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First snow of the year!

(http://www.f13.net/schild/snow.jpg)

Could only happen on a day when I have a ton of shit to mail out.

I think we got our first snow in late August... then again, I live at 7300 feet.

Do you usually get your first snow this late in the season?  When I lived in Phili we usually had snow around Thanksgiving.

Pfft, people in Michigan wear shorts in that kind of weather. If it doesn't come up past your ankles, it's not real snow.

Of course, in your neck of the woods, I imagine they've closed schools and there are massive traffic problems.

Bring the noise.
Cheers............

Yea, that's the general atitude here in Indiana.  As long as you've got power and its below waist level?  Go to class pansy!

I'm sure schools are closed. I'm quite sure stores are closed. I'm going to head over to brown to get some stuff shipped out - but there's a 99% chance they've already closed.

Maryland has the worst drivers in the world - outside of Paris.

I don't know about that. In Korea, lanes are a suggestion.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39875000/jpg/_39875390_korea_ap.jpg)

That much snow would paralyze Seattle. The numerous hills and bridges we have around here make driving on anything slippery dangerous.

Not to mention all the fucktards in their SUVs who think that 4WD somehow means "impervious to any change in road conditions". Warms my heart to see all the soccer moms in the ditch.

(http://www.gather.org/chaddock/france99/fr94026f.jpg)

This was the best picture I could find of the circle around the Arc de Triomphe. I wish I had my photos from my trip to France. Oh man, when there's traffic it looks a LOT like that Korea picture, but everyones going in a circle. It's fucked up.

It is tough to drive with a hunk of cheese in on hand and an unfiltered cigarette in the other, especially with a bottle of wine precariously balanced next to you as your mistress performs fellatio on you while you speak to your wife on your cell phone.

Did I hit enough stereotypes?

No.

You forgot the beret, and long piece of french bread. And the mime makeup. And the fact that the mistress has a goatee. And the wife has more body hair than Robin Williams.

Bring the noise.
Cheers............

(http://www.gather.org/chaddock/france99/fr94026f.jpg)



This isn't going to turn into one of those "When I was a kid, we walked to school in 3' of snow, uphill both ways" kinds of threads. Is it?

Edit: Yes I realize the picture is of France and not London... the pic just brought the voice into my head.

You guys have no idea what you're talking about until you drive in Lebanon.

We get snow in Denver, but it snows, dumps 6" then melts the next day.

You live in Baltimore right Schild?

Yep. 3 inches and more of snow here in PA today. Ironically enough, I somehow managed to get a cold last night as I slept. So here I sit. Off work and surrounded by snow. I also had a date tonight too, but thanks to this goddamn cold, I'm going to have to postpone. The snow, we PA drivers can handle driving in. We have hills, too. And I mean hills, not those pansy ass bumps in landscape that other states think are big.

I've been to Paris twice and I can attest that the circles can get pretty wild. Actually most traffic circles in Europe can be crazy. Ireland was pretty bad and I thought my life was over when I took a taxi ride in Italy.

I didn't think the traffic circles in Ireland were that bad...what pissed me off were the morons on motorcycles zipping between the two lanes of traffic on the highway.

We've had snow for a while here in Chicago.  It comes and goes, but we got dumped on pretty hard a week or two ago.  Since I don't drive all that much (CTA and taxis ftw), it's a bitch when you do need to drive, and your car takes 30 minutes to clean off.  The upside is that, by then, the inside of the car is very warm.

Best snow ever was when it would snow in Alabama.  Introducing the stupid-yet-cool-when-in-high-school sport of "skitching" to Tuscaloosa was great.  Also, it made me feel good to watch the stupid fratboys smack their SUVs into phone poles, etc.

San Diego drivers are hands down the worst in the world. They are so bad that other Californians are afraid to drive around down there.

Coming back from my grandfather's funeral there, I saw 4 major wrecks on the highway in a 5-mile stretch.

And more on topic, we got our first snow in November, yet it's in the 70's this week. That's what I get for moving to the Mojave desert.

Ratings of vehicle mortality rates per country (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mor_mot_or_non_acc_typ_of_veh_uns_cap)

Apparently your life ends in Belize if you decide to brave the roads there. S. Korea was a close third. France is not on the list at all.

Yeah, I know it was nerdy to look it up, but its still interesting.

