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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: renaeden on November 08, 2008, 06:33:26 AM
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I am curious about snow. So I have thought to ask you some questions about it.
Does it snow where you live?
If so, how much?
Have any of you never seen snow in rl?
Do you like snow or hate it?
Might think of more questions later.
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Snows here in Ct every winter. I live very near the coast so I don't get as much as inland does but have gotten 26 inches in one day before. I like snow unless I have to work then I could do without it
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i love snow and miss it terribly. :( it doesn't snow here in ireland. i've been without snow for a couple of years. and my friends said it hasn't snowed in finland either, they said it snowed like once last year. :(
have you never seen snow? the snow on TV is usually fake. looks fake too. it's supposed to melt when the little flakes hit you, but on TV they just pile up from the first flake which makes no sense since the first ones melt. >:(
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No I have never seen snow in rl. It doesn't snow in Western Australia (except one place down south where there is a hill that is almost a mountain, heh).
I went to Japan and it snows there but I went at the wrong time of year, their summer.
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lol tough luck.
next time check when it's winter. :P
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Went to see snow when I was a kid, hate it.
It's cold, its hard when thrown at you, you end up wet, oh and it's really cold.
I don't like extreme temperatures, hot or cold.
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i love snow. we don't get much here anymore, though. bloody global warming. :grrr:
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We used to get a lot of snow when I was a kid. I prefer it to the constant raining we have these days.
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I grew up in Florida, so I never saw snow for a very long time.
When I lived in Kansas it would snow all the time. I loved it. I'd always get into my Land Rover, throw it into four wheel drive, and haul ass around town. Doing donuts in the parking lots... it was awesome.
It gets old fast though, scraping the shit off your car's windshield at 6:00 in the morning blows.
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We here in Rapid City, SD got 13 inches during are first blizzard early in November. That was the first real amount this early in the autumn in years.
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Never been anywhere it didn't snow.
When I was little we lived in NY in a state park, the snow piles were as high as the roof of the house usually. It was more of a dry, drifting snow up there.
Here it's mostly the wet, heavy stuff. I've always loved it, to me it's magic, just wish it wasn't so cold.
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I am curious about snow. So I have thought to ask you some questions about it.
Does it snow where you live?
If so, how much?
Have any of you never seen snow in rl?
Do you like snow or hate it?
Might think of more questions later.
Yes it snows here in the winter but not as often as it used to
We used to get it every year. Last time it was in January 2007 and I missed it because I was still living in Montana.
Of course
I love it and I don't mind driving in it.
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We used to get quite a fair amount of it when I was a kid, but now we mostly just get rain, with two or three light dustings of snow each winter, which melt within a day or two. I miss it; it makes everything white and pretty, and I used to build snowmen. A couple of years ago, I went up to the Cairngorms in November to see if I could get some decent snow, and managed to catch a blizzard, which I was pretty happy about.
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snowporn!
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When I was a kid and it snowed, there was hills close by that we'd slide down. On plastic sacks. Very fun.
Less snow these days. I think it was bought by a multinational or something. :laugh:
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i think every kid did that. :laugh:
except we only use bags for group sledding, we used sleds too.
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It snows here several times a year and I can drive up into the mountains to see snow any day of the year.
Where I grew up, it rarely snowed, but I always got really excited when it did.
Now, it is kind of a pain to shovel it off the cars and the sidewalks all the time in the winter, but it can be kind of fun to make an igloo in the back yard with my daughter if we get the right kind of snow for that. Sledding is fun, too.
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An igloo? Wow.
I guess I may be the only one on here who has never seen snow?
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vermont gets some snow
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vermont is beautiful.
i've always wanted to move to maine. though then stephen king books would get really scary.
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When were those pictures taken, Johnny?
Very cool. :thumbup:
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When were those pictures taken, Johnny?
Very cool. :thumbup:
probably march
at least I won't have to shovel the roof this year, now it's steeper and metal
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connecticut
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That's not some, thats the lot.
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That's not some, thats the lot.
it was just accumulation over the winter
a good blizzard takes lots of snow and wind to make huge drifts.
