Author Topic: Snow... (Read 2519 times)

FrizzleFried · « **on:** February 21, 2007, 10:22:36 am »

Damn weather has been crazy this year. I live in Idaho and the average temp for Feb. is 40 degrees. Saturday and Sunday we enjoyed 60+ degree temps...my friggin' grass is starting to turn green again!

This morning I woke up to about 3" of snow and more is falling...

Sheesh... MAKE UP YOUR MIND DAMNIT!

horseboy · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:30:07 am »

Must be that damned global warming.

Chris G · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2007, 09:41:10 pm »

I'm with you (Seattleite speaking). Even by Seattle standards, this has been by far the wildest, worst winter I can remember. I suppose the silver lining is that I haven't had to feel guilty staying indoors spending time on this fine hobby of ours...

boykster · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2007, 11:36:48 pm »

Quote from: Chris G on February 21, 2007, 09:41:10 pm

I'm with you (Seattleite speaking). Even by Seattle standards, this has been by far the wildest, worst winter I can remember. I suppose the silver lining is that I haven't had to feel guilty staying indoors spending time on this fine hobby of ours...

Except today....freaking beautiful day and I was stuck inside working.....

(also a seattleite)

And yes, this has been a very strange winter.....

Chris G · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2007, 09:18:47 am »

Of course it's beautiful... that's because I'm out of town. I'm in Dallas - but at least it's been sunny and 70 here, so I can't complain. I heard it snowed here a few weeks ago too, though. I had no idea it snowed in Texas!

RayB · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2007, 09:43:41 am »

Fizzle: every year except this one, weather patterns have been perfectly even and consistent, right?

billf · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:09:32 pm »

Quote from: Chris G on February 22, 2007, 09:18:47 am

I had no idea it snowed in Texas!

That's what I thought too. Then way back when I was in high school, we took a family vacation around Christmastime and drove through Texas in a wicked ice storm! Pretty scary driving through that.

FrizzleFried · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:49:56 pm »

Quote from: RayB on February 22, 2007, 09:43:41 am

Fizzle: every year except this one, weather patterns have been perfectly even and consistent, right?

That'd be "Frizzle"...thank you.

...and I have no idea what the weather is like here normally. It will be 1 year in this area on March 23rd.

ChadTower · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:53:10 pm »

It's usually partly cloudy with a high chance of being banned from MAMEworld.

horseboy · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2007, 02:54:57 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on February 22, 2007, 02:53:10 pm

It's usually partly cloudy with a high chance of being banned from MAMEworld.

Jouster · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2007, 07:56:58 pm »

Well, global warming hit Tampa last week. The weather channel said the high for the day was 70...but the current temperature was 72...and 10 minutes later when I got into my car it was 76!!

Of course this week it has been in the 60's...so I guess we survived global warming...good luck to the rest of you.

Jouster

FrizzleFried · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2007, 08:27:54 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on February 22, 2007, 02:53:10 pm

It's usually partly cloudy with a high chance of being banned from MAMEworld.

Don't tell anyone, but I have been on MAMEWORLD under a different account name since about a month after that whole fiasco.

Unfortunately, using my proxy server, attached files there still send me to "google". Oh well, no loss...the only reason I was there in the first place was for MAMEWAH.

The funny thing is I STILL don't know what got Twisty's panties in a bunch.

horseboy · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2007, 10:38:04 pm »

Quote from: FrizzleFried on February 22, 2007, 08:27:54 pm

The funny thing is I STILL don't know what got Twisty's panties in a bunch.

I am almost positive it was your pecker.

ChadTower · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2007, 11:04:46 pm »

His panties got all Twisty.

Chris G · « **Reply #14 on:** March 01, 2007, 01:24:10 pm »

Why the hell am I shoveling another 4 inches off my driveway in MARCH?!?!

Do one of the board vendors sell this "global warming" you guys are talking about? Need about 20 degrees shipped to Seattle, please.

(all you east coasters feel free to commence eye-rolling now...)

ChadTower · « **Reply #15 on:** March 01, 2007, 01:27:37 pm »

In MA I haven't been able to take my kid sledding once this year. We've probably had less than a foot total all winter and none of it has stuck around. We usually get at least a couple individual instances of a foot or more.

JONTHEBOMB · « **Reply #16 on:** March 01, 2007, 06:06:12 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on March 01, 2007, 01:27:37 pm

In MA I haven't been able to take my kid sledding once this year.

