Holy Crap Its Snowing!
Har_Har_the_Pirate
Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19388Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19388Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">in october</div> Well after 2 days of hard raining it has finally started to snow over here (Reno Nevada), which is kinda odd because usually we get crap for snow.... and its october, but to my surprise we have already an inch of snow on the roads and much more on the regular ground. Normally i would ditch class... but i have crap to turn in today. Anyone else getttin hit?
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However, I am quite a ways north of you. :-)
Say... around 200+ miles.
Gotta love lake effect snow in PA and NY.
gg 6 feet of snow in 1 day
Thankfully I no longer live near lake effected areas. However due to our geography we don't get bad snowstorms (we do but they arent the bad part.) We get 3 freaking inches of ICE on everything.
Back in '93 We missed school for 2 solid weeks because of an ice storm. We had equipment that could handle feet of snow, but there isn't anything you can do with a solid sheet of ice on everything. Even chains on the tires can't to anything.
Although, when we do manage to get the rain and snow together (apart from the difficulties of driving) it looks cool. Nothing is more fun that punching a mailbox and having a mailbox shaped ice chunk come off. Plus I can actually walk in our yard then (until you get those week spots where you sink down a foot into the snow).
I've yet to see anything over a foot though (got that in Milwaukee though). I appreciate the lake because it means we don't get 5 degree days...like I do over here at college (though the forecast predicts 60H/52L for Friday...so woot to almost summer like weather.
December 10th is my local mountain's night riding start date... anxiously waiting for that.
However, I am quite a ways north of you. :-)
Say... around 200+ miles. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wait, SD as in South Dakota? 200 miles seems a bit of an understatement... Hell, it's probably at LEAST 1000-1400 miles. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I wouldn't mind just a couple more degrees here now, but I'm just trying to avoid that whole winter thing. Had a pretty bad one in NE last year, though, so I'm all ready for whatever WI throws at me! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Just hope I can get a place close enough to walk to Raven's new building when it's done. Anything I can do to keep from driving in the winter is good - not because I don't trust myself, but because I don't trust the other idiots on the road, especially the way the drive up here and have no sense of the car being extended either ahead of or behind the driver's seat... grr...
But bah, it's just silly technicalities anyway. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
December 10th is my local mountain's night riding start date... anxiously waiting for that. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I could be snowboarding right now... IF THIS WHOLE **** PROVINCE WASN'T A **** FLATPLATE! <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Acctually I left my snowboard back home anyways, so I won't be doing any boarding until after Christmas <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
However, I am quite a ways north of you. :-)
Say... around 200+ miles. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wait, SD as in South Dakota? 200 miles seems a bit of an understatement... Hell, it's probably at LEAST 1000-1400 miles. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I wouldn't mind just a couple more degrees here now, but I'm just trying to avoid that whole winter thing. Had a pretty bad one in NE last year, though, so I'm all ready for whatever WI throws at me! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Just hope I can get a place close enough to walk to Raven's new building when it's done. Anything I can do to keep from driving in the winter is good - not because I don't trust myself, but because I don't trust the other idiots on the road, especially the way the drive up here and have no sense of the car being extended either ahead of or behind the driver's seat... grr... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well for me about 40 min from Milwaukee we get snow late into march and none till jan =/
living in the centre of England sux
living in the centre of England sux <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Don't you live in Coventry?
I live in Birmingham, which is virtually next to Coventry, and have had at least one good snow fall for the past 2/3 years.
im talking about what u see in America where become get stuck in their houses. Has happened once in Coventry when i was about 6. One of my best memories <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Still hovering around 93 here in Houston.
Isn't that the time most NorEasters hit anyway?
I remember when I was in Virginia back in December. There was some emergency status called by the governor or some such thing. People were checking into motels and yelling doom and gloom.
2 inches. 2 freaking inches of snow and these people were crashing, hiding, and terrified.
PSU doesn't even consider a delay until you get beyond 2 feet. (we cheat though, heated sidewalks <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
However, once while I was in college they did call of school for a day thanks to the temperature being below -60 F. Didn't want kids freezing to death walking from class to class. :-)
also downhill skiing > anything, except summer.
I still remember last year after a big snowstorm that my downhill driveway was flat. So much snow fell off the roof (there just so happen to be two levels of roof that dump snow into my driveway) that it filled the whole thing up. I opened the garage door one day and, not paying attention, backed into a 12 foot high wall of snow while hauling my garbage can out. It was pretty fun until we had to clean it out... I dug a cave in my attempt to get out. I realized once I got a big cave dug that if I started trying to reach the surface the whole thing would collapse, so I just kinda left it for a bit. Its not like any of our cars could make it up the hill anyways, since it was sheer ice. Then I discovered what the switch in my garage that did nothing was for. Apparently we have a heated driveway <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
70-80ish in Cove (Central Texas)
"Holy crap, it's stopped raining!" is far more likely to be heard here. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Bring on holiday in Austria.
I still remember last year after a big snowstorm that my downhill driveway was flat. So much snow fell off the roof (there just so happen to be two levels of roof that dump snow into my driveway) that it filled the whole thing up. I opened the garage door one day and, not paying attention, backed into a 12 foot high wall of snow while hauling my garbage can out. It was pretty fun until we had to clean it out... I dug a cave in my attempt to get out. I realized once I got a big cave dug that if I started trying to reach the surface the whole thing would collapse, so I just kinda left it for a bit. Its not like any of our cars could make it up the hill anyways, since it was sheer ice. Then I discovered what the switch in my garage that did nothing was for. Apparently we have a heated driveway <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ironically global warming will make central canada even colder due to hot winds running up the coast increasing the ammount of wind we recieve from the north...
BTW, the only complaining I did was complaining that I couldn't snowboard. I really don't see the relitive coldness as a major problem.
We got like 5 feet of snow. It was great. No school etc.
But when you live in Denver, you expect snowy winters with the Rocky Mntns rite next door.
We got like 5 feet of snow. It was great. No school etc.
But when you live in Denver, you expect snowy winters with the Rocky Mntns rite next door. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I live in my school, so I never get snow days <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->