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Paul Reysz
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Wow! That's impressive!It reminds me of a few weeks ago. Where i live in Michigan, we got some snow during the previous storms, so the garden is still white with still quite a layer (it's way too cold, so it does not melt) but nothing like that!
And thankfully we barely got anything this time this week-end, so roads are still clear.
How do you do? How do you drive to work every day in something like that?
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Ronald Joseph
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Well. Good Golly, Miss Molly.
This was the beach in Southern California today...
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Daniel Beziz
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Has it ever snowed before in southern california ???
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Stephen Churay
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The scary part is what happens to the upper Mississippi River valley
once all that snow melts. Gonna be lots of flooding this year.
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Michael Cross
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Yeah Trevor Smith, we're getting hammered..10 more cm today, another 5 on Wednesday..record accumulation so far this year..i'm 6'4" and cannot see over the sidewalk snowbanks
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Sebastien Roy
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| Posted: 02 March 2015 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | 6
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@Paul Reysz - After years of living in this kind of weather, you get used to it...but when it gets bad like it's been this winter, you start looking forward to summer a lot!! The drive to work is actually not bad at all. For the most part, roads are bare although it can take days for plows to clean the roads and make them bare with road salt. What exacerbated the cleanup efforts this year is extremely cold temperatures between snow storms. We've had a lot of -30 degree celsius temperatures between storms and salt just won't work in such low temperatures so the roads have a tendency to be quite icy as a result. But, with some good winter tires and a four-wheel drive vehicle, you can get anywhere pretty well.
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Carmen Bernardo
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Seems like winter's finally paying a visit to my neck of the woods. Not as servere as with JB and the folks up north, but still with its more-than-usual mixed bag. Yesterday saw my first icestorm since '91, in which I had to spend the morning laying out de-icer I made a hurried (short) trip to the local Home Depot to pick up when I realized what was going on.
Looks like there'll be at least one more storm for me __ a long, slow chugger that'll start out as a light snow, turn into rain/sleet, then back to snow for an inch or two on Thursday.
Edited by Carmen Bernardo on 02 March 2015 at 5:54pm
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Paul Reysz
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@Sebastien Roy - Ok, so pretty much the same as us over here. You described how we feel here also, but in a more exacerbated way given the quantity you have! Still hard to believe what you say when you see the pictures, though. I guess it's different when you do/see it every day.
Edited by Paul Reysz on 02 March 2015 at 6:57pm
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Marc Cheek
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Those photos show entirely more snow than I ever want to deal with.
Here in North Carolina there have been three frozen "events" in the
last two weeks. A couple of snows and a frozen rain and, like usual,
created havoc with travel. My daughter missed 7 (out of 10) days of
school and I stayed home 2 whole days myself.
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Peter Martin
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That's the big difference between when snow is a normal annual occurrence and when it's a once every few years kind of thing. When I was in London, there was a very good chance of major disruption to transport if there was any snow. Trains would be cancelled, those that ran would be crammed and stopping at extra stations. A pain in the neck.
Where I am now (Dartmouth, NS), the ploughs are out almost immediately and the pavement (sidewalk) gets cleared by little mini-diggers.
Clearing the driveway has been a major hassle this year, even with a snow blower. Some freezing rain straight after a snowstorm a while back put a thick layer of ice down before I had a chance to clear it and it's been a slow process of picking away at it with a shovel since.
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Brian Peck
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All you guys have to do is move to the left coast and not have to deal
with all that snow and ice biting cold,
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Marc Cheek
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No doubt Peter! Most people just don't know how to drive in snow.
I've not had to often, and prefer to stay home when it snows. Having
a couple of rear wheel drive vehicles don't help matters either.
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