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Post by kallietop on Oct 15, 2006 19:21:15 GMT -5
ha ha ;D ;D ;D he offered to shovel!!!!! i hate shoveling!!!! and it didn't take him long to get the snowballs going!! my brother used to make ice balls and whip them at me! he would break my skin. he was 20 months older then me so i'd still follow him around!!! think i would have learned!!!!
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Post by cruiselady on Oct 16, 2006 9:35:41 GMT -5
Oh Plat that is too funny. My BIL has lived in AZ and very southern NM for the last 30 years so when he comes back to visit in the winter he thinks snow is WONDERFUL until I hand him a shovel and tell him to have fun! He usually STFU at that point!
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Post by skyejames on Oct 17, 2006 19:04:56 GMT -5
I have a funny "snow story" for you. I married a Texan who had hardly ever seen snow. What we get here is only really laughable. A few years ago, I took him to visit my family in Indiana. He was so mystified by snow that he actually asked to shovel the walkway! My family loved him of course and asked me to bring him every winter. I won't ever again though because every three minutes I was being hit with a snowball. Your family sound a riot Plat! ;D I remember one of our texan "winters" when there was a beautiful icing sugar dusting of snow over everything in Houston. The place went wild and children were rushing out in their unused fleeces to build snowmen! My son looked at me quizzically and asked " What are they going to use mummy?" He was genuinely confused!
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Post by Chris on Oct 18, 2006 8:28:16 GMT -5
Oh, it's hilarious. When we get the tiniest bit of snow on the one coldest day of the year, you can drive down any neighborhood block and see (in every yard) a 6 inch melting snowman with two rocks for eyes, surrounded by grass from where they just picked up the dusting of snow from.
And in 45 degree weather, the kids are running around (because school has closed down of course) in 5 winter jackets, two pairs of mittens, tube socks over the mittens, boots, three hats and two scarves and only make it outside for an hour before they need chicken noodle soup!
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Post by kallietop on Oct 18, 2006 9:33:42 GMT -5
Oh, it's hilarious. When we get the tiniest bit of snow on the one coldest day of the year, you can drive down any neighborhood block and see (in every yard) a 6 inch melting snowman with two rocks for eyes, surrounded by grass from where they just picked up the dusting of snow from. And in 45 degree weather, the kids are running around (because school has closed down of course) in 5 winter jackets, two pairs of mittens, tube socks over the mittens, boots, three hats and two scarves and only make it outside for an hour before they need chicken noodle soup! ;D ;D that is sooo funny!!!! i always have to laugh at the news stories when people go in the ditch with 1/2 inch of snow!! (as long as no one is hurt of course) rules at our schools is no recess if it is below 0 degrees!!!!!!! huge snowstorms?? o-well - shovel the car out, scrape the windows, fight with the kid to wear hat and mittens, let the car warm up and off we go!!! school, work, grocery shopping etc. in the spring when it hits 50 degrees people are in shorts!!! ;D ;D I'M JEALOUS!!!!!! i seriously hate winter!!!
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Post by donutqueen on Oct 18, 2006 15:25:23 GMT -5
here it's no recess with windchill below 0... otherwise bundle up and get out!
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Post by kallietop on Oct 18, 2006 15:32:05 GMT -5
here it's no recess with windchill below 0... otherwise bundle up and get out! you're right - no recess with windchill below 0 (for you nice warm winter people the windchill is like the heat index. what it feels like outside) poor kids outside shivering
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Post by donutqueen on Oct 18, 2006 15:35:52 GMT -5
My kids are so sad if its raining a ton or too cold. They hate having to miss recess
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Post by kallietop on Oct 18, 2006 15:38:19 GMT -5
My kids are so sad if its raining a ton or too cold. They hate having to miss recess kallie would get ticked if it was raining. but the cold? she hated it outside. she hates the cold cold weather. but when they are stuck inside they watch 20 minutes of a movie. gee - never get the ending!!!!!!!!
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Post by skyejames on Oct 18, 2006 16:37:24 GMT -5
Oh, it's hilarious. When we get the tiniest bit of snow on the one coldest day of the year, you can drive down any neighborhood block and see (in every yard) a 6 inch melting snowman with two rocks for eyes, surrounded by grass from where they just picked up the dusting of snow from. And in 45 degree weather, the kids are running around (because school has closed down of course) in 5 winter jackets, two pairs of mittens, tube socks over the mittens, boots, three hats and two scarves and only make it outside for an hour before they need chicken noodle soup! ;D Oh I miss Texas when you write about it Plat! The people were the warmest and most welcoming I have ever met! And y`all loved my accent! Here most take me as Irish! I remember looking round the stores with all the parkas and fleeces and expecting a proper winter because of them! Presumably they are for people vacationing to New York for the holidays! I loved the way Houstonians believed implicitly in the weather men on telly . To be fair they were accurate but sometimes you would see people down town in their brand new winter coats in 75 degrees , having expected 45! ;D In Britain no one ever knows what the weather will do so we maintain a healthy disdain of all forecasts . It will most likely rain anyway!
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Post by trixie on Oct 18, 2006 17:23:46 GMT -5
Skye -
I live in San Francisco, and we also poo-poo the weather forecasters. We already know there will be a) a chance of fog (huh! you think?), b) a chance of wind, c) a chance of wind AND fog, d) scattered showers, e) all of the above or f) snow. F) only happened once since I've lived here and my husband and I were watching a 49er game on TV and the commentators got all excited because it started snowing during the game.
My husband and I were having a beer and said Hey, I thought they were playing at home. Guess not. Then we looked out the window, saw snow and without a word we both got up and put our beer back in the fridge.
Anyway, I grew up in Southern California and my grandmother would ALWAYS wear her mink coat when she went out for the evening, even if the evening was 75 degrees.
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Post by skyejames on Oct 18, 2006 18:28:07 GMT -5
I think that sounds really like home Trixie ! Our forecasters are also deliberately vague about time so when the promised warm front finally lands 3 weeks later they can say
" As predicted we are experiencing warmer temperatures....blah blah blah ....."
Not much good for planning picnics though!
I couldn`t believe it when Houstonian ones would predict the weather for .... 2pm absolutely accurately . People could actually avoid downpours . I was in awe!
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Post by kallietop on Oct 18, 2006 18:44:17 GMT -5
wisconsin has a saying "if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes and it will change" -- and it's true. it is basically impossible to forcast our weather. monday they will call for mid 50 and partly sunny for wed. monday night it will be around 50 and partly sunny. keeps changing and wed morning they will say 40 and slight chance of rain. and what do we get?? 55 and huge thunderstorms and tornado warnings!!!!!!!!!!
one year we actually dropped from approx 70 deg to 50deg in minutes!!!!!!!! cruise - i don't know the exact temps. gotta clue???
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Post by cruiselady on Oct 18, 2006 21:33:19 GMT -5
A clue? Shit that happens all the time, it's called a cold front!
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Post by kallietop on Oct 18, 2006 21:46:08 GMT -5
A clue? Shit that happens all the time, it's called a cold front! lol - it was a record breaking drop round here cause it was soo massive in such a short time!!
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