I'm officially tired of snow already. I've shoveled it six times this week. Enough already! Today's wasn't too bad because it wasn't as wet and heavy as it was earlier this week. Now we're headed for below zero temps (℉) in the coming week. The only good thing is that we'll have a white Christmas.
shareSeveral years ago we got nearly 4 feet in one storm, which is more than I've ever seen in one storm in my entire life:
https://i.imgur.com/8ujtv5I.jpg (the height of that shovel is approximately 4 feet)
But despite getting an email from my ISP yesterday titled...
"Spectrum Alert: Winter Storm Diaz Preparation"
... we've gotten hardly any snow. It's been snowing for maybe 8 hours now and there's only about an inch or two of snow on the ground right now, which isn't enough to even bother shoveling.
I like your picture! I know that it depends on the temperature as to what kind of snow you get. Temps near freezing result in big snowflakes that add up faster than the snow one gets at lower temps.
I'll never forget the Halloween storm of 1991 in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. We didn't get as much as you did, but 28 inches of snow is nothing to sneeze at. Back in 1985, we got just over 21" of snow.
Weather systems sometimes deviate by a few miles from their expected path, which affects how much snow hits a particular area.
City ordinance here decrees that we must shovel the public sidewalk in front of our homes within 24 hours of snowfall, so that's usually the first chore I tackle.
The most devastating storm in my lifetime wasn't a snow storm, it was the massive ice storm of 1998:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm
Snow storms don't usually cause much damage. If it's particularly heavy/wet snow, it can cause some power outages, but they are usually fixed within a matter of hours. That ice storm did major damage though:
Three weeks after the end of the ice storm, there were still thousands of people without electricity. In Quebec alone, 150,000 people were without electricity as of January 28.[18] Estimates of material damage reached around $2 billion Canadian for Quebec alone. Overall estimates are around $4–6 billion US$ for all the areas affected.[19] Damage to the power grid was so severe that major rebuilding, rather than repairing, of the electrical grid had to be undertaken.[20]
Yikes! That's a long time to be without power, especially in winter.
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shareIs that from this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI&t=17s.
This is one commercial I'll never forget.
Hahahaha I KNEW you'd know it!! 😂😂😂😂
Most definitely hard to forget that campaign!! 💯💯💯💯
I totally agree! Some ads just really stick with you.
I'll bet you remember this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
Oh yes, very much. He was actually Italian that guy. They just don't make commercial campaigns the way they used to back in the day. They would go on for years and years and years and years. I think the only modern one that has gone on a long time like that is the Geico gecko.
shareWe've been in a deep freeze for about 2 weeks in Britain. A bit of snow but mostly just cold. -8°c/17°f overnight .... Monday is going to be 13°c/ 55°f 🤷🏻♀️
shareShe’s been pissed off since someone tried to pass off margarine to her as real butter.
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