The Storm of the Century

[TonyK]

You Americans take it all. No snow in Southern Ontario, nothing.

You have to learn to give and share a little, I have the cab and snowblower on my tractor, a $32,000 CND investment, or about $100 USD. Waxed up all my snow shovels, but no snow. None even at Christmas. It is bad enought that most vendors will not ship to Canada, ( as if we are making stuff to use against you.) but this is too much, now our snow, that means no run off, dry fields, no water in the lakes, no generation of Electricity. Tell me, why do you want it in the first place, you don't need it, can't use it and when you do have it you complain about it. I say leave it alone and let us Canadians have it, we are ready for that and more.

TonyK.

Grimsby Ontario Canada.

[autox19]

I would have to say I have never complained one day in my life about snow. But I figure we dont really count because we are kind of a relative of Canada, twice removed. (the UP is a once removed relative that refuses to give up the family )

Odie

[bb4re]

...apparently got 4 inches of snow yesterday. That's an equivalent to 40 inches in D.C.!!!

[Pete Whitstone]

Originally Posted by bb4re

...apparently got 4 inches of snow yesterday. That's an equivalent to 40 inches in D.C.!!!

It started falling Thursday morning about 4am, and didn't stop for about 24 hours. It's the largest single-day snowfall in Dallas, ever. The area is completely shut down (we don't have snowplows).

Pete

[bbrown]

snow than we do in New Hampshire! Hahaha! LOVE IT!
Finally, global warming works in our favor!

Maybe all the snow-birds will move back North ehh??

[SciFi65]

Final tally for Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, was 12.5 inches. You heard right, a foot and a half of snow in Dallas, TX. And the Federal Government ISN'T shut down here ( I work for them). I have maybe 7 co-workers here with me out of about 150+ (on my floor). Oh, you could have a day off, but you had to take LEAVE to get it. Even the Fort Worth City Government is shut down, along with the school system. Makes me question the upper leadership of my organization after making people have to come into work in this Oh wait, we did get to come in late (1.5 hours) though

[SciFi65]

Oh, also the apartment maintenance guys came banging on my door this morning as I was getting ready for work telling me to move my car (my '87 X) because all the covered parking structures were collapsing Sure enough, I look around and 4 of the 5 structures had already collapsed (my section was still standing)......some with several cars still under them. And, wouldn't you know the battery was dead on the X where it had been sitting so I had to drive my SUV under the structure and jump/move the X. I was moving like a starving man chasing a doughnut down a hill let me tell you. The roof was creeking and the roof plates were all sagging along with the support structures bending. If I wasn't religious before that moment I sure became it FAST Finding a parking spot with a rear wheel drive car in 12 inches of snow was fun to say the least. Only place I could park it that was open (wasn't even a legit spot) was an opening right under a tree limb bending with heavy snow. Might get home this afternoon to find the X flat as a pancake

[wildman]

You call that snow?

[SciFi65]

Actually in Texas YES we do call that snow. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know New York gets more snow than us, but it would be like you saying it got 100 degrees in NY and us replying, "You call that hot?". For a place that just broke a 100+ year old record of snowfall in 24 hours, I'd call that a significant event.

[bbrown]

[Pete Whitstone]

Originally Posted by bbrown

It's "Climate Change". The Gore-ophytes had to stop calling it that, because of events like this, or like the disastrous climate data from 2007, which wiped out a century of "warming trend".

Trust your government, Bob.... drink the Kool-aid...

Pete

[SciFi65]

As long as it's Orange Kool-Aid.

[bbrown]

Red is better! ha!

[bb4re]

...A liquor store in Alaska had a HUGE ice sculpture made of Al Gore. They also have an F350 sitting and running behind it with the exhaust being piped thru a hole in Al's mouth. They say they will keep it going until Big Al agrees to go up there for a debate. This has been going on for a long time, now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL56qhvuywo&feature=player_embedded

Here is the article that goes with it...
http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010...in-alaska.html

[Pete Whitstone]

I like this one too, entitled "Hundreds Protest Global Warming"

[JimD]

This video is pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM&feature=player_embedded

You can find them at www.m4gw.com I wonder if Thai knows these guys?

[budgetzagato]

Snow can get very heavy, it seems like every year here there is an event like you describe. Snow hold a lot of water when it can, and many structures (like in TEXAS) aren't made to hold it for long.

Some folks get out and sweep or shovel such things off, but who knows if it needs it?

[mellor_21]

Let's just say I'd be pissed if my snowboard bindings weren't broken.. It was raining when I woke up