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My flight to Denver is cancelled tomorrow morning.

God hates me.

Yah, DIA is closed until Friday at noon.

See:

(http://gallery.7mph.com/albums/userpics/10002/snowed-in.jpg)

Here's another one:

(http://gallery.7mph.com/albums/userpics/10002/snowed-in2.jpg)

The wind did some interesting curved snow patterns on our roof.

No snow here... just freezing rain.

No snow on the ground here in NY. Kinda bums me out, I like snow.  :cry:

It's drizzling lightly here in SF. If it snows here at all this winter, I will be pleasantly surprised.

I love snow, until I have to shovel it or drive in it.

I want snow.  I don't think I've seen any since college.

Hmmm, this is promising for my trip to Vail.

Kinda weird that Denver got hammered and SLC was completely missed. That doesn't happen very often.

But we're getting some tonight/tomorrow.  w00t!  It's been beautiful all week up here in Snowbird and what locals call marginal conditions (4-6 feet packed powder) is like heaven for our So Cal ski legs.

Dnever shut down for that?

Bah, that's just about any snowfall here in Northern Ohio. What's even worse is when they plow down the street and pile it up against your car.

Now that I think about it this might be the storm that dropped a foot in the valley here on Sunday. Guess it just ramped itself up as it got over the rockies. Have fun while in town.

Bullshit.  I live in Michigan (Y'know, your northern neighbor) and having lived in Colorado I can tell you that we don't get nearly the amount of snow they do.  Of course, our snow sticks around, whereas it tends to melt fairly quickly there.  The Rockies do fucked up things to weather, particularly the winds.  You haven't felt wind 'til a strong Chinook kicks up.

Your pussy needs a Santa hat.

It hasn't snowed at or around sea level in the Bay Area since like 1977 (and we still had to go to school dangit!). It will snow up on the various higher hills though.

Bullshit on your bullshit. learn2meteorology. Lake-Effect Snow climatology gives Northeast Ohio, that little nub on Pennsylvania, and upper New York way, way more snow than anyplace in Michigan. Michigan winters are nothing. The one part of Michigan that even gets what I'd deign to call snow - the upper peninsula, gets less than half the average snowfall of Northeast Ohio. And frankly, Denver winters are pretty mild too. Aside from all that, I can see how much snow is on the ground there in those pictures. Oh no, the fluffy, powdery snow is up to the bottom of the car! We've already had snow like that here this year, and it's been above 50 all but one week. The week we got like 14" of snow. Normal winters we get at least two or three snowstorms like that one.

If Ohio is like that then I don't want to ever live there. I'll take my sunny but cold Colorado winters, with the occasional snow and even more occasional snow storm.

But, you have to admit, 2 feet of snow in 12 hours is pretty good. :)

Oh, it's two feet? Okay, I'll admit that's a lot. It looked like about a foot in the pictures.

Yah, hard to tell from the pictures. According to 9 News' website (http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=a0ed1359-0abe-421a-01d9-b678c1e54500&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf) we got 28 inches here in Wheat Ridge (where the pictures were taken). My house in Westminster got slammed with 34 inches. Crazy.

Edit: of course, we normally don't get more than 1-2 feet of snow *total* down here in Denver (foothills gets a bit more) for a winter. Apparently a snow storm like this happens twice a decade or so.

We average 100-110" of snow over a winter. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Regardless, 34" is way too much snow at once.

I do miss the Cleveland winters sometimes.  Real snowfall instead of this bullshit rain all the time.  /sigh. 



It's just the lake-effect areas that a.bob pointed out that get like that.  An average snowfall was about 2"-3"  IIRC, and it'd snow like that once every week or two.  The 'bad storms' were the 2' or more ones, and you'd have to drive carefully (Y'know.. like 45 on the highway)  if they predicted a foot.  Oh fond memories.

I'm in Columbus, out of the lake effect, and we ain't had shit all winter.  Maybe flurries on Tuesday, I hear.

Keep in mind that while Ohio gets a lot of snow, they don't have to drive on mountain passes.  I live in the front range of the Rockies and this snowfall closed every road in a 150 mile radius including I80, I70, and I25.  Lots of snow + 25mph winds + mountain passes = bad.

