Posted by IsoM on January 5, 2002, at 14:06:34
In reply to Re: Snow, Rain, and more rain, posted by Mitch on January 5, 2002, at 0:03:11
Seeing I live in Canada's small "banana belt" now, the idea of a blizzard is hilarious. I think the last winter we had any real snow & had it last more than a day or two was 1995. We got talking at work about that & we think that's the year.
But I did spend some years on the Canadian prairies - hoo boy! That's a winter! Five months of winter & the other seven months divided among spring (the mud season), summer (very hot & lots of mosquitoes, black flies, & grasshoppers), & fall (the bare trees, brown grass, & never-know what's-next weather).
Highs could sometime reach 40C (104F) in summer & lows -40C (-40F too) in winter. Honestly! I found it so weird. One spring in mid-May with the flowering lilacs beautifully scenting the air, a hot, windy weekend came & all the lilac flowers were burnt brown.
Another time after a nice spring, we had a blizzard on the long weekend in May & still had snowdrifts melting in mid-June. Another year, we had killer frosts in mid-June too & another that year in mid-August, two months apart. I did't get that much from my garden that time. Guess why I moved back to the West Coast?
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> > Mind you, when it does snow, it exerts this strange pyschic force to draw everyone from their houses into their cars. Then, all lemming-like, they attempt to drive up & down the hills we have in town. But powerful magnets, cleverly hidden in the snow-covered ditches, yank their cars into these ditches. Some magnets are even powerful enough to flip the cars onto their roofs. Other psychic forces convince ordinary drivers to think they can drive twice as fast as they normally would, sliding through stop signs & red lights to careene into other cars heading for ditches. It's a great comic epic everytime it does snow here!
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> Do you get any "blizzards" along the coast up there? Big blizzards are trippy. I remember the big blizzard of '77 that hit the eastern 2/3 of the U.S. and parts of Canada. It took almost a week before a bulldozer came down our rural road to clear it-good thing we had a wood stove. I dug my car out right away and remember running out of gas on the way back in from town one night in the middle of nowhere (record cold of -25 F). It was a beautiful, moonlit, perfectly quiet nite during the the two mile walk to the house. Good thing there was no wind at all-I might not be here now.
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