SNOW!!!!

[taks]

yup, for the 3rd (er, 4th?) time this year, we're getting snow. not just a piddly sprinkling resulting in an inch or two. it's a bleeeeezard out there. we have over a foot at the house and it is still snowing hard. winds are probably gusting at 60-70 mph. white-out conditions are making it nearly impossible to drive though overall, the city has done a good job keeping the streets clean. i made it in to work this morning driving about 10 mph average, mostly that slow because i couldn't see more than 50 feet (i have a 4WD jeep with excellent snow tires).

 

unbelievable. of course, it's supposed to be in the 50s tomorrow, so it will all be melted by the weekend. hehe, such is life in CO!

 

taks

[astr0creep]

I call snow the "S" word...

[Musopticon?]

Not yet here, but other parts of Finland, north ones of course, have it.

[Deraldin]

We don't have any snow here yet. It's been hovering just above zero so when we have been getting rain instead of snow. We probably won't get any significant snowfall (ie snow that stays for more than a few days) until december.

[Arkan]

We had snow for a couple of days...nothing significant, but it was weird seeing it this early.

[Sand]

I really don't know which is worse. The snow or a constant 3 to 4 day drizzle of rain.

[taks]

supposedly the developing el nino is supposed to put a damper on northern colorado snow (technically we're central, but "southern" in this regard means down near NM). however, it seems that this is not always true. particularly this year!

 

all i care about now, is that copper mountain opens next friday. i've got my pass, and i don't have to work that day. woohoo!!!

 

taks

[Meshugger]

It's nice to have snow at this time of the year, too bad that i currently live in the city that has the heat-record in Finland, so no snow here.

 

Luckily, my parents live up north, so atleast i can enjoy a white christmas every year when i visit them.

[Deraldin]

all i care about now, is that copper mountain opens next friday.  i've got my pass, and i don't have to work that day.  woohoo!!!

 

taks

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I hate you so much... <_<

[Gfted1]

We havent had any measurable snow yet this year here in Chicago, thank god. I wish I could go skiing.

[Sand]

I wouldn't want to go skiing. Too many trees can just leap at you and kill you while enjoying yourself.

[Gfted1]

The moguls wipe me out every time. I had one particularly spectacular wipeout right below the chair lift where I used my head and face as a snowplow for about 20 ft. I can still hear those bastages laughing.

 

*shakes fist*

[Meshugger]

I wouldn't want to go skiing.  Too many trees can just leap at you and kill you while enjoying yourself.

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Have ever even been skiing at all?

[kumquatq3]

winds are probably gusting at 60-70 mph.

 

CNN just said windgusts are around the mid-30 in CO

 

 

50's in Chicago and the promise of another mild winter!

 

Thank you global warming!

[kumquatq3]

I wouldn't want to go skiing.  Too many trees can just leap at you and kill you while enjoying yourself.

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Have ever even been skiing at all?

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Replace "Skiing" with "traveling in Iraq" and "Trees" with "Death Squads" and it makes perfect sense.

[Sand]

I wouldn't want to go skiing.  Too many trees can just leap at you and kill you while enjoying yourself.

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Have ever even been skiing at all?

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No, but I heard stories. Stories that would chill a man to his bones. Poor Sonny. If there was to be something that killed him it should have been Cher. But no, it was a vicious tree that leaped at him while he skied.

[WinterSun]

I really don't know which is worse.  The snow or a constant 3 to 4 day drizzle of rain.

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Rain is MUCH worse. Especially when you cycle to work.

[kumquatq3]

I really don't know which is worse.  The snow or a constant 3 to 4 day drizzle of rain.

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Rain is MUCH worse. Especially when you cycle to work.

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Try cycling in a foot of snow

[WinterSun]

Dude, when the snow gets above an inch it's time to call in sick.

[taks]

CNN just said windgusts are around the mid-30 in CO

not up here (i'm on the very far north end of town). much worse.

 

50's in Chicago and the promise of another mild winter!

they're claiming a mild winter for us, too. temps have been 10-15 F below normal for most of the summer and fall. the lows are around normal, but the highs have not been.

 

Thank you global warming! 

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i keep thinking of the suzy chaffee commercial (read: whine) about GW screwing up the slopes and causing later winter starts with earlier winter ends and lower snowfall totals. i first saw this commercial last year, in november, when i was skiing on a record 6-7 foot base of fresh powder. the mountains (northern/central) were all 100% open before turkey day. most of the same moutains were 125-150% of normal snowfall for the year (southern got screwed but that was due to an el nina i believe).

 

taks

Edited October 26, 2006 by taks

[kumquatq3]

Dude, when the snow gets above an inch it's time to call in sick.

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:D

 

What would Churchill say about that?:

 

"We will fight them on the beaches... on the hills...we shall never sur....what?.....Snow?...bloody hell, we give up..."

[Sand]

Dude, when the snow gets above an inch it's time to call in sick.

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An inch?!?!?!

 

Snow where I live can drop by the foot. One year we had a snow storm that dropped 3 to 4 feet of snow in one go.

[taks]

If there was to be something that killed him it should have been Cher.  But no, it was a vicious tree that leaped at him while he skied.

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apparently the section he wiped out on was not really dangerous. he was likely either not paying attention, or screwing around.

 

safe skiing means skiing within your limits. going off piste when you have no experience, and you are alone, is rarely a good idea.

 

i'm to the point now where i can tackle anything on the main slopes. i can even struggle through double diamonds, though my first attempt last year was on a pair of skis designed for speed, which made it difficult. this year, they're putting me in a pair of k2 apaches, which are better all-mountain skis (i.e. it's easier to turn on a dime). the biggest problem i have is that i'm big, which means big skis. most moguls are cut by small folk with small skis. it'll be a challenge even with the right ski this year.

 

oh, we have clocked ourselves (my ski buddy and i) doing about 65 mph on claimjumper at breckenridge. messing up at that speed is deadly.

 

taks

[kumquatq3]

i keep thinking of the suzy chaffee commercial (read: whine) about GW screwing up the slopes and causing later winter starts with earlier winter ends and lower snowfall totals.  i first saw this commercial last year, in november, when i was skiing on a record 6-7 foot base of fresh powder.  the mountains (northern/central) were all 100% open before turkey day.  most of the same moutains were 125-150% of normal snowfall for the year (southern got screwed but that was due to an el nina i believe).

 

The last 3 or 4 years have been really mild in the Chicago area. We get one big storm a winter nowadays. Non-white-X-mas, motorcycles in December, etc.

 

Before that winters meant that the streets would look like trenches from all the snow pushed to the sides.

 

Global Warming, dumb luck, whatever, it's a nice change of pace.

Edited October 26, 2006 by kumquatq3

[taks]

Snow where I live can drop by the foot.  One year we had a snow storm that dropped 3 to 4 feet of snow in one go.

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the springs _averages_ 3-4 feet per year. we're already up around 2 feet (official numbers are done at the airport, which is much lower elevation than where i live, and thusly probably closer to 18"). on the north end of town, like monument or even black forest, 10 feet in a year is not uncommon. 3-4 feet at a time happens every couple years or so.

 

the mountains are not reporting snow yet (not till they open), so i don't know what they're getting out of this.

 

taks