BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!

Subject: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 06:54 PM

This is a quote from the National Weather Service's Special Weather Announcement for eastern Idaho for this weekend (October 23-24, 2010):

Expect snow levels on Sunday to be between 6500 and 7500 feet with still uncertainty as to the exact snow level.

Alaska, Siberia, Canada -- y'all are wimps! WIMPS!

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 08:11 PM

Hey man, pass it over here. Did you do the update yet or did I do it?

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 08:51 PM

Why, that's nearly as much snow as we used to get when I was a mere child.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 08:58 PM

The less snow the better as far as I'm concerned. Chongo doesn't like it much either.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:23 PM

I remember many snows like that when I was a child.

The only problem was it covered up the broken glass I had to walk on, barefoot, the three miles, uphill, to school and back^* every day.



^* Yes, it was uphill both ways.

John

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: MarkS
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 11:04 PM

You had it easy. I had to do the same but fight off the wolves at the same time.

Mark

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 11:15 PM

"Expect snow levels on Sunday to be between 6500 and 7500 feet with still uncertainty as to the exact snow level.

"Alaska, Siberia, Canada -- y'all are wimps! WIMPS!" Rapaire

"between 6500 and 7500 feet"? Ye gods, man, our mountains around downtown Juneau, ALASKA, are lower than 4,000 feet above sea level- and we've had snow practically halfway down the mountain for a couple of weeks.

We just don't brag about it. Snooty sniff.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 11:30 PM

And the Lord said to Noah, build snowshoes out of gopher wood, for you, and your sons, and their wives, and for two each of every living thing...

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 12:49 AM

Yep. You haven't seen snowshoes until you've seen two centipedes side by side movin' right along.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 07:39 AM

Nope, Ebbie, you haven't seen snowshoes until you've seen two rattlesnakes side by side, movin' right along. And you oughta see 'em skiing!

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 08:18 AM

Snowed up near The Miramichi Thursday night/morn. Not much but it did. Doubt if it was on the ground long.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 10:53 AM

We haven't had any snow yet on the ground level or in the air, for that matter. That is downtown. Out where the glaciers are may be different. It's colder in those neighborhoods, and snowier and with less rain than we get.

(For those who don't know, Juneau, Alaska, is a long narrow town hugging the shoreline of the USA mainland.)

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 11:15 AM

And directly behind, like a giant boot ready crush a bug, is Canada. When Canada invades Juneauians* will be lost as there is no way for them to escape.





*NB: FIVE vowels in a row!

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 11:48 AM

This AM we had "mixed precipitation" for a short time. The "slushy" raindrops were few and far between, but there were some.

Hehehehee... I didn't dare say anything to Mum, thinking she wouldn't be able to see them but she did when some hit the windshield and she was not pleased.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 03:11 PM

'Juneauians'? Sounds perilously close to 'annoyance'.

As for Canada, were the boot to come down it is in the realm of possibility that our lot woule be improved. :)

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 10 - 03:22 PM

Hmmm...Juneautters?

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 12:29 AM

Junutters? Well, the goods may be odd in some cases, and we have elected some really strange people from time to time but I do think that is somewhat harsh.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 03:32 AM

I think it snowed here about 16,000 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 02:15 PM

It just occurred to me that 'Junutter' is better than MEnutter.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 04:00 PM

We're calling people from down Salt Lake City way "Utards" up here in Idaho.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 04:19 PM

Reminds me of the days when the cry went out from a neighboring state: Don't Californicate Oregon!

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 04:23 PM

Maybe I should explain. When Californians, en masse discovered Oregon and its comparatively cheap real estate they swarmed northward. Oregon went from under 1 million people to 3 million very rapidly.

My father who had paid $39000. for a 160 acre ranch with crumbling buildings sold it a few years later for $104,000.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Crowhugger
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 04:24 PM

There was a mere inch of snow accumulation the other day, whiteouts and all, this was about 30 minutes north of Toronto, ON. Alas, 6500 feet still takes the trick! Next deal...

