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It's snow problem here in North Carolina. Everything gets shut down for a week.


Haladir wrote:

I had an exchange student from India stay with me for three months this time last year. He had also never seen snow before.

He also started complaining about how cold it was getting in early October, when it got down to a bone-chilling 55°F.

"Wow! Does it get much colder than this?"

"Son, you ain't seen nothing yet!"

The year I lived in California it got down to 55 degrees one week. There was snow visible on the distant mountain range. I was still in my shorts and t-shirts while the natives broke out the down parkas. It was quite amusing to watch their horrified looks as I braved the sub-arctic temperatures with nary a shiver.


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El Paso it snowed once. A 1/4". You would think that Armageddon occurred. Everything was cancelled. But, this was a place that canceled everything if it rained (and good thing too-that road oil that comes out of tar that's been baking in the hot sun for months is nooooo joke)


Today is warmer. Like 59 of those your fancy Fahrenheit degrees. The exact temperature where its too warm for long johns but in the evening it becomes cool enough for long johns being handy.

Scarab Sages

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Snow is the work of the devil.

Edit: Just like mayonnaise. And New York City.


Aberzombie wrote:

Snow is the work of the devil.

Edit: Just like mayonnaise. And New York City.

Agreed, I despise New York City and with good reason I'm there 5 days a week!


Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Aberzombie wrote:

Snow is the work of the devil.

Edit: Just like mayonnaise. And New York City.

Agreed, I despise New York City and with good reason I'm there 5 days a week!

shakes head sadly

How you could hate near perfection is beyond me.


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Freehold DM wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Aberzombie wrote:

Snow is the work of the devil.

Edit: Just like mayonnaise. And New York City.

Agreed, I despise New York City and with good reason I'm there 5 days a week!

shakes head sadly

How you could hate near perfection is beyond me.

You mean Snow not NYC right? :-)

I don't hate snow, in fact I like it till I have to shovel or drive in it, then much like any girl I have dated for more than 6 months my interest wanes... :-)


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He means snow in NYC.


Treppa wrote:
He means snow in NYC.

NYC repels snow. I get 5-8 at my house and there's 2 in the city and my Partner's tell me how it's not that much snow and why am I working from home?


NYC=fun
Snow=\= not fun

Scarab Sages

EVIL!


I love NY!

New York City is one of my favorite places on Earth!

(Just after Boston, in fact. Go Sawks!)


Boston = Also fun, but smaller-scale fun
Snow, still =\= fun


Back eight of my two-job surprise sixteen-hour marathon. I was going to go see Dr Strange, but having to go into work blew that apart.

At least the hard part is over. Now I just have fridges to tend rather than hallucinating drunks


Aberzombie wrote:
EVIL!

Fun is evil is a commonly recurring message across the world and cultures... What is wrong with humanity that they so despise being happy and relaxed?


Went to bed earlier (i.e. around or past 2 am) and somehow I managed to get up around 10 am...

^.^

>.>

<.<

^.^

Sleepiness is stalking the outskirts of my brain but not terribly pressing at the moment.

Nice change after a recent bout of sleep being even harder than usually...


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I haven't been to NYC yet, one day I will go and take NY by storm!... which will either end in NY loving me or me having spent all my money while NY laughs at me.


Snow... Business in Michigan doesn't shut down for snow. We are kind of like the Post Office motto in that regard. It still amazes me that when the first few flakes start to fall and the roads get icy it seems like EVERYONE in the state forgets how to drive in slick conditions for a couple weeks. You see the highway littered with crashes. I suspect it is some form of denial. "Maybe if I keep driving like it's summer then the snow and ice aren't really there!"


Patrick Curtin wrote:

NYC=fun

Snow=\= not fun

I should say snow =/= fun, as the above is a double negative.


I can tell it's getting to the freezing mark as my sinuses cracked. First nosebleed of winter!


Boy I am ready to go home. Sixteen hours is a long shift


GOOD MORNING TREEFORTNAM!!!!


I can call it morning. The sun has come over the horizon. It's more of a late evening by my clock. I'm about ready for a siesta.


So. Dave and FHDM. You guys on board for a Spring roadtrip to points south?

SPRING BREAK! I NEED A BREAK! I NEED A SPRING BREAK!


Patrick Curtin wrote:

So. Dave and FHDM. You guys on board for a Spring roadtrip to points south?

SPRING BREAK! I NEED A BREAK! I NEED A SPRING BREAK!

Depends on how broke I am in a few months.


