Topic: My annual "Yay! First snow message." (Read 17593 times)

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #50 on:** 01 Oct 2009, 14:40 »

I'll just grab my club and get on that.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #51 on:** 01 Oct 2009, 16:13 »

Monster.

LTK · « **Reply #52 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 14:36 »

Holy crap, last week it was still possible not to wear gloves and a scarf when you went outside, then suddenly, two days ago your ears would freeze off if you were outside for more than 15 minutes, and now everything is covered in a foot of snow, just like that! It's been a long time since that happened around here.

Christophe · « **Reply #53 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 15:19 »

HEY GUYS IT TOTALLY JUST FUCKIN' SNOWED IN GLASGOW THIS AFTERNOON

fucking awesome

JD · « **Reply #54 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 16:25 »

Quote from: LTK on 17 Dec 2009, 14:36

Holy crap, last week it was still possible not to wear gloves and a scarf when you went outside, then suddenly, two days ago your ears would freeze off if you were outside for more than 15 minutes, and now everything is covered in a foot of snow, just like that! It's been a long time since that happened around here.

Like that, except it reversed itself again. We got barely any snow.

blanktom · « **Reply #55 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 17:45 »

Woo its snowing here in East Anglia!! Me and Vicky just went to a little park near our house and made a snowman at 1am. It took a lot of convincing but I got her out in it eventually, and a total stranger threw a snowball at me and I threw one back and man I get really excited about snow. Only problem is it will probably rain first thing tomorrow morning and by the time I wake up it will be slushhh

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #56 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 17:52 »

The snow doesn't want to stay long here. Then again, who could blame it?

scarred · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 19:09 »

Seattle gets snow maybe once every five years. This past week it was a constant 22 degrees, so we got our hopes up, but as it snowed last year, the weather's back to 40 and rainy.

JD · « **Reply #58 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 19:34 »

Quote from: scarred on 17 Dec 2009, 19:09

Seattle gets snow maybe once every five years. This past week it was a constant 22 degrees, so we got our hopes up, but as it snowed last year, the weather's back to 40 and rainy.

My weather is probably the same for the most part, I live only 100 miles away. Give or take.

Reed · « **Reply #59 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 19:45 »

Quote from: scarred on 17 Dec 2009, 19:09

Seattle gets snow maybe once every five years. This past week it was a constant 22 degrees, so we got our hopes up, but as it snowed last year, the weather's back to 40 and rainy.

Hahaha, you guys are so cute when it snows.

silverstar · « **Reply #60 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 20:28 »

First Snow of the year here in good ole' Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA:

This was about halfway through a storm that covered the city in 10.2 inches (almost 14 inches in other places of the state!) of the nasty, cold, brutally beautiful white stuff. The picture is of my street, and the little dot in the middle of the snow-covered sidewalk all the way in the distance is my youngest brother sledding backwards down the hill.

La

Verergoca · « **Reply #61 on:** 17 Dec 2009, 21:35 »

Holy crap! It snowed like, 10cm here and the country is breaking down! (Dutch people dont handle snow to well) Trains at Utrecht Central (which is like, the spider in the web of railways here) just stopped going between 15:30 and 20:00. This is also the busiest station we have...

Thankfully, i convinced the people i was with that we might as well go and have a few beers and eat something and sit in a nice warm place

pwhodges · « **Reply #62 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 00:58 »

The Dutch are as bad at doing snow as the English? That takes some believing...

scarred · « **Reply #63 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 01:31 »

Quote from: Reed on 17 Dec 2009, 19:45

Hahaha, you guys are so cute when it snows.

Seriously, we got 4 inches last year and the entire city shut down. Being born and raised in Chicago, I was so confused - it'd take a blizzard with gale-force winds to stop anything from running there. In Seattle, it's common practice to run around in circles shrieking once the flakes start to fall.

