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What mould youdo if your town received 2.5m(100in) of snow. Parish, NY got just that. Greedy bastards! All we get is a centimetre, if that. :mad:

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_re_us/cold_weather)

PARISH, N.Y. - Sunshine greeted residents of this snowbound village on Saturday, giving crews a chance to haul away some of the 8 feet of snow that has fallen during the past week.

"The sun's out, but it isn't going to last," Mike Avery said as he took a brief break from loading dump trucks with snow to be taken to a pile outside town.

The
National Weather Service said the bands of lake-effect snow fed by moisture from Lake Ontario would continue weaving up and down the lake's eastern shore during the weekend, dropping 2 to 4 more feet of snow with wind of up to 25 mph.

"It's all we need," Avery said, his tractor dwarfed by the snowbank he was trying to dismantle. "It's getting monotonous."

Parish — about 25 miles northeast of Syracuse — reached a milestone early Saturday with 100 inches of snow over the past seven days, the National Weather Service said. Unofficial reports pegged totals at 123 inches in Orwell and 122 in Redfield, but the weather service said those numbers include snow from another storm a couple of days before the current weather system arrived last Sunday. All three towns are in Oswego County.

More than a week of bitter cold and slippery roads have contributed to at least 20 deaths across the northeastern quarter of the nation — five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, two in Michigan, and one each in Wisconsin, New York and Maryland, authorities said. No deaths were reported in Oswego County.

It's been an exhausting week in Oswego County.

"This is right up there with the best of them, almost as bad as the Blizzard of '66. But there ain't nothing good about this much snow," Ray DeLong grumbled as his snowblower clogged and stalled on Friday in nearby Mexico.

Mexico residents see 5- to 6-foot snowfalls every two or three years, but even hardened locals are amazed at the scenes before them now: parked SUVs noticeable only because their antennas or roof racks stand above the snow's surface; front doors buried, with footprints leading to second-story windows; 6-foot-thick slabs of snow that have slid off roofs, forming colossal arches as they stretch intact to the ground.

Sidewalks look like miniature canyons.

Mark Kelcinski's son spent two hours Friday with a shovel and snowblower in front of the family's graphics design shop, carving a path through the snowbank to the street. They have done the same thing each day for five days.

"That's all we do is shovel and snowblow all day long," said Kelcinski. "You go home and then come in and do the same thing again the next day."

The state transportation department said 125 workers from elsewhere in the state had been sent in with snow equipment to help.

The region is located along the Tug Hill Plateau, the snowiest region this side of the Rocky Mountains. It's a 50-mile wedge of land that rises 2,100 feet from the eastern shore of Lake Ontario and catches the snow-laden winter wind blowing off the lake. It usually gets about 300 inches — roughly 25 feet — of snow a year.

The hamlet of Hooker, near the boundaries of Jefferson, Lewis, and Oswego counties, holds the state record for snowfall in a year — 466.9 inches, about 39 feet, in the winter of 1976-77. It sits right next to the hamlet of Montague, which got 77 inches in a 24-hour period in January 1997.

The hamlet of Hooker
:D

I'd probably stockpile some liquor and tasty food just as the snow started falling and spend the time I'm snowed in getting drunk, eating, and hanging out with my dog until it melted.

Didn't we just have an almost identical topic thread?

Oh, yeah: http://forums3.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=517537

That would be the perfect opportunity to have a snowball reenactment World War I, complete with trench warfare and snow-based artillery. But what does Fiddlebottoms get? Nothing!

Jump off my roof to see if I can get out of the snow :D

Didn't we just have an almost identical topic thread?

Oh, yeah: http://forums3.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=517537

1. That is a prediction thread.
2. Mine has a poll.
3. Mine is better.
:)
Just because you live on an iceberg doesn't mean you can be an arse.

SNOW!
I love snow. I can't get enough of it. It's been snowing today.
Did I mention I love snow? I do. I love snow! It's the white delight. Mmh. Snow.

Didn't we just have an almost identical topic thread?

Oh, yeah: http://forums3.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=517537

You still here?

Wow that is a lot of snow.

SNOW!
I love snow. I can't get enough of it. It's been snowing today.
Did I mention I love snow? I do. I love snow! It's the white delight. Mmh. Snow.

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*envisions a series of Vietcong like tunnels and smiles*

SNOW!
I love snow. I can't get enough of it. It's been snowing today.
Did I mention I love snow? I do. I love snow! It's the white delight. Mmh. Snow.
Don't eat the yellow patch over there. ;)

What mould youdo if your town received 2.5m(100in) of snow. Parish, NY got just that. Greedy bastards! All we get is a centimetre, if that. :mad:

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_re_us/cold_weather)

That's a hell of a lot of snow.

pack it up, ship it here and we watch as it melts to water that we can use

*envisions a series of Vietcong like tunnels and smiles*

EXACTLY!