You should come on over to Minnesota. We are getting dumped on at the moment. Roads, schools, everything seems to be closing. By the end of this storm we may have as much as two feet.

And for all you snow haters:

Snow Rules!

Angry_Radish · « **Reply #17 on:** March 01, 2007, 08:22:38 pm »

Bad here in the milwaukee area, not so much the amount of snow, but the weight...
damn wet snow the last week or 2.
A grocery store a couple blocks from my work had it's roof cave in due to the weight (and obviously structural "issues") this morning, should have seen all the damn news choppers like vultures

Spaz Monkey · « **Reply #18 on:** March 01, 2007, 11:07:13 pm »

Work in CA at a call center where we never have snow days. All the other offices this year have had flooding days and ice days and snow days. Why can't we ever close early?

FrizzleFried · « **Reply #19 on:** March 02, 2007, 01:32:25 am »

I got the snow today in Idaho that Chris had yesterday in Seattle. It didn't stick to the driveway or roads...too warm...but it piled up pretty good on the grass, roofs, and tops of cars. We just had a small flurry go through about 20 minutes ago...

...and it's supposed to be in the 60's on Monday.

shmokes · « **Reply #20 on:** March 02, 2007, 05:14:00 am »

Quote from: JONTHEBOMB on March 01, 2007, 06:06:12 pm

. . . Roads, schools, everything seems to be closing. By the end of this storm we may have as much as two feet.

Unlike the rest of the civilized world, Utah does not have snow days. Between Christmas and February I don't think there was ever a single day that there wasn't at least two feet of snow on the ground, and it all started with a single storm that dumped just shy of two feet in a four-hour period. We just don't close ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- down for snow. Period. Frizzle can probably relate, but it seems like Utah's worse. My wife's from Idaho and she says she had snow days periodically growing up.

ChadTower · « **Reply #21 on:** March 02, 2007, 09:24:14 am »

MA is like that too. They only cancel school if we've had a foot or more in the last 12 or so hours and the plows aren't keeping up. It happens once or twice a year and hasn't happened at all this year.

You should try QC... man, nuclear winter wouldn't have cancelled school up there.

In TX they shut down half the state for an inch of snow that doesn't even stick around.

Buddabing · « **Reply #22 on:** March 02, 2007, 09:32:54 am »

It's better than that, Chad, we had a snow day this year for -no- snow. They were worried that ice -might- build up.

It worked out well for me because the kids had to make up the day on President's Day when I had the day off.

FrizzleFried · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2007, 10:09:39 am »

Welp...actually...I can't relate. I am a California boy...born and raised...until last March. This is my first winter here in the snow. It's not so bad. Actually, here in the "Treasure Valley", the snow is more than manageable...hell, I only had to shovel the driveway once this year (which I hear is NOT normal).

shmokes · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2007, 01:28:55 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on March 02, 2007, 09:24:14 am

MA is like that too. They only cancel school if we've had a foot or more in the last 12 or so hours and the plows aren't keeping up. It happens once or twice a year and hasn't happened at all this year.

You should try QC... man, nuclear winter wouldn't have cancelled school up there.

In TX they shut down half the state for an inch of snow that doesn't even stick around.

What's funny is you understand, but you don't understand, man. Utah would never cancel for "only" a foot of snow. Like I say, we got almost two feet from a single storm in December that lasted less than six hours total. Nothing was canceled. It was so much that when I pulled into my parking lot (I was driving home from Christmas in Idaho) I just went in as fast as I could and drove as far as I could until the car wouldn't drive any more. I then had to push the door open past the snow because it was higher than the bottom of the car. Utah just doesn't have snow days, and we get a lot of snow. The motto on our license plates is "Greatest Snow On Earth".

It's hilarious. I see news stories about places like where Buddabing lives (Texas?) in a state-wide panic over an inch of snow and I just have to laugh. I mean, I know that we have plows and stuff in place to take care of it, but it just seems hilarious that a state could be crippled by that much snow (or just the threat of snow

)

Glaine · « **Reply #25 on:** March 03, 2007, 12:51:05 am »

Living in Texas, I feel it is alot to do with worrying about getting hit by all the folks who are still going 80 on the highways when it snows. We get it so rarely, no one knows how to drive on it without the occasional spin-out.

I had a teacher who explained it perfectly, something like: always drive on the day after a big snow storm if you can because then all the people that can't drive in it will have their cars in the shop. And from what I've seen it's true.

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #26 on:** March 03, 2007, 11:51:27 am »

We just got our biggest snow storm in 25 years.

I might have to take my kids Kitesnowboarding now...


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