Reed · « **Reply #64 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 06:35 »

Yeah, I remember one time when I was in Seattle when there was less than an inch of snow. You could still see the grass sticking out of the snow, and yet they shut down all schools in the area and the people were driving at absurdly slow speeds.

sean · « **Reply #65 on:** 18 Dec 2009, 12:19 »

guys dc is supposed to get like, 6in to a fucking foot tomorrow or some bullshit like that.

i am pissed i am supposed to be seeing monument tomorrow and if we get that much the entire dc area is going to be shut the fuck down.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #66 on:** 19 Dec 2009, 20:57 »

Yeah DC is totally shut down. Metro stopped running trains to outdoor platforms at 1pm, and the news said cops were on the highway ramps making people turn around and go home instead of getting on the highway. Last I measured, we had 17.5 inches of snow in the back yard. My car has disappeared even further since this photo, now you can only see the top of the tire and a sliver of the hubcap.

JD · « **Reply #67 on:** 19 Dec 2009, 21:00 »

My sister lives in Columbia. The last time she had a kid there was a huge blizzard. She had another this year and dang would you look at that, another one.

My Sister must never have another kid.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #68 on:** 19 Dec 2009, 23:50 »

So, I am going to DC on Monday (to hang out with family, and stuff like that). Will I be confronted by a city that will still have too much snow that they don't know how to deal? Last time I remember getting six inches (maybe '02?), the entire metro area shut down for about a week.

sean · « **Reply #69 on:** 20 Dec 2009, 13:51 »

i mean people are still gonna be flipping a shit probably but i think the city will be functional. the roads are starting to clear up i think (my neighborhood is good) and metro should be running tomorrow. im actually going downtown tonight so if the city is a fucking mess ill let you know. i think* it'll be fine tomorrow.

*read as "it had fucking better"

A Wet Helmet · « **Reply #70 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 04:26 »

So I ended up with 19 inches out where I am on this one. I've gotten more snow on me before, but never living in Virginia as I was in Europe for the 96 blizzard. Spent all damn day yesterday shoveling. My wife called and said that once you're out of our neighborhood the main road is still slick as shit. I really wish I could work from home today, but I can't. I expect that once I make it to 95 it'll be fine, but the backasswards rural jerkwater that I live in will be a mess for days.

Jed · « **Reply #71 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 05:46 »

Thank God I live in Finland... At least our cities won't shutdown during snowstorms. People just pretty much ignore it as an normal winter occurrence.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #72 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 06:29 »

Same with Rochester. Always the first snow has people ridiculously scared because they seem to forget what that white stuff coming down from the sky is. After that, it's business as usual for a number of months. The only problems with snow arise when the infrastructure is not in place to deal with it, due to there being absolutely no reason to have it in a place that might get a foot of snow per year.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #73 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 10:37 »

The snow has now become a prominent member of our scenery, soon it will be elected mayor for sure

Something Witty · « **Reply #74 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 12:46 »

We don't even get snow in oklahoma. We get ice. It pretty much is just dry and cold all winter except when it rains four inches because it is 50F in the day time and then 10F in the evenings. then everything is covered in a layer of ice for a week or two and no one cares. I spend those days sliding around in parking lots.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #75 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 13:28 »

God I remember when we started getting Ice Storms in 2000 in OK. Jesus Christ that was hell.

Hairy Joe Bob · « **Reply #76 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 18:20 »

there has been lots of snow here in England. I have fallen on my arse quite a lot. I invested in some snow boots. they are good for snow, but once the snow thins and there is just ice, they are bollocks and I fall on my arse.

jhocking · « **Reply #77 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 18:55 »

Just landed in Philadelphia, here's the runway:

(sorry for big, can't resize photos on my iphone)

JD · « **Reply #78 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 19:12 »

It looks very dark.

jhocking · « **Reply #79 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 22:43 »

Well yes it is. The point was to show the walls of snow surrounding the runway.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #80 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 23:45 »

Apparently the only significant snowfall Sydney has ever experienced was in 1836.

I miss snow.

Something Witty · « **Reply #81 on:** 21 Dec 2009, 23:48 »

Quote from: ackblom12 on 21 Dec 2009, 13:28

God I remember when we started getting Ice Storms in 2000 in OK. Jesus Christ that was hell.

The news says we'll have a big fat gross one for christmas. Rain/show wednesday, then more rain thursday, with a high of 38 for christmas.