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Heh,
RE: Snow-

- I met my wife going to College in NORTH Louisiana (Totally different beast from south Louisiana) One day in April we were flying kites in 85 degree weather (My Charlie brown kite totally got caught in a tree) ;P
The next morning there were 2-1/2 to 3 foot drifts of snow on the ground.
Most young ladies might have taken that as a sign and dropped me immediately. :P Not my wife, from New Orleans and having seen snow maybe once before, she thought it was wonderful. She had me driving all over town to take pictures of snowmen others had built.

Living in a small apartment 1-2 blocks from my main campus building, I usually walked to school. I decided to drive that morning. I circled the block, dodging an accident at each corner, parked my car at my apartment, put on my rubber boots and hiked my happy @$$ to school! ;P

The guy at the last corner,... I was at a red light, it turned green and the guy behind me started honking for me to move. I held up one finger (NOT that one!) and then he saw the car I had spotted a block away, who had locked his wheels, and was still sliding down the streets riding the snow/ice ruts down the street. As he passed us, he looked over at me with a look of consternation and 'WTF do I do now?!?' on his face.

Yeah, People from Louisiana have NO idea what to do in snow. Stay home for all our sakes! :)


Aranna wrote:
It still amazes me that when the first few flakes start to fall and the roads get icy it seems like EVERYONE in the state forgets how to drive in slick conditions for a couple weeks. You see the highway littered with crashes. I suspect it is some form of denial. "Maybe if I keep driving like it's summer then the snow and ice aren't really there!"

Syracuse is renowned for that kind of behavior. A few years back, I was on my way to pick my roommate up from work (his car was in the shop more often than not), and my route took me around the back of the airport. On that particular road, there's a bit of a curve, and I passed five or six cars that had skidded off the road within a couple hundred yards from each other. On the way back, a couple more had been added to the collection.

Silver Crusade

Yeah we get the everyone forgets how to drive thing over here. But what annoys me more is everyone buying up all the f**&ing milk and bread.

WTF is that gonna do for you if you get snowed in? Other than go bad?


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Rysky wrote:

Yeah we get the everyone forgets how to drive thing over here. But what annoys me more is everyone buying up all the f~@*ing milk and bread.

WTF is that gonna do for you if you get snowed in? Other than go bad?

Never understood that one either. Though, people do seem to get panicky about food when it snows. After the big storm in Buffalo two years ago, a bunch of people swarmed and robbed a Doritos truck that had gotten stuck in the snow.

Silver Crusade

David M Mallon wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Yeah we get the everyone forgets how to drive thing over here. But what annoys me more is everyone buying up all the f~@*ing milk and bread.

WTF is that gonna do for you if you get snowed in? Other than go bad?

Never understood that one either. Though, people do seem to get panicky about food when it snows. After the big storm in Buffalo two years ago, a bunch of people swarmed and robbed a Doritos truck that had gotten stuck in the snow.

Well at least those have preservatives in them.

Never really got the fascination with those chips.


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So here Northeastern Illinois area the media gets ahold of even a 'whiff' of a trace of snow and start treating it with more drama than this past year of politics.

"It's looking like a trace... no, this just in, it might be an inch, we'll have an update later with the extended forecast..."

Much later in the 'extended forecast'...

"So we're looking at the possibility of four to six inches and high winds."

Cue the pandemonium, especially for the 'first snow', as everyone re-enacts pretty much every disaster movie where they have time to loot (shop) a given store.

OMG, IT'S DETHSNO! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! QUICK, GIVE ME MILK, BREAD, AND EGGS TO ROT IN MY HOUSE WHILE I MY CORPSE IS FREEZING!!

Huge shout-out to Rysky on that last bit, forgot about the perishables 'looting'/shopping...

Spoiler:
We get snow nearly every year (2012 was a rare exception). What's the hype and panic for? Plan carefully and accordingly and wow, it's all peaceful, right?

Oh, and after all is said and done? We get *maybe* a trace of snow...


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My favorite response to the question of "Why does everyone buy milk, bread and eggs when a snow storm is coming?" was given by a local radio DJ. He said "Well, what else is there to do when you're snowed in, other than make French Toast?"


Hmmm... this reminds me, I should turn my heat back on. And my A/C off.


hi everyone,

I like snow, and I don't mind it on the street, usually we only have a few days of real snow where I live and some more days with snow-mud-slush


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this week we have almost 15*C / 59 F - much to warm for the season

Silver Crusade

Hey Aeglos, and yeah, I love snow :3


David M Mallon wrote:
Aranna wrote:
It still amazes me that when the first few flakes start to fall and the roads get icy it seems like EVERYONE in the state forgets how to drive in slick conditions for a couple weeks. You see the highway littered with crashes. I suspect it is some form of denial. "Maybe if I keep driving like it's summer then the snow and ice aren't really there!"
Syracuse is renowned for that kind of behavior. A few years back, I was on my way to pick my roommate up from work (his car was in the shop more often than not), and my route took me around the back of the airport. On that particular road, there's a bit of a curve, and I passed five or six cars that had skidded off the road within a couple hundred yards from each other. On the way back, a couple more had been added to the collection.

