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Patrick Curtin |
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.
Storyteller Shadow |
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Storyteller Shadow wrote:Aberzombie wrote:Agreed, I despise New York City and with good reason I'm there 5 days a week!Snow is the work of the devil.
Edit: Just like mayonnaise. And New York City.
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... :-)
Aranna |
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!"
David M Mallon |
Ragadolf |
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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! :)
David M Mallon |
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.
David M Mallon |
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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.
Rysky |
Rysky wrote: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.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?
Well at least those have preservatives in them.
Never really got the fascination with those chips.
Wei Ji the Learner |
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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...
Oh, and after all is said and done? We get *maybe* a trace of snow...
Haladir |
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!
aeglos |
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 ?
David M Mallon |
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.
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?
Freehold DM |
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.
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM |
captain yesterday wrote:wasn't that the snowmargedon the paozi staff posted about ?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.
I remember that! It was awesome!!
Freehold DM |
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!