Wild weather

[icepixie]

Crazy weather today. We had a thunderstorm roll through this evening; nothing to get excited about, can't hold a candle to the tornado-spawners of spring and summer, but it's relatively uncommon to hear thunder in winter, let's say.

And apparently everyone north of Kentuckyish is getting more snow than they can deal with. Poor, poor people living on the eastern edge of Lake Ontario. If you go [insert your favorite news site here], they've got pictures of snow up to the second stories of people's houses, and little mini-canyons of snow where the sidewalks and streets have been shoveled. I think CNN was reporting recently that one town has recorded twelve feet of snow this week.

...I could never live there. I would kill myself. I assure you I am not joking. I didn't do so well freshman year, when the two feet we had hung around for months on end. Twelve feet would drive me insane.

Comments

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I'm kinda glad I'm not home right now. I've looked online and they're saying only a foot or so, but that's much more than the few inches we have here.

[icepixie]

Gaaaah. Bah, snow. We're getting flurries here today, since it turned cold last night. (We aren't get seeing freezing today. Sigh. I hate winter. Even down here, I hate it.)

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

The little towns that got twelve feet of snow (a New York State record!) are about two hours east of my house. We were actually kind of jealous of them, because for several weeks, we never had more than one or two inches of snow on the ground at once.

Then this big Valentine's Day storm came in, and we got a foot and a half of snow, and now suddenly I feel sorry for our neighbors to the east. Twelve feet! That's taller than four stacked hobbits.

[vbrooksutk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Fulton, Mexico and Oswego got raped!

[icepixie]

The little towns that got twelve feet of snow (a New York State record!)

It worries me that twelve feet of snow is only a New York state record, and not, like, a USA record, or a North American record.

Twelve feet! That's taller than four stacked hobbits.

...actually, they're more like 3.5' tall, if I recall, so really more like three. < /pedant > *slinks away*

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

I see your pedantry, and raise you two nitpicks. :-)

a) I actually researched the average hobbit height (http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Hobbit) before writing my comment. Yes, I am that geeky.

b) If you were going to go about the process of stacking hobbits, you'd have them stand on each other's shoulders, right? That means that only the height from their feet to their shoulders counts. That's gotta be less than three feet each.

[icepixie]

You, sir, are a pedant beyond compare. Good points, especially the second one. Although I suppose you could get contortionist-style Hobbits with very strong necks and they could stand on the head of the one below them...but simpler to do it with shoulders, yes.

[vbrooksutk.livejournal.com]

Haha. The snow is up to my thighs right now, but 40 minutes north of here they have 6-7 feet on the ground. Loco.

[icepixie]

The snow is up to my thighs right now

Gaaaah! I had issues with snow up to mid-calf.

[vbrooksutk.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I live in the basement, and I've been worried about flooding once the snow starts to melt. So I went outside today with the shovel, only to realize that I physically couldn't get to my windows. It was too much physical exertion to take steps. Seriously.

This is crazy.

[icepixie]

It shoudl be illegal to have to worry about snow melting and flooding your house through the windows.