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Post by dolly on Feb 15, 2007 12:25:56 GMT -5
Well, it's snowin here . . . again Weather talk! *orgasms* Tell me Thorny, does your whole country grind to a halt as soon as the first flake lands, or is that just us guys? We don't like extremes. Grey and mild or we get our knickers in a knot. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 15, 2007 12:49:11 GMT -5
Oh, we're quite prepared for snow here, dolly dearest. Salt Lake City workers are total professionals, when it comes to prepping for the flaky frozen white stuff. After all, we pride ourselves on sporting the "best" skiing snow the world has to offer. It is pretty dry and fluffy, perfect for sledding and skiing.
Other parts of the US, however, completely go berserk w/1 inch of snow, like South Carolina for instance (where me Mum lives, bless her sweet heart). It's funny in one of them southern states, when they get an unexpected half inch of snow: Schools shut down, cars skid off the roads left & right, sirens blarin', people outside tryin to figure out how to shovel the stuff, city workers runnin around like chickens w/they heads cut off. It's pathetic, really.
But here in Salt Lake we're on Top of the whole snowy world ! ;D
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Post by dolly on Feb 15, 2007 13:03:43 GMT -5
Haha. Well at least we're not the only ones to start panicking. Perhaps understandable with the deep south and their usually hot climes, to be fair...
Still, where's the fun in not being able to take a snow-day and tuck yourself up in bed?
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 15, 2007 14:19:46 GMT -5
I know, swear to god if a blizzard struck this city burying it entirely, we'd all be expected to dig ourselves out of our own homes & ski to work.
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TheLady
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Post by TheLady on Feb 15, 2007 16:12:53 GMT -5
When it snows here, we can't get to work, but we can certainly get to the video store, which will be open come hell or high water (I know because I once worked in one). Oh, and the grocery store; can't forget that. Our presence is required at the grocery store even if there is only the slightest chance of snow, and if we must come to blows over that last loaf of bread, so be it, because by God we just might not make it out of this.
I haven't seen a flake of snow here in years. We don't get snow, we just get ice.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 15, 2007 16:58:38 GMT -5
When it snows here, we can't get to work, but we can certainly get to the video store, which will be open come hell or high water (I know because I once worked in one). Oh, and the grocery store; can't forget that. Our presence is required at the grocery store even if there is only the slightest chance of snow, and if we must come to blows over that last loaf of bread, so be it, because by God we just might not make it out of this. haha, ain't that the truth tho' Lady ? Especially when it comes to the video store - that is priceless ! |
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Post by strat-0 on Feb 15, 2007 20:32:56 GMT -5
Thorn sums it up pretty well, dolly. South of the Mason-Dixon line, three snowflakes is cause for massive panic. Driving to work yesterday morning there were a few snowflakes blowing around in the air - nothing on the dry roads or even the grass, yet seeing those wind-blown flakes was enough to cause many people to drive 20 mph on the expressway. You could slide right off the road, y'know! These are the same drivers who won't even slow down at all when roads are wet enough to easily hydroplane on. Morons.
Where are you, Lady?
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Post by Ryosuke on Feb 15, 2007 23:35:17 GMT -5
Absolutely no snow in Tokyo this winter. Can't say I mind.
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 16, 2007 0:06:54 GMT -5
Chicago looks really nice dressed in white today.
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Post by maarts on Feb 16, 2007 3:54:12 GMT -5
It's sweltering here. Wanna swap?
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Post by luke on Feb 16, 2007 8:22:46 GMT -5
Yes.
Hopefully it'll warm up for Mardi Gras proper, but I'm sick of having to get other people to open my cans of beer at all these parades because my hands are all wrapped up in thick gloves.
This beard is killer right now, though, a real godsend.
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TheLady
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Post by TheLady on Feb 16, 2007 9:35:01 GMT -5
I'm near Nacogdoches, in East Texas.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 16, 2007 10:08:12 GMT -5
That's as down home as you can get.
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 16, 2007 18:29:02 GMT -5
When it snows here, we can't get to work, but we can certainly get to the video store, which will be open come hell or high water (I know because I once worked in one). I can more than second that about the video store -- I managed a Video Update here for years and even if local law enforcement forbade people out driving, the company still expected us to be up and running. The chain was based out of St. Paul, MN so we always figured that the top dogs up there just all had 4wd's and shit to get around anyhow and thought we should be able to hack it as well. So nice now to be in the Landscape/Lawn Care biz now..... NOT!!! See, in the winter we do snow removal from residences and commercial properties and seeing how we just got hit this week with 17 inches, I've been out scooping/shoveling/snow blowing the last 3 days from 3AM until 6-8 at night! With sub-zero windchills to boot, it IS a tad, eh,,,bracing? Here's a view out the window before leaving for work the other morning  ....and it continued to come down all damn day! |
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 16, 2007 19:07:04 GMT -5
Oooh that's a nice one!
Same balcony shot as before, right?
I had a drift just like that across the back of my house....went a ¼ to ½-way up the basement windows back there.
And the part against the house wasn't the crest of the drift either.
Looked like fucking Canada!!
Still, I love the snow.
Whackjob.
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