BS: Where did all the snow go?

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Pauline L
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:00 AM

The snow was pretty while it was falling and accumulating. I figured it wouldn't stay for long, so I took my camera and tripod out on my balcony around 2 AM on Sunday and took some photos. You can see them here.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Pauline L
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:32 AM

The 8-10 inches of snow here didn't stay for long. It melted and shrunk. Roads were cleared rapidly. Winds knocked the snow off of the power lines and tree limbs. It was rather disappointing.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Peace
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:51 PM

We're sufferin' here. The temperature just dropped to about 9 below C. No sign of snow. Just thought I'd mention that. Again.

I'm considering wearing shorts tomorrow. May doff the spring jacket.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 06:09 PM

no, it didn't ALL land on NY...we got 8-10" in Metro Wash DC...and one spot north of Baltimore..(Towson, where my kid goes to college) got 21"!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:33 PM

Well, now we know! It all landed on New York this Sunday, and I think, if you ask them nicely, they'll be happy to let you have your share back.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:31 PM

In my driveways (two driveways between the houses). Two to almost five feet where it drifted. Over three hours of snowblowing and shovelling. But, it's purdy.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:26 PM

Don't blame me. Blame the snow gods whoever they may be.

Be safe y'll!


Azizi
[who still doesn't have any snow on her streets and is more glad than sad about that]

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Alba
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:29 AM

Ah well there is distance between ye and I, geograpically speaking.

Brightest Blessings:)
Judi

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:27 AM

looks like it all landed on New York City! Unusual.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Windsinger
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:26 AM

Fionn, where are ye roughly?<

North/central Jersey, close to Staten Island (much to my chagrin :P). Barring New England, the area which got hit hardest by the blizzard.

Don't get me wrong, I love snow---provided it falls in aesthetic, and non-lethal amounts.

After the last 24 hours, I am looking forward to crocuses and robins. (But will still probably photograph a few snowscapes while the stuff's still white and virginal...)

Slán,

~Fionn

www.geocities.com/children_of_lir

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Alba
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:35 AM

Fionn, where are ye roughly?
Because if ya feel the need to get some of it out your way, truck it on up my way..:)
We can have a few tunes and look out at the snow mounds from the woodland view window..lol.Right bout now this is one Celt who is looking at what work the coming Spring holds in the way of clearing Wind felled Tree Limbs ect!! I wanted the (insert foul word of choice) Snow as it makes for a faery landscape instead of a fallen wood jungle!!!
Slainthe
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Windsinger
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:15 AM

It all went by to the south and east.

It did indeed.

...right on mah head.

(Not to mention my car, roof, yard, street, boyfriend, housemates, cat, dog, birds, etc.)

Very pretty; would be even prettier if I'd stayed the (expletive) home. :P

~Fionn

http://www.geocities.com/children_of_lir

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 06:54 AM

8 inches that will last until May.

Did I really say that or is it just wishful thinking?? :)
LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 06:53 AM

Still nothing here... got 6 different flowers blooming in the garden (OK so I bought some primroses and planted them Saturday) but there are many little bulb spikes showing and new leaf buds formed..... still no snow. Bet you anything you like, if we put Limpit's sledge out for firewood, we'll get 8 inches that will last until May.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 11:42 PM

Here in the "heart of ski country" - zilch. It all went by to the south and east.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 09:19 PM

Alba - You are obviously well out of it ! It made the Radio News here in UK - Boston to Washington is a bit 'Orrid - Lot of Catters wont report as they have a lack of electricity !

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Alba
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 08:32 PM

Meanwhile in the Backwoods of Northern Maine I have one lousy inch of dusty white fluff. The wind's a wippin good though:(
yeah the Blizzard of 06 will go down in the History books down my neck of the woods as the biggest thing that never happened !

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 08:17 PM

Indeed, I hold the participants in this thread (not excluding me) responsible for this blizzard. Both laundromats within walking distance were closed today. Had to put the ******* sheet back on the bed.

Well, it *is* February. What the **** do you expect?

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Whether or not we find what we are seeking is idle, biologically speaking. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: number 6
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 02:42 PM

Well I now know where all the snow is going ... right here, right now in Saint JOhn!! snow and lots of it along with wind gusts up to 50 plus mph. Guess I'll now have a chance to use my new snow blower.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 09:34 PM

I dunno. Ouija boards, maybe?

