# Winter is very mild **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678 "2015-01-23T15:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/41 "2015-01-26T14:55:23Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > **LavenderBlue** , please consider keeping at least One shovel Inside? Doors open outwards & if your door gets snowed shut, you’ll have to dig under/around it to get it to open. If your snow shovels are outside, you won’t be able to get to them to do this. > Also, snow shovels are cool, but flat head garden shovels and maybe a pick from your garden tools will be useful for those gigantic boulders of ice the plows will put in your driveway apron. > > * * * > > PS …and my neighbors who sat on their hands & laughed while I chopped firewood? Gee, I wonder what THEY’RE going to slow-burn? 😃😃😃 > > “Oh look, Mr GQ is chopping firewood.” > Yes. Yes I did. 😃 It’s on my lovely front porch. The porch has a roof so we’re good. I anticipate no school for my kids on Tues and Weds. They’ve lowered the snow count slight to twenty inches in my neck of the woods. Still insane though. Eh. I have over seven thousand books in the house if the power goes out so we’re fine with entertainment here. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/42 "2015-01-26T15:02:16Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Hey, **Count Blucher** , **LavBlue** , **Morgyn** , **SurlyRabbit** & our fellow East Coasters, let’s grab a few things & pay **Johnny L.A.** a visit. You know, pitchforks, flaming torches, & shovels. Lots of shovels. :mad: > (14" - 24" coming my way.) Seconded! (Some weathercritter is claiming up to 30" in my area now, but it’s the local Fox affiliate. They’re a little apocalyptic WRT weather events.) I’ve got a shovel and can get my hands on some torches. Pitchforks are probably out of season until spring. I’m not going into the Home Depot to get anything! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/43 "2015-01-26T16:14:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It’s supposed to be sunny and 58º here tomorrow. In January. Almost in Canada. > > (Of course, I was surprised by a – what was it? Twenty-degree drop in just a couple of days a couple of months ago.) A walk around the 'hood yesterday showed all of the early spring flowers poking their heads up. We have fragrant heather in our yard already. February could be a real shock to all this, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/44 "2015-01-26T18:38:14Z")
CNN is reporting a fucking _“State Of Emergency”_ for an expected 2 lousy feet of snow. Really, people? 😕 When I grew up in Tahoe, we would routinely get dumps of 3 to 6 feet at a time, in rapid succession. It was called Winter. And those were good times. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/45 "2015-01-26T23:54:49Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > CNN is reporting a fucking _“State Of Emergency”_ for an expected 2 lousy feet of snow. > > Really, people? 😕 > > When I grew up in Tahoe, we would routinely get dumps of 3 to 6 feet at a time, in rapid succession. “Golly, when I was a kid we used to deal with [extreme climate condition] all the time, so I don’t understand why a place that doesn’t deal with [extreme climate condition] all the time panics when it occurs.” The Lake Tahoe area is a sparsely populated mountain terrain. It doesn’t contain six or eight million people like the East Coast areas that this storm is about to hit. If Tahoe doesn’t get cleared after a storm, maybe some resorts don’t open. If roads don’t get cleared here, you have a situation like 1978 where entire states get shut down for a week. So maybe it’s a good idea to get people off the roads so that they can be cleared and mobilized the power companies so that power can be supplied to those 10 million people? ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/46 "2015-01-27T00:01:55Z")
People are so silly. Just because emergency services (police, fire, medical) can’t move when needed, that is no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/47 "2015-01-27T00:54:44Z")
If it makes anyone feel better, tennis classes were canceled tonight in the San Fernando Valley due to a light rain falling in the LA area currently. It’s only 64 F in downtown right now… ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/48 "2015-01-27T01:09:55Z")
Winter is coming. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/49 "2015-01-27T03:30:49Z")
No, it isn’t. Not here, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678/50 "2015-01-27T04:40:02Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I have over seven thousand books in the house if the power goes out so we’re fine with entertainment here. 7,000? Wow. That’s…um…alot! Anyone with torches is welcome to come by! We can light my tiki torches and hop in the hot tub. ETA: Seriously, stay safe out there for people in the blizzard zone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-is-very-mild/710678.md?page=2)