Woo hoo! Snow!

[TuffyCatt]

It snowed an inch here last night, and I'm outta school...and my school never lets out of school for snow...it's really wierd, but I'm not complaining.

So does anyone else here still love snow? What does everyone like do do in the snow? I think sledding is the best...we have some pretty big hills around here and it can be really fun. :)

[Lonestarr]

It started the night before Christmas.

It kept going throughout the week.

It fell to the ground faster than the people could shovel it up.

Streets were blocked off by the stuff.

After a week, several snow plowings and assistance from the National Guard, the town is attempting a return to normal.

If you haven't figured it out by now (or if you missed my 'location' in several of my recent posts), I hail from Buffalo, New York, where the snow just wouldn't stop, but, miraculously, it has (for now, at least). Let's hope that this is the last we hear about snow for the remainder of the season. Jack Frost has made this town his [explentive deleted], and I don't like it.

[TuffyCatt]

Originally posted by Lonestarr
It started the night before Christmas.

It kept going throughout the week.

It fell to the ground faster than the people could shovel it up.

Streets were blocked off by the stuff.

After a week, several snow plowings and assistance from the National Guard, the town is attempting a return to normal.

If you haven't figured it out by now (or if you missed my 'location' in several of my recent posts), I hail from Buffalo, New York, where the snow just wouldn't stop, but, miraculously, it has (for now, at least). Let's hope that this is the last we hear about snow for the remainder of the season. Jack Frost has made this town his [explentive deleted], and I don't like it.

Yeah, if I were in your situation, I'd hate it too. :( But in Virginia, it's a huge event when we get anything...and being 15 years old, I still love snow, more than most people my age even...but don't worry I feel for you and hope it gets better.

[Jedigreedo]

Here in Oklahoma we got snow around where I live in NOVEMBER, which is really really odd for us. It snowed a couple days ago, but nothing stuck and it was really light.... We're expected to get snow over the next week but so far, I've seen none for it. :(

The things I like to do in snow... use my sister for target practice. :rolleyes: Or start acting like Luke and think I'm really stranded in the middle of nowhere on Hoth. :D

[Stardust]

north of maryland and DC it's snowing. SOUTHERN maryland it's snowing! WHY ISN'T IT SNOWING HERE IN THE MID-EAST COAST??? ARGH. i was watching the news yesterday hoping the storm would hit maryland, or at least DC so i wouldn't have to go to work today. ok, yes, immature of me, but I WANT SOME FREAKING SNOW FROM BUFFALO. booooo. :) dang it i want to get out of work early. is that a crime?? ;) i'm incredibly bored here. no instant messaging of any kind so i can't talk to my friends online....the only way is through email. how sad.....

ok actually if i had 6 feet of snow i wouldn't be too happy either.....then i would have no way of getting back to school....well maybe that wouldn't be so bad either...calling up my teachers and say "i can't get back to school i'm stuck with 6 feet of snow." :p i love having lots of snow, tho, cuz it's so fun to jump off the fence into the snow. i'm waiting for another blizzard of '96 to happen again, at least when i'm home so i can have a big huge snowball fight with my brothers and friends. >=) but i know i'll get my snow when i get back to school. what i'm really craving for is to go ice skating.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Man, I wish anyplace that's getting a lot of snow would just pack most of it up in trucks and send it down here. Maybe then I could make snowmen that are taller than six inches. :rolleyes:

[Jowy Blight]

I don't think we'll ever get snow where I live (CA), it's way to hot down here to snow. I haven't seen snow since I lived in Virginia, which is sad, because I happen to like snow.

[Majin Vegeta]

yay same here. we got like an inch and we got off school early yesterday and we have on school today.

[Failure]

People get off for one inch of snow? Sheesh, talk about lucky. :)

I used to love snow, but now i like it less. Perhaps it has to do with my having to slosh around in the snow in sneakers. I really need to get some snow boots (I've been saying that for the past 5 years ;) )

Lonestarr, I've always wondered what it would be like to get huge amounts of snow like you've gotten. N o doubt it's a big pain in the butt (to say the least), but is there anything cool about having that much snow? Can you jump out of a 2nd floor window and land safely? I've always wanted to do that. What about building undersnow tunnels? Is that safe?

