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PeaceFrog · 12-15-2003, 01:29 PM

Alright, last sunday/monday we ended up getting + 60 cm of snow dumped on us. It was a hassle but it was nice to know that we'd have a white Christmas. Besides, we're so used to this in the Maritimes, it was nothing new. But as of today, another about 50 cms fell and mix that with freezing rain and now it's a complete mess here. I've been stuck inside all day (there is no way i'm taking the car out anywhere's in this weather). I hate winter already and it's only the beginning.

Anyone else having really bad weather and just generally hating winter at the moment?

ninety09 · 12-15-2003, 01:44 PM

We got about 30cm of snow last night here. Snow is very beautiful, but so annoying when you have to go out. It messed up my schedule since all buses were late today.. oh well, just a few months left to winter :0

BuddyHawks · 12-15-2003, 02:20 PM

I dont mind the snow, i just dont like being cold

herostar · 12-15-2003, 02:20 PM

we got about 5cm of snow the other day... not nearly as much as you guys... I wish we'd get more so the ski slopes could open more runs...

mrquackers · 12-15-2003, 02:21 PM

We got a little less here - six inches (15 cm) - but I'd like to echo the sentiment that snow's a pain in the butt, if only because I had to shovel it with just one hand (as related in this story: http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....threadid=37965 )

I'm sure it was a comical sight for the neighbors...

Giant Hamburger · 12-15-2003, 02:34 PM

Hail Citizens!

I have seen snow maybe four times in my life.
It freaks me out. Especially that squeaky crunching noise it makes when you step on it.
I would sooner have the dead walk the earth than have it snow. Any snow is too much snow for me.
-GH

nirol · 12-15-2003, 02:42 PM

What?
You have snow in Canada?

.....Learn something new everyday, wow.

powder · 12-15-2003, 02:51 PM

I love the stuff. Bring it on. The more the better. I can get to my favorite ski spot on my sled if the roads are snowed in. Hell if there is that much snow I might just go sleddin'. Ski doo 670cc piped & ported scream machine with a 2x144 track that is built for deep powder.

amonkie · 12-15-2003, 03:46 PM

I want snow! Damn living in the middle of the desert.

j8ear · 12-15-2003, 03:48 PM

I'm with powder....Can't get enough. As far I am concerned no snow is enough and any is too little.

Sledding and skiing are my escape from life...and my life is begging for an escape these days.

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW.

-bear

DEI37 · 12-15-2003, 03:48 PM

I love snow. I hate ice. So far, I'm a happy camper. I want like 3 feet of the stuff. It's freezing raining right now, though, and that sucks.

krwlz · 12-15-2003, 04:19 PM

Heavy wind (as usual, in the northeast, on top of a hill...) and lotsa snow.

Doesnt bother me a bit.

sailor · 12-15-2003, 04:51 PM

At least you get snow. Here in North Carolina, we just get 32* weather and rain. It sucks.

Cycler · 12-15-2003, 05:47 PM

Too much metric system argh. I wish all my snow hadn't left, Oklahoma 6 inches over the weekend gone now. Good luck you cannucks. Ehh?

Lasereth · 12-15-2003, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sailor420
At least you get snow. Here in North Carolina, we just get 32* weather and rain. It sucks.

Depends on where ya are!

I'm in Boone with an elevation of 3,333 ft. It's snowed about 3 inches here four times in the past two weeks. Last year, we got a good 12 inches dumped on us during the LAST WEEK of April. I love it at ASU. Ha ha! It was crazy. It snowed like every Thursday for 3 months straight. We got 6-12 inches like 10 times. ASU actually cancelled classes TWICE last year. That was the six and seventh time in the past 100 years!

-Lasereth

nirol · 12-15-2003, 06:37 PM

Thanks Lasereth,

I wondered what nutballs went to school up there.

Do they still have classes in snowball making 101, and does everyone still take skiing as a P.E. to get slope discounts?

