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laugh if you will

susang

susang

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Woke up this morning to massive amounts of snow, in fact so bad the schools are closed. Laugh if you will all you North Easterners and Mid-Westerners, but in south western Oregon this is a big snow, lol.
Having gone to school in Wisconsin and Chicago, this makes me laugh. Certainly parts of Oregon get lots of snow, but not here. We may have one more snow like this, when the schools will close again, but usually this is all we get. Pic #1 last night and pic #2 this am.

I should also say while the school closure is funny, much of the northwest is having big problems because of the weather, flooding (we have had rain since around Thanksgiving), which is now turning to ice, many people have lost their homes.
 

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It's the same here, a few days of snow cause mayhem, unlike in places where it's a regular fact of life and they're geared up for it.
 
When I was a senior in high school, in Louisiana, we got 1/4 inch of snow. That's 0.25 inches. The governor declared a state of emergency and CLOSED every highway in the state except for (I think) two for an entire weekend.

I happened to be at my girlfriend's house when the announcement was made (oh, and her parents were away somewhere else and couldn't come back...pity).
 
MerlinsPop said:
When I was a senior in high school, in Louisiana, we got 1/4 inch of snow. That's 0.25 inches. The governor declared a state of emergency and CLOSED every highway in the state except for (I think) two for an entire weekend.

I happened to be at my girlfriend's house when the announcement was made (oh, and her parents were away somewhere else and couldn't come back...pity).
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Wow Bruce, That must of been terrible... How on earth did you cope...
MIKE
 
NJ needs snow badly. We had snow at the beginning of Dec. when it usually doesn't snow and now when it's supposed to snow, nothing!!!
 
You can see the GRASS in that second pic. They closed down for that? Man. They won't close down schools here unless vehicles are literally unable to move. Which usually means a couple feet of snow at least.
 
Nova_C said:
You can see the GRASS in that second pic. They closed down for that? Man. They won't close down schools here unless vehicles are literally unable to move. Which usually means a couple feet of snow at least.
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Yup. I think in all of high school in Wisconsin we had one snow day closure.
 
Susan, we got our states switched - for the past three days, we've gotten Pacific Northwest weather; temps in the upper 40s to low 50s, and our snow is melting away.

Works for me, sez I. ;)

regards,
jazz
 
Oh, I forgot to mention the rain. It wouldn't be Pac NW weather without the rain. They're forecasting thunderstorms here tonight.....in January......in Wisconsin.

regards,
jazz
 
It was 60 here today.

But on topic... my county is so terrified of snow they once closed on mere rumor that it might snow. We got a dusting that day... nothing else. :rofl:
 
So THAT's where all that snow went... We (Redding) were supposed to get snow all day Sunday. All we got this weekend was tons of rain and a lot of wind. This area isn't used to getting 80+mph gusts, so things were a bit out of sorts anyhow. Guess all the snow blew up to you. Sorry 'bout that! :punch:

:cheers:
 
susang said:
Yup. I think in all of high school in Wisconsin we had one snow day closure.
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The winter storm of '95/'96, I was in Charlotte, NC, and it snowed like what you have -- and I was prancing around outside in my jeans & a sweater, skating on the driveway, while the news was going on & on about stores running out of milk & bread & bottled water...I laughed, needless to say. :rofl:

I lived in the country in WI (central WI -- Montello, just north of Portage on 51, and then off of 23 to my former house, you would go!) & even in all of the years that I had to ride a bus to school on all of those back country roads, I don't think a day was canceled.

What's crazy, though, is that Chicago Public Schools won't cancel school -- ever. The news will go on & on about how dangerous it is to be outside, but what would CPS do if all of their teachers -- who obviously drive to school -- all crashed because of the dangerous conditions??? We had two horribly, terribly, *nasty* bad days last year -- and yet, the teachers had to be there...I think that some classrooms only had 4-10 kids show up, max, and my school doesn't have bussing -- it's a neighborhood school, and parents still didn't send their kids (and school is free daycare, isn't it???). According to our delightful mayor -- Mr Daley -- the schools had to stay open because parents had to work, but on the other hand, because of the weather conditions, people were to stay inside & out of danger. I guess teachers don't count as people. :angry01:

PS...By the way, it's pouring rain/storming outside right now, and there are a few tornadoes that have happened in southern WI & around the Chicago-area. :p Thanks, Denver, for the crappy weather! (It's that horrible icky-cold-humidity...gross. The kids were wicked cranky today! Then again...so was I. :p First day back blues! :awcrap: )
 
I'll admit it, I didn't laugh, but I did chuckle and shake my head a bit. :uhoh:

That's still T-shirt weather around these parts! FYI, we've been having similar 30 degree temps around here instead of our normal sub-zero temps. I'm not getting too comfortable though, they'll be back. :eek1:

D80
 
lol

lol, thats hardly anything, here in iowa we dont cancel school unless its about four inches of snow or more. this year we got several bad ice storms, loosing whole trees under the weight. i tend to take way too many pictures of anything so here are some of our winter...
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its kinda interesting how different places react to snow.
 
Here in Guelph Ontario Canada I was out wearing shorts today...(sorry no pics for ya's) and all the snow is going away...this sucks cause I'm an ice fisherman.
 
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