[Nightflower]

You yellow-bellied lizards!

Often it starts snowing in October and doesn't leave till May (March and April's a constant cycle of slush, then snow, then ice, then slush, then snow...)

Usually a good 3-4 feet of the stuff on the ground. Never get let off school unless it's REALLY bad. Sometimes gets to -45 degrees Celsius with the wind chill!

Ice storm in 1998 coating trees with four inches of ice, and left me without power for five days! Had to shower at the frickin community center!

The stuff is nice around Christmas, but then I quickly get sick of it.

Ahhh, the true north strong and free.

(Don't mind my bitterness, I live in Ottawa)

[Majin Vegeta]

Hey I used to live up north in Michigan and there was plenty of snow there. Once, it snowed in October, before Haloween, and there was ice on the trees, and the trees still had leaves. The weight of the snow and ice held by the leaves made the trees fall, blocking roads, cutting off power lines, and whatnot. We got three days of no school for that. :) But we had to shiver in our blankets and sweaters, crowding aorund the fireplace, too. :( And the wierdest part of all wat that by the time Haloween came, you'd think nothing had happened- everythng was back to normal, with green grass and leaves and pumpkins, etc.

I live down south now, and I just moved here in July. I used to consider the Southerners to be wimps when it came to snow, because they all went home the moment there was a 1/2 inch of snow.

But that was until this morning, when I discovered that there are NO snowplows and very few shovels in the South, so basically the reason they are all so scared of snow is because they are unprepared for it.

[DR. BELCH]

Geographically speaking, I live in a basin... which means that in summer, it's hotter here than in the higher elevations, because the bowl-like structure of the land holds in the hot air. That's why it's relatively mild here all through September and even into October and November. Conversely, when the temps drop, the cold air is also gathered in one big mass.
I enjoyed snow as a kid, but lately I have come to despise the cold. I'm like a lizard--I like to lie on a warm flat surface and sun myself. Currently it's around thirty F, and my kitchen sink is acting up--I have to hook up a pump vac to drain it when it's full and attach a hose to it to drain the vac. Unfortunately the hose, which runs outside, is frozen solid, so it's impossible to drain my sink--I have to bail it out by hand.
The worst winter in recent memory was that of 1994--deep snow, icy roads, and miserable cold. Classes at the community college were cancelled that day. Poor conditions cancelled them again at the University 50 miles away a couple of years later; roads/sidewalks were treacherous, and stairs were even worse (one student was hospitalized with a bruised hip after taking a tumble on some frozen steps, as I recall).

[Failure]

Originally posted by Nightflower
You yellow-bellied lizards!

Often it starts snowing in October and doesn't leave till May (March and April's a constant cycle of slush, then snow, then ice, then slush, then snow...)

Usually a good 3-4 feet of the stuff on the ground. Never get let off school unless it's REALLY bad. Sometimes gets to -45 degrees Celsius with the wind chill!

Ice storm in 1998 coating trees with four inches of ice, and left me without power for five days! Had to shower at the frickin community center!

The stuff is nice around Christmas, but then I quickly get sick of it.

Ahhh, the true north strong and free.

(Don't mind my bitterness, I live in Ottawa)

No power for 5 days? Showering at a community center? Ooh! ooh! That's gotta hurt. :yakko:

The biggest storms I've been through was an ice storm back in 93 which canceled school for a week. And a blizzard in 96 that left almost 3 feet of snow and also canceled school for a week.

Now that I think about it, the benefits of snow really drop once that "getting out of school" incentive is gone.

[joker]

i got about an 8th of inch this mourning.....by far not enough to do anything in.

[TuffyCatt]

The biggest snow storm I remember is the blizzard of '96...we got out of school for a week, which is something that almost never happens here...I also remeber a bad ice storm once, I don't remeber what year. It was really beautiful, with everything coated with ice, but it was more dangerous...you couldn't walk outside without slipping...

