the north = cold/snow

[Dreamstalker]

That is awesome! Especially since Trinity was down at White Sands.

I've been to Trinity Site (and have some Trinitite to prove it), but not White Sands per se.

Best thing is, my dad (who lives in Los Alamos) went along with the joke completely--he has as short a tolerance for ditzes as I do.

As far as I know, she was still believing it up until she decided to no longer talk to me...so much for her critical-thinking skills (there is stuff still in bunkers there, but as far as anyone knows it hasn't affected anything).

[EricKei]

At least it eventually melts...

This is true.

Let's make some snowballs out of it and chuck it GK's way...

[Pagan]

Hee...I managed to have The Twit thinking that snow in Santa Fe was fallout from Los Alamos.

That is awesome! Especially since Trinity was down at White Sands.

[Dreamstalker]

At least it eventually melts...

[EricKei]

Actually, the problem is Nunavut exporting snow down to the US and it comes across the Canadian border in a few areas.

Wait...If their snow is anything like their callers...Does that mean you're sending us STUPID SC snow?!

[Dreamstalker]

3 years ago, the Sunport did close down because of the snow. But in our defense, that storm did break 50-year-old records and there were blizzard conditions.

I was there then...we had been in OR, our arriving flight was one of the last let in and the roads up to Santa Fe/parts north were being closed not far behind us. Lots of big rigs on the side of the road, and the usual idiots who thought it just dandy to rocket past us at 90 only to end up in a ditch a few hundred yards up. Los Alamos proper was shut down for about three days. Somewhere, I have a photo of a frozen pizza in a snowdrift on the deck because there wasn't quite enough room in the freezer.

I also remember a few closures due to snow in college. Also a number of evening class cancellations because the professors lived in Los Alamos.

We get two flakes floating through the air and all of the "flakes" driving freak out!

Hee...I managed to have The Twit thinking that snow in Santa Fe was fallout from Los Alamos.

[Racket_Man]

I blame everyone in this thread for even mentioning the s-word.

Why, you ask?

There is a slight chance of that dreaded s-word this weekend. As if a temperature plunge from 70s/80s in September down to 40s the past week and a half weren't enough of a reality check.

and you thought I was going to mention it first HUH??????

ahhhhh the first "snow" of the season. how many of our fellow Winsconsinites are going to literally freak out at the dusting we are suppoed to get on Sat. and Monday.

[Sarlon]

growing up in southern florida (not key west...touch further north), I only knew what snow was because we spent a few christmases up in Maine.

Except those winters were either REALLY dry with heavy winds coming in off the ocean (like 2 minutes walking distance from my grandparents house to the beach) and NO snow, or heavy snow and ice and NO wind.

Living where I do now in nowhereville, Franklin (if you know the state history you'll know the state), winters are strange. We rarely if ever see any serious snow before the new year, but we'll either have seriously cold weather and dry, or warm and wet.

ditto for people over reacting about the weather outside....they call for blizzard like conditions and the grocery store is EMPTY (but full of people), and everyone drives like its fricking the end of the world.

[Midorikawa]

As far as I'm concerned, you can always take off enough to get cool. You can't put on enough to get warm.

Yeah, but there's a limit to how much you can take off before you get arrested for indecent exposure.

No really, I'd rather have snow than more 115+F temps. :-)

[Pagan]

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the cold?

You and me both. It's about 55F right now around noon and I. Am. Not. Happy. It's been up to 64F, but I think that was around midnight. >.<

As far as I'm concerned, you can always take off enough to get cool. You can't put on enough to get warm.

[Jester]

See, it's stories like that that make me so freakin' glad that I went to Arizona State University (originally my second choice), and not my first choice of Syracuse University.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the cold?

[Crossbow]

Actually, the problem is Nunavit exporting snow down to the US and it comes across the Canadian border in a few areas. Nothing like tundra wind whistling down across the great lakes, picking up moisture and dumping it on the first available land.

I'm from a small town between Rochester and Buffalo, on the lake side of the foothills to the Appalachians so the wind hits there and dumps snow. It isnt Rochester, Buffalo or Syracuse getting the snow, it is actually the southern tier that gets slammed. I used to sled out of a third story window regularly. my brother and I used to hollow out the resulting snowbank, with the final tunnel end being the servants door in the basement so we had a 'secret entrance'

Damn I miss being 8 years old...

Sounds about right. I was born and spent some of my childhood north of Oneida Lake near Syracuse, then moved to the previously mentioned Orchard Park. Both snow belts. After getting out of WNY, I moved to Euclid, an eastern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Yep, another snow belt (not as bad as Chardon, but close enough.) The fun is the whole Lake Effect issue. As AD said, you get that cold air moving across a relatively warm (read non-frozen) lake, and it picks up all sorts of moisture. Once it hits the dry air over land, it's coming down, like it or not. Four to six inches an hour is not unheard of. Good luck keeping the roads clear then.

Luckily, right now my house is close enough to Lake Erie that the lake effect actually skips over us and falls further south. It also doesn't get anywhere near as cold as when I lived near Syracuse (-40F for a week straight)....

[AccountingDrone]

(Although Buffalo has an unfair reputation for winter weather. Rochester gets more snow than Buffalo every year, and Syracuse routinely beats both of them. It isn't even that cold there, about the same as NYC where I grew up, because it's right on the lake and that moderates the temperature. Yet when I told people I was moving there, everyone was saying "Man, you're gonna freeze." Come on guys, it's not Alaska, or even Montana. I'm not sure what it is, maybe it's that Buffalo has an NFL team, so people all over the country can put on their TVs and see 80,000 maniacs sitting in the stands with snow up to their tuchuses. Thing is, the stadium isn't even in Buffalo, it's in Orchard Park, south of the city, and it does snow more down there.)

Actually, the problem is Nunavit exporting snow down to the US and it comes across the Canadian border in a few areas. Nothing like tundra wind whistling down across the great lakes, picking up moisture and dumping it on the first available land.

I'm from a small town between Rochester and Buffalo, on the lake side of the foothills to the Appalachians so the wind hits there and dumps snow. It isnt Rochester, Buffalo or Syracuse getting the snow, it is actually the southern tier that gets slammed. I used to sled out of a third story window regularly. my brother and I used to hollow out the resulting snowbank, with the final tunnel end being the servants door in the basement so we had a 'secret entrance'

Damn I miss being 8 years old...

Whoa...That's enough to scare me inside for the rest of winter. O_o

they make slip on ice cleats, sort of football spikes on rubbers that are good on ice.

/me hands out cups of cocoa, you have to get your own cat to purr at you

[Phantomgrift]

I admit, I have always imagined up to a few years ago that the States doesnt have a real winter, despite having seen all the Home Alone movies and all that with snow, heh.

Up here in Calgary, its not unusual to have snow in july and then be BBQing on christmas in shorts on the deck though

You forget and I can beg to differ...
Alaska is part of the U.S. and further north than Alberta.

Man... I miss having actual winters up there.
Where Christmas is six feet of snow in two days!

[Jester]

I am assuming that this "sunshine" is comprised partially or wholly of boozeahol. ^_^ I will very disappointed if this turns out not to be the case.

You are going to be very disappointed, then.

First of all, I called it the wrong thing. It's not liquid sunshine, it's instant sunshine. In a can.

In other words, an empty can with a clever label. Basically a gag gift, that a lot of tourists buy as souvenirs of their time in the tropics.

Also a great way to remind someone that lives in the Great White North how truly awesome it is down here.