What mould youdo if your town received 2.5m(100in) of snow. Parish, NY got just that. Greedy bastards! All we get is a centimetre, if that. :mad:

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_re_us/cold_weather)

So much for "Global Warming."

The only good snow is a snow that falls one day and is gone the next. Better yet, snows in the morning and is gone by rush hour.

The hamlet of Hooker

heh, I've lived in Oswego my whole life and never heard of that place!

As for the snow, I've never seen this much in a week either. I'm not complaining, though. 5 snow days in a row, not to mention seeing my hometown on national tv... plus, being able to walk on the roof of my garage from my side yard is pretty awesome. Well, actually it's the sliding off that's awesome.

So much for "Global Warming."


:rolleyes:

global warming is a misnomer as you should surely have realised by now.

So much for "Global Warming."

The only good snow is a snow that falls one day and is gone the next. Better yet, snows in the morning and is gone by rush hour.

Cooling is also an effect of global Warming.

Cooling is also an effect of global Warming.

:confused: You can't have it both ways.

:confused: You can't have it both ways.

Day After Tomorrow (2004?)

What mould youdo if your town received 2.5m(100in) of snow. Parish, NY got just that. Greedy bastards! All we get is a centimetre, if that. :mad:

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_re_us/cold_weather)
Que?
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*Laughs at Il Ruffino*
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Play in it, thrwo Snowballs, go on teh webs and tell peeps about it.

You still here?

Who are you?

I'd probably dead because I have a flat roof that would cave in with that much weight.

So much for "Global Warming."
That's why the term "Global Climate Change" is preferred.
:confused: You can't have it both ways.
That's what she said.

I would be amazed that snow fell at all.... then I would enjoy seeing it for the second time

sounds WONDERFUL.

when i was living on donner summit in california, the real california, northern california, well anyway, at an elevation of just about 7000 feet, devide that by four to get a very loose approximation in meters i think, i can remeber one june the 2nd, we got 8 FEET, more or less two meters, IN EIGHT HOURS over that one night.

granted this isn't something that happens all the time, that late in the season anyway, evern there, but 20 foot, in hight/depth, drifts are not uncommon there at all in midwinter.

of course that place at that time had been built for it. all the houses were fraimed with bridge timbers and there were these wooden hallways, we called them snow sheds, connecting all the houses togather and down to the place where my dad worked and up to the little store accross the old highway from us. the railroad he was working for was also inside of snow sheds over the major switchwork.

we did also have to dig fire escapes in addition to the snow sheds being there, since the ones connecting the houses were all wood.

the big ones over the railroad tracks were made out of precast concrete, though they hadn't always been.

the year was 1968 and i was just two years out of highschool at the time.

there wasn't anyone my age to build snow palaces with, but hessi and the cats liked to go out in it and play and my dad and i both had snow shoes we'd go for long walks out in it, usualy seperately at that time.

=^^=
.../\...

heh, I've lived in Oswego my whole life and never heard of that place!

As for the snow, I've never seen this much in a week either. I'm not complaining, though. 5 snow days in a row, not to mention seeing my hometown on national tv... plus, being able to walk on the roof of my garage from my side yard is pretty awesome. Well, actually it's the sliding off that's awesome.

It's a hamlet, meaning a small, secluded village-y thing. Maybe 100 people at most.

It's been raining all day here, so all of the snow that came down yesterday had already melted this morning - but it's definitely 4-5° too warm this winter. It sucks!

We haven't seen snow here in a few weeks, but that's going to change in a few days. Mostly, it's just been f-ing cold. Temperatures have been below normal for most of the last 4-5 weeks, and "normal" for here is only 27F to 30F (-3C to -1C).

They are predicting some for us on Tuesday or Wednesday. Which is terrific when your school never pulls a two hour delay: we are either open or closed.

Hence, an inch or two closes school. :D

And yes, I have always, since I was 5 and we had the blizzard of '95 ('96?), I dreamed of making an intricate system of snow tunnels.

They are predicting some for us on Tuesday or Wednesday. Which is terrific when your school never pulls a two hour delay: we are either open or closed.

Hence, an inch or two closes school. :D

And yes, I have always, since I was 5 and we had the blizzard of '95 ('96?), I dreamed of making an intricate system of snow tunnels.

You're lucky. Up here, if you can see the school, you go. They won't shut down the University for a mere 4-5", I can guarantee that. Do any of you have any idea how hard it is to drag a wheelchair through snow? :headbang:


Ok, I'm done complaining now.