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conneticut is the best. :'(
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yes it snows where i live, we usually get about 100 inches of snow a year. i love it :)
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Taken this morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONwS2X3t7U
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I have seen real snow maybe once or twice in my life.
I really want a white Christmas. ... the festive season in New York in the movies... excellent!
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I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7xdY_ggM0
Car hurling, pinball. 8)
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I love the snow.
We'll get several good 2-6" events a winter.
Back in 98 we got 20" in 2 days.....that's not normal for Kentucky.
Lately we've been having more ice storms.......they suck.
The pic's below are from the Kentucky icestorm the last few days of January.
At my place it was 4" of snow, 1" of ice on top, then 3" snow on top of that.
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Those are great ice and snow pictures.
:plus:
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it was snowing last night. started about one o'clock and snowed off and on 'till I woke and had to go to work. My snow boots were the worse for wear, but a few quick squirts of KrazyGlue and uppers and soles were reunited and off I trod. We have a lot more rain in Oregon than snow, and I can use the boots when it pours, too
When I lived in South Dakota and in Minneapolis, the snow was a presence about 8 months of the year. And they just walked and drove around on it, climbed over it, salted and graveled it down and it snowed over it and they salted and graveled it down until you had archaeological layers. . .they had designed open lots into the building of the city just so they could pile it up when they finally got around to scrape it up.
I am glad I live in Oregon where they keep it up in the mountians so we don't have to walk over it. . . usually.
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When I lived in South Dakota and in Minneapolis, the snow was a presence about 8 months of the year. And they just walked and drove around on it, climbed over it, salted and graveled it down and it snowed over it and they salted and graveled it down until you had archaeological layers. . .they had designed open lots into the building of the city just so they could pile it up when they finally got around to scrape it up.
Our way of saying "fuck you" to the snow.
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Typical Swedish landscape with snow:
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Snow in Dalarna:
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Swedish car covered in snow. Check the name on the license plate :P
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Some snow in norhtern Sweden.
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i remember when we got those kinds of piles of snow. :(
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Almost 12 inches here now
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Almost 12 inches here now
So that erection creme you bought off the internet works pretty good eh?
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Does it snow where you live? Not where I live now, but I spent a winter in Memphis Tennessee and lived 8 years in Ogden Utah.
If so, how much? Just a little bit in Memphis and then it turned to ice and thawed and refroze several times. We had several good snows a year in Utah.
Have any of you never seen snow in rl? I didn't until I was 8.
Do you like snow or hate it? I generally like it, especially when it is fresh, pretty, light snow but not the wet, dirty snow.
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Almost 12 inches here now
So that erection creme you bought off the internet works pretty good eh?
Thanks for recommending it don't know what I'd have done without you :P
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Almost 12 inches here now
So that erection creme you bought off the internet works pretty good eh?
Thanks for recommending it don't know what I'd have done without you :P
Touché
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I don't think i'm the first one to say this but I feel like i'm around a bunch of Linda clones (woman from Snowcake)
This topic is only going to create a widespread stereo type that every person on the autism spectrum is obsessed with snow.
Well anyways on christmas eve there was three ft. of snow. I threatened my mom that I would open the glass balcony door and let all the snow in if she dared to put the stuffing in the bird and contaminate the glorious bread with that turkey corpse. :arrr:
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Spokane still has some snow but not as much as they had in January. So that's why I'm still Snowkane Girl. Even my parents still have snow but it was melting yesterday they said.
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Almost 12 inches here now
So that erection creme you bought off the internet works pretty good eh?
Thanks for recommending it don't know what I'd have done without you :P
Touché
A sword fight between Lord Phlexor and Parts? That must be some erection creme. :laugh:
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Almost 12 inches here now
So that erection creme you bought off the internet works pretty good eh?
Thanks for recommending it don't know what I'd have done without you :P
Touché
A sword fight between Lord Phlexor and Parts? That must be some erection creme. :laugh:
Dude, you're having sick thoughts again. Don't forget to take your medication. :puke:
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:headslap: thanks for the reminder Lord Phlexor.
