Snowday -- comment #73 from Kevin J. Maroney
The snow is gone now, incidentally. Amazing what a day of warm heavy rain will do to even the most solid packs of snow, and to the highways. Posted December 12, 2003 11:52 AM by Kevin J. Maroney
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #72 from Paula Lieberman
CHip wrote, "I think Paula exaggerates; snow patterns here can be all over the place. Inland towns often don't get as much snow as the coast because winds come off the water; the hills aren't high...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #71 from pericat
Oh, it's forty below in the winter, And it's twenty below in the fall. It rises to zero in springtime, And we don't get no summer at all. (chorus from a little ditty on the joy, the mystery, the...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #70 from Paula Helm Murray
I had my snowday today. It took me almost an hour to take Jim to work and get back home and I was totally traumatized by the slickness (it rained here before it started snowing, and the snow crews...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #69 from Jordin Kare
Graydon: Small amonts of alcohol are a vasodilator, larger amounts are a vasoconstrictor. Traditional cold weather drinks from cold countries are well into the -constrictor ends of things, as the...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #68 from Dan Layman-Kennedy
If it makes your back hurt, odds are you've bought a snow shovel from the Crippler's Conspiracy. The shovel should have a handle that's long enough to allow you to do all the work by flexing your legs...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #67 from disgusted`
CNN footage: US Soldiers execute Iraqi man, cheer. http://www.informationclearinghouse.literati.org/article5365.htm young soldier describes how 'awesome' it was. Posted December 10, 2003 4:47 PM by...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #66 from Graydon
Dan -- If it makes your back hurt, odds are you've bought a snow shovel from the Crippler's Conspiracy. The shovel should have a handle that's long enough to allow you to do all the work by flexing...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #65 from Jello
Winter is good. It kills lots of creepy crawly things we'd be up to our collective arses in if it weren't for the occasional hard freeze. KC always lays down at least a 1/8 inch of ice before any snow,...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #64 from Paula Helm Murray
Weird days. We started out the day with a thunderstorm, which is really odd in December. The morning was pretty much like the gods were flushing out the heavens, as usual I took Jim to work and he...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #63 from CHip
And after a relatively tolerable commute yesterday (possibly aided by schools being closed), Boston today found out just how badly it had plowed; streets west and southwest of downtown turned into...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #62 from Dan Layman-Kennedy
What Alison fails to mention is that DC drivers react in exactly the same way to rain. I'm moving to north of Baltimore this weekend (where last Saturday I had my first helping of shoveling snow out of...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #61 from Mris
Halloween storm was the year I was 13, so 1991, I think. The other Minnesotan in house has confirmed it. (This is probably going to be after someone else's comment already saying the same, since I left...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #60 from PiscusFiche
BTW, while we're on the topic of weather and calamity, I just felt an earthquake. About an hour ago. At first I second guessed myself, thinking, I left California three months ago, and I'm being a...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #59 from Scott Lynch
Scott, didn't mean to imply that you were wrong Hey, no problem! Occasionally being nudged to provide supporting evidence or clarification is a good thing. Keeps my Mutant Arrogance Factor in check....
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #58 from Rachael HD
Scott, didn't mean to imply that you were wrong, just enjoying grousing about my lack of snow days. I took a sick day today and it's snowing so that's almost as good. (Other than the whole being sick...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #57 from Norm
And here I find myself in Central Canada with less than 2 inches on the ground. Posted December 9, 2003 2:11 PM by Norm
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #56 from Dave Kuzminski
The two winters I spent in Alaska were contrasts in themselves. One winter was so cold that very little snow fell in our area. It was ankle deep at most. Water that had seeped beneath the linoleum rose...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #55 from Kellie
Wow. A whopping 4 inches in Boulder. You'd think it was four feet with the havoc it was still causing this morning. Traffic was backed up for two miles so everyone could slow down from the requisite 30...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #54 from Janet Croft
Love the picture of Jim MacDonald's yard -- looks exactly like where I grew up, on a steep road in a suburb of Pittsburgh, where we had real snows when I was a kid darn it. (Although I called home and...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #53 from Scott Lynch
Mris wrote: ...Er? Which Minnesota are we talking about here, Scott? The school district I moved into this October (Eagan-Apple Valley) just sent out a self-congratulatory newsletter talking about how...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #52 from Graydon
Jeremy - Small amonts of alcohol are a vasodilator, larger amounts are a vasoconstrictor. Traditional cold weather drinks from cold countries are well into the -constrictor ends of things, as the...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #51 from Rachael HD
"School cancelled, 18-wheelers overturned, ditches so thick with cars you could walk the length of the state on top of them." Hmph, I have taught in Mnneapolis (well, Edina actually) for ten years now...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #50 from cd
Paula: Yeah, Greenland is one of the drier spots on the Earth (especially the interior), together with the heart of the Antarctic and the West coast of Chile (average precipitation in Calorica, Chile:...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #49 from Paula Lieberman
The snowfall distribution was unusual. Were it a more standard distribution, parts of Worcester County would have had more snow than Beverly, instead of the two feet or so less. Farther north doesn't...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #48 from Jeremy Leader
Graydon and John Farrell, I could have sworn alcohol was a vasodilator - hence the "glow". This is much more dangerous; the flow of blood to the extremities keeps them nice and healthy and warm, at the...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #47 from Bob Devney
Graydon, so "[B]iologically, hard winters get rid of a lot of insect pests and tropical diseases." Never thought of it that way before. So we avoid leishmaniasis, river blindness, and the fabled...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #46 from Kate Salter
We have 38 inches of snow up here in Beverly, MA, which is 26 miles north of Boston. Somehow I got the brilliant idea to drive to my bf's house on Saturday becasue he lives in Belmont, whihch is only...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #45 from davey
Mike, we now have more than enough to share with those we care about, and there are wondrous conveniences available of Overnight Delivery and Special Packaging. And I'm really glad Chip's still fit...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #44 from CHip
Alison: unless the climate has changed more radically since my childhood than I've heard, it doesn't get snow every winter; it gets "snow" every winter, or maybe snow "every winter". In the 1950's and...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #43 from Mary Kay
I'm with Kate, I'd have killed him on the spot. I was at SMOFcon in Chicago and there were lots of Bostonians there. Most of them had their Sunday flights cancelled. All of them but one got out today....