I love snow.  Doesn't look like we're getting any this year tho.

:(

I wanted to take Elena out in it.

We get lake effect from Ontario here, but nothing like when I lived on the tughill plateau. That was EXTREME winter. Of course, I didn't have a snowmobile, a snowblower or 4WD, so it kinda sucked. But I would definitely live there if I had those three things, I love snow.

That was my point in the Festivus thread. We here in Denver simply aren't prepared to deal with 30 inches of snow in a 24 hour period, in contradiction to popular mythology. We have wimpy winters in comparison with the Great Lakes Region.

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Having grown up in Mpls, I agree completely.  The town I live in now (about 120 miles from Denver) only plows like 3 streets and lets the sun melt the rest.  In Minnesota, they had a much better system for handling the snow and even during the worst storms, we often could be back and functioning in 12h.   

I'll say that from what I have seen, Vermont is Excellent in their ability to deal with sudden dumpings of snow.

But anyway....yeah, people in NJ get positively retarded when there is snow around. They just don't get that you need to drive more slowly, because you can hardly stop for shit.


Also, be kind if you see a Mustang in front of you going somewhat slowly - they're not purposely driving slowly like an idiot or something - they're just trying to keep their damn traction. It's beyond easy to spin the tires in even a light rain, so you can imagine what snow and slush do to those kinds of cars....

You want fun / scary? Try driving an RX-8 in the snow. Not only are they rear wheel drive, but they weigh 12 pounds. It is an exercise in a perpetually controlled fishtail.

My VW GTI is doing surprisingly well in all this snow.  Now I have to hope I make it to Denver airport in one piece on Sunday.

RX-8s have better weight balance, almost 50/50 F/R.

Yeah, it must still suck though.  :-D

Ok, I take it back.  I can give up snow.  Last night, I turned on the AC in my house.  Last NIGHT.  It's still on.  Is it too much to ask for long sleeve weather?

Definitely. And you notice the first time you take a sharp corner at a significantly higher speed than you think you should. CO 6 is a perfect place to do that.  :-D

We haven't had any real lasting snow up here in Canadia (Toronto at least). Which is a shame. I really wanted the pond near my house to freeze over before I moved. This makes me sad :(

That's bad, though, for snow. The GTI is front wheel heavy because it's front wheel drive and the engine is over and in front of the front axle which is good for traction. The RX-8 is rear wheel drive and the engine is set back behind the front axle (technically it's a mid-engine car) to get that 50/50 balance, which is great for handling in the dry but bad for traction in slippery conditions.

Well, at least you don't have a Front-Engine RWD Mustang. Spin those tires, Wheeee.

Yes, driving a Mustang in the snow was great fun. Experiencing the non-traction that occurs while trying to go up hill on icy roads was one of the primary reasons I have a 4x4 truck now. My wife's Subaru Outback does awesome in the snow too.

A manual transmission makes that slightly easier. Slightly.

So am I the only GTI owner here that immediately turns off the "traction control" -- aka the "stop making my car suck" button  -- whenever there's inclement weather? I wish to god there was a way to have it turned off all the time. I don't need a lovely triangle to know that I'm slipping or oversteering, and I do not want you to compensate, I know what I'm doing, thanks. I'll keep the anti-lock breaks, those are lovely. Everything else must go.

Had a 73 Sebring Satellite for about a year, took it off the road and put my trusty old 66 Ford Falcon wagon back on. The Sebring sucked wind in the winter. Also, I flew off an off-ramp into a field when hotrodding with my guitarist + groupies and decided big engine cars just weren't for me. The thing was a total monster though, fun to drive.

(http://www.angelfire.com/80s/dukesofhazzard/sat4.jpg)

Now I drive a shitty pickup that is the worst thing I've ever driven in the snow, except maybe the aforementioned Sebring. I like a little front-wheel drive jobbie or a 4WD like my old Cherokee. Last time the truck was in the shop I decided I was going to test drive a Toyota FJ Trooper if the repair bill was too high. It wasn't but the FJ is a cool looking little truck imo, once you properly upgrade it with rock plates and whatnot.

