# A request of the Almighty, regarding the 3" of snow I found this morning. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646 "2002-05-07T01:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/1 "2002-05-07T01:27:59Z")
Dear God, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, Hare Krishna, Shiva, or all of the above: [sub](I think that covers it)[/sub] Has my disdain for fluffy, crystalline water befallen deaf ears? Have I not suffered enough? Did I forget to say a prayer one night? For the love of, well . . . you, can we just simply cut this crap out? I find it needless to say that Minot isn’t exactly a huge town. While it _is_ the cultural Mecca of central Ward County and most of northwestern North Dakota, does that necessarily mean you have to smite us with 3 inches of snow? I mean, yeah, the town has culture and shit, but do we _always_ have to be known for our parkas, tuuks, and our general snowbound ways? I really would like to schedule a few minutes with your crack meteorological staff. Apparently, their scheduling department is off by at least a month. It’s May 6th for goodness sake. _May 6th!_ Just yesterday, I was celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day with a cool six-pack of Corona. Does Mexico have snow? Methinks not. . . C’mon Boss. I love ya and all, but I find it difficult to get anything done if you keep pulling this kinda stuff. Especially when I read reports from the Associated Press like this: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted in an article by the AP_\*\* > Ron Hagen, who manages a truck stop in Williston, said highway traffic speeds in northwestern North Dakota were down to 15 mph at times because of slippery pavement and poor visibility. > > `I got up this morning, put the coffee on, looked at my neighbor's roof and said 'Oh, no,''' Hagen said. `We may get a nice day in July, who knows.’’ \*\* One can only hope so. :rolleyes: Tripler I may go to hell for posting this, but at least it’s warm there. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/2 "2002-05-07T01:31:54Z")
NO summer for YOU - OG ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/3 "2002-05-07T01:35:06Z")
Oh, brother, I feel your pain. Has this been the longest “spring” ever, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/4 "2002-05-07T01:36:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > \*\*NO summer for YOU > > - OG \*\* What about Cthulhu? (or however that’s spelled) ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/5 "2002-05-07T01:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\*Oh, brother, I feel your pain. Has this been the longest “spring” ever, or what? \*\* Spring? We had a _spring_? Dude, if you haven’t looked out the window yet, apparently we’re still in winter. . . Tripler Flames are already a-lickin’ at my toes. . . ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/6 "2002-05-07T01:41:39Z")
Spring? We flipped straight over into summer. The high today was 90° and that’s lower than it’s been for two weeks. I like it hot, but it’s gonna be a long summer… s’pose we could work out a way to get an average? ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/7 "2002-05-07T03:57:13Z")
[Voice of Supreme Diety] Welcome to North Dakota, Tripler! That ‘snow’ you see is North Dakota’s automatic defense system against nitwits: apparently some managed to sneak in from Montana or something. Untill said nitwits are evicted from NoDak, winter shall contiune. Have a nice day. [/VOSD] _chuckles_ While I like winter, NoDak winters are something I am very glad I didn’t go through. Now, like galen ubal said, if we could just work out a nice average temperature… I’m currently dealing with temps in the mid-80’s, and who knows that the humidity is. Uggg. Ship me some now, I wanna freak out the Mid-South. * * * \<\< Dum-de-dum-dum… \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/8 "2002-05-07T05:55:36Z")
Just remeber that the alleged state of North Dakota is actually South Saskatchewan. It probably feels a lot warmer that way too… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/9 "2002-05-07T06:15:50Z")
We just got 2 feet of snow in Hawaii (on Mauna Kea) so you know the weather isn’t quite right. With that I’m surprised you’re still alive! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/10 "2002-05-07T07:35:21Z")
Hey Trip Baby, Go ahead and send that snow to Colorado (and other western states) we need it and need it bad, very bad. I would be glad to get some snow, about 60 inches would be good to catch us up a small amount. Here in Colorado, we are a dry tinder box that will be flaming all Spring and Summer into Fall. We were in the high 70s today and expecting 80º tomorrow in C Springs…our normal high is 65º. Our mountains are at about 27% of normal snowfall levels so this will also effect states to the east and west of us. It’s flippin brown and dry. Crunchy is a good word. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/11 "2002-05-07T09:53:37Z")
Can you send some snow here? Please? It’s already almost 30 degrees Celsius, and we’re all sweltering in the humidity (and there’s a _drought_!) Oh pleeeeeeeease… _Cougarfang switches the poor air conditioner to “deep-freeze”, lowering the temperature of the room by a fraction of a degree_ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/12 "2002-05-07T13:49:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*It’s May 6th for goodness sake. _May 6th!_ Just yesterday, I was celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day with a cool six-pack of Corona. Does Mexico have snow? Methinks not. . . > \*\* Well, there’s your problem. Mexican Independence Day is [September 16th](http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/cinco.html). So you were five months or so premature in your celebration. The gods of the Azteca are not to be trifled with, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/13 "2002-05-07T13:57:20Z")
You folks can have some of the 40 cim (that would be about 36") that fell on Sunday night. Largest one day snow fall in Calgary since 1981. I was stranded at home yesterday, which is not necessarily a bad thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/14 "2002-05-07T14:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\*You folks can have some of the 40 cim (that would be about 36") that fell on Sunday night. > > Largest one day snow fall in Calgary since 1981. I was stranded at home yesterday, which is not necessarily a bad thing. 🙂 \*\* It had betted be gone for when I get out there next week. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/15 "2002-05-07T14:20:26Z")
That’s it. We need to average this stuff out. _starts pounding on the Pearly Gates_ You there! Open up! I want to talk to the manager! Not you, Petey, the big guy! I don’t want to waste time talking to a guy in a bedsheet! Come on, come on, get him out here! ZAP! :eek: OK, maybe not a good plan… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/16 "2002-05-07T15:20:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\*You folks can have some of the 40 cim (that would be about 36") that fell on Sunday night. > \*\* What’s a “cim”? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/17 "2002-05-07T22:41:46Z")
O God or Gods of the sky, how you mock me. . . Not by heeding my requests, yet with a forecast of 2 - _8_ inches (leaning towards the _8_) is how you reply. Yes, tonight, on the eve of the 8th of May, we shall recieve in what some call ‘glorious bundles’, 8 inches of snow. I call it crap. Perhaps I did forget to pray one night before bed. Perhaps I did sacrifice one cow to the grill gods too many. Perhaps my bacchanal ways have offended thee, a _dry_ God. I’m none too sure. I beseech thee, to send me a sign, any sort of sign, _but not more fuckin’ snow!_ Send me a telegram. Send me a line. Hell, send me First Class. But don’t send more fuckin’ snow. Sincerely, Tripler > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\* > > Well, there’s your problem. Mexican Independence Day is [September 16th](http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/cinco.html). So you were five months or so premature in your celebration. The gods of the Azteca are not to be trifled with, my friend. \*\* **ShibbOleth** , where the hell were you when I needed you? At least it was good beer for a good cause. Tripler But I’m still going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/18 "2002-05-08T01:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\* > > What’s a “cim”? \*\* It’s 9/10 of an inch. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/19 "2002-05-08T02:59:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*It’s 9/10 of an inch. \*\* Great, what kind of measure is it? I’ve just never heard of it before. **Tripler** , the Aztec gods require Mescal or Tequila, and lots of it. If you drink enough the snow will not occur. Or you won’t remember it, which is just about the same. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646/20 "2002-05-08T04:52:14Z")
I think it’s _ **c** ent__im_\*eters\*, but I’m just guessing. It’s usually expressed in units of Phi. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-of-the-almighty-regarding-the-3-of-snow-i-found-this-morning/107646.md?page=2)