[Stardust]

Originally posted by Failure


Now that I think about it, the benefits of snow really drop once that "getting out of school" incentive is gone.

yeah, it sure does! down in maryland we're not really as prepared for snow as up where i go to school in northern pennsylvania. (also, half of the county i live in maryland usually gets a ton of snow so the county school board has to cancel school even though my half of the county gets like, a flurry dusting :D )

in northern pa we'd get a blizzard and the freaking campus won't close! what a culture shock. it is so discouraging to hear the snow plow outside. :( and then you gotta make the decision whether to risk going to school or not. even for on campus students. there's this huuuuuuuuuuge hill we gotta walk up, and there's even railings along side of it in case there's ice so you can hold the railing while you walk up/down the hill. hahaha. a nice sledding hill, though. :)

[Danielle]

Here in good ol' Rhode Island, we have occasional flurries. There was really only one time where the snow stuck to the ground (since Thanksgiving, I mean), and that lasted about two days. Today, there is a chance of flurries, but for the meantime, there is an overcast sky with a high of 75 and a low of 56....

[The Guitar Slayer]

Every since Jersey got whacked by blizzards back in '95 and '96, there hasn't been as much. Mostly just cold, little rain and ice, no monstrous blizzard that drops 3-4 feet of snow here. 3-4 inches is more like it.

I have, though, observed something in my short lifespan thus far: Mother Nature eventually balances herself out. Be careful what you wish for.

Peace and Rock 'n' Roll
The Guitar Slayer :cool:

[optimal321]

Well, the most snow i think we ever got around here was a few years back when we got out of school for at least a couple weeks. And the best part was, since that was right at exam time, we didn't have to take mid-terms! And my school never has snow days.

[Alaskanbullworm]

The last I knew of, there is going to be a snow storm on Sunday which could mean no school on Monday :D .

We have had really weird weather where I live, we only had a dusting until a few days before Christmas and we basically have had snow on the ground since. We usually have at least 1 snow day by now, I wonder if that means a big storm will come.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

You'll get sick of snow when your parents deem you old enough to shovel it. For me, that was when I was 11. So I've hated it for more than a decade now.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by Nightflower
You yellow-bellied lizards!

Often it starts snowing in October and doesn't leave till May (March and April's a constant cycle of slush, then snow, then ice, then slush, then snow...)

Usually a good 3-4 feet of the stuff on the ground. Never get let off school unless it's REALLY bad. Sometimes gets to -45 degrees Celsius with the wind chill!

Ice storm in 1998 coating trees with four inches of ice, and left me without power for five days! Had to shower at the frickin community center!

The stuff is nice around Christmas, but then I quickly get sick of it.

Ahhh, the true north strong and free.

(Don't mind my bitterness, I live in Ottawa)

Yeah, I remember that. Good thing I'm in Toronto, though.(actually, outside of the GTA).

The worst thing about watching that ice storm coverage on the news was seeing those cows get frozen alive outside of the barns. Imagine standing out there while the sky pelts you with constant ice, freezing you up bit by bit...

But then, most of the cows would have eventually ended up in a freezer at some point of their lives, anyway...

[Lonestarr]

Originally posted by Leaping Larry Jojo
You'll get sick of snow when your parents deem you old enough to shovel it.

I hear that! It's especially tough on me (re: my earlier post). Also, I'm sorry about the expletive (sp?), but that's what it feels like.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

*SUDDENLY, BB pops in throwing snowballs at everyone*

HA HA! Delaware got snow too! And I managed to get a day off yesterday and a two hour delay today (typing this post up as it's going on! :D )! To think, all the weather stations said we'd just get an inch when it turns out we got a foot of the blissful stuff from above...

And for the record....I love shoveling snow. It's wonderful exercise. And yes, I get a good feeling from actually working for once in my life.

I also admit: here in DE we get VERY little snow during the year. That's why I'm always happy when it does come. The blizzard of '96, thus, was aptly described as Heaven for some snowless kids...

[Nightflower]

*narrows eyes and replies in a gruff voice*

Nightflower (lives in a place more Northern than...gasp!...Toronto!):
You call that a blizzard? *PLUNK* THAT'S a blizzard!

BourgeoisBuffoon (lives in Deleware, allegedly home of Metropolis and Superman):
.... That's a spoon.

[Majin Vegeta]

We got off today, too!

The South is simply unprepared, that's all. If it had shovels and show plows, everything would be back to normal.