Our Mustang isn't great in the snow but that big lardy arsed thingy above me must have been all over the place.  Having said that, old cars like that are good fun to have.  There's no doubt in your mind that there's a big old engine in there and not a bunch of mice running on treadmills.  I don't like our Mustang.  They're just not my sort of car.  We'll probably never buy another car like it, thank God.  This was our first automatic car and I know for sure that Righ will never buy another.  He really dislikes them.

I can send you a box full if it'll make you feel better. We're expecting another footish Thursday night...

Favorite feature in my RX - the 'You are slipping!" idiot light on the dashboard. As I said, driving in conditions like this is a perpetual fishtail. You just sort of keep a general vector of 'thataway' and stay on top of things. To have the idiot light go off under those conditions is rather.... useless? Silly? 'whatthefuckwere theythinking'?  *shrug* Luckily it doesn't come with 'traction control' to try to 'help'. Just the DANGER! light. Now if there were a klaxon or a 'Danger Will Robinson' voice over, that might at least be amusing.

More snow in the Rockies? I might have to move my ski trip out thataway.  :evil:

Sure! Just don't spend all of your cash in Vail or some goddamned place like that. We need your tax dollars for another freaking snow plow or two.

It amazes me that people can spend their entire lives driving in winter conditions and not learn the difference between good slide and bad slide. I love breaking the ass end and sliding around corners, doing the old 45º slide down a side street, etc, but it always freaks passengers out. I'll add that I'm extremely cautious when doing the fun stuff, never when there are other vehicles around (unless it's needed for safe maneuvering), and that I have years of practice driving like that. At least until I got this crappy truck...

I hate that anti-skid crud. My BMW has it. Instead of breaking like its meant to, its makes sure you break without skidding, but letting your wheels continue to roll when I want them stopped dead, and to hell if it skids.

 2 months ago I managed to 'not skid' right into non-yeilding car. My car is still in the body shop.

Did you pull that e-brake?

In the GTI, if you don't turn "traction control" off, it thoughtfully cuts power to the drivetrain when the wheels start to slip. In an effort to regain control, you know, assuming you're someone who instantly floors the gas when your wheels slip a little. It's seriously annoying.

That's because that along with reducing the amount your wheels are turned is the standard procedure for correcting a slide caused by understeer and since the car can't steer for you (in non-parking conditions, yet) it does the only thing it can -- reduce the power, and sometimes activate the ABS depending on the situation.

As well-meaning as the engineers that designed it are, and can probably cite accident reports showing the utility of anti skid 'traction control' statistically and what have you, I am positive that I'd have faired better with my old '82 911 and its responsive breaks.

Sometimes you need to power into a slide. I'd sue a car manufacturer who built in a feature like that, if I got in a wreck. But really, I won't buy a car like that. Unfortunately, it looks like the trend in autos is to help shitty drivers. Having never been in an accident, despite heavy winter driving for much of my life, I really despise the trend (probably safe to say I despise most trends...). I mean...a car that parallel parks itself? Now shitty drivers will get parking spots normally reserved for good drivers.

You need an obscene amount of space to use the auto-parallel park feature.

Just like ABS is now pretty much a standard feature on passenger cars at some point in the future traction control systems will be as well since they are just a more sophisticated form of ABS (able to brake wheels independently) plus a throttle management controller.

Made it back from Colorado still alive, although I threw out my back shovling snow premtively during the second wave of the Thursday storm.

How many fucking f13's live in CO?

*raises his hand*

In case any of you were wondering, those two storms? More snow in Denver than all of LAST GODDAMNED YEAR.

Oh. Yeah. It's supposed to snow tomorrow.

Goddamned global warming dumping Greenland on my ass. QUIT IT.

I live 23 miles north of the CO border.  Do I count? 

I've seen one day of snow here so far this winter in SE Michigan and it melted as soon as it hit the ground. No snow predicted in the next 10 days either.

I wish it would snow in NY already. We've had a half dozen stabbings already in the new year. With warm weather, people hang out, get drunk, and stab each other, apparently. One right by where I work, another by where I live. I love this place...

It's way too warm.  We will have no honey bees and bajillion more mosquitoes this summer.  LAME!