I would first wonder how a town in southern Florida could have gotten that much snow. Then I would look at it in awe, since it would be the first time I would have ever seen snow. Then I would probably die.

We haven't seen snow here in a few weeks, but that's going to change in a few days. Mostly, it's just been f-ing cold. Temperatures have been below normal for most of the last 4-5 weeks, and "normal" for here is only 27F to 30F (-3C to -1C).

Wait..... It hasn't been above 20F here all week.. How is it colder here than up north?!

And yay! We might get lots of snow this week!

Wait..... It hasn't been above 20F here all week.. How is it colder here than up north?!

And yay! We might get lots of snow this week!

It hasn't been. I said normal was 27 to 30. Actual temps have been 10 to 18 mostly (although today it was a relatively balmy 23F, or -5C for those outside the U.S.).

It hasn't been. I said normal was 27 to 30. Actual temps have been 10 to 18 mostly (although today it was a relatively balmy 23F, or -5C for those outside the U.S.).

Aha.

*reads carefully*

It's in the low 70's here...it's been warming up, it was in the 60's last week.:cool:

It's in the low 70's here...it's been warming up, it was in the 60's last week.:cool:

Ew.

It's in the low 70's here...it's been warming up, it was in the 60's last week.:cool:

I officially hate you.:D We won't see 70 until May at least, maybe June.

any idea how hard it is to drag a wheelchair through snow?WORD! IT'S HARD! :mad:

I officially hate you.:D We won't see 70 until May at least, maybe June.

Thank god!

I officially hate you.:D We won't see 70 until May at least, maybe June.

Most people here were wearing jackets last week. I was, too.:)

I LIVE IN PARISH, NY!

I love snow... snow, snow, snow! I haven't had school in a week! We have an ice-rink in my backyard, and I do indeed have a series of small cave complexes scattered across my yard... Sledding off my roof!

Woooo! My town is a topic!! SNOW!
(I have pictures of my adventures in this most snowy of climes, and I may indeed be able to get them up here, hang tight!)

I LIVE IN PARISH, NY!

I love snow... snow, snow, snow! I haven't had school in a week! We have an ice-rink in my backyard, and I do indeed have a series of small cave complexes scattered across my yard... Sledding off my roof!

Woooo! My town is a topic!! SNOW!
(I have pictures of my adventures in this most snowy of climes, and I may indeed be able to get them up here, hang tight!)
I envy you. :mad:

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7295/p1010357ol7.jpg - This is me, standing on a snowbank.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/206/p1010358qt6.jpg - This is me, disappearing into the cave I dug into the snowbank.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2264/p1010359jf5.jpg - And... Me climbing back out of the hole. I stand six-foot three inches tall, it's snowed a foot and a half since then, and that cave bottom does not touch the ground.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2686/p1010128uv4.jpg - Finally, this is me sliding off the roof after I finished shoveling it. I am moving quite fast, but it's hard to tell in the shot.

Die

*snip*.

*insert random gun emoticon*

*is super jealous*

Wow. That came out much more girly than I thought it would. :p

*is super jealous*

Wow. That came out much more girly than I thought it would. :p

When I saw those picks I squeeled out: "Oh my god!" and flailed my wrist :(

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7295/p1010357ol7.jpg - This is me, standing on a snowbank.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/206/p1010358qt6.jpg - This is me, disappearing into the cave I dug into the snowbank.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2264/p1010359jf5.jpg - And... Me climbing back out of the hole. I stand six-foot three inches tall, it's snowed a foot and a half since then, and that cave bottom does not touch the ground.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2686/p1010128uv4.jpg - Finally, this is me sliding off the roof after I finished shoveling it. I am moving quite fast, but it's hard to tell in the shot.
*envious*

*basks in the combined envy of about a half-dozen people I've never met...*

Mmmm...

*basks in the combined envy of about a half-dozen people I've never met...*

Mmmm...

/kill "Emperor Pudu"
/delete "Emperor Pudu"
:D
/steal "Emperor Pudu" snow
ERROR
:(

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7295/p1010357ol7.jpg - This is me, standing on a snowbank.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/206/p1010358qt6.jpg - This is me, disappearing into the cave I dug into the snowbank.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2264/p1010359jf5.jpg - And... Me climbing back out of the hole. I stand six-foot three inches tall, it's snowed a foot and a half since then, and that cave bottom does not touch the ground.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2686/p1010128uv4.jpg - Finally, this is me sliding off the roof after I finished shoveling it. I am moving quite fast, but it's hard to tell in the shot.
Now that is what I'm talking about! Enjoy and be safe. :D

Oh, for New York! Last of the thirteen to hold power!

It sucks in Washington. It does nothing but rain and the people here do not know how to drive when it snows an inch.