The Weather Channel sucks. A lot.

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Every single storm we get is the "Storm of the Century".

They can't ALL be the storm of the century.

It is snowing. It will snow a lot, it will snow hard, and there will be some pretty good accumulation.

It is not the apocolypse.

It is not the "Snow-pocolypse".

It is not the end of the world.

I don't need all the bullshit that they put on, the sensational reporting, the superlative descriptions......

Just tell me how much fucking snow we're going to get, and when it is going to stop.

Fucking hate the Weather Channel.

To top it off, they're never right.

Assholes.
 
Yeah, a noreaster isn't exactly news for new england. When I was a kid, we used to get like 2 feet of snow at times. The only thing people listened to the news for was the list of school closings.
 
"Thunder-snow"?

I think they're making shit up now.

(Yeah, I know it is a real term, but still......).

It seems like they're trying to scare us.

Fucking assholes.
 
I hate California weather. Really. I need to stop talking about hating California weather and move.

It's always the same. Long, bone dry summers. Everyone gets rain but us. Late, short, mild winters. Over. And over. And over.

This fall/winter, rain came late again, but did ok off the bat. Then stopped. Had a good 4 day storm system. Stopped. Rained on Christmas. Stopped. Drizzled once since then. Sprinkled for 20 minutes yesterday.

I need more water from the sky damn it.
 
The should google up the blizzard of 78. I was a kid, and I missed like 10 days of school. It was awesome. I remember the snow was drifted up to the roof of our barn (about 1.5 stories of a normal house), and my dad let us climb up to a dormer window near the peak and sled down the barn. It was great.
 
I remember the Blizzard of '78, too.
We were out of school for a solid week.
:grin:

All the neighborhood kids roamed the streets, looking for all kinds of stuff to get into, basically terrorizing the neighborhood. I remember making snow-forts on each side of the street and having epic snowball fights. Except when cars came through, then it was "open season"!
I think everyone over the age of 18 was happy when school opened back up.
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Grave Bomber said:
I hate California weather. Really. I need to stop talking about hating California weather and move.

It's always the same. Long, bone dry summers. Everyone gets rain but us. Late, short, mild winters. Over. And over. And over.

This fall/winter, rain came late again, but did ok off the bat. Then stopped. Had a good 4 day storm system. Stopped. Rained on Christmas. Stopped. Drizzled once since then. Sprinkled for 20 minutes yesterday.

I need more water from the sky damn it.
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California is a biiiiiiiig state.
Surely you can find some different climate (if you are serious), in the same state.

If you're just stating that as sarcasm and to make fun of us getting hit with this storm, well, then fuck you.
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(JK, by the way....)
 
lol. I remember the cross street snow forts. It was like WWI France. The snowbanks on my street had to be 10-15 feet tall. I remember my dad, who is like 6 feet tall, had to climb up to the top, and we built tunnels he could walk through without bending over. He had to use a bulldozer to cut through the snow banks to get the cars out.
 
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BTW, I have heard comparisons of this storm to the Blizzard of '78.

Time will tell, but I really don't see it happening.

I just hope the fucking power doesn't go out.

Because that sucks. We will still have heat (wood stove), we will still have running water, we will still have a stove-top (but no oven) as we are on propane, or we could cook on the wood-stove, but running out of hot water sucks.

We have several hurricane lamps and about two dozen candles and flashlights, so we'll be OK......but when the power goes out, it gets old.
 
Funny this is hitting NH this week, as I was just approached (very informal inquiry) about moving my lab to a college up in New Hampshire near the Connecticut river. This is very poor advertising on their part.

As for the electricity, yeah, that sucks. My brother got nailed in a big ice storm in 08, and he had no power for like 3 weeks. He was showering at his in laws house on his way to work. :messedup:
 
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Tiltsta said:
lol. I remember the cross street snow forts. It was like WWI France. The snowbanks on my street had to be 10-15 feet tall. I remember my dad, who is like 6 feet tall, had to climb up to the top, and we built tunnels he could walk through without bending over. He had to use a bulldozer to cut through them to get the cars out.
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No shit, huh?
I had forgotten about the tunnels.

After a couple of days, it was almost like a prairie dog type of tunnel system!

There were like 40 kids involved. Epic!
:grin:

I seem to recall someone grabbing a garden hose so we could wet down the top of the forts and tunnels so it would freeze and get rock-hard overnight.
We also sprayed down the side of the fort facing the street so the "enemy" couldn't climb up and over-run us.

Awesome!
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I think that shit was still there in May!
 
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I just got a reply to my email to my mom. She swears we had 37 inches of snow over 2 days. I kind of remember setting up a push broom handle with lines drawn on it with her before the storm and being excited as we watched it get buried, but I don't remember the total value. She is mid 70's, so she may not remember clearly either, but she grew up in North Dakota, so she never really exaggerated NH weather, but rather framed it as 'not that bad'. I had forgotten about the broom handle details, so it was funny to have the old memory rebooted. She reminded me that we taped a sock monkey on top of it. lol.
 
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Well, I believe it.
"Bad" is a relative term, unless you work for the Weather Channel.

"Pretty bad outside" doesn't get ratings, I guess.

Everything is "The Worst", "The Most", "The Windiest" it has ever been. Ever. Even at the North Pole.
 
Interwhat? They just got the DSL in ManchVegas.

I agree with you completely on this issue. Why watch, waiting for the facts you want to be revealed after 20 minutes of snowpocalypse coverage, when you can log on to the National Weather Service and get the data now?

I imagine the coverage is quite silly from a Canadian perspective, even if Vancouver isn't known for massive snow, as you can look at what happens up in Banff or Whistler where snow can stop trains and such.
 
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Where I live, we get the Portland, ME stations (mostly), and their weather (50 miles away) is completely different, believe it or not.

But I hear what you're saying......we are so far out in the middle of nowhere, it's pretty impressive.
 
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