Bumping this to curse the wretched snow that has been infesting Western Washington for a week now. My poor non-4WD car has been out of the garage ONCE since Wednesday due to icy roads. And it is fucking snowing again as I speak. It is supposed to warm and turn to rain eventually, but the weather douchebags aren't overly accurate.

I can't wait to see my gas bill for this month. Trying to keep my barn of a house at 65 degrees when it is in the teens outside is like setting benjamins on fire.

Old Man Winter can tongue my starfish.

Lovely. So we're moving from Denver to Seattle to be greeted by... more snow.

One thing's for certain, the bit between Cheyenne an Ogden should be entertaining.

That's it. I'm rolling my 401(k)  into a villa in Costa Rica.

Okay, is everyone in Portland this retarded (http://beloint.wmod.llnwd.net/a125/o1/www.king5.com/kiraw_011607portlandhomevid.wmv)?

Look dear, the ground is covered with a layer of ice.  I bet driving will be just fine... I have 4WD. 

The gene for common sense must have been bred out of humans.

Very possibly! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics)

I have decided that if it is frozen over AGAIN tomorrow morning I am barrelling down my hill at 100 MPH. I will stop when I get to work or when I die a fiery yet icy death.

I'm very glad the Bay Area doesn't get ice.  I can't even fathom having ice like that on the SF hills.  You'd pull out of your driveway on Nob Hill and end up hitting the bay at 60 MPH sideways.

It snowed here today. 4" is a lot for Portland. I already talked about it in Useless Conversation.

I love this weather. I don't think I ever grew out of my love for cold as a kid. I used to pretend it was Hoth. Power of positive thinking, maybe.

I do know I prefer cold to mosquitos, blackflies, and random jackasses hanging out on the corner knifing people. People move with a purpose. Good times.

This is why I do not drive during the rare instances we have ice here.  If people in climates that should be used to dealing with cold weather are complete morons, imagine those in areas that have ice once a decade.

Stupid Maryland ice storm making the trains all crazy.

Leave Without Pay Makes Andy a Sad Boy. 

Leave with pay makes me a happy boy. Supposed to get 1-2 feet today with more lake effect on the way from the air sucked in behind this system). It's already past my knees (not snowbanks, the actual cover level). I just bought skis last week, woohoo!

My gripe is that it messed up my valentine's plans, but adaptation should be cozy and fun anyway...and that almost everything I ordered for my new pc (and games) is on the UPS truck today...

I'm so bored now.

Being home with nothing to do is pretty entertaining, though. There is a definite good neighbor/bad neighbor split around here.

The good neighbors (self-inclusive!) have been out since just after dawn, shovelling and snowblowing out walks and driveways, laughing about the weather. We help each other out, shovel for the older folks. The bad neighbors would probably call the cops on us for trespassing if we tried to shovel their walk. Seriously.

The bad neighbors started creeping out of their dens around noon, profanities flying. One guy across the way (who was evicted) had his kid shovelling so he could back his minivan up to the door, while he swore at him the whole time. Now he's inside while the kid is breaking up bits of drywall, I guess they're destroying the interior of the house to spite someone.

The annoying bastards next door tried to back their car out of the driveway without shovelling first. Got stuck at the end. She then rousted two more of the indigenous mouthbreathers, her sister and she shovelled half-ass (around the door, not the car for whatever reason). Swearing the entire time (in front of kids). Then some other dude pops out onto the porch and starts cussing about how he called his workplace (!) and said he couldn't make it. Well, he's going to get fired. The boss told him to call a tow truck to get him out of the driveway. He called the boss a 'know-it-all asshole motherfucker with shit for brains' and then explained how he would get arrested if he rode his snowmobile down the middle of the road (?). He then hung up and watched the two women shovel. One woman had gloves on, the other was shovelling in her pajamas and a hoody with no gloves. The guy's like a bizarro Prince Charming.

So...keeps me entertained, but I'm still bored enough to make this post.

(http://www.geocities.com/mightyquarfoth/burbs.jpg)

So what exactly is your GPS location? I'm certain we can get the forthcoming airstrike to mostly miss you...