Greetings from down the mountain a bit, in NC

sailor · 12-15-2003, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lasereth
Depends on where ya are! I'm in Boone with an elevation of 3,333 ft. It's snowed about 3 inches here four times in the past two weeks. Last year, we got a good 12 inches dumped on us during the LAST WEEK of April. I love it at ASU. Ha ha! It was crazy. It snowed like every Thursday for 3 months straight. We got 6-12 inches like 10 times. ASU actually cancelled classes TWICE last year. That was the six and seventh time in the past 100 years!

-Lasereth

Boone doesnt count, they have the most heinous weather in the state

Here in central NC (Chapel Hill, and where I am from, Charlotte), it just gets right to freezing point and dumps rain.

StormBerlin · 12-15-2003, 10:25 PM

We got snow dumped on us all last night. We were on our way back from Vegas and got stuck in Beaver (southern utah, if anyones interested) because they closed the freeways. Chewybaca96's truck woulda made it (4 wheel drive is the best), but they wouldn't let us

So from Cedar City on, it was icky. It;s pretty today though, they got everything plowed so all of the snow is ony the sidewalks and lawns and stuff. Love the way it looks, hates the way it feels and crunches :P

Boo · 12-15-2003, 11:48 PM

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Snow, whats that?

Sho Nuff · 12-16-2003, 11:51 AM

Get a snowboard and learn to embrace the white stuff.

SiN · 12-16-2003, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cycler
Too much metric system argh. ...

or not enough, depending on your view

anyways, cm's are easy.

1 inch = 2.54 cm. good to memorise

(ps) i'm from MN now living in Germany...and i really miss the snow. honest.

theinfamous · 12-16-2003, 02:05 PM

i wish we had snow...but only at the ski resorts....and before it starts to become an inconvenience in my daily life

PeaceFrog · 12-16-2003, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sho Nuff
Get a snowboard and learn to embrace the white stuff.

Oh i do snowboard, and i love the snow most of the time. But it's been snowing so much that the roads are too bad to get to the near-by ski resorts. Thankfully it's starting to clear up though and i'll be able to get to the hills this weekend

I can't wait!

mrquackers · 12-16-2003, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by StormBerlin
We got snow dumped on us all last night. We were on our way back from Vegas and got stuck in Beaver (southern utah, if anyones interested)

Quick threadjack... I've gotta ask about the name of the liquor store there. 'cause in Beaver Creek, Col. they have a store called - honest to God - Beaver Liquors. (Say it out loud if you're thinking 'so what?')

Boo · 12-16-2003, 07:13 PM

He said "BEAVER" he he he

OFKU0 · 12-16-2003, 09:24 PM

The other night we got 6 inches. Friends left around midnight and me, pissed after the bbq and drinks, goes cross country skiing down the middle of my street. Only fell once but I didn't spill my beer.

ForgottenKnight · 12-16-2003, 09:39 PM

SNOW! I LOVE snow! I wouldn't mind getting some more where I'm at...

bundy · 12-16-2003, 10:37 PM

you got snow??

can i have some??

its getting hot here. and i really don´t like the heat.
it got over 40C in some places in NSW, and if it weren´t for that nice sea breeze today, Sydney would´ve been bloody hot.

Spyder_Venom · 12-17-2003, 08:26 AM

Dude you can NEVER have too much snow. You just need the correct hobbies to go with all of your "white gold"

Destrox · 12-17-2003, 08:33 AM

Now I know who took our snow!

We normally get well over 200 inches (500cm) each season, so far we havnt even had 4 inches (10cm~)

The earth is falling apart!

Baldrick · 12-17-2003, 09:29 AM

I love snow! The more the merrier for me, but you can keep that damned freezing rain.

I'm actually getting worried that we won't have a white Christmas here in Toronto. Our summer sucked, but so far our fall/winter has been too nice!

castex · 12-19-2003, 08:48 AM

Please! Let it snow! Give me a foot! Five feet! A few solitary flakes... Anything!

raeanna74 · 12-19-2003, 10:18 AM

I love snow. I don't like the extreme cold. Lately it's been below 0 F (something like -20 Cent). Right now it's 18F (-8C) with a biting wind.

