storms at worst.
Living in the Canadian Maritimes I can say that we have had a mighty interesting winter. I have missed almost two whole weeks of university due to snow. We almost had to declare a state of emergency across the whole island as people were trapped in their homes for over three days.
Only yesterday I had to park what felt like miles away from my house as the storm was too bad to continue. This morning my car had literally vanished under 6 feet of snow!
On the plus side it reached 1 degree Celsius this morning. Shorts weather.
60° F: Arizonans shiver uncontrollably; people in Buffalo are still sunbathing.
50° F: Californians try to turn on the heat; people in Buffalo plant gardens.
40° F: Italian sports cars won’t start; people in Buffalo drive with the windows down.
32° F: Distilled water freezes; Lake Erie water gets thicker.
20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves and wool hats; people in Buffalo throw on a light jacket.
15° F: People in Buffalo have the last cookout before it gets cold.
0° F: All the people in Phoenix die. Buffalonians close the windows.
10° below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico . The Girl Scouts in Buffalo are selling cookies door to door.
25° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates; people in Buffalo get out their winter coats.
40° below zero: Washington, DC runs out of hot air; people in Buffalo let the dogs sleep indoors.
100° below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Buffalonians get frustrated because they can’t start the car.
460° below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale); people in Buffalo start saying, “Cold enough for ya?”
500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Bills win the Super Bowl.
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Happyjew wrote: 60° F: Arizonans shiver uncontrollably; people in Buffalo are still sunbathing.
50° F: Californians try to turn on the heat; people in Buffalo plant gardens.
40° F: Italian sports cars won’t start; people in Buffalo drive with the windows down.
32° F: Distilled water freezes; Lake Erie water gets thicker.
20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves and wool hats; people in Buffalo throw on a light jacket.
15° F: People in Buffalo have the last cookout before it gets cold.
0° F: All the people in Phoenix die. Buffalonians close the windows.
10° below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico . The Girl Scouts in Buffalo are selling cookies door to door.
25° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates; people in Buffalo get out their winter coats.
40° below zero: Washington, DC runs out of hot air; people in Buffalo let the dogs sleep indoors.
100° below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Buffalonians get frustrated because they can’t start the car.
460° below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale); people in Buffalo start saying, “Cold enough for ya?”
500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Bills win the Super Bowl.
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We had about an inch of “wintery mix” last night. Nothing major. It’s in the low 40s now.
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