My parents lived in Baltimore, where snow used to be pretty common, and we never let it slow us down. For about 10 years my dad had a parish in Roxboro, NC, where a quarter inch of snow was almost a sign of the end of the world. Everybody thought it was just SO brave of the Good Father to actually drive to the hospital and do his rounds in "all that snow"! Daddy's attitude was pretty much, "Snow? What snow?"
Ya'll, I'm an Okie and we never get that much snow. Maybe a couple of feet. We all just keep on moving. I'd love to just stay home but my elderly mother won't eat at home (cats, which she tries to give her food to) so we have to get out. Now ice storms, on the other hand, are a whole frozen ball of wax in difference. We get some really hairy ones. This is Oklahoma City, so up along the state's northern border and panhandle get some serious snow. Personally I consider us a Southern state.
We lived in Washington state for about 17 years and definitely dealt with heavy snow, we even wound up getting a four wheel drive vehicle to get out when necessary. Especially when the county snow plow would bank snow up along our front fence and block us in. We lived in a weird weather area, Grand Coulee. We would get snow at our house on the side of a hill, the town below us would get rain-ish, and the town around the Grand Coulee Dam curve got nothing.
Floored people in England when we snorted at them closing down for 2" of snow. When asked how much closes New England, we answered "over 6" will start the shut down, 12" will close most places." They asked "in the whole season?" "No,each snow storm". "Never gong there in winter" was muttered by many at the table.
Now being in New England, the pantry always has emergency supplies, manual can opener, matches to light the gas cook top and plenty of cat food and litter. But I can live the rest of my life without the 28" we got in 1 storm. Sister #2 had to take the glass out of the storm door to get outside. We trenched a walk to the back yard so we had a place to move the snow to. Once was enough for me.
Shay - Bangor ME PD page is hysterical! You can tell who is new to New England during the first hurricane/snow storm/ice storm. You can also tell alot about your neighbors during the same storms. And everyone freaks if The Weather Channel shows up in your town.
Snow's very common in New England. Shovel it and move on.
On the other hand, once felt a (very, very mild) earthquake. A tweet-storm irrupted, as no one knew what it was. The CA folks were brutal. Then some wag sent a pic - "Terrible damaged on the East Coast."
It was a knocked over coffee mug with a small drip of coffee.
We've had a few in Oklahoma. My great aunts worked for the phone company in the 30's or 40's and had to evacuate their building one day because it had a pretty good shake (about ten stories I think). You could feel occasional small ones on the top floor of one of the big shopping malls in south OKC.
Had some small shakers when we lived in California, though we moved before the really big one in the 80's.
And Washington state was fun. We lived on one of the islands in the Sound when the big one hit that did a lot of damage in Seattle. Felt a lot of shaking because we lived in a trailer house and I thought it was one of my kids at first.
Shades of talking about this stuff! We just had three small quakes tonight just at the edge of Oklahoma city. At least one was a 4.2, and I did feel one of them as we a re in one of the small cities on the edge of the larger OKC area. They have all run together over the years. Cities, I mean, not earthquakes!
My parents lived in Baltimore, where snow used to be pretty common, and we never let it slow us down. For about 10 years my dad had a parish in Roxboro, NC, where a quarter inch of snow was almost a sign of the end of the world.
ReplyDeleteEverybody thought it was just SO brave of the Good Father to actually drive to the hospital and do his rounds in "all that snow"! Daddy's attitude was pretty much, "Snow? What snow?"
Ya'll, I'm an Okie and we never get that much snow. Maybe a couple of feet. We all just keep on moving. I'd love to just stay home but my elderly mother won't eat at home (cats, which she tries to give her food to) so we have to get out. Now ice storms, on the other hand, are a whole frozen ball of wax in difference. We get some really hairy ones. This is Oklahoma City, so up along the state's northern border and panhandle get some serious snow. Personally I consider us a Southern state.
ReplyDeleteWe lived in Washington state for about 17 years and definitely dealt with heavy snow, we even wound up getting a four wheel drive vehicle to get out when necessary. Especially when the county snow plow would bank snow up along our front fence and block us in. We lived in a weird weather area, Grand Coulee. We would get snow at our house on the side of a hill, the town below us would get rain-ish, and the town around the Grand Coulee Dam curve got nothing.
Floored people in England when we snorted at them closing down for 2" of snow. When asked how much closes New England, we answered "over 6" will start the shut down, 12" will close most places." They asked "in the whole season?" "No,each snow storm". "Never gong there in winter" was muttered by many at the table.
ReplyDeleteNow being in New England, the pantry always has emergency supplies, manual can opener, matches to light the gas cook top and plenty of cat food and litter. But I can live the rest of my life without the 28" we got in 1 storm. Sister #2 had to take the glass out of the storm door to get outside. We trenched a walk to the back yard so we had a place to move the snow to. Once was enough for me.
@ Sam-Fer sure, brrrrrrrr! I'll take our piddly amount any day, I'm looking at about an inch or less this morning on the lawn.
ReplyDeleteSam, I remember reading and laughing madly over the Bangor PD FB page and their comments about outsiders' reaction to NE snow.
ReplyDeleteShay - Bangor ME PD page is hysterical! You can tell who is new to New England during the first hurricane/snow storm/ice storm. You can also tell alot about your neighbors during the same storms. And everyone freaks if The Weather Channel shows up in your town.
ReplyDeleteSnow's very common in New England. Shovel it and move on.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, once felt a (very, very mild) earthquake. A tweet-storm irrupted, as no one knew what it was. The CA folks were brutal. Then some wag sent a pic - "Terrible damaged on the East Coast."
It was a knocked over coffee mug with a small drip of coffee.
We've had a few in Oklahoma. My great aunts worked for the phone company in the 30's or 40's and had to evacuate their building one day because it had a pretty good shake (about ten stories I think). You could feel occasional small ones on the top floor of one of the big shopping malls in south OKC.
ReplyDeleteHad some small shakers when we lived in California, though we moved before the really big one in the 80's.
And Washington state was fun. We lived on one of the islands in the Sound when the big one hit that did a lot of damage in Seattle. Felt a lot of shaking because we lived in a trailer house and I thought it was one of my kids at first.
Shades of talking about this stuff! We just had three small quakes tonight just at the edge of Oklahoma city. At least one was a 4.2, and I did feel one of them as we a re in one of the small cities on the edge of the larger OKC area. They have all run together over the years. Cities, I mean, not earthquakes!
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