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I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7xdY_ggM0
Car hurling, pinball. 8)
:LMAO:
These fuckheads can't drive fer fucking shit!!! :rofl:
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I didn't see snow until I was 33 years old and living in England.
I remember the night that snow was predicted, I lay in bed watching TV and looking out the window.
Then when the first snowflakes floated down I ran outside and stretched my arms out and looked upwards and felt the snow falling on my face and on my hands.
Then I lived in Central Europe for a year not long after that. And got some real snow. I remember the weather was mild, pleasant, autumn weather until about October then there was a thunderstorm one night. Opened my curtains in the morning and the city was deep in snow. It stayed like that for months. It almost never rained there, it was warm and dry in summer and it snowed in winter.
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I still haven't seen snow but practically all my family has.
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I still haven't seen snow but practically all my family has.
If you had the money for a plane ticket, I have a spare bed you could crash on if you wanted to see snow this winter.
Winters here are pretty mild. 1-2 feet of snow and it rarely drops below -12C.
If you want more snow, you can always take a short trip up into the mountains where there's plenty of snow to play in. All the skiing, snow boarding, sledding, and ice skating you could possibly want. :snowman:
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I was lucky enough to get a nice snow this last winter. It's been too long.
A couple years back I drove the wife northward in AZ to see some. I'd like to get up to the mountains one way or another soon.
There's gotta be a bus going to one of the resorts. (I can't drive worth shit either - but at least I can handle driving in snow
better than coping with traffic.
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We had lots of snow here last winter, more than usual, and the spring was unusually cold.
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I am curious about snow. So I have thought to ask you some questions about it.
Does it snow where you live?
If so, how much?
Have any of you never seen snow in rl?
Do you like snow or hate it?
Might think of more questions later.
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What Parts said. We live in a bit of a snow belt. Close enough to the coast to get the "Nor'easters" capable of dumping a foot or much more that that. Also have to deal with mixed storms, snow, sleet, freezing rain. And yet far enough away that we can get storms from the northwest that can also hammer us. Still, a hell of a lot less snow than we had in Fryeburg Maine, where we had a winter of total accumulation of 275 inches in a season. My service paths looked like WWI trenches to the propane tank and electric meter.
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I still haven't seen snow but practically all my family has.
Same. And I'd love to see it, just hasn't worked out, for various reasons.
I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7xdY_ggM0
Car hurling, pinball. 8)
:LMAO:
These fuckheads can't drive fer fucking shit!!! :rofl:
I get that it's icy, but seriously, that was just one idiot after another....is it that hard to assess, "OK, these driving conditions are shit, I should pull over"? Or is that simply impossible if it's so icy? Wouldn't you have chains on of some sort then?
I have no idea, but I'd appreciate some insight.
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You'd have winter tyres, normally. Chains are sort of extreme.
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wtf? Snow is life.
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You'd have winter tyres, normally. Chains are sort of extreme.
But that sliding around like that, that's just over-the-top stupid drivers? Right?
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If you are caught in those sort of conditions without proper snow tyres and/or 4WD, you are screwed.
Realistically they shouldn't even be trying to drive in those conditions with the tyres they have on. Once they realize that they can't steer, can't brake, they panic.
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I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7xdY_ggM0
Car hurling, pinball. 8)
:LMAO:
These fuckheads can't drive fer fucking shit!!! :rofl:
I get that it's icy, but seriously, that was just one idiot after another....is it that hard to assess, "OK, these driving conditions are shit, I should pull over"? Or is that simply impossible if it's so icy? Wouldn't you have chains on of some sort then?
I have no idea, but I'd appreciate some insight.
Yeah, in conditions like those, you need at bare minimum, studded tires and AWD/4WD.
It's best to have chains though because you can't beat, the traction on ice and snow.
Many stretches of road here legally require chains in the winter. If you get in an accident without them on, you get fined.
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I have mixed feelings about snow. We don't get it often (like hardly ever) or anything deeper than 3 to 4 inches, so it's special.
