# It's REALLY snowing out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706 "2002-11-25T17:00:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/21 "2002-11-25T23:36:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rocking chair \* > \*\*there maybe a bit of snow here on tues night/wends am. not much though. > > i thought about moving to mackinac island when i read they get appx 100" of snow per year! i really enjoyed my time on that island. it is on my “i’d move there in a flash” list. \*\* Yeah, Mackinaw Island is kind of in the tropics. Only 100" of snow per year. 😃 I hate to admit it, but I’ve spent almost 20 years of my life a 3 hour drive away from Mackinaw Island, and I’ve never been there. I am going to fix that next summer. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/22 "2002-11-26T03:17:35Z")
> [@](#): > > One of my professors happens to be from Puerto Rico. He said that one of the things locals made fun of mainland Americans for was the perception that we sat around all day talking about the weather…as a bourgeois frivolity. You see, in Puerto Rico, the weather is really a non-topic (according to him). It’s sunny, sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn’t. Nothing serious unless there’s a storm coming. Then he came to Michigan and realized you pretty much _have_ to talk about it or you’ll die… My ex’s father’s family lived in Ghana for a while, around when Ghana got its first official tv station. A Canadian company (of which my ex’s grandfather was a member) helped them set it up, so when the Ghanians were trying to decide what to broadcast, they asked the Canadians, who shrugged and said, “We have the Weather Channel”. Apparently, weather in Ghana is pretty predictable, so the weather station didn’t really work out: “it’s the rainy season, guys! There’ll be rain!”, and it confused all the station workers- why are Canadians so interested in weather? Then Ghana sent a bunch of engineers and stuff up here for training. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/23 "2002-11-26T03:29:10Z")
The [BoM radar](http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR033.shtml) is showing a small storm cell heading our way, but like most storm cells at this time of year it will be mostly thunder. It’ll drop about 3 minutes of rain while the kids are walking home from school and then it will be gone (and the sun will probably come out, just to make it nice and steamy). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/24 "2002-11-26T04:21:13Z")
Checking in from Milwaukee:: No Snow. though the temps are low enough. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/25 "2002-11-26T05:18:33Z")
:snerk: :snicker: Bwaahahahahahahaha!!! Bugger all for snow here yet, it’s the end of freakin’ November, and it hasn’t even gotten to -20C yet! I’m all for this global warming stuff. 😃 Mind you, I fear what February has in store… ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/26 "2002-11-26T05:30:32Z")
I was really excited to get back to the U.P. and wake up to about 6" of snow. I was kinda ticked the ski hill isn’t open on weekdays 'til thanksgiving, though. It sure is nice to see some decent snowfall again, compared to Duluth, though. ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/27 "2002-11-26T05:31:37Z")
You think you’ve got extreme weather? It’s supposed to hit **62** here on Friday. Two years ago we even got a couple days _below forty degrees_. Oooooooooh. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/28 "2002-11-26T05:36:04Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s REALLY snowing out! No it’s not! I just looked outside! What? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/29 "2002-11-26T13:34:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by St. Urho \* > \*\*I was really excited to get back to the U.P. and wake up to about 6" of snow. I was kinda ticked the ski hill isn’t open on weekdays 'til thanksgiving, though. > > It sure is nice to see some decent snowfall again, compared to Duluth, though. \*\* Hey, thanks. I haven’t seen a grasshopper in ages! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/30 "2002-11-26T13:41:45Z")
Where you at, **St. Urho**? Cuz Marquette Mountain has been open for a week now. For all you wondering, it’s _still_ snowing. I can’t see the driveway regardless of it being plowed twice yesterday. According to my parents, this doesn’t count as a storm yet. They haven’t closed schools, and no roads have been closed (although my sister in law couldn’t get to Munising yesterday morning because the roads were so bad.) I’m living in a winter wonderland! ---
**Author:** ![Kamikazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kamikazee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamikazee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/31 "2002-11-26T13:50:07Z")
A Troll checking in… Just an inch or 2 here under the bridge. We are right along the Lake Michigan shore line though so lake effect should crank up any time now. Last Thanksgiving we had about 11 inches. I should mention that a troll is a term of endearment for us Michiganders living below the Mackinac Bridge. Not the type of troll that post insane comments to P\*\*s people off. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/32 "2002-11-26T14:07:52Z")
You want to see snow, **Opal**? Wait 'til tomorrow. Only an inch, if that much, but it’s supposed to _snow_! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/33 "2002-11-26T14:10:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*Hey, thanks. I haven’t seen a grasshopper in ages! \*\* Easliy solved, just order one from your nearest barkeep. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/34 "2002-11-26T14:12:43Z")
Yeah, if we want to piss off trolls who live near the Bridge, we call 'em “fudgies.” A small dusting of snow in Kalamazoo, but it looks like it’s sticking. I’m driving up north tomorrow to visit the parents, so it looks like I’m going to hit the weather that Athena is describing (they live 30 miles SE of Marquette or so). ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/35 "2002-11-26T16:27:34Z")
Now this is _really_ weird. Our house has a fairly steep metal roof. Once the snow gets to be deep enough, it becomes too heavy to stick to the roof. My office is upstairs, right under the roof. Snow has been avalanching off the roof for the past hour or so. I hear a rumble, then a POOF as large sections of snow cascade down into the bushes. The last one made my dog jump about a foot in the air. It’s weird. Really weird. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/36 "2002-11-26T18:22:12Z")
At least it slides off _your_ roof. Ours is shallow enough that someone (usually my Dad since I’m a klutz) has to shovel it off. One year we’d gotten in a habit of dumping it in the front yard. The resulting pile of snow and ice got so high we couldn’t see out the living room window, which was about 5 feet off the ground, itself. I think we actually gave it a name. Can’t remember what, though. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/37 "2002-11-26T18:46:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > Where you at, **St. Urho**? Cuz Marquette Mountain has been open for a week now. I’m in Marquette. They’re open, but not on weekdays, yet. I have to wait until Thursday. It’s driving me nuts! You’re welcome, **slortar**. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/38 "2002-11-26T18:56:28Z")
I’ll probably be at the hill this weekend sometime. I got the passes, might as well go! You from Marquette, St. Urho? Do I know you? ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/39 "2002-11-26T19:43:16Z")
I am from Marquette, I have no idea if I know you or not. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706/40 "2002-11-26T19:52:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by St. Urho \* > \*\*I am from Marquette, I have no idea if I know you or not. \*\* I know, that was kind of a joke… small town and all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-really-snowing-out/138706.md?page=3)