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Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:27 pm
by Disarm D'arcy
ck3 wrote:Disarm D'arcy wrote:Last time I saw snow was in 2010 I think. I miss it. I just love when everything is so white and cosy.
Snow can eventually loose its charm if you live in the Northeastern US (and other regions that are pummeled with wintry crapolla on an annual basis). It looks pretty until you have to clear several inches of it from vehicles and walkways for three months. Southern CT is also frozen over today. Thankfully, I escaped some percentage of wintry precipitation by leaving D.o.S's soon-to-be-former area code.
Totes agree but a week a year would be nice? It's kinda like warm summer days to me. I like it but I'd rather to spend most of the year in a temperate setting
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:41 pm
by snipelfritz
Yeah, that's not how it works though. It's simply part of my life from now until March.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:47 pm
by Disarm D'arcy
Yeah but you're practically in Canada, so that's your own fault you snow dweller.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:52 pm
by space6oy
snipelfritz wrote:Brandsmannen wrote:Swedish has a word for that. English needs to expand its snow vocab
Snocabulary
We got a solid five or so last night. So now everything is quite pretty. Going to get another two or three this afternoon. Fortunately I don't have to go anywhere and can just hunker down all cozy-under-a-blanket style.
I was at a holiday party at a house that's on hill next to a fairly busy street. Every time we'd go out to smoke we would end up watching some car get stalled out going up the hill and people with better tires driving into oncoming traffic to get around them. Some of them swerving and almost hitting a cop car, and the cop not giving a shit and driving off while two guys are physically pushing their car up the hill. It was an entertaining clusterfuck.
see 5" of snow on the ground i'd kill for. i'd get all happy and shovel my sidewalk and neighbors' steps.
instead it's raining right now and will turn into another sheet of ice tonight. boo.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:15 pm
by odontophobia
CyaNitrate wrote:I've got the best of both worlds. Where I'm it, it's about 65°F, give or take. But 45 minutes north in flagstaff the elevation jumps from ~4000ft to ~7500, so if I want snow, I can get it.
Arizona summer still sucks.
When I was there last October it was like 80 in scottsdale. I had the AC cranking in my hotel.
In west Michigan you get pummeled by lake effect snow due to Lake Michigan. In the past week we've gotten quite a bit of snow already. Maybe 8-inches. We'll probably have accumulated at least a foot by Monday.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 1:21 am
by WayToHip
I live in Canada but in a part where we have a "desert" so when it snows or rains its very little and inconsistent. The wind though brings the temperature down -40 Celsius sometimes. All week the wind chill was around -30; -40.
I can't imagine what it's like for snow to freeze from rain.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 1:27 am
by waltdogg
it's been freezing overnight here in the bay. very odd.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:53 am
by JonnyAngle
-24F here in Minneapolis this morning. There is a slight breeze which is extremely noticeable
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:14 pm
by Achtane
I don't know how you guys even exist in places that cold. Just walking to the car when it's 40 out and breezy makes me fucking hate my life.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:50 pm
by odontophobia
Achtane wrote:I don't know how you guys even exist in places that cold. Just walking to the car when it's 40 out and breezy makes me fucking hate my life.
pretty cold right now. not in the negatives though. lots of snow.
christmas is coming. tired of that shit already because it's a torrential downpour of everybody else's bullshit.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:05 pm
by aens_wife
It felt so good today when it warmed up from -25 degrees (without windchill) to 20 above. We also got a pile of snow this weekend. It had to be 8 or 9 inches.
I don't hate it yet. I kind of like winter for the first month or so. By February, I fucking hate everything and want to burn it all down just to get warm.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:06 pm
by odontophobia
by feb i'm ready to rage at mother nature.
when we get 3-6" of snow in april is when i'm actually likely to commit serious crime.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:50 pm
by aens_wife
odontophobia wrote:by feb i'm ready to rage at mother nature.
when we get 3-6" of snow in april is when i'm actually likely to commit serious crime.
Pretty much. lol. I completely lost it when we got over 18 inches of snow on the first day of spring a few years ago. It ruined a lot of crops around here, in addition to being a total pain in the ass.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 4:13 pm
by MSUsousaphone
It is in the 60s here.....supposed to be 77° for Christmas.
Re: frozen solid
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 4:14 pm
by baremountain
My garden died during the freeze down here in TX. We covered it and did everything in our power to save it, but mother nature took her toll on us :'(
Looks like we have some carrots still, but our kale, chard, beets, lettuce, and broccoli all died. I shoulda just harvested what we had before the freeze
