What's sad is that I had to read this thread to turn my fucking head away from my computer and look out the window to see it was snowing.
Damnit! I'm coming to Portland for a week on Friday and planned on bringing my summer clothing. Frik this.
It's actually accumulating on the grass in Waterfront Park... ..where I am laying with my bottle of malt liquor and my laptop. barfo
Some winters we don't get any. Most are just a inch or so. So it's a big deal to us when it snows. barfo
Weird. I figured you guys would have similar winters to mine in RI, since we're both about the same distance from the equator and both right on the coast.
Last year around this time we had over a foot of snow and the city pretty much shut down for a few days. We don't salt the roads so I'm sure you can imagine what the roads would be like.
Hmmm ... I guess it probably snows about 3 or 4 times a year with anywhere from 4 to 15 total inches of accumulation. That is to say, schools around here shut down with a half an inch on the ground and everybody turns into a panicked asshole with even a hint of snow on the road -- especially all the Californian transplant douche bags.
Yes, I have noticed that the more snow a place usually gets, the better they are at clearing the roads. We got about 2 feet last week, and everything was only shut down for a few hours. When I go to Maine, they can get a foot and people just go about their business like everything is normal. I was in Washington DC one winter, they got 3 or 4 inches and it was like the world had ended.
This necessitates mandatory posting of this video. [video=youtube;zMzeiMJQrvk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk[/video]
Snowing in Northeast. Accumulating, too. Of course, the weather forecast in today's paper was "high of 40 degrees, showers late." Typical level of accuracy.