I believe fully that Venezuela is #8. My mother's family is from Venezuela and Caracas is a nightmare. If the road seems to fit 5 vehicles, then it fits 5 vehicles, and if not, use the sidewalk, it's paved!

Bad Drivers != Accidents & Death

France is bad because cars seem to cap out at 20mph. Basically, it's a country full of lazy assholes with nowhere to go. Or at least that's how it seemed when we were driving through it.

The only thing you do get is an truckload of time to stare at the hottie in the car over, 'cuz you ain't getting to your destination any faster by driving.

So I went out in the snow and sent the packages that needed sending. Stopped by 7-11 and found these:

(http://www.f13.net/schild/skittles_smoothie.jpg)

I can heartily recommend them to anyone who enjoys fruit-like candy. It's smoothie-flavored if you can't read the text. Also, a warm thai burrito on a frigidly cold day is absolutely superb.

Edit: And those Skittles are so new that they aren't even on the official website yet. ^_^

Paris traffic makes me cringe.  I always tip Paris taxi drivers even though it's frowned upon during the day.   I am so grateful to them for letting me live.  They say France killed Princess Di... but we all know it was really the Queen.  

In a related story:  

I just bought two rather expensive towels.  They put the labels on the outside.  What is this world coming to... what with the crazy driving and carelessly labeled towels?  I am distraught.

This thread is like a bad mad-lib.

____0_____ ____1_____ the _______2_______ _____3______.

0. Name
1. Adjective
2. Number
3. Animal

Wait, no, I guess the above is more like Hangman than a Mad-Lib.

Needs more poodle.

I'm ordering Pizza and tipping low!  Hopefully I don't get shot (snow on the ground today, people careening out of control although it's still showing green, everyone working from home).

Asshole.

You guys are way too pampered.

You don't see me hiding at home even though it takes me 2 hours to drive to work when it normally takes me 20 minutes. (see: colorado snow storm recently). No! Someone has to take resposibility and make sure everyone can get their Maps and Directions. God forbid someone can't get directions on how to get to the pr0n shop for a day.

It really did take me 2 hours, boy was I pissed. Next time I'm calling in sick.

I alwasy thought Italy (Rome specifically) traffic was far worse then France's.

Of course it could be that I was on the most dangerous road in Italy. (You would litterally always see an accident somewhere on this stretch of road).

First, I don't like those ellipses. Second, there are only 2 options for snow: A metric fuckton or none. I don't want this half slush shitty snow we normally get. I want full on Northern Michigan style land-based glaciers. Last, I want pizza delivery places to stay open.

83 degrees in the O.C. today.

Went to lunch with my friend's convertable top down.

Lots of stuck up panty-waists driving around unawares of the imminent doom southern california will face when the earthquakes start.

In other news, the sky is blue and the OC is filled with the idle rich.

You'll get no arguments from me. I live here, so I know how right you are.

Still ... the sun is nice.

Convertible


Enjoy the sun. Just checked the weather and it looks like a metric fuckton is on its way for Saturday, schild. Hopefully it won't die out here in western PA. I'll cheer for it to make it to your neck of the woods.

I have brought eternal shame upon my myself, my ancestors, and my descendents.

Please keep me posted of further vowel inaccuracies.

As somebody who has watched a Mercedes CLR take off at 220MPH on the Mulsanne Straight, and who driven at walking speed through New York, I detect a certain note of cultural bias.

Mercedes CLR (http://lemans24h.free.fr/Download/clr1999.mpg)

POAD.

I hate when my friends in Southern California pull that warm and sunny while you are freezing your arse off crap on me.  It wasn't bad enough when my best friend told me about going to her family in LA and needing to take their suits so they could go swimming on Christmas Eve.  Or the other friend debating about getting some elaborate cover for his pool so that the kids could use it when it was raining.  Or the other friend talking about his hot tub.

Die all of you.

I'm up in Chicagoland like Slack is.  Not much snow this time around, but it apparently fucked up the trains on my line last night.  It's bad enough that the train portion of my commute is just over an hour on an express (grand total is 2 hours each way from door to desk), when you have a train down and people cram onto the one you're on, and dealing with all the crap needed for winter.. it's a PITA.  Plus it added over half an hour to my trip this morning.  I should have taken a local if I wanted to spend that much time on the train.  On the upside, the conductors can't get around when it's that crowded, so I got a free trip.  

At least it's in the 30s today and I dont' have to worry about my fingers falling off.

