Talking to people from Winnipeg or Atlantic Canada is always pretty humbling. They got a monopoly on complaining about bad weather.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Answer_AI03 @ Feb 18 2008, 05:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Michigan has had a TERRIBLE winter....i had to walk to work the other morning and there were wind chills of -40. Winter is just depressing, shorter days, cold weather...i cant stand it. as soon as i graduate im gonna be somewhere south.</div> What school you going to Lake State? I only had one bad storm this year, and a lot of little ones.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ Feb 18 2008, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Man, I love winter. It's been snowing so much lately and they're predicting another mini-storm soon (maybe tonight). I'm going boarding on Wednesday so this is all good news for me. I seriously can't wait.</div> lol you live in Brampton right? Shoveling snows a bitch.
Meh, we've had the same issues as people in Iowa, plus having to deal with lake effect. I don't mind the Winter though, except for the pot holes everywhere. I just walked around in wind chill well below zero for five or six hours through the city and I have no complaints. Also, I hate Spring and Summer, we have way too many tornadoes over here from May through June to go along with massive floods and countless other problems.
Its been an unaturally cold winter here in Utah. It just got back to "normal" recently. The snowfall has returned to what it was when I was a kid i.e. 5 or 6 good storms between Nov & Feb. However, it always snows for the morning commute and that really sucks IMO. My truck has 4 wheel drive but its the goofs in their Beemers, Infinitis, etc... that think they are invincible all the while making on their cell phones or the soroity girls in their VW's panicking at the tiniest flake. Good point M Two one about the lake effect; Storms coming off the Great Salt Lake can be a real pain.
Yea, I don't have the issue with the lake effect. I just have the issue with unnaturally large amounts of snow and incredibly cold winds. I can deal with cold and I can deal wind, but I hate snow and ice. And right now, the awesome thing is that we just had another ice storm over the weekend. It prevented me from going to work for 2 days because the roads were literally a sheet of ice. For the most part, that issue has been taken care of. The interstates and highways are clear and perfectly safe to drive on for the most part. The issue is the country roads out where I live. They're still covered in ice. I have to go about 35 mph down the roads in order to feel remotely safe, and where it used to take me about 10min to get to the interstate from my house, now takes me over 20 min. The other crazy thing I want to point out is how unprepared for the winter Iowa has been. We're out of freaking ice melt salt in the state. Last I knew, nowhere had any to purchase. The government has actually had to get some from neighboring states in order for us to have ice-melt to use on the roads. Talk about ridiculous. And we have more snow coming next week. Freakin' awesome. God, I want this winter to be over.
Moo's previous post brought up another thing I hate about this winter. Every time, I've gone in to wash all the grime & salt off my ride when its warm enough; it snows a day later.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (justsick03 @ Feb 18 2008, 02:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I live in Winnipeg and we have one of the worst/coldest winters in Canada. But we have the hottest summers. woot. The past few weeks we had weather ranging from -20 to -45 C (-4 to-50 Fahrenheit) including the wind chill. We had snow on the ground for almost four months now.. one more month to go. Thank god. It's crazy to think that we have over 600 thousand living in the city.</div> Worst winters? I'm pretty sure the Yukon and Yellowknife would have something to say about that. Winterpeg does suck though, no denying that. Teedaught has been caught pretty bad this year. it seems to be getting better though. having said that it's snowing pretty bad out there. For the most part winter sucks in urban areas but get out to the country and it can be sooo much fun. Even though I'm in the city I'm trying to do the most with it. I've built a pretty good fort in my backyard and it's a fine place to sip some whisky or have a quick bowl.
Today was the first real snow around here. the drive to work was horrible...and it's supposed to turn to freezing rain later, so driving home is going to be even worse. I left a half hour early for work and still ended up being 25 minutes late.