But it's only snowed ONCE on Christmas Day. It was awesome. So was Hurricane Katrina which hit the next August. If it ever snows on Christmas Day, I'm moving out by New Years.
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I have mixed feelings about snow. We don't get it often (like hardly ever) or anything deeper than 3 to 4 inches, so it's special.
But it's only snowed ONCE on Christmas Day. It was awesome. So was Hurricane Katrina which hit the next August. If it ever snows on Christmas Day, I'm moving out by New Years.
Even where I live in the UK it rarely snows on Christmas Day. It's usually just cold.
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When I was a kid and it snowed, there was hills close by that we'd slide down. On plastic sacks. Very fun.
Less snow these days. I think it was bought by a multinational or something. :laugh:
Last year there was a day where it "snowed". That is little flakes drifted down and basically dissolved before they hot the ground. But it was interesting and sort of snow.
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Yeah, in conditions like those, you need at bare minimum, studded tires and AWD/4WD.
It's best to have chains though because you can't beat, the traction on ice and snow.
Many stretches of road here legally require chains in the winter. If you get in an accident without them on, you get fined.
I've never understood the West's preoccupation with chains. They are illegal in NY, and no one is sliding
around like that. I don't know anyone who has studded tires either. Ok, I'm sure in the mountains, they
make sense, but in Portland?
If you are caught in those sort of conditions without proper snow tyres and/or 4WD, you are screwed.
Realistically they shouldn't even be trying to drive in those conditions with the tyres they have on. Once they realize that they can't steer, can't brake, they panic.
I (and damned near everyone in the NE US) have driven in a lot worse than that pretty regularly with nothing more than radials.
Sure, you can do donuts in the parking lot (although I do remember being in the car for a surprise 180), but so long as you're
careful, and aware that there is ice, you only slide a little here and there.
This is people driving who've never dealt with icy conditions, is all I can think.
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Yeah, in conditions like those, you need at bare minimum, studded tires and AWD/4WD.
It's best to have chains though because you can't beat, the traction on ice and snow.
Many stretches of road here legally require chains in the winter. If you get in an accident without them on, you get fined.
I've never understood the West's preoccupation with chains. They are illegal in NY, and no one is sliding
around like that. I don't know anyone who has studded tires either. Ok, I'm sure in the mountains, they
make sense, but in Portland?
FFS, do you bother reading what you type??
If chains are illegal in NY it's probably because they use massive amounts of salt and gravel on the roads to keep them passible, besides there's probably not too many steep mountain passes in NY.
Here in Orygun they only used lava rock which is environmentally friendly. Not to mention that there's several mountain passes that they have to keep open in the winter. Chains or studded tires are legally required on most of them. When was the last time you tried to take Hwy 126 over the Cascades in winter??
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Yeah, in conditions like those, you need at bare minimum, studded tires and AWD/4WD.
It's best to have chains though because you can't beat, the traction on ice and snow.
Many stretches of road here legally require chains in the winter. If you get in an accident without them on, you get fined.
I've never understood the West's preoccupation with chains. They are illegal in NY, and no one is sliding
around like that. I don't know anyone who has studded tires either. Ok, I'm sure in the mountains, they
make sense, but in Portland?
FFS, do you bother reading what you type??
If chains are illegal in NY it's probably because they use massive amounts of salt and gravel on the roads to keep them passible, besides there's probably not too many steep mountain passes in NY.
They do. But, it sometimes takes a while to get the salt down. Especially where my mother lives, which is in the mountains.
Nothing like what you live in, where I'm sure chains are required - but a hell of a lot worse than in Portland.
It's people who don't understand how to use brakes in super slippery conditions.
Salt can also cause greater problems. There are certain temperature bands (quite common in Western NY) where the salt
doesn't melt the ice fully, so you have a sheet of ice with a thin layer of liquid on top - which is worse than the ice was.
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You'd have winter tyres, normally. Chains are sort of extreme.
But that sliding around like that, that's just over-the-top stupid drivers? Right?
Pretty much. It's fun to do if you know how, though.