I took a snow-day today!
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Boston is supposed to get 3 feet, we have family in Portland, ME who, though used to heavy snow, are also expecting it to pile up. They are predicting up to 16 inches in the lower Hudson Valley.
No snow in Austin, though.
So you've made the relocation then?
Yeah, well, I put up with winter for 58 years, although my wife said I always had a knack for traveling to California on business right before a major snow storm. Frankly, winter has started to get to me as I've gotten older, but so do a lot of things, noisy restaurants, crowds, etc. I think I could be a hermit in the right place.
For me that would be a bungalow by a quite beach with a fish market within walking distance.
@Steve- Boy I bet it could be hair raising having to drive off on potentially iced up roadsin the dead of night to deliver a baby.
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Tell me about it. It was like taking your life in your hands when they called and said "we need you now" and you look out to 6" of fresh snow on the roads. Sometimes the street cleaners had come and the streets were god but they had plowed your driveway full of snow where it joined the street
Yeah, school gets cancelled out here two days in advance. After growing up in Chicago, but living in NYC and the burbs for the last 25 years, I find the reaction to snow out here kinda nutty. In the NYC area, we just got thru 'snow', not a 'blizzard'. Yet cancellations of all kinds, lines at the supermarket with carts full of supplies, etc.
I remember having to dig out of our front door in Chicago then walking to school.
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while the east is experiencing a snow storm, it is nice and relatively warm (freezing point) and sunny here in the prairies. There's a little bit of snow on the driveway and a very light flurry coming down right now. We only got a couple of big dumps (about 8" - 10) this year, but we get a lot of those 1" - 4" snowfalls, we have been shoveling a least once a week and sometimes everyday, some days we have to shovel before we go to work in the morning and do it again before we go to bed. We picked the wrong year to keep our rental house vacant, now we have to shovel 2 properties (second one in a corner lot), when it is thick enough, we just load the Toro snowblower to my wifes RAV4 to do the other house, but most of the time we just do it manually. I am very lucky that I married a woman who doesn't mind helping out in shoveling (although I have to give her a massage before we go to sleep to soothe her aching hips). She lost 15 lbs, I lost about 10 this winter and shoveling snow is our only form of excercise. This is my 24th winter here in Edmonton, and this year is probably the most we shoveled.
We are lucky that we don't get those heavy and wet snow that people in the east get all the time.
We are lucky that we don't get those heavy and wet snow that people in the east get all the time.
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