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I not only went out but drove in the mess that is the Beltway, because I had a work commitment over at the University of Maryland. There's a persistent stereotype that Washingtonians don't know how to drive in the snow -- and it couldn't be truer.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fuck yeah, it's snowing. Grrrrrrrrrrreat.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

yay! it's here! (and it means i didn't have to go to Philly today!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, we got quite a bit of snow at Virginia Tech. But I still had to go to all my classes today. *pout*

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

NYC finally got its snow. It was nice. I threw snowballs at passing cars.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 December 2002 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

it was a beautiful day here in ye olde towne alexandria. i walked around a bit, and avoided any unpleasant contact between myself and the ground. the sidewalks have all been shoveled, which means more ice! does anyone else prefer unshoveled sidewalk as being easier to walk on?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 6 December 2002 03:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

IT'S SNOWING!!!! (in Ann Arbor, MI)

I was just thinking about no matter how many times I see snow, I'm still endless fascinated by it.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Until tomorrow, when you have to shovel it. And the salt on the road destroys your car. And...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nah I rent and I walk to work. I guess that's why I'm fascinated at the moment.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's snowing in Holland! Hooray, now I can walk to work tommorrow!

― erik, Sunday, 5 January 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

SNOW!!!...It's snowing here :(

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 January 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

SNOW!!!...It's not snowing here :(

it's not snowing is what I meant to say.

Coz I love snow.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 January 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's snowing right now in the Washington area. I'd be ecstatic, except that I'm at work right now and later will have to drive home in this mess.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was just up in Albany & Vermont, and the snow there over the weekend was great. The skiing was powdery like out west.

Delaware just got 3 inches today, and I'm going sledding tomorrow!!

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 6 January 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

albany and vermont... waaaahhhh!!! i miss snow.

for christs sake, it's been cold, oh so cold here, and we've certainly had enough precipitation. why can't some of it be snow? and i don't mean those few miserable flakes i saw while walking through kings cross yesterday.

yesterday, suzy and i were talking about snow angels and getting all nostalgic for snowpants and stuff. i mean, who in their right mind gets nostalgic for snow pants unless they're in extreme snow withdrawl?

― kate, Monday, 6 January 2003 05:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

It snowed here yesterday but I missed it cuz I was out of town.

My bf called me up and was like, "Hey! It's snowing - you should head home."

3 minute later, another call from him:
"Never mind. Stopped already. (sigh)"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

we got another 14 inches on top of the 14 inches we had from Christmas on Friday. I so want to build a snow fort...

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

my car was all frozed over this morning. it's a new car. i left my ice scraper in the old one. cold hand. brrrrr. mew.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

i think i have seen more days of snow this winter than any other in my life.

― maura (maura), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

and we are supposed to be having El Nino this year!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

its snowing again in Massachusetts today. Since when did I start living in Antartica.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

A little snow down here at the ilXor Rye weather center.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's snowing now. Fuck!

― , Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have been a long time snow hata but strangely enough although there has been several snowstorms this season it hasn't fazed me much.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's snowing here too.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

New York, right? In which case, here = there.

― , Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I assure you the white stuff is snow:
http://homepage.mac.com/dtcd/snow4.jpeg

(and there's some barely visible here. God knows what Manchester will be like)

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

We've had a few flurries in London this morning. Not enough to settle though.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Snow settled in glorious South London this morning, but who can blame it for not settling in Shepherd's Bush?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

its not settled properly in london, my street has hardly any...but out here in thames valley it has settled for sure!

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

some snow has settled here! It's beautiful and it fills my heart with joy, I want at least two months of this weather!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was lovely in walthamstow, and it's even started to stick in farringdon. Well, the pavements are white in places.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's settled in ladbroke grove. rah

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Streatham was a winter wonderland at seven this morning - you could have skied down Leigham Court Road!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bah, West London suXors.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Uxbridge and the Chilterns are lovely and white. But it's melting quickly.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

RICKYT! i expell you to the southern wastes. get thee to a tubeless nightmare. anyway, ladbroke grove = snowy and = w london, so not so suxory.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, from the train today, loads of snow, in South London, none central.

(I'm going back North today. Why else would I be up at 8am to post non-pictures of snow?)