It was amusing when I was a college. Was friends with a guy from (northern) Australia. He was from an area there that didn't get snow. We were attending college in Wisconsin right on the border of Upper Michigan. First snowfall we had was pretty big. Walking to breakfast in the am and he's walking through the snow, shuffling his feet, and wearing a look of wonder. I threw a snowball at him and I'll never forget his words when it hit and he went to brush off the snow. "Oh! It's wet!" He'd never thought about how snow would feel wet. It was fun seeing his amazement and we had plenty of snow fun before we finished school. He adapted quite well but before long winter made him long for home.

I grew up here in the snowy North so seeing someone else who'd never seen it before made me appreciate the beauty of it once again.

Hanxter · 12-19-2003, 02:02 PM

not enough...

viejo gringo · 12-19-2003, 08:37 PM

Yea, I really love that shit---had to go out the last couple of nights and cover a couple of tropical plants to keep the frost off---IT GOT CLEAR DOWN TO 35 degrees F. only hit 77 today ---tomorrow looks better 80's. setting here in a tee shirt and shorts with the windows open.....

I have found that you don't have to put up with that stuff....have not drove in snow for 10 years...Hey, ---someones got to do it....

santafe5000 · 12-21-2003, 08:20 PM

Snow is lovely to look at, I used to love going to Colo. to ski. Now I have to drive in it a lot( in a big truck) and it can get to be a pain. Don't ya just luv the state highway people who think- GOD put it here, so let GOD take it away. Been lucky this year so far, haven't gotten into any severe snow storms, but winters just getting started.

12-15-2003, 01:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
PeaceFrog Tilted Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia	Too much snow Alright, last sunday/monday we ended up getting + 60 cm of snow dumped on us. It was a hassle but it was nice to know that we'd have a white Christmas. Besides, we're so used to this in the Maritimes, it was nothing new. But as of today, another about 50 cms fell and mix that with freezing rain and now it's a complete mess here. I've been stuck inside all day (there is no way i'm taking the car out anywhere's in this weather). I hate winter already and it's only the beginning. Anyone else having really bad weather and just generally hating winter at the moment? __________________ The only people for me are the mad ones...

12-15-2003, 02:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
BuddyHawks Swashbuckling Location: Iowa...sometimes	I dont mind the snow, i just dont like being cold __________________ Watch More TV

12-15-2003, 02:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
herostar Psycho Location: South Dakota	we got about 5cm of snow the other day... not nearly as much as you guys... I wish we'd get more so the ski slopes could open more runs... __________________ Got time to chill?

12-15-2003, 02:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
mrquackers Exhausted Location: Northeastern US - please send help!	We got a little less here - six inches (15 cm) - but I'd like to echo the sentiment that snow's a pain in the butt, if only because I had to shovel it with just one hand (as related in this story: http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....threadid=37965 ) I'm sure it was a comical sight for the neighbors... __________________ "If you're walking on thin ice, you may as well go ahead and dance."

12-15-2003, 02:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
nirol Crazy Location: South East US	What? You have snow in Canada? .....Learn something new everyday, wow. __________________ 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

12-15-2003, 01:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
ninety09 Flavour of the Weak Location: Canada	We got about 30cm of snow last night here. Snow is very beautiful, but so annoying when you have to go out. It messed up my schedule since all buses were late today.. oh well, just a few months left to winter :0

12-15-2003, 02:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	Hail Citizens! I have seen snow maybe four times in my life. It freaks me out. Especially that squeaky crunching noise it makes when you step on it. I would sooner have the dead walk the earth than have it snow. Any snow is too much snow for me. -GH

12-15-2003, 02:51 PM	#8 (permalink)
powder Loser Location: ski town	I love the stuff. Bring it on. The more the better. I can get to my favorite ski spot on my sled if the roads are snowed in. Hell if there is that much snow I might just go sleddin'. Ski doo 670cc piped & ported scream machine with a 2x144 track that is built for deep powder.