People in southern NJ is freaking out about the snow. Whatever. I drive a fucking Mustang, and I can make it to and from work without much trouble.

It's not my car I am worried about - it's the fucking idiots I have to share the road with, who are somehow too fucking busy to slow down, just because there's snow and ice all over the roads.

Ha. You want Armageddon day? Drop a couple of snowflakes in Tucson or Phoenix. It's like winning the World Series, The Martians Invading and some bum with bad BO all rolled into one city wide pile of stupid. And then all the damn grey hairs try to go for a joyride out in it. I swear they call out the National Guard to help refugees to deal with post - traumatic snow exposure stress disorder.

So I dig my car out of the snow in order to go to the grocery store and get a few fixins for the ultimate Valentine's Day feast for me and the Mrs.  During this 30 minute process (hey, I don't drive that much, I have a bike), several cars pass by.  One in particular catches my eye.  Why?  Because it passed me three times.  When I get back from the store, that same car is parked in the spot that I carefully excavated.  Our mayor has stated his support for the "leave an object in the space and it's like you have golden chair" theory.  Personally, I'd rather not risk my nice camp chairs for that kind of shit.  I rely on the "if you see a dude digging his car out, don't park in teh spot like an utter cockmonger" theory. 

So I am now wondering, do I spell out "fuck you" on the windshield in chocolate sauce, pour water on/into the door locks, deflate all the tires, or jsut ignore it and drink more beer?

I normally live by a strict "don't fuck with another person's car" standard, but this asshole SAW ME DIGGING and stole the spot anyway.

Bury some turds under a light layer of snow on the driver's side. :evil:

I generally try to avoid getting into pissing matches with total strangers.

Here in Chicago there is no reserving parking spaces, but Streets and San forgets that rule for a few days after a big snow, then they make an announcement about cleaning trash out of the street to let folks know it's back to business as usual.

Now, we just had about 10", which is an event, but a common one.  But it's time for the Mayoral election.  Now if you know Chicago politics, you know about the storm of 79, where the city was paralyzed for days, and crippled for months, with the result that Bilandic and the last of the Machine got tossed out, and Jane Byrne got elected.  So now Richie Daly is running for the fortieth time, and his only opposition is a couple of local reformers who have pretty much no chance, and war chest even smaller than that.   Meanwhile Daly has millions in campaign money, but he is taking no chances.  So the city has hit this snow like a holy crusade.  Not only are the trucks out overtime, but there are hundreds of city workers out shoveling intersections and bus stops.  And not little piddly crews, either.  The news had video tonight, and in one shot there were like 12 guys with shovels surrounding this one little snow pile, and going at it like there was gold buried underneath.  Had to laugh at that.

In all honesty, if I was having a bad day, i would run a garden hose out to under his hood, and that fucker would have a block of ice filling up his entire engine block the next morning.

We got almost no snow in Central Jersey, all freezing rain really on top of about an inch of snow.  It wouldn't be too bad if I didn't live at the bottom of a valley along the Raritan with a road at about a 10% slope out to Rt. 1.  I know its time to call out of work when I walk the dog in the morning and there is a pileup at the bottom of the hill from people stalling out about halfway up.

Just finished 4 nights in a row of charge nurse duty in the emergency department.  We ended up with about a foot of snow and about 6 inches of ice, and when I was coming in to work at 630 pm in near white out conditions, thinking damn I hope most of my crew makes it in, and hoping that people would stay the fuck home instead of coming in with a tooth ache they have had for fucking 2 months.  Of course I was proved wrong...luckily all my staff made it safe and sound to work, unfortunately we were the only unit that had all the staff that was scheduled, so we ended up taking patients and keeping them in the ER instead of sending them upstairs, so we filled up the ER, and then moved them to hallways, and people were still coming in...hell, they declared a state of emergency from 0000 to 0800 and said stay the fuck home, but people are coming in with all kinds of stupid shit.  But then again if there wasn't stupid people I wouldn't have a job.

