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Post by Mod City on Jan 6, 2010 15:29:24 GMT -5
I noticed in Phantom's Complaint Bar there has been talk of the stress winter is putting on a lot of people. It's only January, but I agree that I'm ready for the dog days of summer. Here are a few shots from my neck of the woods: mennohutchinsonherald.blogspot.com/2010/01/dec-30-2009.htmlSeventeen inches of snow over Christmas alone. So far, the coldest temp of the season has been -29F. Anyone else sick and tired of the cold and snow?
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 6, 2010 16:32:21 GMT -5
We've had extremely cold weather with terrible wind chills. Tomorrow we're supposed to get about 9 more inches of snow. At least I've got someone who shovels our driveway now.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jan 6, 2010 16:42:16 GMT -5
I have yet to see any snow here in South Carolina. It's cold enough. with 18 degree nights and 30 degree days. I wanna see some snow! It's been decades since I've thrown a snowball...
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Post by solgroupie on Jan 6, 2010 16:43:47 GMT -5
since we don't get much snow in the south, i'm one of the weirdos that actually likes snow. i know it's a pain for those of you who have to deal with it constantly this time of year, but i get as excited as i used to in school when i hear we might get snow. i don't know why, really - it isn't like i get out of work because of it. i love winter - i love cold, dreary, rainy, foggy & snowy weather. yeah!
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 6, 2010 16:46:05 GMT -5
You can always visit me and shovel my driveway. That should cure you pretty quick.
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Post by siamesesin on Jan 9, 2010 14:25:08 GMT -5
Yes, I am quite sick of it. Between the same nasty temperatures and ridiculous amounts of snow, I also have the added benefit of working for AAA, which means roadside assistance for stranded motorists. Lots of fun in winter! And the best part? We cover Nebraska, Iowa, most of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Illinois, part of Indiana, and Michigan. As in the WORST states for winter road problems.
Aaargh!
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Post by joike on Jan 10, 2010 12:04:31 GMT -5
I don't mind the snow! It's the lack of consistent plowing and the horrible drivers that make it bad here. Two inches of snow and they cancel schools! A few weeks ago when we got 2 feet, everyone just stayed inside. Which made for a nice commute for me, bad road conditions aside!
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Post by KyrieEleison on Jan 10, 2010 22:38:38 GMT -5
Being, I guess, the first West Coaster to comment, I'll just say that it feels colder than the forecast says it is. The Weather Channel says that it is 46 degrees here in Northern California, but you still need to bundle up an awful lot for it being almost 50 out. Especially given that a few weeks ago, the temperature plummeted, giving us the first below-freezing week in recent memory. It hasn't been really bothering me as much as it has my sisters, something I chalk up to still being used to (or remembering) those cold Central Virginia winters. Then again, my sisters go out in hoodies and complain. I wear a winter coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. No wonder they're cold.
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Post by doctorz on Jan 11, 2010 8:35:46 GMT -5
This Saturday some flakes fell in Ormand Beach, FL a little to the south of me and a little north of Daytona. Somebody got an extreme close up with a digital movie camera of a very light 'dusting' of flakes on a beach chair left outside. It was major news! This morning it was 22 at the Jacksonville airport. Since I've lived here we haven't had such a prolonged cold spell. I hope you don't like strawberries 'cause you're not getting any from Florida this year!
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Post by mccloud on Jan 11, 2010 21:30:46 GMT -5
We've had 16 continuous days of snow, and lots of cold. I expect cold and snow in January in Ohio. We get very little sun during the winter. It's overcast from November to April.
Mod City and sia win for hell-froze-over, but at least it appears there is sunshine in South Dakota and Nebraska.
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Post by Mod City on Jan 11, 2010 21:53:37 GMT -5
Mod City and sia win for hell-froze-over, but at least it appears there is sunshine in South Dakota and Nebraska. We have gotten some sun, actually. It even shined for a bit during last week's ground blizzard. It was whiteout conditions out the window, but you could see the sun in the sky. Very weird. It's even climbed over freezing the past couple of days. Not above zero, above freezing! We went from a high of -7F to a high of 33F in two days. God, it's been great. Slippery everywhere, but great.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jan 12, 2010 1:12:24 GMT -5
This Saturday some flakes fell in Ormand Beach, FL a little to the south of me and a little north of Daytona. Somebody got an extreme close up with a digital movie camera of a very light 'dusting' of flakes on a beach chair left outside. It was major news! This morning it was 22 at the Jacksonville airport. Since I've lived here we haven't had such a prolonged cold spell. I hope you don't like strawberries 'cause you're not getting any from Florida this year! No one's getting any oranges from us either, just to let everyone know. All our poor citrus trees are dying. I live just south of Ormond Beach and we had quite a little flurry of snow on Saturday morning. I was telling everybody, like my sister in Denver and my in-laws in the UK. They were all like, "Big deal, there's a million pounds of snow over here!" They don't seem to understand that it's FLORIDA, people. It hardly ever, ever snows here, so when it does it's really exciting, like the end of the world or something. Since I'm a Florida native, I have to say that I really like cold weather. I know loads of snow is a pain in the ass, but I've lived with punishing heat and humidity for so long that cold and snow seems like a sweet balm to me. I think I'm part penguin.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Jan 12, 2010 1:22:20 GMT -5
I have to say, though, that my favorite place to be in November or March is St. Petersburg, Florida. I would visit relatives there on school breaks and the weather would always be nice and comfy (a nice change from the weather in Virginia, which apparently it took moving back to California to adjust to), plus it was nice to be one of the few girls on my hall to come back from break with a sweet tan.
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Post by doctorz on Jan 13, 2010 11:00:06 GMT -5
Since I have always lived in the deep, deep south snow has always been a rare treat. The first time I ever saw a huge accumulation of snow was in Wyoming when I was 18. Most of my life I've only experienced a few inches of accumulation at a time and I've never been anywhere where you had to shovel the stuff out of the way to get anything done or go to work.
My wife, who grew up part of her life in the snow belt, hates the stuff and often gets mad at me for my Currier and Ives view of winter with Victorian cottages in the country, kids snowball fights and happy sleigh rides to a party at the neighbors just down the snowy path between the snow bedecked fir trees. (except the small one, which is of no account!)
The deal is once I retire my wife wants me to spend a winter in Buffalo, N.Y. with her aunt and uncle. I have to get a job so I need to get somewhere every morning. She won't send me money, so no reading and writing poetry by a crackling fire all day! She guarantees I will be screaming to come home by mid-January.
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Post by mccloud on Jan 13, 2010 14:35:42 GMT -5
Since I have always lived in the deep, deep south snow has always been a rare treat. The first time I ever saw a huge accumulation of snow was in Wyoming when I was 18. Sounds like Hoss Ragen at the 2007 meet-up. He'd never seen snow, and was practically rolling around in it on St. Mary's Glacier.
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