Just stop snowing, damnit!!!

The BBQ Pit
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It seems that it snows less and less here, Nanoda, which I guess is why the population (and hardware stores) seem to be completely caught off guard. One good dump that sticks, plus the promise of more to come, and there’s this sudden and entirely unmeetable demand for snow-shovels, ice-melter, and, (I guess) children’s sleds. All items you’d expect to find at any Canadian Tire with nary a problem, eh? Good luck.

I imagine that when all the back-orders show up from Eastern suppliers, the roads will be nicely cleared to ship the bulk of them back. Argh.

I’m extra bitchy 'cause my Raynaud’s means coming in from the cold feels like having each finger flattened with a hammer. [/spoiled whine]

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A quote, from today’s Seattle Times:

Today’s radio broadcast included not only which schools were closed, but which streets were closed. Because when very steep hills are covered with snow and then get kind of icy, driving on them is a very bad idea.

I grew up in Chicago. I was a Midwestern scoffer, especially through my five years in Baltimore where they closed the schools at a prediction of an inch of snow. It snows every year in Baltimore.

My first winter in Seattle we had an honest to god snowstorm. Here, it snows more than about half an inch maybe every five years or so. The last time was 1996. That year, 1990, it snowed 18 inches during the day. I didn’t leave work early, I just made fun of those who did. Poor pitiful me. I wore my winter coat, winter boots, and a miniskirt to work that day. By the time I left, the busses were not running. People were abandoning their cars on the roads and on the highways.

I started to walk the five and a half miles home. I found a bus - o joy! It wasn’t going anywhere, but I got on it to get warm. Then I got off to keep walking. I passed a Gap store. I went in and bought the warmest pair of sweat pants they had, by then my legs were numb. I kept walking. I didn’t have a hat, but I had an ornamental scarf thing I wore over my coat, so I wrapped it over my head. Babushka. Crossing over the University Bridge, I started getting hypothermia: hallucinating, feeling warm, thinking I was in Russia (it was still snowing very hard), considering how nice it would be to lie down in the warm snow and rest. Hmm - rest in the snow, bad idea. No, nice idea. I used this arguement to get myself as far as the scuzzy Safeway store in the University District. I warmed myself up again, only had one more very big hill to climb up and down, then partway up, and then I’d be home. I got some groceries, I think. It all gets kind of foggy around this point. I did get home, saw many abandoned busses futher up my hill.

Didn’t go to work for several days. City shut down? Good fucking idea! No way do I want to cope with that shit ever again.

**Big hills + much snow = very, very bad shit!!! **

Take it from me, who knows.

-A former midwesterner, today curled up in bed still wearing her nightgown, with proper PNW kitty who is horrified by all that cold scary white stuff, neither of whom plan to leave the house until it is all gone. Which should be tomorrow, thank god.

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I WANT SNOW!!!
I live in that magical place where snow happens once a year, and lasts 24 hours, and is big enough to build snowballs but not enough to cause serious drifts.

Mind you, I WANT MORE!!! should I move to Canada!!!

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Suuuure, c’mon over and up. :smiley: (oh, I want Evil Smiley here, I really really do…)

Stop snowing? Yep, sometime by the end of May - usually. We don’t get the two-foot dumps of snow, nor do we get enough that we have to tunnel from house to house, but it certainly sticks around for a long time…

Mind you, you might have a little issue with -40 temperatures for six weeks at a shot…

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The only decent thing about it, it will be gone in the morning.

Yes, it’s only a few inches…but, I’m very nearly 30, and I’ve never driven in snow, well almost never…there were 10 minutes last Tuesday when I didn’t get home fast enough. It doesn’t happen enough. To get off my street, I’d need to make a sharp right turn (sharp enough that people drive past it without seeing it) down (meaning downhill - I hesitate riding my bike down it on dry days) a cobblestone street that hasn’t got any sand or salt. That’s not how I want to start driving in snow. I think it might be a bad idea. (Especially after last night, where this guy did a donut on the black ice at the end of 520. I was nearly part of a multi-car pile up!)

On the news tonight, there will be footage of the people who didn’t…on First Hill. It’s always fun to watch.

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Move to central Colorado. About 100 miles west of Denver.

We have had snow since November, and it will be here till May. It just gets deeper every week. Then, when the snow melts, mud season starts :).

It’s just something you get used to. Takes a few years to get adjusted to it. Some things you can’t do without. Like 4x4. I also have my own plow truck. All I use it for is to plow my drive. Others mow grass in the summer, I plow in the winter. Emmm, we don’t have any ‘grass’. Mostly, we have rocks.

I really don’t mind it, except it makes it hard to work on the house in the winter.

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It finally started snowing here about 2 days ago.

It just made me remember how much I hate driving in snow. I hate it. A lot. I may have anti-lock breaks and traction control, which keep me from sliding around and loosing control, but I still have trouble taking corners and moving forward from a stop.

Plus, it’s REALLY FRIKKIN COLD. Cold I can handle. Not the “go outside for 5 minutes and loose all feeling” kind of cold.

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You want snow?

