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Trivial Pursuits => People & Places => Topic started by: side_show on November 16, 2005, 05:41:46 pm
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We just had a huge snow storm, which was also the first storm of the year, with over 13 inches of snow. The whole world is at a stand still. It's beautiful though, and in spite of all the complaining that other people are doing (on the news, not to me), it was so wonderful to snuggle under the covers with the SO, make the decision to no even venture out, stay in, later to bake cookies, eventually to go out into the post-storm snow. I have no complaints really.
Before the storm, there's a sort of excitement. Will it really hit? Was the weather guy right? You can feel an electricity in the air. Then you go to bed, and in the morning, you open the curtains, and there it is: SNOW! It was still seriously storming out when I woke up yesterday at the time both the SO and I are supposed to head out for work. I glanced out the window, knew what I was seeing, and just snuggled back into bed to sleep.
For those of you who don't know snow, or snow in large amounts, there is a reason it's called a blanket of snow: Everything is muffled. The traffic sounds, the wind in the trees, all becomes almost silent. It's sort of magical.
Looking out my window during the day, I saw 3 SUV's and a large moving truck all get stuck in the snow on my street at different points yesterday. After getting unstuck, it seems that everyone gets to about the half way point of my street, then something happened and the vehicle has to drive backward all the way back to where they came from. Stuck car? Felled tree? Huge snow drift? I'll never know, but this funny scene happened over and over again yesterday. I thought "Look at all those poor bastards." You gotta' wonder why people were trying so hard to go out into the storm. Everyone had a pretty valid excuse to stay in. The 7000 student college was closed, most schools were only requiring voluntary attendance. The radio said over 100 city transit buses were stuck at one point or other in the snow yesterday, that wait times for buses was over 1 hour!
Funny fact: if you move into your first house, you probably won't own a snow shovel, and the importance of this fact will only be made clear to you when you are standing in a snow drift that is higher than your knee, and it infront of your door.
We went out to buy shovels last night, after the storm, but before any streets were cleared, and the streets were dead like it was the end of the world. My SO grew up on a farm and had no trouble getting out of the street, even without a shovel, or navigating the skating-rink-like roads. Most shops were totally dark having never opened or having given up and closed. We were annoyed to see mostly Money Marts and Payday Loan places alight. Some roads were so shiny with ice that it looked like driving on mirrors. We got to the first hardware store, and the shovel isle - the whole isle of about 20 ft - was bare and empty, except for kiddy shovels. The next store, the parking lot was more or less empty, but the shovel isle was swarming with people. We got our shovels and were on our way.
The 24 hour Burger King closed down as we pulled up to the drive thru - we went to a mom and pop place instead. Entire strip malls were dark with parking lots impassible from snow. Cars stuck in places, scattered like toys dropped by a careless toddler. It was really sort of cool and like another century. So many businesses, usually open 'til late or for 24 hours were totally dark at 5 pm.
The SO and I were in total love bliss, we didn't really encounter many grumpy people, or let them penatrate our happy aura. We were in our own world of making do and making the best of it. One guy asked us very sarcastically how we liked the snow, and I happily exclaimed - "It's great! We got the whole day off!" Even the shoveling was sort of fun. It was dark, the stars were out, the moon was bright, the snow came up in chunky blocks.
I have to be at work tonight for 4pm, and what would usually take about 30 minutes, according to the radio, will likely take 2 hours, so maybe I'll have some complaining to do then!
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It's 75 degrees out here today. I am wearing a t-shirt and short ##### in the middle of November.
It's like, 80 in my room.
Please send us some of your cold air from the North. We could use it. I don't want to be sweating my ass off on Thanksgiving (the real one, not your fake Canadian one).
Thank you.
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I am looking forward to snow like whoa. It's about damn time, and I'm sure getting sick of autumn rain. Let's just have a real cold season already.
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It's pretty fuck*ng cold here, and I got lightly snowed on on my way home from work, but... Nope. Nothing real yet.
We nearly got snowed in the year before last, and the last actual snowing in was about 5 years ago, so who knows, but then it is supposed to be a damn cold winter.
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I am looking forward to snow like whoa. It's about damn time, and I'm sure getting sick of autumn rain. Let's just have a real cold season already.
All we get for 'winter' here is nights in the 60's and daily rain showers. Still gets up in the 80s every day.
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I am looking forward to snow like whoa. It's about damn time, and I'm sure getting sick of autumn rain. Let's just have a real cold season already.
All we get for 'winter' here is nights in the 60's and daily rain showers. Still gets up in the 80s every day.
Well, whatever works for you, I guess. Me, I'll take snow.
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Fuck the snow.
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Fuck the snow.
Good way to get frostbite there, homeslice.
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I too, would give up something dear to me for the opportunity to enjoy a mild winter where the lows are in the 50's. I've predicted that what will break up my SO and I is the inevitable good news that I bring home that I've found a job in Fort Lauderdale or Phoenix or San Diego, and that she, the snow-lover, will decide not to come with me.
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Bah! You are all babies.
