It just keeps a-comin' down!

 

So, how's the weather over/across/up/down/underneath/adjacent to/atop your way? Got snow?Monsoons? Droughts? A rain of poisonous toads and/or blood?

 

 

 

Finals were supposed to be the last 2 days of school, but they got cancelled due to snow. They were moved to Tuesday of this week, so we have tomorrow to study, and the next day to take tests. If we don't have a snow day the next two days this week.

 

Looks lovely!

 

 

About 2.5 - 3 feet here, and -20 C this morning.  We lost about 6 inches to a foot in a day of unseasonable warm and rain a week or so back, too. Still, we have tons of the stuff -- those exposed rocks in your pic would be buried, here.

 

I'm well north of you, near Timmins, Ontario, BTW. 'Tis a relatively balmy -13 C here now, I see.

 

And snow blowers are for wee girly men  -- I use one of those large, acoustic, green, free-to-operate, silent, beer-driven scoops!

 

AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL

 

And it's freezing for quite some time. Wonderful to have a classic winter.

 

 

We're equipped to deal with it up here (plenty of snow plows, snow blowers, sanders, salters, sidewalk plows, etc.), and our drivers are used to these conditions, and generally modify their driving accordingly. Snow tires (which make a huge difference), plus block heaters are standard (you plug in your car to warm the engine & oil, for easier starting), and 4-wheel drive vehicles are also very common here.

 

Lots of snow in the winter is just a fact of life here. It's a veritable snowmobiler's paradise. We also get pretty extreme cold, so the snow on side streets tends to stay frozen and hard packed, and not  slushy and slippery.

 

Only - 14 C now (not very cold, by our standards), and we got about another inch of the white stuff overnight. Seems it will be clear today. i just got in from clearing the end of the driveway of the heavy stuff the 5:00 AM snowplow left. Whew!

 

Having my morning coffee now -- walk to work soon! (First day back after Xmas holidays -- waaah!)

 

Thanks for all of the interesting responses, keep 'em coming, and TTYL!

 

And where might "here" be?  (Your faux 'location" tells me nothing.)

 

This is the coldest winter I think I've ever known.  It seems to have been freezing for ages.  I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of mornings I've NOT needed to scrape/de-ice the car since the start of November.  It's really starting to tick me off.  I need a nice warm winter holiday, but fat chance of that.   

 

 

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(I guess Petey would be the guy wearing the T-shirt year 'round)

 

The place looks beautiful but I don't think I'd be able to take that kind of weather.  Maryland is cold enough for me as it is, haha.  We haven't had much snow yet, maybe two or three storms - the good stuff usually comes between January and March...

 

This comes from a woman who nearly hit 3 kids on her way to picking people up for the school carpool.

I see. Yes, that's a warm place -- do you get heavy rains there, this time of year?

 

 (And just how "brown" are the men there, anyway? More of a very light beige, really, aren't they?)

 

In any case, your assertion that it will "never" snow there would seem to indicate that you don't believe in continental drift, due to the inexorable movement of the earth's tectonic plates. The lizards and palm trees in Antarctica once smugly believed the same thing....

 

This means the exposed parts of my face will be in serious pain by the time my ten-minute walk to work concludes. I really should invest in a bankrobber's balaclava....

Where is "Gadda-Da-Vida" again? (And is it hard to sleep, with that heavy organ playing 24-7?)

 

You whimsically reticent young fellows should consider listing some sort of real location, methinks. I find it interesting to know where the people I'm chatting with on here are. (I bet many others do, too.)

 

 

 

 

I fixed your spelling and punctuation errors, BTW.  (My students don't return until tomorrow....)

 Yes, that works too -- and flying fish don't really so much fly, as glide....

 

Go take a flying duck at a rolling profiterole, Tony!

 

 

 

 

 

 Where did my munas go, all of a sudden? (Ask a Finn, re that one! )

 

 

 

 

There's an (unheated) storage room in my basement where we routinely put leftovers, beer & such during winter, when the fridge is too full -- works a charm!

 

Perhaps after I walk home today, I'll skip the sauna and just lie down in the deep freeze (freezer) to warm up! 

 

Hmm good for you guys. I was visiting Seattle in the Spring while we had a break for school. It was snowing there, which was quite a surprise for my friends who lived there. Luckily, I had a flight out of there the next morning, so I didn't have to endure horrible traffic.

Thanks, Judgment Day -- that was interesting, about the Aetas. I, of course, live on "stolen land" myself. An alternate version of our national anthem begins: " O Canada, our home on (instead of the usual "and") native land...."

 

Now, you might well be gone before the land mass you stand upon goes slamming into another, but I think it would be only prudent of you to always brace yourself against something sturdy, and to eschew standing too close to the edges, just in case...

 

That's why you'll generally find me here, safely ensconced in the middle of the continent -- no sneaky, jagged new mountain range is going to spring up under me while I doze, I can tell you that! Granted, the capricious continents generally creep around the globe slowly and stealthily, but they might well be trying to lull us into incautious complacency and a false sense of security, the better to catch us unawares, and send us all flying "arse over kettle" when they suddenly decide to spring forward into the rocky arms of their massy partners in the tectonic dance! One can't be too careful in these matters -- you have been duly warned!

 

Thanks for all of the interesting updates on your local weather, folks! Please keep them coming, especially if anything unseasonal or unusual (such as the sudden appearance of exotic flora and fauna hitherto confined to an overseas land) occurs in your area.

 

I must say, the Cotswolds looked rather majestic, with deep blue, cloudless sky and the white fields glistening in the sun...

 

that said, this has to be the most prolonged cold snap we've had for getting on for a decade...and yes, its killed a lot of the ground bugs off, but on the other hand, it isn't doing many of the Octagenarians a lot of good either...

 

...if it gets any colder I'm going to have to put a jumper on... might even have to do my jacket up.

 

btw: I didn't think ageing Goths 'did' jumpers...