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| Camac |
Posted: 24-Aug-2008, 06:19 PM
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I love cold weather the colder the better. It's that white stuff that keeps falling from the sky I hate.
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Posted: 25-Aug-2008, 05:25 AM
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| QUOTE (flora @ 24-Aug-2008, 10:58 PM) | Thank you so much for sharing!
Lady of Avalon I am going to constantly refer back to that picture and remind myself that there really are places like that. Thank you so much.
Do you have to prepare your pantry and keep well stocked in case of a snow storm? And how long have they been know to last? |
Hi flora, glad you like the picture.This really beautiful in the mountains in winter time the view is just fantastic. As for preparing the pantry and such, no I would say that that kind of preparation for the winter months is practiced more in the north country,way up north like in the Bay James area and further north for in these places there are only small villages with usually there is what they call a general store. Here we have major commercial and conveniance stores everywhere so we don't need to "keep well stocked" for the winter season. A snow storm here could last for 1 to 2 days depending last winter was really quite exceptionnal for we didn't this kind of weather for over 20 years and people would tell stories about the fact this was the kind of winter we use to have then.We were piled up in snow this winter it was wonderful and fun. The picture that I'm showing to you is the day after a major snow storm we had last winter,like the ones we use to get 20 years ago. I have another that I posted in the thread "What's it like outside". Enjoy... LOA
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| stoirmeil |
Posted: 26-Aug-2008, 01:19 PM
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I'm in New York now, which is middling-cool most of the winter but not really much below freezing, and then the occasional cold snap with nights in the teens Fahrenheit. I grew up in southern New England, and 40 years ago it was cold in winter, many nights well below freezing, never much above 32F in the daytime, ands most of the time not above freezing then either. The pond at the end of my street was always fit for skating by Christmas, that is, ice 4" to 6" thick. I have to say I miss it. We always wore sweaters ("jumpers") and fleece sweatshirts in the house; the sleeping at night when it's cold out, with the window cracked just a bit for the fresh air unless it's truly frigid, is the best in the world. I loved shovelling snow too, my dad's 100 foot driveway. The exercise wasn't bad, but what I loved was the solitude, because I was the only one who would volunteer, and the soft hushing noise of new snow falling was very tranquil. About shovelling and snowstorms -- don't wait until the whole load falls. Do it several times, about every 6" or so -- then you can come in for a well justified hot toddy between bouts.
You do have to hydrate the air or you get lot of nosebleeds and coughing -- I remember we had steam radiators with pans of water on them that would be bone dry before morning. A big lobster-boiling pot full of water on the back of the stove constantly on low simmer helps a lot during the day -- we used to throw several spoons of cinnamon in it when there was nothing else cooking. My brother would get bronchitis too, and so we vaporized with tincture of benzoin. It is one of the most powerful memory smells of my childhood.
I've been through blizzards that lasted a day and a night without stopping, then took 2 to 3 days to really dig out and get moving. Everybody remembers thre blizzard of '78 -- we had 48" of snow on the flat, with some 7-foot drifts, and a bit north of us went to 54". I was in a small community of young musicians employed around a big church then, and after we all got in safe it was the most fun I've ever had. We shovelled all day, ate spaghetti like pigs and went out and shovelled some more. There was a man on the side street with a heart condition who was afraid they couldn't get an ambulance in to him if he needed it, so we shovelled out the whole street to the main avenue. I must have baked about 20 dozen cookies -- after we couldn't get out to buy more chocolate chips we just chopped up Hershey bars from the big bucket of leftover Halloween candy to put in them. What a mess! 
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Posted: 30-Aug-2008, 02:27 AM
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| QUOTE | | And if given the choice, would you still live where there is so much snow to deal with each day, ie.. driving to work, missing school days etc.? |
Your average snowstorm does a lot less damage (and kills less people) than your average hurricane. While we may get snow, by the time hurricanes reach us, they've been downgraded to "some rainfall." Fay dropped a "whopping" .1" of rain on me yesterday, for example. Most people don't have to deal with snow "each day." Where I live, we average 9" of snow per month during the Winter months. Of course we've had times when 3 feet or more dropped, but that's not exactly normal. | QUOTE | | I'm in New York now, which is middling-cool most of the winter but not really much below freezing, and then the occasional cold snap with nights in the teens Fahrenheit. I grew up in southern New England, |
Stormeil, northern NY is farther north than Southern Maine or New Hampshire... Or are you in the City?
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Posted: 31-Aug-2008, 07:10 AM
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In 1961 I was working on a Hydro project on the Carrot River in Northern Saskatchewan. On the 28th of Sept. that year the temp was recorded at 29 below F. with the wind chill factor. It was so cold that the ducks migrating south were wearing Parkas and the dozer mechanics were lighting fires under the oil pans of the equipment to get them warmed up enough to start.
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| TheCarolinaScotsman |
Posted: 31-Aug-2008, 08:16 AM
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As Skeleman says, North Carolina is usually fairly mild, but it can and has gone to extremes.The all time record low in my area (central NC) is -9* F (-23* C).
As for snow, the all time monster snow that folks my age and a little older talk about was March 1960. It snowed every Wednesday that month. The entire state was shut down. I only went to school three days that month. By the end of March, we had (around Charlotte) almost four feet of total accumulation. Not much for some places, but a bunch for us. A good (bad) ice storm can knock out power for a week, so we need to be prepared for that.
The reason we have so much trouble when there is a little bit of snow on the roads; it's not cost effective for us to keep all the snow clearing equipment they have up north and in the west and mid west. By the way, our all time record high in central NC was 109* F (43* C). And that is with a dew point in the upper eighties, close to ninety. (For a week or more, the lows at night did not go below 90* F.) At the time, I worked as a brick kiln fireman. Temps in my work area got up to 140*. I remember getting off work and walking outside during that heat wave and shivering because I was cold.
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