Here you go…

Donner Pass Snowfall History…

Some local records…

None of that piddly-ass 3 footer Nor’Easter bullshit; I’m talking real snow here…

Take it from a Yeti who knows…:smiley:

I’m still looking for those pictures from Mammoth in 1969…25’ snow in a couple of weeks! Anyone knows where to find them online? I remembered two things as a six year old in 1969, the moon landing and tunneling our way into our grandfathers condo hidden under a mountain of snow…

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Oregon’s great. The weather guy was actually holding up a piece of ice, and the weather gal panned back to show the unthinkable: a parking lot with ice and snow on it! I mean, come on, people, I know it doesn’t usually snow this much in this part of the state, but you’ve been skiing, right? You’ve seen ice before, right?

So they’ve told us several times in the last week. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Oregon’s great. The weather guy was actually holding up a piece of ice, and the weather gal panned back to show the unthinkable: a parking lot with ice and snow on it! I mean, come on, people, I know it doesn’t usually snow this much in this part of the state, but you’ve been skiing, right? You’ve seen ice before, right?

So they’ve told us several times in the last week. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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From Winnipeg:

Yeah, great stuff. It’s been 30 below for the past week. Friday we got a foot so I shovelled the back and dug out the van and argued with the kid for an hour to get him to shovel the front.

Nice work. We got another fucking foot on Saturday, and it’s still 30 below. That was useful. This was blowing snow, so I didn’t just shovel, it was more like I had to tunnel to get to the van and shovel it out again. When I finally got it moving, that was no fun either. It was frosted solid ON THE INSIDE, and despite the fact that I did forgo the heat and put it on all vent, it took forever before I had any real visability.

The streets are complete black ice. I parked it on the front street (so I wouldn’t have to tunnel again, and within an hour there was a head-on collision right in front of my house. One car couldn’t stop, and fishtailed right into my poor innocent bistander van. There was cop cars, people taken on stretchers into ambulences, tow trucks, the whole nine yards. And my poor van, smucked for just minding its business.

And it’s still 30 below! My front walk isn’t even shovelled yet. I don’t have the heart to ask the kid to do it again and, me, I’m hiding under the bed.

Careful what you wish for.

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Tell me about it. I had the window cracked open because of the warm weather over the weekend. Monday morning I had shovel out my truck, inside and out. That was fun. Luckily, snow(drifts) on the seat are what trench coats are good for…

Tuesday, it was down to about 5 degrees. I’ve seen it get colder here, but that’s still pretty darn chilly. Now, -10, -20 degrees, that’s real cold. When it gets that cold, your nose hairs freeze together…I’m not actually joking…

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It’s been snowing all day here around Boise. We probably have about 4 to 5 inches on the ground right now, lots more up in the nearby mountains. It hasn’t snowed like this here since 1998, and before that 1993. I love the snow and I don’t mind driving in it (ice, I agree is no fun to drive on). I like living where each season is distinct and the surroundnig scenery changes with the seasons.

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We just had a blizzard warning…for three minutes. Someone at the NWS goofed!

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Speaking as a Californian…

I remember the last major snowstorm, about 6 years ago. For two or three whole minutes, there were some snowflakes comming out of the sky! Fortunately, there wasn’t much damage!

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What’s snow?

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Well, I’m here to vent my fury at Mother Nature again because the snow is STILL here!

Snow is supposed to briefly appear and make things pretty and then disappear quickly as it came… either that, or stay up in the Cascades where it belongs. It is NOT supposed to coat our roads in thick ice and make trees fall over.

I’m going batshit crazy, stuck in my damn house on the middle of damn nowhere on a damn hill. Jesus, I just want to get out of the house. The Willamette Valley hasn’t had this much snow in ages. I realize that to people in Montana or wherever, we may seem pathetic, but we’re just not used to this kind of thing. School/colleges have actually been cancelled 3 days in a row, and will probably be cancelled tomorrow as well. At least. That has never happened as far as I can remember. Heck, we’re lucky if we get any snow some years. And my poor dad is still stuck at the hospital, working 16 hour shifts and sleeping in the back rooms. It sucks.

Also, we’re out of milk and if this ice doesn’t melt soon I think we’re going to have to eat our dog.

:frowning:

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My sympathies to everyone knee deep in snow… a week of this and I don’t know how people can live through all winter of it. And like Larry Mudd said, it’s because we don’t get it often that when we do, it throws everyone into a panic attack.

Anyway, it warmed up today, rained and turned the slow into slush which makes driving less dangerous, but walking horrible. I almost slipped and cracked my skull.

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Tanaqui, are you out yet? Urban Lane County roads are clear, though there’s still plenty of snow and a tractor-trailer jackknifed on Franklin Boulevard right by UO today.

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I’m in Seattle, and this snow storm has been an awful experience for me. So far, my pipes have burst and a large tree behind my house (on protected wetlands property) lost a HUGE limb (bigger than most trees) which fell and crushed part of my fence.

Last night at 1:30 am (while attempting to close the main water valve outside by the meter) the crashing of tree limbs in the neighborhood sounded like fireworks on the fourth of July.

We were without power AND water for 24 hours (we were a lot luckier than a lot of people).