Northern weather

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Storm of the century being hyped up. How will people handle the mad rush on grocery stores.?

Meh...............

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...meh, indeed.

[rogruth]

Nice and toasty with a fire in the fireplace watching Tech lose,

Just curious, which Tech?

[rogruth]

"Storm of the Century." How many of those have occured in the last several years?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice and toasty with a fire in the fireplace watching Tech lose,

Just curious, which Tech?

VA Tech........but that was a 2 weeks ago?

"Storm of the Century." How many of those have occured in the last several years?

Too many.

[robert.]

Nice and toasty with a fire in the fireplace watching Tech lose,

Just curious, which Tech?

VA Tech........but that was a 2 weeks ago?

"Storm of the Century." How many of those have occured in the last several years?

Too many.

Each one bigger than the last. When i was a kid.....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When i was a kid.....

I walked 5 miles to school in 2' of snow and then home and it was uphill both ways.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

When I was a kid, snow meant play, no latter how much or how deep. I never got the work part until I was a teenager and my widowed mother needed my help. I was glad to help, with everything..

[chuck]

I walked 5 miles to school in 2' of snow and then home and it was uphill both ways.

Must have been an extremely diastrophically active area

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When I was a kid, snow meant play, no latter how much or how deep. I never got the work part until I was a teenager and my widowed mother needed my help. I was glad to help, with everything..

I can't recall it ever being all that much fun; I like watching it fall and how quiet it can be............before all the snowblowers get fired up.

Still beats that cold winter rain any day.

[rogruth]

Elementary school was only @ 1/4 mile away but you had to go over a hump so it was up hill both ways.
High school wasthe opposite. Down grade then up the other side. So----.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

When I was a kid, snow meant play, no latter how much or how deep. I never got the work part until I was a teenager and my widowed mother needed my help. I was glad to help, with everything..

I can't recall it ever being all that much fun; I like watching it fall and how quiet it can be...........

We'd stay out, until we hit too cold, sled-riding down the several hilly streets. One night, even my father took me out on our new American Flexible Flyer (I think that was its name) and had me ride atop him as he lay supine the full length of the sled.
Or we'd make snow men, watch the snow glide down thru the street lights , or just walk around amidst the wonder of it all. We never had snowball fights.

The indicator for us kids that we were pushing-our-luck was how stiff our ice-saturated gloves/mittens got. If they were getting too stiff to flex , we knew we were in trouble and went home quickly for our mom's to take our gloves off and run cold water over our stiff hands (somehow, the suburban-legend had become ingrained that using hot water to thaw our hands out would damage them.)

I think I can still hear the peacefulness of those snowy days and nights in my mind.

[chuck]

(somehow, the suburban-legend had become ingrained that using hot water to thaw our hands out would damage them.)

Warm water is the better choice. Hot water may be so hot that you would scald yourself. Cold water will just suck more heat out of your body.

WE used to get pretty sh*ty snow in the New York Metro area, especially compared to the drier and usually lighter/fluffier stuff my kids grew up with. We do occasionally get "alpine snow" when it gets super cold. The stuff is dry but dense/heavy. Like shoveling sugar. Really bad when it blows back in your face. Instant and very painful face freeze.

In the upper midwest you can either complain about the winter from mid November until April or you adapt and learn to like it. We got the kids involved in cross country skiing and ice skating and we took them sledding on the big hill in the Township park. Deb and I had cross country ski's for several years before we had kids and would partake in an annual trip up north to the Alpena area for a long weekend. There isn't much in the way of downhill skiing (aka leg breaking) in the lower peninsula, particularly the lower half of the lower peninsula.

[healey36]

Our first significant snow is supposed to hit Wednesday, forecasted 8-18 inches..big range. Probably heavy/wet stuff. Get excited It’ll probably rain.

[chuck]

forecasted 8-18 inches..big range

Probably wind up 0'-4" or 20"-24". With all of the technology they have at their disposal (radar imagery/satellite imagery/computer modeling) you would think they would be getting better at this.

What is really galling is that when they screw up now they pretend they never said anything different. I think I could do better predictions with a Magic 8 Ball.