may 16. and it's snowing! woooo!

[waggy]

I guess we haven't had enough snow in IL. it's snowing and pretty hard. bah!

 

[Anubis]

we have had solid rain here in western NY for the past week

lots of places with flooding issues

 

[waggy]

we have had solid rain here in western NY for the past week

lots of places with flooding issues

yeah we had those storms last week. it was pretty bad.

now though. its fucking snow.. wth

 

[brainhulk]

Tis a Song of Fire and Ice

 

[unokitty]

I guess we haven't had enough snow in IL. it's snowing and pretty hard. bah!

Hope that its one of those snow storms where the sun comes out and the snow is all gone by noon.

Unlike those storms where it melts by 3 p.m. and freezes by 6 p.m.

Best of luck!
Uno

 

[z1ggy]

Sounds fun!

 

[Oyeve]

I wish it would snow in NYC. I hate the balmy humidity.

 

[TROLLERCAUST]

It snowed a few centimetres here two days ago too. Coincidence? I think not. It's a conspiracy. :hmm:

 

[PricklyPete]

Snowed here in Denver on Monday. Was gone pretty quickly though.

 

[mmntech]

It's been warm but pouring rain here all week. Then I got up this morning and it's only 6c and looks like a fall day outside. One of the coldest springs I can remember. Think it will end up being a cool summer too.

 

[Markbnj]

I wish it would snow in NYC. I hate the balmy humidity.

50 miles west, 68F currently with an expected low of 45F. Been raining for two days. Pretty whacky spring so far.

 

[waggy]

It snowed a few centimetres here two days ago too. Coincidence? I think not. It's a conspiracy. :hmm:

but you are in Finland! its sopposed to do weird stuff like that.


something offtopic: my oldest is in Finland for a teaching gig. woot!

 

[Mixolydian]

I know, it's horrible. :\

 

[tboo]

I remember having a blizzard at about this time back in 89 in WI.

 

[Fritzo]

May blizzards bring June flowers?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Snow/Sleet mix here in central IL. About the most horrible weather there is, imo (short of hurricanes, tornadoes, etc).
36 or so degrees and precipitation = misery

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Speaking as somebody who dealt with the Halloween Nor'easter of 2011, snow when the trees are in bloom can be a MAJOR bitch. If it's the wet sticky kind of snow the damage can be unbelievable, there were so many downed trees wiping out so many power lines we had areas that lost electricity for more than a month.

 

[notposting]

Snowed yesterday in Marquette for the HS track finals.

 

[Markbnj]

Speaking as somebody who dealt with the Halloween Nor'easter of 2011, snow when the trees are in bloom can be a MAJOR bitch. If it's the wet sticky kind of snow the damage can be unbelievable, there were so many downed trees wiping out so many power lines we had areas that lost electricity for more than a month.

Yeah in some ways that storm was almost as bad as Sandy in the Northeast.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

/thirdworldproblems

 

[Thump553]

Yeah in some ways that storm was almost as bad as Sandy in the Northeast.

Unless you lived in on the coast, that Halloween Noreaster WAS a lot worse than Sandy. Around where I lived so many trees were broken it looked like a war zone. Power off for days, roads, impassable, etc.

BTW we cannot have any more snow in CT this season. I put my snowblower up for the season last weekend.

 

[BoomerD]

I guess we haven't had enough snow in IL. it's snowing and pretty hard. bah!

 

[JM Aggie08]

Going to be in the low 80s here today. I miss winter

 

[HN]

thx! maybe that's why it's dropping down to a chilly 99 here in SoCal after the week of triple digits :|

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Unless you lived in on the coast, that Halloween Noreaster WAS a lot worse than Sandy. Around where I lived so many trees were broken it looked like a war zone. Power off for days, roads, impassable, etc.

That. I'm coastal Connecticut and my area got hammered by Sandy, but the Halloween Nor'Easter wasn't too bad. We lost power in Sandy for 2 full days and only had about 5 hours of outages from the Nor'Easter. I have relatives upstate and it was completely the opposite for them, they got nothing from Sandy and the Nor'Easter was an apocalypse. EVERY SINGLE BLOCK in the northern half of the state looked like this:

If your street was 6 blocks long there would be 20 trees down breaking wires in 20 different places. The process would be:

Plow to get the crews to the first breakage.
Remove trees
Fix wires
Plow to get the crews to the next breakage.
Remove trees
Fix wires

Repeat for EVERY downed tree. The combination required of needing a plowing crew, a tree removal team and the power company linemen to babystep their way down each street fixing dozens of problems one at a time was a nightmare. It was essentially the same sort of damage you'd see from a major hurricane except there was more than a foot of snow covering everything making it that much more complicated to clean up.