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

ruff!! i think jel is in trouble!! ruff!!

http://www.avalanche-net.com/images/jpeg/chien.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Its coming down something rotten outside.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah! It's cute that you guys say 'settled'.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

The snow is beginning to stick in Clerkenwell, which I thought impossible. The up side of this is of course not being in minnesota, where lazy mother tried to persuade me and my sis that we were born with shovels in hand. Beatch.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Even the grottiest parts of South London look pretty under a couple of inches of snow. I feel like I'm in Fargo at the moment. Snow: I love it!

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Acton is a Winter Wonderland this morn.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

SNOW! Beautiful snow in Ealing! Wahoo!!! :) :) :)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shepherds Bush was developing a nice even covering when I left for work this morning. Marble Arch is looking quite white as well.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I made it snow by telling my newly arrived from Brazil tutor that "It never snows in London".

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bah, Streatham was just slushy this morning - it's neatly all gone :-(

Weird how Acton, Shep Bush and Ladbroke Grove all got snowed on, and yet Hammersmith (which is where I work) is completely snow-free. Must be something to do with the one-way system or the Talgarth flyover.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

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fucking finally

― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link

My drive home yesterday had to have been one of the two or three worst in my life. I was out on country roads that were pure white, some hellish mixture of ongoing snow and freezing rain earlier in the day, visibility poor, feeling the car pulling out from under me every now and again. Took two hours for a drive that's normally just under an hour (and not because of traffic).

― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link

Bracing for a blizzard over the next 4-5 hours where I am (I think through a lot of Ontario). Happily, in for the night and the weekend if need be. I might venture out on foot for a coffee tonight, though.

― clemenza, Friday, 3 March 2023 23:31 (one year ago) link

Good luck! never having been snowed in before, it sounds kind of fun

Or a horror movie

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 March 2023 23:34 (one year ago) link

Thanks. I literally don't even know what a blizzard means. Is it just a whole bunch of snow, or are there other things involved? If I step out, I don't want to end up like Warren Beatty in McCabe & Mrs. Miller. (Of course, the bullet he took didn't help there.)

― clemenza, Friday, 3 March 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link

Got all the way to the end of the driveway and turned back. I now know that a blizzard involves a very tangible wind component.

― clemenza, Saturday, 4 March 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link

And thunder. And lightning.

― clemenza, Saturday, 4 March 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link

Got to have strong winds and poor visibility, but especially strong wind.

https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Blizzard

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 4 March 2023 10:04 (one year ago) link

We definitely met all those conditions, and it was sustained for 4-5 hours. Amazingly, power/cable never went it out--it generally does for much less.

― clemenza, Saturday, 4 March 2023 12:32 (one year ago) link

The guy plowing my side-street (10 houses, 45 degree incline) got stuck halfway and had to go back for a different vehicle. I could hear Robert Shaw chiding him: "You're going to need a bigger plow."

― clemenza, Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Lowest winter snowfall totals in NYC since record keeping began: 2.3 inches, breaking the previous record of 2.8 inches in 1972-73 (Central Park totals).

Today marks one full year since NYC got as much as 1.5 inches of snow in one day. This appears to be rare.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:37 (one year ago) link

Get used to it. We had zero snow in DC this year, which is very rare (but will be increasingly common until snow is a distant memory). The first five months of 2023 have been the warmest ever in DC history, akin to Memphis, TN.

― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link

eight months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/P1QG7JK/IMG-20240116-131824094-HDR.jpg

good ol' American craftsmanship

― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 18:21 (three months ago) link

sad snowman at pilgrim hill an hour ago
https://i.ibb.co/DfB4wHw/IMG-20240116-133039519.jpg

two little girls came and made it a friend
https://i.ibb.co/4mGMc5R/IMG-20240116-141201286.jpg

― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link

We got nearly 10 inches yesterday, biggest single snowfall in Knoxville in 28 years. It has basically just shut down everything for the week, which is fine by me. It's very pretty.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 19:28 (three months ago) link

random stuff i saw teenagers sledding in or on today:

-the drawer of a filing cabinet (didn't work)

-a kitty litter box (not bad, but looked impossible to steer)

-a flattened cardboard box (fell apart the instant it hit the snow)

― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 02:14 (three months ago) link

Back in my day, they made cardboard boxes sturdy enough to sled on!

― lethbridge-pfunkboy (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 14:36 (three months ago) link

Lol

― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:27 (three months ago) link

I cannot resist singing this thread title in a Jim Morrison Doors vpice

― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:36 (three months ago) link

Frosty, I’ve come to melt you
Santa, I’ve come to ….

― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:55 (three months ago) link

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