So, what was the blizzard of 2010 like, granpa?
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My dog won't even go out in it, why should I?
I'm sorry folks, you've gotten two pretty good snowstorms on your hands, but blizzards? Hardly. I lived through one huge blizzard (1977) and a second minor one (1985).
By Buffalo standards, yea, you've gotten hit pretty good. Now try picturing 9ft. of snow dumped on your area over three consecutive days. Hell of a thing to go through, trust me. In a few days, life will return to normal as crews get the area cleared out. Help your neighbors and make some new friends. Look at this as an adventure, we here in the "Great White Buffalo" always do.
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By Buffalo standards, yea, you've gotten hit pretty good. Now try picturing 9ft. of snow dumped on your area over three consecutive days. Hell of a thing to go through, trust me. In a few days, life will return to normal as crews get the area cleared out. Help your neighbors and make some new friends. Look at this as an adventure, we here in the "Great White Buffalo" always do.
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You've been talking to my friend who is originally from Dunkirk.
4" of snow sends the entire OKC metropolitan area into a panic. People mob the stores to buy a three week supply of food for what ends up being a two day inconvenience. In the 17 years I have lived here, very few people have figured out that when the average daily temperature has been above 40º for weeks then the snow will not last for long. Tomorrow is currently being set up for an additional day of panic and mayhem as "the white stuff" is currently in the forecast.
Not quite. I live in the Buffalo area (suburbs) and have lived in this area most, but not all, of my 45 years on this rock.
First hand experience is sometimes a bitch...
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I'm confident that if, God forbid, storms like this became the norm here, we pampered east coast elitists would adapt just fine (in time). Already, there were plenty of changes just from lessons learned in the '09 storm. As far as overreaction goes, I've always held to the theory that the Baltimore/Washington area is loaded to the brim with transients and transplants, more so than most places. Indeed, other than maybe Chicago, most people don't actually migrate to the places that get the worst snow (I wonder why).
If your city is filled with people from, say, Illinois and Minnesota, along with people from Florida, North Carolina, California, El Salvador and Ethiopia, you're going to get a very mixed bag of reactions compared to cities like Buffalo or Fargo, which mostly have transplants from elsewhere in those regions. I cannot, however, excuse the locals who don't react too much better (only differently).
I can't speak for places further north, but DC and Baltimore don't really have snow savvy and probably never will. Maybe we should have some kind of snow culture exchange. With Norway.
Why Norway? Why not?
If your city is filled with people from, say, Illinois and Minnesota, along with people from Florida, North Carolina, California, El Salvador and Ethiopia, you're going to get a very mixed bag of reactions compared to cities like Buffalo or Fargo, which mostly have transplants from elsewhere in those regions. I cannot, however, excuse the locals who don't react too much better (only differently).
I can't speak for places further north, but DC and Baltimore don't really have snow savvy and probably never will. Maybe we should have some kind of snow culture exchange. With Norway.
Why Norway? Why not?
I'd like to think that the snow has finally stopped in Columbia, but I'm too afraid to look outside and check. I already cleaned off my car twice, and I shoveled all around it this afternoon. I'd like to think that there won't be a new pile of snow to dig out in the morning, but something tells me I won't be so lucky.
I've spent entirely too much time in my house for the last several days. Snowed in Friday night - Monday morning. Managed to get to work on Monday. Then snowed in again Tuesday afternoon - now. All I can say is that I'm ready to get the hell outta here! I actually hope I can make it to work tomorrow!
I've spent entirely too much time in my house for the last several days. Snowed in Friday night - Monday morning. Managed to get to work on Monday. Then snowed in again Tuesday afternoon - now. All I can say is that I'm ready to get the hell outta here! I actually hope I can make it to work tomorrow!
I hope that's the end of it.
In 1983 we got that much in as many hours.
I usually just brush the snow off the top and shovel out behind it, then just enough of a path to reach one of the front doors. I can back out of the space without needing to clear a complete perimeter, and sometimes it leaves a neat-looking car imprint.
I got about 2" of rain yesterday. It was a high of 50 today. So awful! 
I feel really sorry for everyone up in the North. There's a reason I live in Florida; I don't think I can handle living somewhere that cold. My first two winters in South Carolina I thought I had Seasonal Affective Disorder but I got used to it eventually. But barely enough to tolerate it.
I feel really sorry for everyone up in the North. There's a reason I live in Florida; I don't think I can handle living somewhere that cold. My first two winters in South Carolina I thought I had Seasonal Affective Disorder but I got used to it eventually. But barely enough to tolerate it.
Ya know...this isn't a dick contest.
Ya know...this isn't a dick contest.
Don't you know?
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