Merry fucking frostbite, everyone.

pwhodges · « **Reply #82 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 00:44 »

Oxford is bounded by blocked roads and stuff, but doesn't have even enough snow of its own to clog my bicycle brakes. Cold though, but the wind has stopped which makes it much less biting. But the temperature still goes over 0C most days - in the winter after I was born, it stayed below freezing for six weeks (not that I remember that!).

BlahBlah · « **Reply #83 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 01:31 »

The snow's getting quite thick in Aberdeen now:

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #84 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 02:23 »

The only effect snow has around here is that everybody forgets how to use brakes. Hooray traffic.

pwhodges · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 02:26 »

No, it's just that their brakes are frozen solid (like my bike cables this morning; and the padlock).

Ptommydski · « **Reply #86 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 07:55 »

Outside my house in St Fergus earlier today.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #87 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 13:30 »

You have pretty winters. The winter's here are pretty much white, grey, and darker grey.

And the occasional yellow snow from where the huskies go.

Malek · « **Reply #88 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 14:49 »

Had snow for a few days, 3 feet. I am staying indoors where its warm (FOR ONCE).

pwhodges · « **Reply #89 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 15:05 »

The only thing remarkable about the cold and snow in the UK, such as it is, is the extent to which the entire country is unprepared for this seasonal weather, in spite of forecasts, YET AGAIN!

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #90 on:** 22 Dec 2009, 16:28 »

It just wouldn't be the same if we were all prepared though. Then what would we complain about?

Up north we are having flurries of snow but nothing is sticking and the rain is washing most of it away. The bits that stay though always manage to turn into ice and cause me to have to use a skating action to walk properly.

Something Witty · « **Reply #91 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 19:19 »

I venture into a blizzard, you say?

Hmm. That won't do.

That's a little more like it.

I still managed to get stuck in a snowdrift up to the headlights in that jeep. That's about waist high, if you're unfamiliar.

LTK · « **Reply #92 on:** 27 Dec 2009, 08:32 »

On the night of the 24th it started snowing again, really hard this time. Then at around noon on the 25th it started raining, and it hasn't really stopped since. Don't you love white Christmases?

abadname · « **Reply #93 on:** 27 Dec 2009, 10:21 »

Quote from: Something Witty on 21 Dec 2009, 12:46

We don't even get snow in oklahoma. We get ice. It pretty much is just dry and cold all winter except when it rains four inches because it is 50F in the day time and then 10F in the evenings. then everything is covered in a layer of ice for a week or two and no one cares. I spend those days sliding around in parking lots.

It's not that dry, thats why it feels so damn cold here at normal temperatures. Denver is nice for cold

pwhodges · « **Reply #94 on:** 06 Jan 2010, 02:21 »

Several inches of snow in England! Fears for country's economy!

It's very pretty and all, but some people just don't even try to get to work.

jhocking · « **Reply #95 on:** 07 Jan 2010, 05:47 »

It snowed last night and I was literally about to go outside to shovel the sidewalk when I heard scraping outside. My downstairs neighbor was already shoveling, damn I feel guilty. At least it was the teenage girl doing it, and not the old lady.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #96 on:** 07 Jan 2010, 11:55 »

It snowed in the UK:

pwhodges · « **Reply #97 on:** 07 Jan 2010, 14:45 »

Apparently last night the coldest place in Britain was Benson, about five miles from me, which was -17.7C [= 0F]. No wonder the brakes on my bike were frozen.

LTK · « **Reply #98 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 15:15 »

To the above post and the post above that one: Holy crap.

The Netherlands was just recovering from the ten centimetres of snow that fell two weeks ago, breaking public transport everywhere for no obvious reasons. Then the thaw sets in, that damn thaw that sneaks up on you by clearing all the snow but leaving a half millimetre coating of ice on the pavement making it look dry while it's slippery as hell, got my bike swiped out from under me twice that day. And just when everyone thinks it's over, the next day white flakes fall merrily from the sky and we're back to square one. Still, I prefer the snow to the wind and rain that's raging outside right now. Good thing I don't have to go back to university until monday...

blanktom · « **Reply #99 on:** 29 Jan 2010, 06:17 »

At least where I am, its fukkin' snowin' in England again.

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