12-15-2003, 03:46 PM	#9 (permalink)
amonkie Drifting Administrator Location: Windy City	I want snow! Damn living in the middle of the desert. __________________ Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

12-15-2003, 03:48 PM	#10 (permalink)
j8ear Gentlemen Farmer Location: Middle of nowhere, Jersey	I'm with powder....Can't get enough. As far I am concerned no snow is enough and any is too little. Sledding and skiing are my escape from life...and my life is begging for an escape these days. LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW. -bear __________________ It's alot easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission.

12-15-2003, 03:48 PM	#11 (permalink)
DEI37 Go faster! Location: Wisconsin	I love snow. I hate ice. So far, I'm a happy camper. I want like 3 feet of the stuff. It's freezing raining right now, though, and that sucks. __________________ Generally speaking, if you were to get what you really deserve, you might be unpleasantly surprised.

12-15-2003, 04:19 PM	#12 (permalink)
krwlz Fledgling Dead Head Location: Clarkson U.	Heavy wind (as usual, in the northeast, on top of a hill...) and lotsa snow. Doesnt bother me a bit.

12-15-2003, 04:51 PM	#13 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	At least you get snow. Here in North Carolina, we just get 32* weather and rain. It sucks. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

12-15-2003, 05:47 PM	#14 (permalink)
Cycler Float on.... Alright Location: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, i.e. Oklahoma	Too much metric system argh. I wish all my snow hadn't left, Oklahoma 6 inches over the weekend gone now. Good luck you cannucks. Ehh? __________________ "I'm not even supposed to be here today." "I assure you we're open."

12-15-2003, 06:37 PM	#16 (permalink)
nirol Crazy Location: South East US	Thanks Lasereth, I wondered what nutballs went to school up there. Do they still have classes in snowball making 101, and does everyone still take skiing as a P.E. to get slope discounts? Greetings from down the mountain a bit, in NC __________________ 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

12-15-2003, 11:48 PM	#19 (permalink)
Boo Leave me alone! Location: Alaska, USA	[IMG]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PwDOAucS!lybDVCbYUUYQJBu145VJNmDcFnwLm!glmHigVfyz7lxnlRhUmHbS8!7z8nWe7EbpjArfLRCLwFUTi5h0i6VFJp/snowday1.jpg?dc=4675451506813697354[/IMG] Snow, whats that? __________________ Back button again, I must be getting old. Last edited by Boo; 12-15-2003 at 11:56 PM..*

12-16-2003, 07:13 PM	#25 (permalink)
Boo Leave me alone! Location: Alaska, USA	He said "BEAVER" he he he __________________ Back button again, I must be getting old.

12-15-2003, 10:25 PM	#18 (permalink)
StormBerlin Happy as a hippo Location: Southern California	We got snow dumped on us all last night. We were on our way back from Vegas and got stuck in Beaver (southern utah, if anyones interested) because they closed the freeways. Chewybaca96's truck woulda made it (4 wheel drive is the best), but they wouldn't let us So from Cedar City on, it was icky. It;s pretty today though, they got everything plowed so all of the snow is ony the sidewalks and lawns and stuff. Love the way it looks, hates the way it feels and crunches :P __________________ "if anal sex could get a girl pregnant i'd be tits deep in child support" Arcane

12-16-2003, 11:51 AM	#20 (permalink)
Sho Nuff Addict Location: Harlem	Get a snowboard and learn to embrace the white stuff. __________________ I know Nietzsche doesnt rhyme with peachy, but you sound like a pretentious prick when you correct me.

12-16-2003, 02:05 PM	#22 (permalink)
theinfamous Crazy Location: Cali	i wish we had snow...but only at the ski resorts....and before it starts to become an inconvenience in my daily life

12-16-2003, 09:24 PM	#26 (permalink)
OFKU0 Junk	The other night we got 6 inches. Friends left around midnight and me, pissed after the bbq and drinks, goes cross country skiing down the middle of my street. Only fell once but I didn't spill my beer. __________________ " In Canada, you can tell the most blatant lie in a calm voice, and people will believe you over someone who's a little passionate about the truth." David Warren, Western Standard.