I'll see your driving with the top down and raise you a pleasant stroll.

79 degrees today.  I put the air conditioner on in my house yesterday.  I should have worn a short sleeve shirt to work.

Tucson doesn't deal well with weather.  Anytime it rains my commute is doubled because apparently water from the sky makes people retarded upon contact.  

I haven't seen actual snow on the ground in years. I'm actually afraid what the populace might do in that situation.

Heheh I saw schilds remark about wanting full northern michigan snow. Heheh I used to live up there land glaciers just about sums up when the lake effect snows hit. Having to repeatedly shovel off your roof is the suck but then again with 10 foot snow drifts its not like getting onto the roof is tough.


kaid

I have a bunch of pictures on my phone of beautiful skies for those rainy days. Here's one of them:

(http://www.f13.net/schild/sky01.jpg)

IIRC, southern CA (yes, I'm picking on the O.C. again) is always a clear boring sky. I only went there like 3 times a year for the last 20. Anyway. Yea, beat that, bitches. Though - you could probably BUY a very pretty sky.

'Tis but my humble lot in life to do so. I shall, good sir. I shall.

Night.

(http://www.f13.net/schild/sky02.jpg)

I'm a professional cell-phone photographer. Do not try this without proper supervision.

Ah the simple pleasures of being a mod.

It better not snow.  I have $200 worth of groceries coming tomorrow to avoid having to order nasty, greasy artery clogging pizza. (yes, I do my grocery shopping online.  It's much less dangerous)  

Nice pictures, by the way.  I love the sky.

Don't envy us here in SoCal. Those of you who don't live here may actually be able to afford to buy a house someday, with, like, grass next to it and everything.

Heheheh I got a job offer from scal once long ago that was offering twice what I was currently making in Green bay. The only problem was it would need to have offered about 3 times what I was making to live at the standards I was living in GB.

Also other than crappy winters and a couple tornados a year in the southern part of the state WI is not generally afflicted with rapid fire natural disasters year after year like Cali is.


kaid

We've had a little bit of snow here in Vancouver this month, and a whole shit load of rain. I however, just found out that I will be spending three weeks out of Feburary in Orlando on business.

A winner equals me.

(Note, I love my city and would never move - but its nice to get away from occasionally in the heart of winter)

I miss snow - watching it fall and to see everything blanketed.  Makes winter pretty, unlike the rain here - just cold, dreary, and ugly.

Oh, I thought all the totem poles up there were to measure how deep the snow was...

Yeah, I guess that's a point for anyone not living in SoCal.  I forgot about housing costs out there (which is one reason why my friend and her family live in Michigan now, even Chicagoland was getting too pricy for them).  Of course, I only hit that sort of disconnect hearing my brother in Southern Illinois talk about just getting the appraisal for his house back at $325000 for 3000+ sq. ft. and about 5 acres of land.  Hell, the land alone would probably cost more than that up here where I live.

Back on the topic of snow - it's going to flurry here all damn day, but the real stuff doesn't hit until Friday afternoon (yea for working at home on Fridays!) and isnt supposed to stop until Saturday sometime.  Good thing for me that husband gets pissy if I touch the snowblower, so that's something I can ignore until he gets home from work to do it.

Snow? Bah. After living in Maine for a few years, you get to know what snow is. Schools aren't closed until there is at least enough snow to lose a small child in. The snow plows owned by the counties are modified halftracks with bull dozers. You can snowboard on the hill that starts at  the roof of your house. Now that is snow! Man I wish it would snow like that down here...

Anyone want to trade their American winter for my Australian summer? I hate the heat. One day I'm going to be a professional surfer. But in reverse. Like I'll be chasing the winters and, yeah... I'll be quite now.

I live in denmark. I've been to Sydney.
Right now I hate you with the power of a thousand burning suns.
(something, btw, we won't be seeing much of in the next months... and snow? We had some when I was a kid, but now it's just wet wet wet)
Did I mention I hate you?

No thanks. I sleep much better in cold weather than warm. Two weeks ago, when it wouldn't stop raining, I slept like a hibernating bear. This week, I've barely been able to sleep at all, with this unnaturally hot and dry Santa Ana bullshit we've had.

The next logical question then being, "Then why do you live there?" Well, as I'm sure you've figured out if you've read any of my other 372 posts, I'm an idiot.

