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Winter
- Thread starter ptg
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Having grown up in a four-season climate (SW Pennsylvania), I've spent the past 33 years here in the desert. I miss winter, but I don't miss the car not starting, the icy roads, and pipes bursting from freezing, shoveling snow, etc.
Of course, we've been running about 10° above normal since October. Middle of December and we're steady at 75° all week. Right now I'd love a cold snap here. You know, highs in the 50s. ('Cold' being a relative term.
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Of course, we've been running about 10° above normal since October. Middle of December and we're steady at 75° all week. Right now I'd love a cold snap here. You know, highs in the 50s. ('Cold' being a relative term.
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In Portland it’s dry and cold, where the temp is in the low 40’s and a wind is blowing making it feel like ten degrees cooler. TV talk about every eight years we get a dry winter but it feels like the drought continues.
Certain it will snow, too much in a few days, I should stock up the pantry for the inevitable. My second winter here, i now own three pairs of boots ranging from nice gig to snow walkers.
I am enjoying the four seasons, particularly fall.
Certain it will snow, too much in a few days, I should stock up the pantry for the inevitable. My second winter here, i now own three pairs of boots ranging from nice gig to snow walkers.
I am enjoying the four seasons, particularly fall.
This story is Very familiar.
When my Bride and I first became a team, we lived on the lee of Lake Onterio, and hour + north of Syracuse (NY).
12, 24 inches of new snow overnight meant Nothing.
8 below, wind howling off the lake...putcha big boy pants and your Sorels on and get to work...get to class...on time.
A couple of those winters, she graduated and we moved another 90 minutes north....Oh! The Beautiful Thousand Islands region!
TRUE story...
one night in late December, 1981, the temp went down below 0, and stayed there...daytime high: -12, overnight low: -42, daytime high : -16...etc, etc,etc, for three weeks.
I remember looking my frostbitten Bride in the eye and saying “Darlin’, there are millions of people all over the world who don’t have to live like this.”
We left for NC the following Spring.
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...
I've lived in Vegas for roughly 33 years now. Every couple of winters, I'll ride a motorcycle (currently this Sportster) up to the ski resort on Mt. Charleston. I'll ride until I get to the snow. Then, I'll pull over and stop; walk over to the snow; and remove my riding gloves. Then, I'll make a snowball; hold it for a while; then, say to myself, "Yeah, still cold; still wet; and still nasty". After dropping the snowball and drying my hands, I'll put my gloves back on as I walk back to the bike. Then, I'll ride back down the mountain, and maybe spend the rest of the day riding up to Overton through Lake Mead Nat'l Park; along with half the other bikers here. Which is my idea of Winter Sports..
I was speaking with a student from Syria today, he wanted to know when winter would be over. I told him to relax, it could be awhile.
Been a (upstate) NY resident most of my life and while I'm not a huge fan of winter, I'll take it over hurricanes/tornadoes/earthquakes/wildfires any day. That being said, I'm also a long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan and ONLY attend games from November on so my mental health may be in doubt...
There are two inches of the snow on the ground. So my 13 mile commute will take two hours because people can't drive.
You should be here on the rare occasions we get ice and snow. No one can drive in it, including me. I don't have the experience and I don't want to get experience driving in it.
All you have to do is take it easy. Don't accelerate or brake hard and you're good. My Corolla does fine while idiots in giant SUVs crash into each other.
Michigan resident here.......got 10 inches the other night (of snow......get your minds out of pervert mode). It still surprises me to see how people forget how to drive in something that is a way of life here. Accidents everywhere....idiots driving 70 m.p.h.....tailgating....cars jacked up on curbs and stuck.....I really don't get it.
Took me an hour and a half to drive 8 miles home.
Thank God for Johnnie Walker.
Took me an hour and a half to drive 8 miles home.
Thank God for Johnnie Walker.
People can't drive in snow here, either. They can't even drive in the frickin' rain, most of them. I've lived in other places where it seldom freezes or snows; yeah, the major problem for most people there is lack of experience. Another Big problem is that the road maintenance people have no snow equipment to remove it, and no sand/cinders/salt to put on it, either. I remember once, back in the '80s when I was stationed out at Nellis AFB, they actually had to close the flightline and runways after an rare, serious snow storm. For a couple of days, in fact... Nellis wasn't considered a base that needed the necessary equipment, so there was nothing to remove it with. I would love to have a copy of that NOTAM (airfield closure notice); very few of those for Nellis because of snow...
