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Nightwind69	Can we stop with the snow now?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 4671 (01/28/2008 11:15:39) My job: To punish and enslave. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None OK, so this is getting ridiculous. A couple of weeks ago, we got three feet of snow in one storm, and it seems like it hasn't stopped snowing since. We got another foot yesterday and last night. Yay. It's gotten to the point where we have nowhere to put it. I was out there shoveling, having to throw shovelfuls of snow on top of piles that are about seven feet tall, I'd say. Not fun. And I'm not done yet; I just needed to take a break. This is what our house looks like right now: It's crazy! There's about 2.5 or 3 feet of snow sitting on the roof, that pile of snow in front of the cars is about 7 feet tall, and my old Buick is completely covered with snow. And of course the "best" part is that we have to go and pick up Frosty's kids from their father's house. We weren't brave enough to do it last night when the snow was coming down in buckets, plus we desperately need to do some grocery shopping. That'll be fun. First, I have to finish shoveling out behind the Subaru, though. That'll be even more fun. Oh, and of course, we're supposed to get more snow on Wednesday. sigh When will it end? At this point, this won't all melt by the first snowfall of next season... whine, whine, whine On the bright side...Well, at least I got a snow day off of work. Ye Olde LJ ~ Ye Olde Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Other Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Arty Things Thanks to all those who filled out the 2007 Transfan Survey. I'll be posting results soon!
Wyntir Rose		#1	[-]
Posts: 1032 (01/28/2008 11:23:25) What? Wait a minute! Where are we going? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It looks like all of our snow headed down to you. Those photos look like our place did before the thaw that hit us two weeks ago. (three feet of snow gone in two days) --- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -- Herm Albright A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. -- Eleanor Roosevelt wyntir-rose.livejournal.com/ \| wyntir-rose.deviantart.com/ \| www.fanfiction.net/u/480892/
Nightwind69		#2	[-]
Posts: 4673 (01/28/2008 11:41:28) My job: To punish and enslave. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	sigh Apparently, we just keep getting influxes of moisture from California. So, as usual, I blame California. You're lucky that it melted! Snow takes forever to melt here. I'm going to bet that some of this will still be hanging around come mid-July. We'll see if my prediction holds true... Ye Olde LJ ~ Ye Olde Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Other Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Arty Things Thanks to all those who filled out the 2007 Transfan Survey. I'll be posting results soon!
MommimusPrime		#3	[-]
Posts: 3857 (01/28/2008 12:09:51) WWJD!! (What Would Jazz Do) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It looks so pretty though. I wish you could send some to us.
Nightfire99201		#4	[-]
Posts: 180 (01/28/2008 12:56:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Where do you live Nightwind? Here in where I live in Spokane we got 11 inches yesterday and we expect another 3 feet by the end of the week. So I know how you feel. Because this snow isn't helping my power bill any.
Wyntir Rose		#5	[-]
Posts: 1033 (01/28/2008 13:25:42) What? Wait a minute! Where are we going? Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	You're lucky that it melted! Snow takes forever to melt here. I'm going to bet that some of this will still be hanging around come mid-July. We'll see if my prediction holds true... Surprisingly we had very little flooding as a result. I think that a couple of the rivers came close to bursting their banks, but there wasn't anything too major. We still have about four feet left on the ground in front of the house and that's likely going to stay put until mid May (give or take). The joys of cold climates! I guess it just makes us appreciate summer all the more. --- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -- Herm Albright A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. -- Eleanor Roosevelt wyntir-rose.livejournal.com/ \| wyntir-rose.deviantart.com/ \| www.fanfiction.net/u/480892/
Dranzers Fire		#6	[-]
Posts: 103 (01/28/2008 18:15:28) Out-patient Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	lol I'll be willing to trade with ya, I'd MUCH rather snow than a freakin' heat wave with no rain http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=618457542 My Facebook Profile
Nightwind69		#7	[-]