12-16-2003, 09:39 PM	#27 (permalink)
ForgottenKnight Jesus Freak Location: Following the light...	SNOW! I LOVE snow! I wouldn't mind getting some more where I'm at... __________________ "People say I'm strange, does that make me a stranger?"

12-16-2003, 10:37 PM	#28 (permalink)
bundy . Location: Tokyo	you got snow?? can i have some?? its getting hot here. and i really don´t like the heat. it got over 40C in some places in NSW, and if it weren´t for that nice sea breeze today, Sydney would´ve been bloody hot. __________________ Ohayo!!!

12-17-2003, 08:26 AM	#29 (permalink)
Spyder_Venom Psycho Location: MN	Dude you can NEVER have too much snow. You just need the correct hobbies to go with all of your "white gold" __________________ The local track whore

12-17-2003, 08:33 AM	#30 (permalink)
Destrox Metal and Rock 4 Life Location: Phoenix	Now I know who took our snow! We normally get well over 200 inches (500cm) each season, so far we havnt even had 4 inches (10cm~) The earth is falling apart! __________________ You bore me.... next.

12-17-2003, 09:29 AM	#31 (permalink)
Baldrick We are everywhere... Location: Barrie, Ontario	I love snow! The more the merrier for me, but you can keep that damned freezing rain. I'm actually getting worried that we won't have a white Christmas here in Toronto. Our summer sucked, but so far our fall/winter has been too nice! __________________ You can be young only once, but you can be immature for the rest of your life...

12-19-2003, 08:48 AM	#32 (permalink)
castex Psycho Location: france	Please! Let it snow! Give me a foot! Five feet! A few solitary flakes... Anything!

12-19-2003, 10:18 AM	#33 (permalink)
raeanna74 I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot! Location: Upper Michigan	I love snow. I don't like the extreme cold. Lately it's been below 0 F (something like -20 Cent). Right now it's 18F (-8C) with a biting wind. It was amusing when I was a college. Was friends with a guy from (northern) Australia. He was from an area there that didn't get snow. We were attending college in Wisconsin right on the border of Upper Michigan. First snowfall we had was pretty big. Walking to breakfast in the am and he's walking through the snow, shuffling his feet, and wearing a look of wonder. I threw a snowball at him and I'll never forget his words when it hit and he went to brush off the snow. "Oh! It's wet!" He'd never thought about how snow would feel wet. It was fun seeing his amazement and we had plenty of snow fun before we finished school. He adapted quite well but before long winter made him long for home. I grew up here in the snowy North so seeing someone else who'd never seen it before made me appreciate the beauty of it once again. __________________ "Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

12-19-2003, 02:02 PM	#34 (permalink)
Hanxter The Griffin	not enough...

12-19-2003, 08:37 PM	#35 (permalink)
viejo gringo Registered User Location: Deep South Texas	Yea, I really love that shit---had to go out the last couple of nights and cover a couple of tropical plants to keep the frost off---IT GOT CLEAR DOWN TO 35 degrees F. only hit 77 today ---tomorrow looks better 80's. setting here in a tee shirt and shorts with the windows open..... I have found that you don't have to put up with that stuff....have not drove in snow for 10 years...Hey, ---someones got to do it....

12-21-2003, 08:20 PM	#36 (permalink)
santafe5000 EVIL! Location: Southwest of nowhere	Snow is lovely to look at, I used to love going to Colo. to ski. Now I have to drive in it a lot( in a big truck) and it can get to be a pain. Don't ya just luv the state highway people who think- GOD put it here, so let GOD take it away. Been lucky this year so far, haven't gotten into any severe snow storms, but winters just getting started. __________________ When all else fails, QUIT.