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Winter

#3
ptg said:
Big storm coming.

I hate it. Cold. Snow. Wind.

Did I mention that I hate winter?

That is all...Thanks for listening.
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Me too.
I've been living in Greece the last 6 years. I had to move back to NY this past June.
This will be my first NY winter in 6 years. Let's see how it goes.
So far, it hasn't been bad.
 
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bholder said:
If you only hated Winter as much as I hate hot, muggy, sweaty, icky Summer. ;) (Not really, but there are some days... ...I wouldn't move south for any amount of money, especially these days - Run North!)
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Amen. I miss the beautiful Chicago winters I took for granted for five years before moving to Austin where the mere mention of snow and ice causes 25 wrecks around town and effectively shuts down the city.

I'll never understand why people wax poetic about Austin's weather; when it's so hot and humid that I and pouring sweat from a three block walk in jeans and a t-shirt in March, something is very wrong.
 
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Kevan Campbell said:
Amen. I miss the beautiful Chicago winters I took for granted for five years before moving to Austin where the mere mention of snow and ice causes 25 wrecks around town and effectively shuts down the city.

I'll never understand why people wax poetic about Austin's weather; when it's so hot and humid that I and pouring sweat from a three block walk in jeans and a t-shirt in March, something is very wrong.
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Coming from a Chicagoan, you sir are certifiably insane.

(This can all be attributed to the grass is greener effect)
 
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Hold on... it doesn't appear anybody here actually lives anywhere cold... bunch of whiners! I'd kill for Chicago or New York winters!

I used to laugh when I talked to Americans on the phone, they'd lament about their winter storms and I'd tell them how I drove to work in -40 (with a windchill on top) and it was just an ordinary day. The last major blizzard my city had was -50 plus wind chill with visibility of a few feet and that did not even shut the city down... you could still go out about your business if you really wanted.

We've been having a rather warm winter this year though, I cannot really complain.
 
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elgecko said:
Yeah but only a 40% chance. The way this El Nino's been going, we'll probably get a half hour of drizzle.
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Well, at least Central and Northern California have been getting a lot of rain. We have been getting unusual high pressure in So Cal which is blocking the low pressure storms from reaching us. That should change by February and we will see more storms.
 
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DiabolusInMusic said:
Hold on... it doesn't appear anybody here actually lives anywhere cold... bunch of whiners! I'd kill for Chicago or New York winters!

I used to laugh when I talked to Americans on the phone, they'd lament about their winter storms and I'd tell them how I drove to work in -40 (with a windchill on top) and it was just an ordinary day. The last major blizzard my city had was -50 plus wind chill with visibility of a few feet and that did not even shut the city down... you could still go out about your business if you really wanted.

We've been having a rather warm winter this year though, I cannot really complain.
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Hey now, no one likes a showoff ;)
 
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No, I don't live anywhere really cold - any more. But, when my Dad wasn't stationed in England (where they hadn't discovered central heat yet), we lived in:
- Fairbanks, Alaska - how does 64 below - a lot - grab ya? Yes, it actually is possible to spit and have it freeze before it hits the ground - if you do it right..
- Colorado Springs - gets plenty cold there, too (Olympic Winter Games, anyone?).
- Minot, North Dakota - 20/30 below, and a never ending 35 mph North wind makes for insane wind chill; waiting for the school bus on top of a 14 ft snow drift was loads of fun.
- Mtn. Home, Idaho - 15/20 below is not uncommon; gets windy there, too.
And when I joined the Air Force, I got stationed in:
- Oscoda, Michigan - the wind off Lake Huron in the winter was a real treat; so was doing perimeter guard duty, in snow up to your butt. Loved watching a step van pick the dogs up from the alert apron. "It's too cold for them"... but we got to stay out there...
- Kunsan, Korea - there is nothing you can wear that will keep the winter wind coming across the Yellow Sea, from carving the flesh off your bones; and it's right on the coast (as in, runway approach lights run right out into the water). Snow up to your butt there, too.
- Mtn. Home, Idaho - again; for 5 years this time...
And, England again, too. I lived off base, in part of a converted 400-year old horse barn. Still no central heat... didn't get particularly cold, really; but it was pretty much always chilly, clammy, and damp. The problem was, I wasn't real cold, but I could never get warm.

So, yes, I live where it doesn't get very cold; or, if it does, it doesn't stay that way very long. I've been badly frost-bitten so many times, that a place like Chicago would be very bad for me...:)
 
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