# Snow! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108 "2006-02-12T14:20:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/21 "2006-02-12T17:27:13Z")
> [@brachyrhynchos](#): > > News says 20.5 inches here in East Brunswick, NJ. It’s still coming down, a bit. Bleech. > > \ > > But first, I have to find my car, and dig it out. Bleech. We got well over a foot here in Reading, PA, and I need to go clear my car off soon, too. I’m suffering a bad case of the "I don’t **wanna!**"s, and regretting that I ever became a (sort of) responsible adult. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/22 "2006-02-12T17:33:08Z")
Another gloomy, grey day of oppressive, soul-cushing rain here in Seattle. Wait, no it’s not. There’s a robin on the grass, the daffodils are shooting up and the sky is clear and blue. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/23 "2006-02-12T19:14:53Z")
I was planning to spend the majority of my day traveling. I was going to fly from a nearby airport to Laguardia, have a two hour layover, and take another plane to O’Hare. But just about everything into and out of Laguardia is cancelled, so I was rebooked on a direct, three-hour flight to O’Hare. Yay, snow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/24 "2006-02-12T19:15:03Z")
Tee hee! 😃 It’s +10 C here today! Though looking at the [forecast](http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-50_metric_e.html), I think I’d better break out my bike while I have a chance, 'cause it’ll be -20 by Wednesday, and -30 by Thursday. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/25 "2006-02-12T19:21:55Z")
Hudson River Valley, NY. I don’t effing know. We get the weather blow up the river, crest over the valley, and dump everything on us. It looked like more than two feet. It’s over 2 feet in Central Park, and I get about a half a foot more than that, on average. [Weather.com](http://Weather.com) says ‘6-12.’ 6-12 my ass. My hands are cold. My toes are cold. My freaking nipples are cold. But the car’s clear and so is the driveway. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/26 "2006-02-12T20:44:12Z")
I just got done with shovelling out the sidewalk, driveway, and the car. Just sitting here typing this with my cocoa and hat head, thinking about how I’m gonna have to do a once-over on all three before bed. It’s just that I didn’t want to do all that shovelling in the dark . . . > [@silenus](#): > > Let’s see…clear and sunny, predicted high in the mid-80s…just another crummy day in Southern California. I actually had an opportunity to move to California, once, ya’ know! Really! Sigh . . . (j/k, I couldn’t imagine leaving Boston just now! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/27 "2006-02-12T20:55:33Z")
I am mostly done but the snow is still coming down. The Second stage of the Snow Blower is jammed hard with a stone. :mad: I had to build a tool to hopefully get it out. As far as Sunny California, I lived in San Diego for 3+ years and I got tired of it. Days like this, I wonder why. Jim ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/28 "2006-02-12T21:07:36Z")
A local TV station was reporting 23" in Central Park, and that was a good 2-3 hours ago. It doesn’t appear _quite_ that bad here in central NJ, and the snow is light and powdery, so it’s a relatively easy shovelling job. Having said that, I still paced myself and did my bit in two shovelling sessions. For the rest of the day, I’m retired from snow duty and am now an Olympic couch-potato. 🙂 Go USA short-track racers! Woo-hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/29 "2006-02-12T22:28:33Z")
We have more than 30 days of continuous rain, flooding, landslides, houses and other building sliding away and the national news hardly bats an eye. You folks get a pesky little snowstorm in 24 hours and think the world has ended. Your snowfall doesn’t even match two hours of our rain. Wussies. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/30 "2006-02-13T00:11:22Z")
There’s close to a foot in the courtyard of our apartment building; I haven’t gone out to measure it. There was so little wind last night that this morning, high thin ridges of snow were lying along the top rail of the chain-link fence around the dog run; never saw that before. Haven’t had to go out, so I’ve enjoyed my usual snow-day pastime of admiring the view from the window and watching my neighbors interact with the snow in the courtyard: taking kids out to play in it, taking dogs out to play in it, taking pictures of it, taking pictures of their kids or dogs playing in it, and marching out with shovels to excavate their cars. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/31 "2006-02-13T00:30:03Z")
I get to brag to my grandkids! (decades from now…) New York City has officially had the _snowiest day on record_, with 26.9 inches at 4 p.m. this afternoon in Central Park. And I had to walk to work with a fractured kneecap because taxis and buses were non-existent 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/32 "2006-02-13T00:30:12Z")
Could someone tell me what happened to all the snow shovels from the last storm? It is truly amazing that the day before a storm, all the news channels show footage of people buying snow shovels. People, snow shovels will last a lifetime. They are not a ‘one use only’ tool. Sorry, I just needed to vent that. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/33 "2006-02-13T00:30:54Z")
Feh. We’ve already got snow thigh-high in my corner of Canuckistan. The upside is that it’s no big deal here, so you can still get where you need to go. 🙂 The downside is that it’s no big deal here, so they sill make you go to work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/34 "2006-02-13T01:16:26Z")
> [@ltfire](#): > > Could someone tell me what happened to all the snow shovels from the last storm? It is truly amazing that the day before a storm, all the news channels show footage of people buying snow shovels. People, snow shovels will last a lifetime. They are not a ‘one use only’ tool. > Sorry, I just needed to vent that. We burned them all for fuel during the last blizzard. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/35 "2006-02-13T02:29:25Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > It’s stopped in Southern Maryland - I figure we got around 5" or so. Too bad for you. You shoulda moved back to Baltimore. We got a good 14-15 inches where I am, maybe more. It drifted during the night, too, so it was piled up against the house in spots. I had to take the dog out the side door this morning, and shovel out the back door (where she usually goes out) and make a spot for her to go potty. I love the snow! ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/36 "2006-02-13T03:28:37Z")
Coastal RI, checking in. We got about 10 inches, I’d say. The rents up north (_Woosta_) got over a foot. But nothing like you folks down in NYC area got. I gotta check with my poor brother & fam. They’re supposed to be packing tomorrow and moving on Tuesday. (From White Plains to NJ.) Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/37 "2006-02-13T13:27:58Z")
Did anyone else see and hear the lightning and thunder at 4:00 Sunday morning. Now that was one bitchin’ storm! ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/38 "2006-02-13T13:31:30Z")
There’s snow on the ground here, well icy crappy snow, but it’s enough to make me leery of going into work. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/39 "2006-02-13T14:14:57Z")
Leery-ness aside, I’m at work now. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108/40 "2006-02-13T14:55:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Did anyone else see and hear the lightning and thunder at 4:00 Sunday morning. Now that was one bitchin’ storm! Yes! It was around 1:00 or 2:00 here, but it woke me up. It’s always weird to have thunder and lightning in a snowstorm. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow/344108.md?page=3)