Yeah, I lived in Central Cal (1hr south of SanFran) for 8 years before moving to new jersey, and i guess i ca see how the drivers are bad...but jersey drivers are simply obscene, what with the most-densely-populated-state stuff going for (or do i mean against) us. I have to proactively avoid accidents all the time in good weather, so anything wet on the ground just makes things infinitely worse. also, driving a mustang GT doesn't help me much.

It should be legal to shoot bad drivers on sight....ya know, to keep them from breeding and all. Maybe if american drivers, in general, had some actual skill, we could all drive fast like the germans.

Snow = teh winz0r for skiing, but the uberlose for driving.

PS: it always amazes me when i go up to vermont to ski, their roads are Always impeccably clean, while jersey roads are a national embarassment.

Regarding South Korea:  On the plus side, they don't normally very much snow (at least in Seoul where I lived), despite it getting really fucking cold.

On the negative side, I've seen them drive buses down alleyways you'd swear were narrower than the bus itself.  And bicycles everywhere, with a huge stack of junk strapped to the back.  Not to mention 500 trillion 'kimchi cabs' that charge for distance traveled (not time) so every single freakin' one is in a hurry.

Ner ner ne ner ner :)

The one thing I don't like about Sydney's weather is our lack of decent winters.  Winter is supposed to be cold - closest we get is daily minimums of around 5C, when people run around wrapped up like they are in Siberia or something.

Americans use F. We don't understand C.

Besides, Celsius is a dumb system because there's not enough numbers. Fahrenheit gives you all kinds of numbers, all the way up to 100 and more!

37C doesn't impress me, but ONE HUNDRED DEGREES HOLY SHIT THAT'S HOT!

F your C.

If you like F, you'll really love K.

310.  Now that's hot.

I lived in Australia and now live in Massachusetts, USA.

I'll take the celsius. Fuck snow. Ow my back.

Urban Legend has it that supposedly, the whole F and C thing started that whole bit about most Americans believeing that Canada is just one bigass glacier where everyone lives in Igloos and Dogsleads to work.

Appearently, at one time, maps listed temperatures in F on the American landmasses on the map, and C on the Canadian side, so you would be tracking temperatures across the map and suddenly get a massive drop in temperature as soon as you crossed the border.

Its not true though, we drive Snow-mobiles now, slead dogs are too hard to maintain.

As for snow, dont tell me about snow till you spend time up in Sudbury or North bay :P

What is this "snow"?

The first thing I did when I arrived was go on a golftrip to somewhere near Newcastle. A friend (also Danish) and I insisted on a swim in september and the locals thought we were crazy.
Not because of sharks, crocs, box jellyfish, blue ringed octopi or the numerous other parts of Aussie wildlife that will bite and poison you - but because apparently 18C water is very very cold.
Fuckin' Aussie wuzzes ;-)

Yeah, I hear metric is crazy voodooo shit too.

This is my first winter in Ohio, and the snow is still a novelty.

Tomorrow we are supposed to get 3-5 inches, and I am excited about it.

Ask me again next winter though.

The metric system is only for Jesus-hating Nazi Darwinists.

Enjoy using centimeters to measure the STALAGMITES IN HELL!!!

Most of my customers are American, therefore I have a bookmark to a C to F converter since there is a mandated rule that every sales call involves small talk about the weather.

Right at the moment I kind of wish we had the snow back. We are in the middle of a tropical stream or some such thing - we've been getting 10C weather with nonstop rain for about the last week.  Mudslides killing people and such, its rather unpleasant.

That'd be ~50F for you laymen out there.

We call them scientists. The Satanic Interweb that you are using was among their achievements.

Funny thing you mention it.  I actually started writing a lengthy post about why the British system is stupid... but figured the effort pointless.

Water freezes at 0C, boils at 100C... yeah, that makes no sense at all.  A scale based on the properties of the most common solvent.  As for those that fear the metric system, please continue to go about your business of converting inches to feet, feet to yards, and feet/yards to miles while I simply move a decimal place.

Exactly my point!

Stop hating God and America ... or else.

To get back onto the topic of Snow(!), south Jersey/Delaware Valley area is supposed to get dumped on this weekend, just in time for the NFC Championship game...This should make my drive to work/school on monday tons o' fun.

And by fun, I mean something like a deathwish, a clear and present danger, etc etc.

RT 1?

Fortunately my commute is around 220 seconds long since we moved.

