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Whirlibird 1 year, 4 months ago.
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We have has the most unusual weather for MONTHS! One storm system right after the other week after week. The ground hasn’t had a chance to dry out since July, and then only briefly. Wind and rain, now wind and ice/snow and the winter hasn’t even begun yet. We are in the light blue.
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Hey – we’re pretty much neighbors. 🙂 I’m in SW Virginia.
This weather has been nuts. It’s only our second year in Virginia and I can’t believe the flooding we have dealt with. We’re living UP on a mountain too!
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Sorry guys, but we average about 22 feet of snow a year.
We are expected to get single digits temps tonight.
That would fall into the ho-hum category.
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@crowbar 22 feet?! and you live in
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Yeah, well, CB, I have a shipmate up in New Hampshire who makes fun of me regarding the weather they experience vs me. He can have it… all of it! Daisy mentioned the flooding. There have been that, and tornadoes, wind storms, rain storms, rain storms with wind storms, power outages, week after week since late last winter. As a lifelong Virginian I’ve never remember any weather patterns like we have experienced. In the woods next to me there are 100 yr old oak trees uprooted and laying like jack straws. A lifetime of firewood and no way to access it due to terrain.
Daisy, where in SW are you located if you want to say? We attend Floyd Fest just off the BRP south of Floyd County in late July, usually. That’s about as far SW as I get.
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@MM,
Keeps the riff-raff out. 😉
I like the snowshoeing, and cross country skiing. There is downhill skiing, ice fishing, and snow machine trails too. There is actually a lot to do.
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AnonymousI have this grand notion of wanting to move to Alaska. I also know that is insane, because I am a thin-blooded southern girl who feels like I am freezing when the temps go below 74. I can’t fathom dealing with snow on a regular basis. I’m sure I’d figure it out fast enough, but I’d be pretty dang grumpy in the process. I live in SC and our state was pretty much closed down at the beginning of the year from a few inches of snow. It was annoying, but much safer than letting non-drivers drive LOL.
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Last winter I recall parts of Alaska were warmer then it was in my neck of the woods!
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CB, I had a shipmate (now passed) who lived in Dannamora, NY. While alive he kept me updated on the weather up there over the winter. I always told him to sell that damn place and move on down here. But, he loved it.
My newest DIL is from upstate NY. Beautiful girl with French-Canadian ancestry. She and my son now live near Surf City, N.C. and she would never move back.
CM, have a high school friend who lives in Wasila, AK. He loves it up there. But I’m with you on the cold and snow.
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Anonymous@Crow Bar I asked about the temperatures last year because I am subscribed to a few pages on Alaska and found that even when the temps in the lower 48 and Alaska are the same number wise the way it feels is much different. 85 here, where I live is warm, but there 85 would actually feel cooler by about 10-15 degrees. Because the way the sun is angled it never fully warms everything up, unlike here where it tries to bake us alive.
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All this snow and ice. Burrr. We are in the North Suffolk area and normally do not get much snow but very cold. My family was from the Lynchburg, Madison Heights area. I remember as a child, we would leave to go to my grandparents house for Christmas. The snow was very deep. One time we got to the city limits and police where there and turned us away and said we could not enter into Lynchburg unless we had chains on the tires. So daddy had to turn around and head back toward another town to find chains for the car. Those were some really deep snows back then. Last time I was up that way was when one of my aunts passed. They said they haven’t gotten snow like that in a few years, seems now they are starting to get it like that again.
Speaking of those trips as a child, we were heading up to grandma’s one weekend and was on 460 when the police pulled us over. Seems our car matched the description of a man that kidnapped some children. Of course they did let us go. After that dad took old route 40. I hated that route and still do to this day. What can I say. It was so hilly and I got car sick.
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Crowbar, you stole my line- “keeps the riffraff out”. (Present company excepted of course)
I live where I get about the same amount of snow that you do and we seem to have the same winter activities. We also have dogsled races and ice festivals here. We can get up to 300 inches of snow which turns out to be 25 feet but it melts down and snows again so it isn’t all overhead all the time. We get a lot of lake effect snow.
I used to enjoy wanking in a blizzard but I’m getting too old to enjoy that anymore. I read a book about the Donner party in a snowstorm and it made it even more understandable.
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Define cold.
Couple of days recently the thermometer was reading near -20f morning after morning.
Little much for me also but the Kalifornicators leave quickly when that happens.
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