# Oh boy, more snow **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780 "2009-03-08T23:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/21 "2009-03-10T00:45:33Z")
Not much in the way of snow, but looks like we’re getting -30 again tonight. Ummm…yay? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/22 "2009-03-10T05:41:47Z")
My new snow blower broke down during a whole lot of heavy snow in January, and I had to go out and shovel. Now that it’s fixed . . . no snow. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/23 "2009-03-10T07:34:45Z")
If you value your safety, do not complain about “all this snow” in front of Oslo residents right now. I mean it, you’d better have at least a meter on the ground if you say that. We’re all a little… edgy right now. _\_ ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/24 "2009-03-10T07:36:49Z")
Yep, Saskatchewan keeps dishing out the cold. About -20 here right now. The forecast calls for an above zero weekend though. Think warm…think warm ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/25 "2009-03-10T11:46:33Z")
Today it will be 80. There was still snow on the ground last Thursday. Be hopeful. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/26 "2009-03-10T13:38:08Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Today it will be 80. There was still snow on the ground last Thursday. > > Be hopeful. Where are you located?! Ooh, the prediction for 50 mph winds tonight has been downgraded to 45 mph. Yay. My icebergs are still there, but losing mass. Today, rainy and gray, but warmish. Something like mid-40s predicted. I’ll take it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/27 "2009-03-10T13:49:17Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > If you value your safety, do not complain about “all this snow” in front of Oslo residents right now. I mean it, you’d better have at least a meter on the ground if you say that. We’re all a little… edgy right now. _\_ Established snow is one thing. Tons of snow that goes away finally, suckering you into feeling the joy of spring, only to have it return with a vengeance, ice-slick roads underlying the snow, that gets to a person. A few days release from a mildly constraining bondage, only to be returned suddenly to full lockdown, makes me a bit crazy. I’ve also been working in a prison too long, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/28 "2009-03-10T14:53:11Z")
Today we have flooded roads again. These are the same roads that were flooded last year and multiple times this winter. Did they fix the drainage problem after last years floods? No. Being under water all the time has broken up the asphalt really nice though. Six to twelve inch deep potholes under six inches of water is car damage waiting to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/29 "2009-03-10T17:14:19Z")
Current temperature in PiperLand: -32. Not counting windchill. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/30 "2009-03-10T18:27:36Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Established snow is one thing. > > Tons of snow that goes away finally, suckering you into feeling the joy of spring, only to have it return with a vengeance, ice-slick roads underlying the snow, that gets to a person. Well, yeah, I can see how that might get to a person. Snow that won’t stop coming, that breaks 30-year-old records for total snowfall in a winter but that assumed melting in between snowfalls which has not happened this winter, that fills every area that has been set aside for snow-dumping to dangerously overflowing, that leaves people unable to shovel their driveways because they have literally no place to put more snow, that blocks lines of sight all over the place so that parents worry about kids walking familiar routes to school and drivers have stiff necks from craning their heads around to try to see traffic on side roads… THAT kind of gets to a person. Even a person in a city that is used to snow, a city that laughs at winter and finds Londoners a source of great amusement every January. I found [this article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4943874/Norway-weathers-snow-ice-and-sub-zero-temperatures.html) from the Daily Torygraph on line, but the author is trying to maintain her stiff upper lip. [The “snow” category on her blog](http://norwaynomad.blogspot.com/search/label/snow) is a good bit more honest. So don’t make me use my shovel for anything I might regret, mmmmkay? ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/31 "2009-03-10T18:28:23Z")
Today’s high is 82 with a low of 60. Currently, it is 81, sunny, 39% humidity and a NNE wind of 6 mph. Our only snow is the caked-on yellow oak pollen on the cars. This is the time of year that makes people want to move to Florida – then they suffer through a summer and many of them move back home. ETA: Y’all is _crazy_. Looks like a whole bunch of trouble – and I’ve never seen the stuff in person. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/32 "2009-03-10T18:56:34Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > So don’t make me use my shovel for anything I might regret, mmmmkay? I wouldn’t complain about snow like you’ve got. That’s because that much snow for that long would have driven me stark raving mad and incapable of enough coherency to complain. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/33 "2009-03-11T02:05:32Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > A few days release from a mildly constraining bondage, only to be returned suddenly to full lockdown, makes me a bit crazy. Take up skiing. Vid from Friday night: [Loch Lomond Pine](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/LochLomondPine.html) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/34 "2009-03-11T02:12:48Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Take up skiing. Powder’s nice. So’s packed snow. But all we have here is either slush or wet ice. Not even good for x-country or snowshoing! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/35 "2009-03-11T04:37:41Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > If you value your safety, do not complain about “all this snow” in front of Oslo residents right now. I mean it, you’d better have at least a meter on the ground if you say that. We’re all a little… edgy right now. _\_ Well, I’m safe then. We have well over a meter still on the ground. It’s not quite as bad as last winter though, when we got over 3 meters of snow. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/36 "2009-03-11T05:40:09Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > YOU got our warmth. Give it back! Tell you what. You can have all of our extra Texas warmth, provided you take it from May to November. Seriously, November. Right now, at half after midnight, I have the AC going in my room. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/37 "2009-03-11T05:43:34Z")
What is “snow”?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/38 "2009-03-11T20:19:20Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > What is “snow”?? 😕 My grandma told me if was the angels barfing. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/39 "2009-03-26T00:47:38Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > We’re getting the warming here in Colorado. I hear Australia got a bit of it recently too. > > We had three days in the mid 70’s last week and yesterday it was 65. I can’t remember the last time it snowed. Sometime in January, I think. It’s supposed to cool off this week, but still highs will be in the high 40’s, which is about normal. I thought I’d bump this to give everyone a bit of Schadenfreude. After our string of 70 degree days, we have blooming tulips and the fruit trees have just started flowering. Tomorrow we are expecting 10 - 20" of snow and blizzard conditions. We do need it, though - we are about 20" below average this season. Many parks and golf courses and common areas have already had to turn on their sprinklers because it’s been so dry. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780/40 "2009-03-26T02:42:10Z")
> [@FarmerChick](#): > > I am so sick of snow. Here in Central Alberta the weather has been brutal. > > Tuesday I drove home in a blizzard. > > This was my place [Thursday](http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/deckchick/winter/?action=view¤t=MarchBlizzard.flv) morning. > > This was my road on [Friday](http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/deckchick/winter/?action=view¤t=OurSnowedInRoad.flv). The neighbour blasted a path to the highway, the County plow couldn’t get through. > > This is my [driveway](http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/deckchick/winter/?action=view¤t=StuckTruck.flv) today. > > The wind and snow is supposed to stop as of tomorrow, so maybe I won’t be snowed in anymore by Tuesday. > > So That’s a WEEK, that we have been snowed in here. > > This is my [opinion](http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/deckchick/winter/fuck_winter.jpg) of the week. :eek: Oh my god! You poor baby! Please come to MS and visit. We’ll have a nice bourbon on the front porch in our flip flops and grill vegetables for dinner (my night tonight). Oh, I feel so bad for bitching about the pollen. I hate cold weather with a bitter bitter bile. I feel sorry for you. But really, the offer stands. For anyone that has to endure that crap during March. We’re in golf weather here, folks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-boy-more-snow/488780.md?page=3)