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 10:35 AM

A quarter of the undiscovered reserves?
How can one guess percentages of something that has not been discovered yet?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 10:25 AM

The new Head Honcho in Canada is claiming that the Northwest Passage is Canadian because Canadian islands and land border it on both sides. The US is saying that it's an international waterway.

This is important, because the Passage could be ice-free all year around in 10 years. As a shipping route it could save LOTS of money for shippers, since much traffic could avoid the Panama canal (think of a Europe to Japan route, for instance). If the Passage is Canadian, Canada could cash in by charging shipping fees for sailing through Canadian waters. If it's international, fees couldn't be charged. The US is interested (obviously!) because it would be a logical way to move stuff from Alaska to the East Coast.

Not the mention that perhaps as much as a quarter of the undiscovered oil reserves of the World could lie under the Arctic ice....

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 07:17 AM

We have a long and cold winter with lots of snow. Roofs that have been safe for decades collapse under the weight of too much wet snow.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 02:03 PM

It was the warmest January in the US since records have been kept.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 01:34 PM

Yesterday Los Angeles, California, had 88 degrees; today they expect a high of 89. It is February.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: open mike
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 08:55 PM

i heard on the radio a news report about a town in Colorado
that usually thrives on skiing and river rafting (Vale? Aspen?)
passing a law called the Canary Law (or some such) because they
see a direct impact on their economy and the dropping snow and
river levels. The initiative is for reduction of green house
gasses, in order to slow global warming.

I swatted a mosquito today, and mid feb is usually when most
of the snow and rain in the entire year falls. It was in the
70's today and i got a sun burn last weekend while hiking.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 02:32 PM

According to presentations at the Alaska Forum on the Environment (still going on in Anchorage), it is expected that the Arctic will be ice-free by the end of the century. While increasing temperatures were predicted 25 years ago, no one expected it to be so fast.

Shipping will be able to use the Arctic Ocean year-round. However, the melt will go somewhere -- and areas like New Orleans will be where the water goes.

Crabs and other critters that need an ice cover during part of the year aren't thriving, while other species such a pink salmon are moving farther northward. Permafrost temperatures have increased two degrees at a depth of 20 meters. Arctic forests aren't growing as quickly as was predicted, while shrubs are doing very very well.

Global warming is a fact. What is in debate is the cause and what, if anything, we can do other than accept it.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Anonny Mouse
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 12:44 PM

Last word for me on this: do not (NOT!!) be lulled into complacency by a relative lack of snow! It will come--across the lakes, into your driveways and places of business; it WILL come. Wait until St. Paddy's day...only after then, can you even BEGIN to think of a respite and spring. Don't think that little snow in January means nothing. It really DOES mean nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 09:29 PM

It's been a merciful winter so far in Boston, too -- some snowstorms, but not heavy ones, and all followed by complete thaws. However, the winter of (I think it was) 1996-1997 was almost snowless, but climaxed, with exquisite appropriateness, with a blizzard on the night of 31 March -- 1 April. So, you never know.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Etiquette is for those who have no breeding; fashion, for those who have no taste. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Azizi
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 02:24 PM

Sorry. It snowed in Pittsburgh, too. There was very little accumulation, but my hilly street was so icy this morning that
I walked to work about 1/2 hour away.

Because it wasn't that cold, I actually enjoyed the exercise. But I'm not sure if I'm going to enjoy the walk home since it will be mostly an uphill climb. In the olden days people used to walk much more than 1/2 an hour uphill. But I guess I've become comfort corrupt.

I'll probably end up catching a bus and walking a block or so from the bus stop.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 01:12 PM

MORE snow last night! ARGHHHH! Azizi, you should not have spoken that dreadful word.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Anonny Mouse
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 09:00 PM

The snow's all stored up in the unfrozen Great Lakes just waiting for an arctic breeze to drop down from Canada...oooh---I think I hear it comin'--

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 08:22 PM

It's Wobal Glorming!

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Beer
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 08:18 PM

Heard a sound that woke me around three this morning and said to myself, "No, It can't be".
Looked out the window when I got up and the ice was gone from the Chateauguay river (Quebec) which runs behind the house. Usually this time of the year I'm walking the dogs. What the hell is going on!!.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: number 6
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 07:26 PM

LH ... you're welcome to borrow my new snow blower I bought in November ... I haven't used it yet, there has been no need to.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 07:00 PM

Azizi, listen up. I want you to know that Orillia has been buried in snow in the past 24 hours. I spent most of today removing wet, heavy snow. I think you may be to blame for it, and I am plotting a fiendish revenge...

