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[CortJstr]

It's opposite land! Hot snow falls up!

[side_show]

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.

[arkabee]

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.

[CortJstr]

My commute doubled last night because of a mild rain. Needless to say, I am not eagerly awaiting snowfall.

[wombat]

Cort does not mention that overnight the temperature in our area dropped about 40 degrees.  This ought to be illegal.

[jough]

Thanks for the cold air, Smells.  It was just what I needed.

[robot_roll_call]

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.

[side_show]

Thanks for the cold air, Smells.  It was just what I needed.

You see how I take care of you, baby?

[Carlos del Vaca]

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.

[slink]

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.

[CortJstr]

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.

[side_show]

Oh, oh!  It's snowing again!  Yay!

[Doc]

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.

[side_show]

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.