I find it weird that so many people in Syracuse don't seem to know how to drive in snow. I blame Syracuse University students from the South.

I live about an hour south of you, in a much-smaller city with a slightly-larger university. We see a lot of that here: Students from places without snow end up freaking the hell out the first time there's an inch of snow on the ground.

The other thing that irks me is when you see SUVs on their sides in the ditch. Four-wheel drive does NOT mean four-wheel stop! And 4WD doesn't help you at all in the snow if your vehicle sill has Aquatreads on the rims!

The other other thing that irks me in winter driving are people who drive over-cautiously.. like 22mph on the highway. When it's slippery, you need to keep a minimum momentum going to get over hills... and if you go 24mph, you're just going to get yourself and everyone behind you stuck!


captain yesterday wrote:

Seattle is hilarious when it snows.

With an inch everyone is scrambling for supplies at the store. More than once I was the only person to show up for work because everyone else was "snowed in" and I look out the window and there's at the most an inch and a half.

Another time we got seven inches and the entire city took a holiday to sled and ski in the road, it was pretty sweet.

wasn't that the snowmargedon the paozi staff posted about ?


Haladir wrote:
I find it weird that so many people in Syracuse don't seem to know how to drive in snow. I blame Syracuse University students from the South.

Oddly enough, from what I've seen, it's mostly locals, especially on the outskirts of the city.

Haladir wrote:
I live about an hour south of you, in a much-smaller city with a slightly-larger university. We see a lot of that here: Students from places without snow end up freaking the hell out the first time there's an inch of snow on the ground.

I assume you're referring to Ithaca. I can kind of understand you guys having issues, given that the entire town is built on like a 30% grade. Didn't some guy spin out of control and crash into a building downtown a few years back?


I had a Land Cruiser once. It was great in snow, but far worse on ice than any car I've driven.

Of course, no normal vehicle does well on ice.


Ragadolf wrote:

Heh,

RE: Snow-

- I met my wife going to College in NORTH Louisiana (Totally different beast from south Louisiana) One day in April we were flying kites in 85 degree weather (My Charlie brown kite totally got caught in a tree) ;P
The next morning there were 2-1/2 to 3 foot drifts of snow on the ground.
Most young ladies might have taken that as a sign and dropped me immediately. :P Not my wife, from New Orleans and having seen snow maybe once before, she thought it was wonderful. She had me driving all over town to take pictures of snowmen others had built.

your wife sounds wonderful.


Patrick Curtin wrote:

NYC=fun

Snow= super fun

Snow in NYC = super duper fun


Haladir wrote:

I love NY!

New York City is one of my favorite places on Earth!

(Just after Boston, in fact. Go Sawks!)

removes haladir from Christmas card list


Aranna wrote:

I haven't been to NYC yet, one day I will go and take NY by storm!... which will either end in NY loving me or me having spent all my money while NY laughs at me.

inform me if you are going to be in town.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:

NYC=fun

Snow=\= not fun

I should say snow =/= fun, as the above is a double negative.

is okay, I fix


Patrick Curtin wrote:

So. Dave and FHDM. You guys on board for a Spring roadtrip to points south?

SPRING BREAK! I NEED A BREAK! I NEED A SPRING BREAK!

considering I just got my first ever parking ticket G+!%&~MIT F$$$!!!! I don't know yet about next year


aeglos wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

Seattle is hilarious when it snows.

With an inch everyone is scrambling for supplies at the store. More than once I was the only person to show up for work because everyone else was "snowed in" and I look out the window and there's at the most an inch and a half.

Another time we got seven inches and the entire city took a holiday to sled and ski in the road, it was pretty sweet.

wasn't that the snowmargedon the paozi staff posted about ?

I remember that! It was awesome!!


David M Mallon wrote:
Haladir wrote:
I find it weird that so many people in Syracuse don't seem to know how to drive in snow. I blame Syracuse University students from the South.

Oddly enough, from what I've seen, it's mostly locals, especially on the outskirts of the city.

Haladir wrote:
I live about an hour south of you, in a much-smaller city with a slightly-larger university. We see a lot of that here: Students from places without snow end up freaking the hell out the first time there's an inch of snow on the ground.
I assume you're referring to Ithaca. I can kind of understand you guys having issues, given that the entire town is built on like a 30% grade. Didn't some guy spin out of control and crash into a building downtown a few years back?

that sounds GREAT AWESOME!

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