So anyway, ended up with the small staff we had, juggling the admitted patients and all the crap they have to have done when admitted (which I don't fucking do...I'm from the EMS side then went nursing, so I've never worked the floor), plus trying to keep all the new patients checked in, worked up, treated, and released or admitted to wherever they can go...plus since they think ER doesn't need relief, so we end up working threw the night without breaks or lunch...well after 13 hours we were pretty freaking beat.  And it just wasn't us, the police, ambulance, fire dept, and highway dept were working all threw the night, but sometimes even after we think we have seen it all, something else comes along and tops it all.  I love working in emergency medicine, but it seems 95% of the time I'm just running a 24 hour doctors office and only get to shine for 5% of the time when a true emergency rolls in...

At least I have three days off and get to take my 11 year old snowboarding this weekend and get to drink some beer eventually :D

Our car is warm and comfy in the garage and will stay there until the roads are nice and dry.  I also get to watch the grocery delivery man slide back and forth from his truck to our door on the ice on top of the snow no one has shoveled away.  If it snows some more today, I might order pizza delivered tonight.   :lol:  Sometimes even the icky bits of life have rewards.

Just one of the many reasons why I love the South, although this 68 and sunny on Tuesday and 30 and dreary on Thursday is getting a bit fooking old.

See, I also live in Chicago (and not that far from you if I recall correctly from when I filled out Raph's reader map thinger a year or so ago), and I believe what you're saying, but apparently Richie boy doesn't agree. 


Source (http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Columns/Mcchesneysnow.html) 

It's not the best source, but the best I could do with a few minutes of Google-fu.  I normally don't care about people taking my spot, even if I have spent time digging my car out.  This guy literally circled the block until he could get my spot.  I ended up just thinking really mean thoughts about him while working late and drinking beer.  But man did I give him a stern thinking at!


Even more "getting old" is the way you guys flip out when there's supposed to be a bit of ice or snow falling.  You'd think it was armageddon.  I realize that there's no real point for a city like Birmingham to stockpile salt for years and years just in case it happens to ice over one day in January, but there's really no need to empty out the shelves at Food World or Bruno's because the roads may be a bit slippery for a day or two.  Society will not become like the Road Warrior On Ice overnight. The Canuckistanian hordes will not skate down from the frozen northern wastes and bugger your women with hockey sticks. 

The only upshot to the Southern ice freakout is that I made a ton of cash ferrying people around the one year it snowed during college and Tuscaloosa was shut down for three days.  An ice storm protip:  beer and cigarettes probably won't increase your survival rate in zomg arctic conditions. 

I'm from the South, and I love snow. I just hate the cold, or I'd be envious of some of you northern Nanook motherfuckers.

I love the cold. I have a slight genetic predisposition (viking blood), and a lot of environmental predisposition. Throw in a dash of preparedness (wear the proper clothes, wicking unders and wool overs ftw) and cold is no big deal. I wish I had Inuit blood mixed in, those guys are amazing in the cold.

I would rather live in a blizzard for 365 days a year than the South  :evil: :evil: :evil:

People can't drive here when it rains, you really think they can deal with snow? 

Hell, people can't drive ANYWHERE, but that's beside the point....

We don't prepare for snow/ice because it rarely happens.

The last time it really really snowed was about '93 or so, when that freakish snowstorm swept through the South in freaking April.  I think it dumped about 3-4 feet at my parents house, and everything was shutdown for a couple weeks because the utilities couldnt handle it - they just aren't designed for that sort of thing.

Yeah, the first time a weatherman says 'We're expecting some snow flurries, possibly some freezing rain, so be prepared', the doomsday people buy up all the $3000 generators, snow shovels, and empty out the nonperishables at the grocery store.  It's pretty comical.


I'd rather you live in a blizzard as well :D

 :-D http://breckenridge.snow.com/mtn.conditions.asp :-D

Vacation minus 22 hours and counting.

Fuck yeah.

You know, folks think the South is warm and shit, that they have moderate winters because our temperatures rarely dip below freezing. But that's not the case. It gets FUCKING COLD here, cold enough to break pieces off of me. And it isn't because of the temperature, oh no. It's the fucking humidity. I'm telling you, a 10 mph wind blowing at 70% humidity when the temperature is 36F is fucking brutal as any 5 degree weather with zero humidity. And we get the added bonus of slingshot temps that hit 30 one day and 70 the next, driving everyone's sinuses to shit.

