Snowing finally

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It finally decided to snow for real last night here (and again tonight), meaning that:
[ul]
[li]I got to practice driving slick roads for next week[/li][li]I got to do handbrake turns and doughnuts in a parking lot[/li][li]I had to plant all 82 of my 90%-off tulip bulbs right away before the ground froze or snowdrifts obscured my flowerbeds completely[/li][li]I may as well take my bike apart 'cause I’m not in to that whole “winter cycling” scene[/li][li]I’m already starting to not look forward to shoveling snow all winter at my new digs[/li][li]I realized I don’t own a snow shovel yet[/li][/ul]

Anyone else getting some new weather? (Coldfront means snakes on your engine block in south-central US? Tides leading to ring-around-the-foundation problems at your Venice villa?)

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Yup.

I’m at the southern end of the province. Last night I went to a Halloween party and spent most of the night hanging out around the fire all nice and toasty warm. Wake up this morning and there’s a good dump of snow on the ground. It must have started some point after I got home (about 2am).

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Here in Columbia it’s been nasty, rainy/misty, windy and cold for the last week. It’s 72 and sunny today. Missouri weather can never make up its mind.

4

Albertan in Maryland. It’s been sitting around 10-15c lately during the day. Yesterday there was a bitch of a windstorm. No snow yet but it sure felt like it the other evening.

I love how everyone at home forgets how to drive in snow, like it’s a freak occurrence that only happens once a generation. Never mind that there’s snow on the ground from (usually) October til March or April (as we had in Yellowknife).

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Here in Victoria, it was so mild I was out gardening in the sunshine, wearing just a tee-shirt yesterday.

(Okay, so today I just nixed the idea of an outing with the dog as it’s turned chilly, windy, and rainy.)

(Yesterday, I was also wearing socks, shoes, underwear, and jeans. Just to be clear.)

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My Wife has been measuring the amount of snow we have received so far. 77 inches since our first big storm Sept 23.

Gonna be a long winter.

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Grr. No snow here, yet.

We got down to 11F last night, so it’s plently cold. Yesterday I drove up into the mountains to see if I could find some snow, but all we had was a lot of mist with a few snowflakes- but I bet the mountains got a good dusting overnight.

I’m annoyed because… this year, I’m ready. I bought a new vehicle specifically for the snow- an AWD Honda Element (lots of room for snowboard stuff, and camping!). I bought new tires specifically for how well they handle snow and regular weather, so I won’t have to switch over to studs. My driveway is only about thirty feet long this year, and I’ve got THREE snowshovels!

Man, I can’t wait. Send some of the white stuff Oregon way, would you?