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'Snowmageddon' blankets Mid-Atlantic in heavy snow

danarhea said:
I am sure he has many plans, and I am also sure that a snow shovel is in all of them. Reminds me of why I do not feel bad about leaving Michigan. LOL.
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Dan I didn't know you where from Michigan. I was born and raised there and moved to Texas in 85.
 
Strucky said:
Even in Minnesocold we have thousands that do not have access to a snow blower.
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Well, true...

Hell, we don't own a snowblower, either...But there is this great skid-steer loader we use...We plowed part of the back road we live on with it this morning...
 
Must be global warming. By the way they are trucking in snow to Vancouver for the Olympics it is warmer than normal they claim it is El Nino.


The weather is fine in Florida. Sounds like you guys in the northeast have perfect weather to watch the super bowl and drink beer.
 
The Mark said:
Well, true...

Hell, we don't own a snowblower, either...But there is this great skid-steer loader we use...We plowed part of the back road we live on with it this morning...
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Did you guys get hit with the same amount of snow?
 
danarhea said:
I am sure he has many plans, and I am also sure that a snow shovel is in all of them. Reminds me of why I do not feel bad about leaving Michigan. LOL.
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Who'd want to leave? Food, water, heat... two people snowed in for days? Sounds like a blissful to me!
 
Manc Skipper said:
Any sign of snow for the Winter Olympics next week?
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There's actually been some worry about that for some of the sporting events on the mountains. I haven't read anything in the paper recently so I'm assuming it's being sorted out, we'll have to see.
 
AgentM said:
There's actually been some worry about that for some of the sporting events on the mountains. I haven't read anything in the paper recently so I'm assuming it's being sorted out, we'll have to see.
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Olympic Organisers desperate for climate change


Winter Olympics chiefs will not sanction a desperate last-minute venue switch despite unseasonably warm temperatures continuing to curse Cypress Mountain, the host of the freestyle events at the Games which begin on Friday.

The host city enjoyed highs of 11 degrees again on Saturday while meteorological officials said that the warm weather, which has led to 300 dumper trucks and even helicopters being used to transport snow from higher elevations, will continue right up to the opening ceremony on February 12.

The imported snow has been piled high on wood and hay which have been laid to form the bumps which test the freestyle skiiers at Cypress Mountain.

"We are not relocating any events," said Tim Gayda, the vice-president of organising committee VANOC, responding to the problems caused by the warmest January on record, a legacy of El Nino, a periodic warming feature over the Pacific Ocean
 
ptif219 said:
Olympic Organisers desperate for climate change


Winter Olympics chiefs will not sanction a desperate last-minute venue switch despite unseasonably warm temperatures continuing to curse Cypress Mountain, the host of the freestyle events at the Games which begin on Friday.

The host city enjoyed highs of 11 degrees again on Saturday while meteorological officials said that the warm weather, which has led to 300 dumper trucks and even helicopters being used to transport snow from higher elevations, will continue right up to the opening ceremony on February 12.

The imported snow has been piled high on wood and hay which have been laid to form the bumps which test the freestyle skiiers at Cypress Mountain.

"We are not relocating any events," said Tim Gayda, the vice-president of organising committee VANOC, responding to the problems caused by the warmest January on record, a legacy of El Nino, a periodic warming feature over the Pacific Ocean
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Thanks, I'm glad they figured out a solution!
 
AgentM said:
Thanks, I'm glad they figured out a solution!
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No problem Drudge knows all
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Is it usual to be getting this much snow in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
 
Befuddled_Stoner said:
Is it usual to be getting this much snow in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
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No. It normally only snows a couple times a year in DC, and no more than an inch or two. This is the second major blizzard we've had this year, and one of the largest snowfalls in recorded history.
 
danarhea said:
Yup. Grew up in Flint. :)
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I grew up in Wyandotte. Where you there for the winter of 76/77? That was one bad winter. I remember my brother and I had to jump out of a window in our house because we couldn't get the doors open. Snow drifts over 12 feet high.
 
Thank God for rednecks, 4x4's and southern Rock. They'll get you Washington winnies to work if you like.
 
SgtRock said:
I grew up in Wyandotte. Where you there for the winter of 76/77? That was one bad winter. I remember my brother and I had to jump out of a window in our house because we couldn't get the doors open. Snow drifts over 12 feet high.
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Making snow forts that winter was so easy, just tunnel into the huge drifts.

Two years before was the massive ice storm that left most of Ionia county without electricity for over a week.
 
I love snow, although this storm is very dangerous. I used to live in Maryland over by DC... Back home they are getting a ton of snow (jealous). Although this year in Nashville we got a lot of snow (in relation to our averages). I pray that utilities wouldn't shut down and that everyone in the storm would stay safe and warm :)
 
SgtRock said:
I grew up in Wyandotte. Where you there for the winter of 76/77? That was one bad winter. I remember my brother and I had to jump out of a window in our house because we couldn't get the doors open. Snow drifts over 12 feet high.
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Nope. Winter of 74/75, was living in Lowell, outside of Grand Rapids. Had a snowdrift all the way to the roof on one side of my house. By the following summer, I was in Houston. LOL.
 
OxymoronP said:
Worst is I am snowed in, and I ran out of smokes!!!!!!!
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Call the cab company and tell them to bring you some smokes. This was a nightmare of mine when I smoked,
 
I started to dig out my car (27" here) and two 12 year olds came by and offered to do it for $20. Hell yeah! :)

[edit] I bought 2 cartons of Reds on Friday afternoon. That along with 8 frozen dinners, I'm ready!
 
check list for an east coast storm

1. bread
2. milk
3. toilet paper
 
Strucky said:
Did you guys get hit with the same amount of snow?
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We got ~20-25 inches, didn't measure it. Pennsylvania, Carlisle area.
 
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