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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, The City of Buffalo is in a state of emergency. All businesses and functions are closed. There is a ban on driving in and around the city. We recieved 25 inches of snow over the past 14 hours. Many people are stranded, at school and at local businesses.

Now, this sounds great, lots of fun, and really cool especially for a guy who LOVES snow.

On the contrary. I am stuck in Buffalo. Tomorrow I go home for Thanksgiving Vacation, but alas the roads might very well be closed tomorrow as well. I want to go home, spend time with the family, and get away from here!!!

I am currently rethinking my love for snow.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Too sum it up in a general opinion, especially for we that suffer from 'lake effect' snow....

Winter sucks. Although here we only have a very light dusting of the white crap.

Jeff, go buy a snowmobile, or rent one, then road closers be damned...

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

Pleh! Snow sucks! We've had the white stuff on the ground here for almost two weeks. And I just about lost my LUNCH when I found out how much a decent set of snow tires will cost for my car... gah! There will be none this year.... I'll tough it.

~LOA

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

It's been snowing in the Spokane area? Hmm. It's cold here. Cold enough for snow, I guess. But no moisture.

This concludes our discussion of central Washington weather patterns.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Snow doesn't suck... Well, too much snow does. Those of you who haven't experienced 24 inch blizzards more than 8 times in your life, would hardly understand. Its like having a taste for wine. You have to have experience it over and over to appreciate it.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I like wine AND snow. Alas, Stockholm hasn't had good, four-month-lasting snow (nov-feb) for five years. I'm going to a place outside Bude this christmas, not that they'll have any, but at least it'll be a change of scenery.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

One temp sign I drove by today read 81...and no, you can't move to LA!

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

The ESKIMOS......have well over 250 different words for snow. There's light snow, heavy snow, powder snow, snow that's been compacted down, snow with an ice frosting on it, snow that the huskies have pissed in, et cetera.

I have, in my spare time, been attempting to construct a sentence which--when completed--shall read, "Look at all this fucking snow." However, I have hit an impasse of many years, for due to the stumbling blocks of cultural idiom & the specific constructs of the various Inuit dialects, I have thus far only succeeded to the point where said sentence proclaims, "See the snow. It fornicates."

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Ah, snow ...

We had some flurries through Baltimore last night, passing cold front. Nothing much amounted from it except a handful of (thankfully) minor accidents.

See, this is why I own a Jeep ...

Time to pack my winter boots for my trip to Connecticut. Maybe I'll see the snow -- I'll be in Northern PA and South/Eastern New York for a bit, so who knows?

Well, off to TU to register before I leave ...

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

I don't know why.

North, South, East, and West of Toronto gets smacked with large amounts of snow.

But never Toronto itself. Except two years ago.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Its called Lake Effect Snow, something that doesn't happen in most parts of the world. After North Eastern US gets hit with a snowstorm, the Lake Effect Snow hits us as well. Because the Great Lakes are warm and moist at this time, when that moisture hits land, it rises then cools, and it precipitates. Lots of moisture means lots of snow.

And Since Toronto is at the beginning of a lake, and not at the end of one(like Buffalo), they don't get the blizzards we do.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Jeff, I just heard the National Guard was called out in buffalo..... Bumm deal man......

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Ha. We had a giant snowstorm here last year. But that was nothing compared to the snow they had in Moncton one year... There were snowdrifts bigger than houses!

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Hey, I just passed through Southern New York, on my way from Scranton, PA to Prospect, CT.

It was *snowing* in PA and NY. Not major, but some of it was sticking, and it's made a mess out of my Jeep, I imagine. I was actually surprised to find no (or, very little) snow on the ground here in CT, but, oh well!)

JeffR, I heard on the radio that Buffalo had been dug out by this morning. This mean you get to go home for lots of food?

Ick. My uncle's dog is snoring.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Actually, I am out! I found a few clear roads, however the university roads were all ice... Seriously. If I drove to fast I would have been in a ditch.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Ice? Ice? I don't fear no stinking ice!

::shifts into 4x wheel drive, shoots past JeffR, can't stop, slams into dorm::

Owwwwwww ...

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Snow is evil!

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Ah, dontcha just love Los Angeles.

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