Posts: 4675 (01/28/2008 18:28:55) My job: To punish and enslave. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Mommi said: It looks so pretty though. I wish you could send some to us. I wish it would go to you, already! It's STILL snowing lightly... Wyntir said: Surprisingly we had very little flooding as a result. I think that a couple of the rivers came close to bursting their banks, but there wasn't anything too major. We still have about four feet left on the ground in front of the house and that's likely going to stay put until mid May (give or take). The joys of cold climates! I guess it just makes us appreciate summer all the more. Yeah, I meant to ask if you had a lot of flooding as a result. I guess your soil was able to absorb a lot of it, so that's good. Since there was a major wildfire here 5 years ago that killed a lot of trees and underbrush, water runoff isn't a good thing here, so it'll be...interesting...to see what happens when all this melts. Bet the whitewater will be niiiiiice, come April/May. And yeah, it certainly does make you appreciate summer more. Unfortunately, ours is danged short. All of two months. sigh Nightfire said: Where do you live Nightwind? Southwest Colorado, near the town of Durango, very close to the New Mexico border. Oddly enough, all the snow on the roof helps hold in the heat in the house. The heater hasn't been running nearly as often since it's been up there, and I've had to change from wearing pajama pants to bed to wearing shorts because the house has been warmer. Dranzer's wrote: lol I'll be willing to trade with ya, I'd MUCH rather snow than a freakin' heat wave with no rain OK, you get your butt up here, and we'll come take your place down there. I'm sure Frosty will be happy; she's totally depressed in this weather and loves the heat. That, and she covets the bugs you have down there. She's dying to find a bulldog ant... Ye Olde LJ ~ Ye Olde Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Other Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Arty Things Thanks to all those who filled out the 2007 Transfan Survey. I'll be posting results soon!
Dranzers Fire		#8	[-]
Posts: 104 (01/28/2008 19:52:51) Out-patient Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well I'm not sure if you'll find a bull ant here (they're mostly around the bush lands or rural areas like my Aunt's place up in Lethbridge just a hour's away from my home, I live in a suburb) and sadly I don't have enough money. If you spot any huntsmen, red backs or white tails feel free to take 'em I'm a class "A" arachnophobic like I've mentioned a gazillion times (ironic because my place is a pig sty) http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=618457542 My Facebook Profile
Tiamat72		#9	[-]
Posts: 744 (01/28/2008 21:33:35) Let sleeping dragons lie for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I hear you Nightwind. This is the third (fourth?) year in a row we've been getting dumped on with unreal amounts of snow. And even as I type, we are getting more. It's blizzard conditions here right now. We've had so much snow, we've run out of places to shovel it to. There is only so high you want those snowbanks. sigh Someone send some global warming my way, please. ========================================= "So you're the avenger, the killer of killers...nice outfit." - Top Dollar from The Crow
CyrDraconis		#10	[-]
Posts: 97 (01/29/2008 19:41:19) Mildly Deranged Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Criminey, 'wind. And here on the other side of the mountains we've had...um...wind. And it might toss some flurries at us tomorrow night. Looks like my place did last year... "I apologize in case I'm not able to pay my debt to all three of you. Monsieur Athos has the right to kill me first: that makes your claim worth much less, Monsieur Porthos, and yours, Monsieur Aramis is thence worth almost nothing at all. I repeat, gentlemen, that I apologize, but only for that. And now, on guard!" - D'Artangnan, The Three Musketeers
elfgirl13		#11	[-]
Posts: 11 (01/31/2008 14:55:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I haven't seen snow like that since I was a kid! Michigan is supposed to get 'dumped' on tonight - but only like 5 inches. Compared with what your dealing with that really sounds like nothing. You have my sympathies.
Nightfire99201		#12	[-]
Posts: 190 (01/31/2008 17:15:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Where I'm at the highways are closed, the passes are closed, the paratransit buses for the elderly and disabled aren't running(but thery are running for people who have doctors appointments and/or people on dialyses only), there are people with out power, there is no driving but emergency driving only, and my state's governor has declared the state a disaster area and now we're getting emergency aid. And my husband is on the other side of the state helping his mom and dad with fixing their home because of the massive flooding that happened last month and he's coming home next week, if he doesn't get stuck. I'm not a big summer person, but I'm so looking forward to it. Last Edited By: Nightfire99201 01/31/2008 17:18:16. Edited 1 times.
mmouse15		#13	[-]
Posts: 9 (02/01/2008 10:02:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Holy Smokes, Nightwind! I knew you guys were getting dumped on down there in the San Juans, but dang that's a lot of snow! Denver is thankfully only getting a foot or so and then warm weather and it melts. I'm grateful, because last year we got all that freakin' snow and three weeks of cold and I didn't go to work for those three weeks. Hell, after the second snow we couldn't get out even with our 4x4 - the city plowed a 7' drift at the end of our street! Dang thing was a solid block of ice. I will add one word to you - be glad you don't have wind. My folks live on the prarie in eastern Colorado, and they may not be getting the snow, but that wind...takes a couple of inches and piles it up on something. Their barn has a 20'+ snowback on the windward side. That sucker takes a while to melt. May you have relief soon. And I second Tiamat on the global warming - where, exactly, is this happening? Because it sure as hell isn't in Colorado... Last Edited By: mmouse15 02/01/2008 10:08:21. Edited 1 times.
