Looking out my ninth floor office window at the moment. Large, puffy flakes of snow fill the air. There is little wind about, but the gentle drafts between buildings have suspended most of the flakes in the air. They float about hither and thither, and occasionally drift skywards out of my view. It is as if I am working inside of a giant snow globe. Quite beautiful, really.
I used to watch the snow in downtown Minneapolis. It was a novelty (where now, it’s just a pain in the ass). I had to ask to have my desk moved away from the window because it was too much of a distraction.
Robin
*See Membership in Sig for my opinion on this flurrious subject. As Joss Wheddon says, “Grrrr Argh!”
Feh. DC/VA/MDers don’t know snow.
NEers know snow. But then, they know it all too well.
Down here, three inches gets school closed.
Up there, half a foot means you have to drive through half a foot of snow to get to school.
Gauah?! Are you kidding? This burgh is chock full of pantywaists ‘n’ sissies! It generally doesn’t take much more than a news report of snow to cancel schools, and two reports in a row and the Feds shut down for the day.
Unless I’m parsing your post wrong. Does NE mean Nebraska or New England?
If he means New England, he’s pretty much correct. 6 in of snow is usually only a delayed opening.
Bah! Six inches isn’t even a five-minute delay in Minnesota. Six inches is you leave the house forty-five minutes early. Fifteen minutes to warm the car and scrape the snow off, and an extra thirty to deal with the morons on the road.
Six inches. Wimps!
Robin
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Forty five minutes early? I’m originally from upstate New York, and there, if you got six inches, you’d leave the house late, happy you didn’t have to go through the normal amount of snow. In the winter, you wouldn’t have to worry about snow covering the roads, the snow took the place of the roads.
Well, I have nothing to add to the above discussion except to say that today’s snowfall was gorgeous.
It almost makes up for missing the big storm last weekend.
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I’m lucky enough to live in civilization, where the roads get plowed on a regular basis, and where they’re serious about snow emergencies.
Robin
New England, which is where I went to high school. I don’t know the first thing about Nebraska.
Seriously, folks . . . snow is Not a Big Deal. Doesn’t require you to drive five miles an hour in a 25-zone unless you’re driving something with Firestone tires.