No, Mustang GT

Hey!  We  have a Mustang GT, too!  And we're getting the same 12-15 inches of snow you are!   What a horrible coinsidence for all of us.

Haha, nice.

You know it's fun (or do I mean bad?) when, just to get around a corner, I have to pull a very Outrun2-esque slide turn.

I'm sure NJ auto insurers are thrilled.

I wonder if we'll see more of those giant Snow Lord guys popping up... oh wait a minute... wrong game... we're talking Real Life here, eh?

The weather man finally settled on 7-8 inches for western PA. It's supposed to start around 5 am. Perhaps I'll wait up to see if they're right on time.

Im always on the line between the highest and next highest totals. All last year I got the lower totals...Im hoping the same this year...not that 12 inches as opposed to 15inches is much different.


'I still call Australia..

I still call Australia..

I still call Australia home....'

*weeps*

It's been snowing for at least 12 hours here, probably more.

I think (by looking out the window and guaging based on the shit on my neighbor's garage roof) we have about 8" on the ground, and from what weatherbug tells me, a ton more to come.

Hurrah for the lake effect.

Well, it's been snowing for about 7 hours here. It looks like it finally let up for a bit. About 4" on the ground so far. Supposedly more on the way though. It doesn't help that I've got cabin fever. Must. Get. Out.

Yesterday it snowed.
It was gone before it hit the ground. But everything was really soggy and everyone was cold and miserable. Today I caught a glimpse of the sun.

We have at least 5-6 inches of snow on the ground. My car is 5-6 inches off the ground. I have no food in the house.

Weather likes this makes baby jesus laugh at us jews.

Funny that. I have a friend who is converting to Judaism. And how exactly does your car get that far off the ground? Did you actually try to drive somewhere? Sucks about the food. I'm going to make some soup, myself. ;)

I meant the space between my car and the ground. I drive an RSX Type-S. It rides low.

Well now, any chance of me going anywhere for the next few days is officially fucked. I just hope my school cancels classes, or else i'll be fucked if I miss days this upcoming week, plus 2 days from all my classes when I take my week off in Vermont, heh.

Speaking of which, I hope Vermont is getting raped. Closed trails = teh ghey

I believe we are, in meterological terms, getting pwned out here in Chicago.

It took me almost 30 minutes to drive the 6 blocks from my house to my girlfriend's house to pick her up, and then back.  We stopped in at a 7-11 for supplies (beer) and the car had to be cleaned off again when we came out.

People are guarding their parking spaces with chairs, etc.  I've seen one fistfight over someone moving space savers already.

Bunch of savages in this town.

For those of you with cabin fever could just be like me and my roommate. Wake up before 8(the horror!), take the PATH into NYC, go to an event, stay at the event when they announce that it is "really snowing now", walk out the door at 5 and into 4-6inches(plowed-unplowed) of snow. And then walk 3 blocks to the next station stop. Then walk back across a campus with 6 inches of snow, thats still piling up as we speak. An easy fix to cabin fever ain't it? :P

Heh. No. ;)

I went outside and shoveled the driveway snow. Even went so far as to shovel a couple neighbors driveways just so I could be outside. The temperature was a balmy 30 degrees today so I had to enjoy it before it drops back down to 9 tonight and we get ridiculous wind chills. I didn't get to go anywhere exciting today, although it appears as though the roads were clear enough by mid-afternoon. It's probably better as I'm secure in my driving skills - it's the other people on the road that scare me (read: soccer moms in SUVs).

Right now, there's about 8 inches of snow on the ground outside my house, it's 0 degrees, and the wind-chill is -20F, which is about 20-20 mph wind.  I live on top of a hill out in the country.  My closest neighbor is a guy with a beard living in an old camper-like object (I won't dignify it by calling it an actual camper), who is no doubt burning shitloads of his pine trees tonight in several venerable and ancient woodstoves, because he doesn't have electricity or, in fact, any money.

My wife's cousin and her husband and 4 kids who recently bought an old farmhouse down the road a piece from us, and chose this very day to start moving into it.  They drove about 20 miles from their current home this afternoon, in blizzard-like conditions.  The house has heat, but only on the first floor, and no insulation in the roof.

People are fucking crazy here.

Buy something a little higher off the ground then:

(http://www.nctd.com/98/98ram.jpg)

I can't recommend the red ones, though.  Cop magnets.  They never give me a ticket, they just pull me over to hassle me :P

This (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/01/07/notes010705.DTL)  made me smile.

