Blizzard!

[Hayden Kered]

We don't really get our good snow here untill around Christmas or after. Right now it has only snowed once so far.

[Hallucination]

Nope. Just too smart to waste my money on online games.

The majority of good new games on consoles here in my little area of India Canada cost ~$70, plus our lovely GST and PST (14%), and if one buys one game every two months one spends ~$35 per month. It costs ~$14 per month when one subscribes for 6 months at a time (I split it with my brother, so it's actually ~$7 for me) to play WoW, and I haven't bought a new game for more than half a year.

 

My math says I'm smart.

[deathdisco]

For Xmas, please send some snow to southern Oregon. Quit hording it. Will trade for rain.

No problem you can have it. You don't have to shovel rain. I'm still sore from clearing the driveway yesterday.

[mur'phon]

I normaly live in the north of Norway (staying in cape town for half a year) and 24 inches is nothing. A few years ago we had a snow record of almost three meters, and as the stupid kid I was at the time, I had a deal with my parents to clear the driveway. Just imagine, a 12 year old kid versus 3 meters of snow.

[Emperor Devon]

Yep, we got 17 inches yesterday. Whew!! It took us 3 hours yesterday to shovel and snowblow, and that was with a neighbor doing a good chunk of our walk with his big snowblower.

 

You should be very thankful.

 

Near Seattle, we get rain, rain, rain, and more rain. Blasted Pacific. A blizzard here is unheard of. One or two inches of snow, and all the schools, colleges, and even some businesses close. Anything more, and it's a public holiday.

 

Yeah, the stories you hear about Seattle are true. What I'd give for a good blizzard! This place probably gets the least snow in the country.

 

If you consider snow a hindrance, try living in the Northwest most of your life. You'll love it, hours of digging out cars or no.

 

TotoFett 22 and Mini-Jae (who I think are very cute! No, of course I'm not biased!) sit in front of the Nativity scene. Baby Jesus got covered over with snow. {snip}

 

All parents love showing pictures of their kids.

 

You could post a picture of your car buried below 20 feet of snow, and I'd still tell you to relish every bit of it. At least you Midwesterners actually get some.

[JediMaster12]

Near Seattle, we get rain, rain, rain, and more rain. Blasted Pacific. A blizzard here is unheard of.

Poor kid. Still a blizzard is no fun. I have read descriptions on how the snow is swirling so fast that the snow stings the face. Be glad you don't have blizzards.

 

Yeah, the stories you hear about Seattle are true. What I'd give for a good blizzard! This place probably gets the least snow in the country.

What? The suicides? Heck I bet there are parts of te US that crave the amount of rain you guys get.

 

All parents love showing pictures of their kids.

And I am sure yours do too Little Man

 

You could post a picture of your car buried below 20 feet of snow, and I'd still tell you to relish every bit of it. At least you Midwesterners actually get some.

I like snow but I am sure that the Midwest consider it a hindrance especially if they have to stop and shovel walks and the like. I have seen snow when I was in Chicago for a year and I am thankful that it was nothing like the big ones that the locals told me about.

 

BTW: Jae, cute pictures. Your sprats are just cute and I am sure that they enjoy running about the snow. Just make sure they are dressed warmly even if they look like a tick about to pop and can't put their arms down

[Boba Rhett]

I've been stuck for three days.

[Emperor Devon]

Poor kid. Still a blizzard is no fun.

 

I've never had one in my whole life. Believe me, it would be. And it's even better if you're inside a warm house with a good book.

 

What? The suicides? Heck I bet there are parts of te US that crave the amount of rain you guys get.

 

Probably, but I still want snow.

 

I've been stuck for three days.

 

You have no right to complain.

[Jae Onasi]

I've been stuck for three days.

I'll send some milk and bread your way.

 

When we were living in the Ozarks, they didn't have any salt trucks, so they put cinders down. Those pretty much do nothing.

 

Hopefully, you'll get dug out soon.

[JasraLantill]

Having been raised in northeastern Indiana, I recall a blizzard way back in '77-'78(?) that has to rank as the greatest amount of snowfall that I have ever seen. I was only 4 or 5 at the time (not sure what year it was), but I can remember that there was so much snow that they couldn't plow it. They had to use front-end loaders and dump trucks to clear the highway. All of the sibs were still at home and we had so much fun because school was out for at least a week.

 

Does anyone from the northern Midwest (who was alive at the time:p) remember that one?

 

I wasn't living in the midwest (I was living in Maryland at the time) but I do remember the blizzard of '78. Being a kid, too, at the time, I thought it was great! Woke up that morning, saw the snow, and thought 'yay!', no school! Ran downstairs, all set to play in it, opened the front door... and there was a wall of snow. We had to call the neighbours to shovel us out of the 12ft drift that covered the front of our house. Was off school for a week as well (but then again, Maryland used to close its schools if there was a heavy frost on the roads. (Then we got a person from Wisconsin and two from Minnesota on the school board, and that put an end to that!)