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 06:43 PM

no snow? I am to blame. I bought TWO bags of ice-melting crystals in December!.........

actually, Our local weathercaster simply put up a map showing the Jet Stream had been doing weird things....some Winters the jet stream DOES weird things for awhile. Global warming is an general average, but individual Winters are just the result of strange combinations of conditions. I've live in this town (Wash DC area) for 27 years, and sometimes I shovel all Winter, and sometimes we barely see snow. But February is just getting started.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 05:30 PM

I thought that Loki was an abused elephant in India. waddewino?

   Snow? We don't have no stinkin' snow in San Diego--not that I wouldn't mind, having snow, though. I love the stuff! When I was able bodied, I didn't mind shoveling snow whilst I was in cold climes.
There is a definite drought in the Southwestern USA, and in San Diego we have had only trace rain for January-the rainy season didn't happen. This means worse wildfires this year.
   My mother told me that they haven't had any rain in her spot in Eastern Oklahoma in months. Wildfires abound, & in Texas, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: autolycus
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 05:15 PM

Try typing "global warming proof" into google and see what you get.

James Lovelock of Gaia fame said on the BBC this am that we're past the point of no return (just his opinion, of course) and they wondered in the studio if humans are haed-wired to self-destruct.

The snow we've had in Norwich,UK was brief and before Christmas. As a summer baby, I can hardly wait for warmth and sunshine to return, 'cos I'm a thrice-times selfish swine.

Auto.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: number 6
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 04:24 PM

What's snow? ... I have compleely forgot what is looks like, feels like.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 04:23 PM

Strangely enough, as I pointed out to my father in law this afternoon, we've not had a decent proper snowfall in east London since he made Limpit a sledge when she was 5. It's still in the cellar, gently mouldering.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 03:52 PM

The snow is gone
Where did it go?
So I don't have to shovel or blow...
HO HO HO HO HO HO HO!

Raven. Raven the Trickster, Raven the Creator.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 02:29 PM

We got some today. About 1/8". It is still here.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Alba
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 01:49 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 01:49 PM

Like I said above, it's usually a bit different... I just saw two ducks go by carrying a canoe.

Where did all the snow go? I really don't give s***. As long as it stays there.

A short poem...

    Ode to My Snowblower

    Rust, ya bastard!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 01:37 PM

In Juneau, Alaska (southeastern part of state) we get an official average of 104 inches of snow. In the last ten years however an actually snowy winter has been kind of rare. We still get the snow but often rain comes two days later and washes it away.

This winter, though, is a snowy one and it's been beautiful. A big plus has been very little ice so it is great for walking and playing around in it.

They say that our weather is changing as of tomorrow- after more snow today it is supposed to reach 40 degrees tomorrow. With rain. It will be sloppy.

I live on a hill about 125 feet above sea level and I get more snow accumulation than they do even two blocks downhill. It has slumped since but I've had about 16 inches on my lawn for the last two weeks. I like to shovel out the sidewalks (pavement)making kind of a maze- the whole neighborhood cuts through my yard on my paths.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 10:57 AM

not that it really is important in the long run, but I just read another misstatement I made up thread, when I was going on about the folk sayin "burnin bread".

I should have written "However, IMO, this is just an excuse for NOT accepting personal responsibility for the consequences of one's actions"

Okay. now I feel better. If I made any other mistakes in this thread so far, somebody else can point them out to me and I'll say

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 10:08 AM

Clarification alert!

I wrote "how 'bout I [and no body else] gave artbrooks credit for his joke.."

What I meant by this is that nobody {including me} gave artbrooks credit for his joke and we should have.

I hope that reads a little bit better...

So Sorry. I was tryin to talk on the phone and type at the same time and in so doing proved that I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 10:01 AM

We've gone and done it now....snowing to beat hell here....

Subject: RE: BS: Where did all the snow go?
From: Azizi
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 09:35 AM

LOL! Jeri,

love that cross posting.

I'd love it if you started a thread on "Tricksters in songs and stories". I don't want to be greedy when it comes to starting threads.

If you start such a thread, I'd post on in for sure!