Supposed to get up to 30 inches tonight... whee.

They estimate we just got 15 or so inches dumped on us and it could reach up to 30. HURRAY! And I drive a freaking neon.

Edit: News  says over 200 accidents by mid afternoon today (http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20050122-003/page.asp) but I'm sure it's not the worst of it.[/url]

heh, I only personally know one person who drives an SUV, and he actually uses it  for what it's meant for - holding his crapload of music gear, surfboard , or snowboard gear. Other than him, I don't know of anyone who owns an SUV who Shouldn't be shot in the foot for their stupidity.

I find SUVs pretty pointless--everything I haul around is either way too big to fit inside an SUV's cargo area, or would destroy the interior.

Pretty much anything else that's not part of those two categories would ride just as easily inside (or on top of) a van or station wagon.

Both of which are pretty useless in deep sand/snow.

Plus, interior storage is infinetly more desirable than rooftop.

16" down...another 4-8 to go.

So I figured I'd chance a trip down to the Dunkin Donuts for the paper and coffee now, as it's not even supposed to let up [not stop mind you, let up. It's expected to snow here into Monday at least.] until about 6. After forcing, forcing, my front door open I push my way down the steps only to find the snow had piled up the level of my shoulders. I am about 6'2, and the snow was up to my shoulders. And it is expected to continue to fall at this present pace for another 9 hours.

So yeah, I think they were downright fucking restrained in their snowfall estimate.

Wow. What kind of fallout does that amount of snow have on your gardens, cars, rivers, etc. when it melts?

When you have that much snow, it melts over a long time, but it can cause some flooding.

They say 15 inches fell in Trenton. We're not too far north of there in the Princeton area, but it looks like around 18 inches. The drifts are pretty deep in places, over three feet up to the back window. There are no signs that the apartment complex management are going to do anything soon.

I flat out can not go out my backdoor. I mean maybe with 2 people pushing could I even get the thing open. I am not snowed in in the conventional "it's cold and I don't want to go out" sense. I am snowed in in the "the snow has prevented me from leaving the building short of jumping off my 3rd floor balcony, which in 3 hours will be ground level to the snow" sense.

This snow, when it finally stops snowing sometime Monday maybe, could very easily take weeks to get rid of. You don't get a lot of massive problems with the melting because it takes such a long time to go or doesn't have a chance to build up at all. It's why you can have light snow falls that last for hours but don't even cover the street. If it's slow enough, the natural heat of a city just melts it away before it has a chance. When it gets cold enough and falls fast for a long time though? It sticks around.

Thanks to the internet I hear a lot of people saying things like "Yeah, it was pretty bad but not as bad as they said" in pretty much a 360 geographical circle around me. Which leads me to believe the snow got bored and decided to blow all it's load in the greater Boston area.

And yet I still can not think of living in an area where winter doesn't mean old people dying because it takes an hour for a 911 call to dispatch someone to them.

That does indeed sound impressive.



That happens in Nigeria all year round, and they don't get snow.

Nature is more deadly than most amounts of AKs.

For instance, there is one exception to the melting issue. Generally it melts slowly enough not to cause major problems for a city, but coastal areas?

Get floods and structural damage. The National Guard has already been put on call in case it needs to get people to safety.

Boog, I'm on the south shore, we supposedly got buried more than Boston and the street plow snow was barely that high... you musta hit the drift jackpot.

I had to climb out a window to get to shoveling, but you still win.

Where you at Boogs? Im in Chelmsford and got a little under 30 inches, but with the drifts they were like 4 feet high (good for jumping in with 4 year old son). Salem got 38!!!! inches. Damn I love New England..:P~

I'm in Everett, and I don't know what the fuck we got, I just know that at best the snow on the street was piled as high as my waist and in the worst parts forward movement involved using arms AND legs. Salem hit like -35 for a bit there with windchill. That's like the shit that makes polar bears move south.

I know a few other people that were just flat out snowed into their homes. It's good stuff.

Now thats snow....

W00T for nice, thick skiing bases.

It's snowing again right now... and there's no place to ski in Princeton, New Jersey.  :(

Im making up for all those years missed on making snow forts as a child this week. Theres a kickarse one in my backyard right now. 5 foot high walls, doubleback entrance, secret tunnel entrance.

ok ok so im enjoying this more than my kid..:P~~