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #42 from John Farrell
Graydon, Strong drink is not a good idea when you're going out into the cold; that feeling of warmth is due to the alcohol being a vasoconstrictor. This isn't good for your extremities in serious cold,...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #41 from John M. Ford
It works both ways, of course. The first serious snowstorm of the year, there is tinburger all over the highways; and the first nice weekend of the year, cyclists (motorized and not) decide to dash as...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #40 from Mris
...and you've just described Minnesota, too! You'd think we'd know better, but no. Every year, same damn thing. School cancelled, 18-wheelers overturned, ditches so thick with cars you could walk the...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #39 from HoHo
"Local movie theatre" only in a north country sense -- around 50 miles, isn't it? Across the watershed between the Connecticut and Androscoggin rivers at Dixville Notch, then across the Mahoosics at...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #38 from James D. Macdonald
Sunday River? Cool! That's near one of my local movie theaters, and the lasertag and climbing wall nearby are great! Posted December 8, 2003 6:47 PM by James D. Macdonald
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #37 from HoHo
30 - 40 inches of glorious powder at Sunday River in Newry (Bethel)Maine where I'm teaching skiing this winter. A ski instructor's dream -- no students, the training schedule changed to "Independent...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #36 from Faren Miller
Our first hint of winter in Prescott AZ (mile-high, so don't confuse us with Phoenix) arrived this morning. Mid-way on my c. 4-mile walk home from downtown -- good exercise and we don't have buses --...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #35 from Jason
The Muscovites may have called your snowstorm a "dusting," Jane, but as of mid-last week Moscow itself was strangely and entirely without snow. The temperature floated somewhere around a "balmy" 32...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #34 from Scott Lynch
The curious thing about Washington, DC is that it snows every year and every year people behave as if they'd never seen the stuff before. ...and you've just described Minnesota, too! You'd think we'd...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #33 from Kellie
The curious thing about Washington, DC is that it snows every year and every year people behave as if they'd never seen the stuff before. Alison, the same thing happens here in the Denver Metro area....
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #32 from James D. Macdonald
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon snowballs, I vowed revenge Posted December 8, 2003 3:11 PM by James D. Macdonald
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #31 from Kristine
I'm in Swampscott, Mass., north of Boston near Marblehead, so we got 30 inches of snow and tidal flooding. I bundled up my 6-year-old last night and walked down to the beach to watch the last of the...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #30 from PiscusFiche
This is a marked contrast from, say, St. John's, Newfoundland, where they close school only when several feet of snow fall at a time and they have to dump the plowed snow into the harbor because...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #29 from Alison
The curious thing about Washington, DC is that it snows every year and every year people behave as if they'd never seen the stuff before. We end up with things like 100 car pile-ups on I-95 and two...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #28 from Charles Dodgson
The Patriots had a sellout football game yesterday. And about thirty inches of snow fell on the stadium. It wasn't pretty. The team actually clinched a playoff spot with the win, but an astonishing...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #27 from PiscusFiche
I MISS winter. Especially winter in Canada. A winter spent in San Diego played havoc with my internal thermostat, and now that I am experiencing the admittedly mild winter of North Carolina, I find...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #26 from nerdycellist
Well, lack of real weather does not preclude one from getting sick, dammit. This is only my second winter in L.A., so may I just say I don't miss the snow at all. In fact, I relish the opportunity to...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #25 from Claude Muncey
Pictures like Jim's front yard hit me strangely. Growing up in Louisiana and Alabama, I ended up thinking that a white Christmas meant that your lawn had gone beige and dormant for the winter. I longed...
View ArticleSnowday -- comment #24 from bill blum
I just rode my bike 10 miles (home -> public library -> campus -> home). It's 39 degrees F outside, I'm tooling around on my bike in jeans and a flannel shirt, and my neighbors are starting to...
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