OT: Shoveling snow...

[Renegade 13]

I always get a chuckle when I watch the news, and it snows down south (live in North-Central BC, so the news is pretty much exclusively about Vancouver). A wee bit of snow and it's chaos. A little bit chilly outside, and you'd think hell had frozen over from the fuss they throw up By comparison, it's about -30°C outside where I am. It's all about perspective Just hope traffic isn't too bad down there in a week or so when I head down to Vancouver for a concert ­

[RCCCL]

The Midwest has gotten hardly any snow, all you people in the rockies are hogging it all....you greedy so and sos.

Here in Indianapolis, we've had maybe 2 snows this winter, none of which stuck to the ground for longer than an hour.

LOTS of rain though, I mean lots. Now the temprature is finally droping here, so maybe we'll get some.

[dmm]

Washington, DC area has been warm -- globally warm. The cherry trees were starting to blossum! The last few days were the first cold ones this winter, and it wasn't even very cold. And now it's warm again. If this keeps up, I'm going to start a business aimed at New England retirees. "Forget Florida. Move to DC for the great winter weather!" Of course, maybe they won't bother moving south at all.

[rdouglass]

Renegade 13 said:
I always get a chuckle when I watch the news, and it snows down south (live in North-Central BC, so the news is pretty much exclusively about Vancouver). A wee bit of snow and it's chaos. A little bit chilly outside, and you'd think hell had frozen over from the fuss they throw up By comparison, it's about -30°C outside where I am. It's all about perspective Just hope traffic isn't too bad down there in a week or so when I head down to Vancouver for a concert ­

I live in Maine and we have our share of cold and snow (not as much as BC of course) and that always makes me laugh as well when southern states are crippled by just a few flakes.

The thing we have to remember is that they're lucky if they have 2 snowplows in the whole state. They just don't know what to do with it and people especially don't know how to drive in it down there.

I can remember being in Fort Jackson SC in 1980 and getting 2 inches. The governer proclaimed a state-of-emergency.