Sometimes I wonder why the fuck I still live here. But then, I'm sure most you wonder that as well.

I'll take humid cold over dry cold though.  I prefer NOT being zapped all to shit whenever I touch anything.

Gotta admit cold + dry + kitty = funny. The crazy static fur, and every time they try to get some lovin' from you, they get electroshock! Poor kitties.  :hello_kitty:

Yeah, but I get shocked too.  And that's nowhere near as funny to me. 

Shit, even with the humid cold, I still get shocked by my big dog when petting her.

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I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT SNOW.

IT IS APPROXIMATELY 70 DEGREES WHERE I LIVE RIGHT NOW.

THIS THREAD EXLUDES ME.

AND YET, I FEEL VICTORIOUS.

CAPSLOCK MAKES THINGS FUNNY.

After spending a weekend in Chicago... uh Jan 27 I think... I agree.  In my case, though, it's because I dried out like a beached jellyfish.  Ten percent humidity just isn't right, especially if it's 8 degrees.  I spent lots of time in the shower.

About that guy who took your spot, I am very partial to water in the keyholes.  Subtle, but makes your point.

Fuck it was 21F when I woke up this morning. And no fucking snow. That just ain't right.

I fell asleep working on stuff last night, woke up at about 5AM and the early morning news was on.  I believe that the weatherman said it was -20 outside with the windchill.  I went back to bed.

ETA -- We have plenty of snow.  It does not make the arctic cold any better.

Still going, lake effect piling on top of the 26" we got yesterday. Got at least 6 more inches last night and still falling. Woohoo!

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Dang man, that reminds me of when I ran a motel in Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis.  I spent the winter watching this sad little evergreen get progressively buried until it was just a tiny sprig of branch poking out of a massive snowbank.  That was when I decided it was high time to get teh hell out of Minnesota. The fact that running the motel sucked ass helped that decision along as well.

While it was snowing the other day, there were kids all over the place, sledding.  We live on a big hill, on a golf course, and it really did look like good fun.  It's been so cold, though, that since then everything has frozen solid.  The amount of kids around has lessened to a large degree but, now and then, some still wander up to sled down the hills.  Then they disappear.  I have a feeling they've all been impaled by huge chunks of ice and are piled up at the bottom of the hill, where I can't see anymore.  I haven't seen any kids today even though schools are closed for the most part.  Maybe this area has run out. 

Hmmm.  How are your stocks of men to sit behind vodka bottles?  Also: do you pay well?

It's just a townhouse and I think it might be a crappy golf course.  I don't know.  We don't play.  I just needed some place big because Righ works from home and I need to be able to find places to stomp my feet and not disturb him too much.  I enjoy stomping around the house and making random loud noises.

So you live like you post?  :evil:

You've known me longer than just about anyone around here, Haemish.  When have I never been like that?   I think everyone should give stomping around a try.  It's a fun exercise and helps relieve stress.  I wouldn't suggest doing it barefoot in Australia, though.

Good point. It's why your posts are so entertaining. Well, that and the drugs. Or lack of them.

We're supposed to get at least 12 inches in the next 12-18 hours and possible 2 feet in some parts of the state (Wisconsin). 

Gonna be a fun weekend.

That's what she said.

Hey, two weeks after the big storm they finally sent the loader down to my ghetto to remove some snow. Guess we know who pays the tax rolls.

Still no garbage pickup after two weeks, though. And the loader didn't widen my alley, so I'm still doing three point turns to get out of my garage. Also, the non-wide alleys are the reason for no garbage pickup, the trucks can't fit in the alleys and they won't allow us to put garbage on the main street. Also, my girlfriend got a ticket for parking after 9 in a snow emergency they didn't announce on the local news or in the newspaper. It also didn't snow after she got to my house at 6, nor did they plow at all that night in the ghetto.

My city sucks.

Snow, not so stupid after all....

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City?  I thought you lived in the woods, or a small town at best?

I don't have garbage pickup, either.

Technically it's a city  :|

I used to live in the country and wish I could find a place out there somewhere now. Even on the plateau where they got seventy feet of snow or something.

You should start you own library, out somewhere in the wild.