I’d gladly take some of it from you. I spent the first rosy-cheeked decade of my existence enjoying heavy lake-effect snow each year, then found myself cruelly relocated to a meridional hellhole where schools, businesses, and life in general shuts down at the sight of seven or more flakes, and where most years pass without even that. Thusfar this year it’s been all bluster, false promises, and disappointment. Within a few days, it’ll surely be “unseasonably” warm again, with ludicrously inappropriate temperatures for January, at least any January I’d engineer. Bah.
You do know it’s February now, right? And 2009?
I lived in Burlington for several years (2003-2006) and had trouble even with the minimal snowfall years, simply because most houses there are packed so close together, there is nowhere to move all that shit once it hits the ground.
So we moved to Buffalo - I’ve got more snow, but with larger lots, more places to put it. I’m not sure if that is a win or not…
I grew up in Philadelphia. Not so extreme, right? Wrong. Boy do I remember some hellaciously busy snowy winters since 1962.
And, in or around 1981 or 1982, NYC got slammed by a mammoth storm. But… in the last few decades, those have been few and far between.
I hate the snow because I hate the cold. Sure is pretty. Slow gentle flakes falling this morning and afternoon out of my office window. Shitty to drive in.
The tug between the romance of a serious storm and the reality of living in it.
Sorry, news takes a while to get to us…
Ah, Cartooniverse, the romance lies between “hey, my kids are out of school today” and “do I have to go to work? I am salaried!”
Yep, you know it’s not a good thing when you hear your town (for me, Michigan City, Indiana) being talked about on the Weather Channel. We’re getting the Finger Of God™ again.
I first referenced the Finger Of God™ a few years back when we were getting this sort of lake effect snow, when I saw a radar image and said the line of clouds/precipitation coming down Lake Michigan looked like God’s finger pointing right at us. My significant other agreed, then she advised me as to which of God’s fingers it probably was…
In the Detroit area we have had double our normal total of snow. It came along when budgets are tight ,so they do not take care of the roads very well. They take a pass at morning and night rush hours and are short on salt usage. If it snows on a weekend they ignore it. Driving has become a XSport. It can be scary driving on ice.We have had it in lumps. We don’t get an inch 5 days in a row but 5 in a day. I have my driveway piles so high I can barely throw the snow on top any more.
I fucking hate it.
Thank God I moved to Pasadena before all the latest snow hit… I’ll take L.A. traffic over snow any day… Gonna be cold here later this week - highs in the 60’s… I might have to wear a jacket… ughh
Seriously, I feel your pain. Before I left in December, there had already been about a million snow storms… and the city of Toronto had started to ticket people who lived downtown if they didn’t shovel their sidewalks (Which is actually a good thing…) - but ticketed them if they threw the snow on the street - even though the yards downtown are about 4 square feet… so there was nowhere else to throw the snow… :rolleyes:
They want you to eat it.
Denver is the bees’ knees for that kind of weather isn’t it. Up here at elevation we have had (checks chart on refer) 115 inches so far this year. About normal. February, March and April being our big snow months. Last year we measured 30 feet.
Helps a lot to have a plow truck and State and County maintenence with the equipment to keep the roads open.
That’s what I hear from my parents in Fort Collins–they got snow! and it’s gone. Compared to me --I got snow! and it’s not going anywhere.
It’s been pretty uneventful since the big snow/ice storm early on. The storm predicted for Monday didn’t make it here after all.
We set a record in December for snowfall here in Calgary – in about two weeks, with temperatures hovering around -20C the whole time. I forget exactly how much it was, but IIRC it was somewhere in the area of a half metre. Certainly not the kind of accumulations southern Ontario typically gets or anything, but a shit load for this part of the country. And since the city has very publicly announced that it WILL NOT plow any streets that aren’t major arteries, so stop calling and asking them, most of that snow has just sat there, getting compacted down into thick, shiny ice. We currently have a lovely glacier formed up in front of our house that is right up parallel to the sidewalk, and when it melts, it runs onto the sidewalk and then freezes overnight, causing a major slipping hazard that we’re liable for if we don’t fix it, even though it was caused by the city’s negligence. Fuckers.
So I guess I’m not sick of all the snow, per se, but sick of the assholes in our municipal government for not doing their fucking jobs.
P.S. We’re apparently expecting up to 5 cm of snow for tomorrow. Yay.
I’m in Philadelphia currently. We got a little storm Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Not a big deal, 8 inches reported at the airport, probably 5 inches in the city.
I get up and hubby and I fire up the snowblower so I can go to work. We clear the driveway and the walkways. Our road doesn’t look too bad, the township we are in does a pretty good job of keeping the roads nice. Usually, the road we live on is the worst road we encounter after a storm, it sometimes gets icy around the corners and I was very impressed by the state of our road.
I get on I95 to head into the city. Roads are all nice and clear. I take I76 west towards University City and things start to deteriorate.
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Philadelphia’s city budget has gotten so bad that snow removal is no longer feasible. **
They said that they were going to get the “major” roadways, but secondary and tertiary roads were not going to get cleared. Apparently, Walnut Street and 38th Street are not considered “major” roadways. So it takes me forever to go a couple of blocks and I am praying that I don’t slide out of control and take someone out.
To add insult to injury, I get to the parking garage expecting that the University will have at least cleaned up a little. I get on the ramp and see that the sedan in front of me can’t make it up the ramp to enter the garage. They didn’t bother to salt the ramp. Great, one more obstacle. From now on, I refuse to come to work if the city isn’t going to take care of the streets I have to drive on to get there. Fuck this.