:eek:
You actually needed this as proof?
[sub] DAMN that is a lot of snow…[/sub]
Apparently somewhere my Grandmother has a picture of my father standing on a snowbank… with the telephone wires just behind him. That’s how high the snow was :eek: I also have misplaced my photo of Nana with a pile of snow taller than her behind her. That’s still nothing.
I want some of that snow!!
Ahhh, I’m all nostalgic for the Blizzard of '77. It practically shut down the entire Niagara Region for about a week (coolest thing in the world for a 9 yr old kid).
My father tells the story of trudging to the office before the roads had been cleared with my Uncle to check if there was any damage. About half way there, the ground underfoot felt kind of weird so my father bent down to check it out. After brushing aside some snow, he realized that he was standing on the cab roof of a pickup truck :eek:
Yeah, they just don’t make winter like they used to. Yesterday we had freezing rain. Blecch.
I want some too! Imagine Los Hideous covered with a blanket of white, fluffy show. The carnage on the roads would be glorious!
I heard this on NPR yesterday morning: An emmigrant to Germany, who had come from a hot region of the world, called the Polizei to complain that vandals had painted his car white. He had never seen snow before.
Six. Lousy. Inches.
Canada is bigger, and we’re on top. If the world was prison the US would be our bitch.
And there was me thinking Canada was America’s hat…?
No, no, Canada’s America’s annoying younger brother who didn’t move out of his parents’ basement until he was thirty, and still lives within a few miles. Sure, the kid’s polite, and he’s followed in the ancestral footprints, but … is it healthy to be that polite?
Does he have something hidden in his basement?
“Yeah, I gotta check up on my mother. She’s old, eh? Don’t get out much.”
No, Canada is the place with snow.
Lots of it.
sits back in California winter weather while wearing shorts
Ahhh…
Every play the “Blizzard of '77” Board Game? My Buffalo-born-and-raised wife has made me play it a few times when we go back to visit her family.
Oh, I thought this was a thread about Tom Green.
Carry on.
What are you people going on about. It’s just snow. You’d think it was some sort problem. Lets see, Would I rather live in an area that gets snow storms once and a while during a few months a year or in an area that has Earthquakes Tornado valleys… Hurricanes and volcanic erruptions?
Besides how can anyone celebrate Christmas without snow?
And snow can preserve things a good, long time…
My friend Dan called me last night to ask if I wanted to help him do the snow sculpture competition at this year’s Winter Carnival. I looked out the window at the grass not covered in snow and thought, “umm… problem…”
I don’t get this. Is that a picture of Canadian snow, showing its superior quality and depth, or documentation of some place in the States inexplicably getting snow that should have gone to Toronto?
Sunspace, I was completely baffled too. I mean, it’s snow. Uhm… okay, we know we have that. Here’s my theory:
They think that that picture depicts an enourmous amount of snow. Strange.
Heh, I had a neighbour who moved from Cali to Virginia when I was 16.
He completely freaked out when we had 4 inches of snow. He said he knew what it was, and had been expecting it…But having never seen the stuff in his entire 20 years of life, (Had never even been skiing!) it just sent him off the edge.
Having lived Up North (Iowa) for a couple of years, I don’t find the snow in the picture that overwhelming. Shoot, I recall getting about a foot and a half one time, and then after I’d gone out and shoveled the (50-foot) driveway, we got another two feet or so on top of that. Being a Southerner, I didn’t know any better and left my car parked on the street; after the plows came through the second time, the car was totally invisible and I had to go dig it out. The plows had also created a wall of hard-packed snow about six feet high all along the side of the street, through which I had to dig a breach so we could get out of the driveway. It was about 10 below that day, but I took off my coat and was sweating profusely by the time I was done shoveling.
That was awful. I’ll take hot summers over winters like that.