BootedBear: Wish you were here

[Razor X]

[D.A.L.U.I.]

That's serious, professional grade winter.  Glad it's not my heating bill.

[Razor X]

It's actually not that cold today, believe it or not.  It's been well above freezing all day.  This past weekend, was a different story -- bitter cold.   

[D.A.L.U.I.]

It's been well above freezing all day. 

"well above freezing" is relative, and for this Sly Southern Guy it starts in the low 60's.  When you have that much snow, it's no where near that.  I think my sanity would be in danger if I had to go through what's going on up there, seriously.  Of course, August here might drive others to drink, hummmmm, maybe that's why Bourbon Street stays busy .

[Razor X]

I'm not a huge fan of snow myself, but it's a lot easier to deal with in this day and age of four wheel drive vehicles and being able to work from home instead of having to commute to the office when the weather is bad.  Cold weather without the snow and ice doesn't really bother me.  Extreme heat on the other hand, I find very difficult to deal with.That being said, I don't plan on ever living further north of where I am now.

The interesting thing is, we used to have winters like this all the time when I was growing up.  I can remember when I was in grade school reading articles that said we were heading for another ice age.  Then by the time I was in high school, we started having very mild winters with little or snow.  We had several years like that, which we were told was due to global warming.  But now we seem to be back in the same weather cycle we had in the 70s.  It will be interesting to see if it is a trend that continues for the next several years.

[TheSlyBear]

BRRRRRRR

After 40 New England winters, I'd had enough...

[Nonick]

BB, I guess it's true what some people say about New England "a great place to be from"

Razor, I heard you guys got dumped on again!  I heard from someone up the road from you, in "Taxachusetts".  They're trying to figure out where to put the snow.  They said that Boston is having some issues with getting rid of the snow. 
And in a few months, it will all melt away 

[TheSlyBear]

Actually, there are lots of things about New England I miss. Some, a lot.

But the snow isn't one of them!

[Ming the Merciless]

My local weather station has just deemed the month here its snowiest on record.

I once somewhere read that to live long, one should retire to a climate with emphatic winters.  The body will struggle ("What does not kill me makes me stronger" --Nietzsche) and soldier on far longer than those who do what so many do--scuttle off to someplace where parkas, snow shovels, slush and road salt are so many mirages, recalled, but no longer experienced.

I have no idea of the truth of this longevity/climate relation.  I was raised in the far north of NY, in the "snow belt," and even spent some time in places where forty-below was not unlikely (in winter, of course), but then some years in the far south, and now for some time in my current Mid-Atlantic perch.  I expect to live to only "moderate old age," despite this winter's effort to goad my systems into frenzied efforts to maintain homeostasis.

[CraftyGuy]

BB, I guess it's true what some people say about New England "a great place to be from"

Razor, I heard you guys got dumped on again!  I heard from someone up the road from you, in "Taxachusetts".  They're trying to figure out where to put the snow.  They said that Boston is having some issues with getting rid of the snow. 
And in a few months, it will all melt away 

I had to walk in the road on my way to work (Maynard, MA) because the sidewalks were buried under a mountain of plowed snow. 

Get me outta here ... I hear Texas is a good place to be...

[Nonick]

I hear the middle to the south of Texas almost never get's any snow!  But the pan-handle area gets it's share of nasty weather. 

[TheSlyBear]

We get light snow, I'd estimate, about one in 4 winters. It stays on the ground hours, never days.

[andrew]

In Connecticut, we got 24" during this week's storm.  2 weeks ago we got 18".   I'm told we have another big storm coming next week.   I'm getting concerned about the 3' of snow on my roof.  Counting the days until Spring ....

[Nonick]

Andrew, that is incredible.  I grew up just up just north of your area and always thought that Connecticut got more of the freezing rain than snow.   
I heard that there is a thing called a snow rake, for getting excess snow off your roof.  Too much snow on a roof is not a good thing 

[andrew]

This year has been unusually snowy here.  We've gotten 54.9 inches of snow in January, breaking the old record of 45.3 inches.

The snow rakes are hard to come by now.  I have a roofer (turned snow shoveler) coming here Monday to remove the 3-4 foot drifts on my roof.