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: ollaimh
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 06:51 PM

how about juneauwegians!

i love snow i just wish we only had it for ttwo months instead of five.   from moncton.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 07:25 PM

To be factual, Crowhugger, we in Juneau (we Junwegians?) are well ahead of both you and Idaho. Our snow is only about 2,000 feet away. Straight up.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 07:32 PM

Since that last governor the snow is afraid to fall in Juneau?

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 09:19 PM

'sno snow here.....maybe some snoo.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 10 - 10:24 PM

I love Autumn. I love the odors, the colors, the feeling of completion and repletion. the visceral knowledge that the wheel has turned full circle. And the other seasons don't have such a dramatic demarcation as to when they are done, over, kaput. Snow... when it snows, Autumn is gone.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 12:32 AM

I do not have snow. I do not want to have snow. The last time we had measurable snow in Albuquerque was 3 years ago, and that is an awful memory that I am trying desperately to forget. Snow belongs on the mountain 4 miles and 5000 feet away, where it belongs.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 02:40 AM

Well knowing the UK as I do we will probably have an inch or two in January and everything will grind to a complete halt. Are we wimps or what?

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: GUEST,Ebbie
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 03:06 AM

Art, a song I wrote about Juneau some years ago starts out like this:

In the Winter it's raining, the clouds are dark and low
It's the normal condition, everybody wants it so -
with snow-covered mountains, the valleys wet below -
In Southeast Alaska we have more rain than snow.

Is that what you mean? :)

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 08:16 AM

Here's a recent report that Northern Yorkshire is already buried in snow: Click here for full report!

Is there some agency where we can send needed relief supplies? Beer, ale or stout?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 09:04 AM

Well now, that is a VERY clear winner! In Southeast Alaska I don't remember any significant snow as early as that. On occasion though we have had a White Halloween. I remember one year when we got a 6 incho snowfall overnight on October 31.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 09:26 AM

The rain would be a good thing, Ebbie.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 12:11 PM

We like rain. :)

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 12:54 PM

We haven't heard a word from our Yorkshire friends. We're beginning to get worried.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 05:29 PM

Heck, I was at a meeting in Minneapolis over one Hallowe'en and the city was socked with three feet of snow. We were stuck there for three more days.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Oct 10 - 11:11 PM

Ah, but Rap, that is the American midwest- not to be compared with any place along a coastline. Southeastern Alaska's all-time lowest ever recorded temperature stands at minus 22F. And that was long before my time.Our highest recorded temperature is 90F. I've never seen that either, although I have seen it hit 84 a couple of times. For Southeast, that's HOT.

I don't know about Pocotello but I do know that Boise gets blazin'.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 08:06 AM

It does look as if there's a major snow storm sweeping across the upper Midwest this week.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 10:51 AM

Yeah, and I'm glad I'm not there.

Although Pocatello can go over 100F, I was in Fairbanks when it was 92F. Gives me a chance to tell people, "Boy, this is colder than when I was in Fairbanks!"

The temperature here in the Winter can drop to -24F, the lowest on record. Usually is might get down to -10F, but that's all. We're high desert country and it is, after all, a dry cold and a dry heat. (Of course, you don't lick a flagpole...and it's STILL -10F or +95 or better. "Screw your dry cold -- it's COLD!")

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:22 AM

We have the same phenomenon: We have a lot of rain but it's a DRY rain.

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 04:38 PM

It's a-comin'

"Meanwhile, much of North Dakota was expecting its first significant snowfall of the season. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning, saying up to 10 inches of snow could fall in some areas into early Wednesday."

"The snow is expected across North Dakota and into northern South Dakota. Forecasters said wind gusts of more than 50 mph in many areas would make travel treacherous."

Subject: RE: BS: So You Think YOU Have Snow!
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:24 PM

I remember being at Walmart last December, that one day we had snow....in was two to three inches deep...and people were putting on chains in the parking lot.