I took the hour long walk to work today. It was wonderful, as I was well dressed and everything was pretty. I wore: on my head a balaclava and a knitted toque with ear flaps - both over my headphones. On my upper body I wore a t-shirt, a sweater, a caftan, a parka and a scarf. I felt no cold. The only trouble was the boots - I used Goop to seal up the holes from last year, I need me some new boots bad.
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I feel ya Side Show, it's gonna get down to the 30's here tonight. I had to put damn jacket on.
~Paul
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there was a tornado here, and now it is COLD.
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Wombat has it right.
Edit: God that's a beautiful picture. And, V, I use Thinsulate Condoms. Duh.
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Goddamn I love me some snow. I've been to Canada twice for snow and it was beautiful.
In the land of Oz we are lucky to get down around 55 to 60 of your Farenheight degrees during winter (during the day, it can get down to 35 at night), but it's our summer here and christmas is typically the hottest day of the year, normally around 40 C where I am or (so the internet informs me) around 105 F.
Fuck winter is right, it should fuck*ng come down here!
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It's opposite land! Hot snow falls up!
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Goddamn I love me some snow. I've been to Canada twice for snow and it was beautiful.
In the land of Oz we are lucky to get down around 55 to 60 of your Farenheight degrees during winter (during the day, it can get down to 35 at night), but it's our summer here and christmas is typically the hottest day of the year, normally around 40 C where I am or (so the internet informs me) around 105 F.
Fuck winter is right, it should fuck*ng come down here!
Hey Doc, aren't there some places, up in the mountains, where snow falls for in your country?
Being uneducated about Australia, I was helping my best friend pack for her term-long trip to study at the U of Taz, and naturally advised her not to pack a jacket, mitts, etc. Then it turned out where she was staying before going to school, in a mountain region, it snowed a few days after she arrived, and she had to buy a parka and and wool hat and mitts. She sent an email photo of herself in the snow wearing all her newly bought gear, and was a tad pissed off at me. Since I am not a certified weather girl, nor and Austrailiologist, I apologized. When she was prepairing to leave for home later that year she threw her parka and mitts out since she had plenty of them at home, but brought me back the woolen hat, which I now wear quite often. People often compliment my woolen hat and are often amazed that such a warm (and lovely) hand knitted hat came from, and was worn in Australia.
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there was a tornado here, and now it is COLD.
indeed. things, last night, outside, they froze.
i remember, in high school, waiting for the bus in shorts, kicking at the snow, thinking "yay, it's finally warm."
now, down here, i see my breath and i'm all "oh my god i'm going to freeze to death."
also, there are leaves everywhere.
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My commute doubled last night because of a mild rain. Needless to say, I am not eagerly awaiting snowfall.
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Cort does not mention that overnight the temperature in our area dropped about 40 degrees. This ought to be illegal.
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Thanks for the cold air, Smells. It was just what I needed.
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I love snow, for all the reasons sideshow mentioned. For me, there is nothing better than the frenzy of a snowstorm and the quiet that follows. I especially love when the storm is at night, and you wake up to find the world covered in a perfect layer of snow. Until the sun melts it and cars drive over it. Then it looks like shit.
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Thanks for the cold air, Smells. It was just what I needed.
You see how I take care of you, baby?
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My commute doubled last night because of a mild rain. Needless to say, I am not eagerly awaiting snowfall.
This always pisses me off, but then, I suppose it's better for everyone to drive like wimps than have them continue to fly down the wet highway at 70 MPH in their Ford Executioners as if it was a beautiful summer day. I dunno.
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This always pisses me off, but then, I suppose it's better for everyone to drive like wimps than have them continue to fly down the wet highway at 70 MPH in their Ford Executioners as if it was a beautiful summer day. I dunno.
Like people do here. I admit, we'd be ground to a halt most of the time otherwise, but it can be a mite terrifying. Particularly when you come round to the bit of major road on my way to work which makes you aquaplane all the time.
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My commute doubled last night because of a mild rain. Needless to say, I am not eagerly awaiting snowfall.
This always pisses me off, but then, I suppose it's better for everyone to drive like wimps than have them continue to fly down the wet highway at 70 MPH in their Ford Executioners as if it was a beautiful summer day. I dunno.
People need to realize that the gas pedal has settings between 70mph and 4. Slowing down due to weather is dandy but I don't think that we quite need to take it down to continental drift speeds.
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Oh, oh! It's snowing again! Yay!
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Side_show: Your friend is 100% correct and I should probably retract some of my bitching. We do actually have pretty good variety as far as climates go around here.
It is just that I live up north where we get exactly 0 snow ever (though even down south you only get it up in mountainy type regions) and if you try to go swimming at the beach a crocodile will fight a jelly giraffe to eat you.
Part of my annoyance is probably because my sweety is actually going on holiday to these cooler climes in a couple of weeks and I am unable to follow due to a summer project I must desperately finish so I have enough course credit to start honours next semester.
In any case, just enjoy the f*ck out of some of that snow for me.
I guess I should be grateful that people speed here no matter what season it is.
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Oh, I've been enjoying it, especially today, Doc. It's gotten deeper because we've had a couple other snow falls since the storm, but also it's getting warm today and tomorrow, so a lot of it will be melted soon. Then it's just brown sandy, salty slush.