Nightfire99201		#14	[-]
Posts: 194 (02/01/2008 15:35:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Or Washington state for that matter. It looks more like global coolong here.
Tiamat72	G	#15	[-]
Posts: 752 (02/02/2008 10:42:07) Let sleeping dragons lie for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Global cooling indeed. We've had -53C temperatures this week when you add in the windchill and people freezing to death. Shelters are working overtime and are crowded. One guy was found frozen to death in a field in the south end of town with his clothes folded neatly beside him. Don't ask, I don't know why. Then the tragedy over in Saskatchewan with the two little girls. I'm not one that likes a lot of heat but I'm good and ready for summer. ========================================= "So you're the avenger, the killer of killers...nice outfit." - Top Dollar from The Crow
Nightwind69		#16	[-]
Posts: 4685 (02/02/2008 13:39:37) My job: To punish and enslave. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Yep, yep, we are the capital of dumping-on, indeed. And now we're under a winter storm watch for possibly another foot of snow by the end of the day on Monday. Insane. I took this pic this morning, from out of my front window (hence the window screen in the image): Anyone wanna tell me where I'm supposed to put another foot of snow? 'Cuz I'm out of ideas over here. And yeah, it's been frigidly cold at times, too. Down to -20. Fahrenheit. Without windchill. (That's -30 for you non-US folks.) At least that's only overnight, though; it's been warming up into the positive 20s during the day. But yeah, much as I like winter I'm looking forward to its end this year because this is just getting ridiculous. Ye Olde LJ ~ Ye Olde Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Other Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Arty Things Thanks to all those who filled out the 2007 Transfan Survey. I'll be posting results soon!
Knave Iespyk		#17	[-]
Posts: 6131 (02/02/2008 15:17:22) Just give me the Pepsi and no one gets hurt... much. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	At this rate, you'll be shovelling on to your roof. Both the optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute. Gil Stern
Tiamat72		#18	[-]
Posts: 754 (02/02/2008 21:42:53) Let sleeping dragons lie for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Or standing on the roof to shovel. That looks like my yard from a couple years ago when I was in a smaller house. Where to put it? No idea. Maybe mail it down to someone in a warmer clime. ========================================= "So you're the avenger, the killer of killers...nice outfit." - Top Dollar from The Crow
Nightwind69		#19	[-]
Posts: 4686 (02/02/2008 22:25:45) My job: To punish and enslave. Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tiamat said: Where to put it? No idea. Maybe mail it down to someone in a warmer clime. sigh I wish it would just fall in a warmer climate already. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Here's our forecast for tomorrow, courtesy of the Weather Channel website: Windy with snow showers evolving to a steady snow. Cold. High 31F. Winds S at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 80%. Snow accumulating 5 to 8 inches. And here's our forecast for tomorrow overnight: Snow along with gusty winds at times. Thunder possible. Low 18F. Winds SW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 100%. 6 to 10 inches of snow expected. Now, we always get the upper end of the predicted snowfall amount or more. So! Looks like another 18" for us! God only knows where I'm going to put it. Someone please kill me now. headdesk Ye Olde LJ ~ Ye Olde Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Other Fanfics ~ Ye Olde Arty Things Thanks to all those who filled out the 2007 Transfan Survey. I'll be posting results soon!
Bumblebee		#20	[-]
Posts: 1097 (02/03/2008 10:10:08) Hail Transformers, The King Of 1980s Cartoons! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	WTF!!! You're down near the Southwest, but look at all the snow! In fact, your house looks almost like a gingerbread house with too much icing!XD While we don't get as much snow up here. How come?! (BTW, I like snow and 30 degrees isn't too bad in my own book.) Image made by Frivolity.

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