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08 Feb 2010, 6:23 pm

I somehow don't quite miss snow the way that I used to...

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08 Feb 2010, 11:08 pm

Ive always hated the fluffy white stuff once I hit highschool. I just wanted to get classes done and over with, not have the be pushed back. Nowadays though, I hate it because my mother wont even let me practice driving during/after it. So yeah...

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09 Feb 2010, 12:05 am

Ugh! More snow for us Washingtonians. I know the American people hate us, but does God hate us, too?Web Page Name

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09 Feb 2010, 12:34 am

I remember a winter like this, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I believe it was the winter of '94, 95. Blizzard after blizzard after blizzard. Snow piled up everywhere. Does anyone else remember this?

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09 Feb 2010, 8:50 am

hartzofspace wrote:

I remember a winter like this, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I believe it was the winter of '94, 95. Blizzard after blizzard after blizzard. Snow piled up everywhere. Does anyone else remember this?

it was in 94. I was in germany at the time with my mother and father. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins though felt its affects. Grandparents made a video of it, accumulations were jus6t as bad as they were in buffallo newyork a few years back. something like 7-9 feet of accumulation. Im currently like 24 miles away from allentown though so yeah.

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09 Feb 2010, 6:03 pm

From the pictures it looms like what we're supposed to get overnight, of course michigan is more prepared, with the one snowplow the entire state shares.

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09 Feb 2010, 7:21 pm

This blows and I dislike the cold. I just looked out my window and see it coming down, ready to enthrall us with another treacherous morning drive in DC traffic! I need to go back to San Diego...

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10 Feb 2010, 7:22 pm

Welcome to the wonderful world of global warming.

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10 Feb 2010, 7:24 pm

lotuspuppy wrote:

I moved to DC from Buffalo, NY, the snowiest city in the US (next to our neighbors Rochester and Syracuse). This was a big snowstorm, but the response in DC was terrible. They did a half-@$$ed job plowing the streets, and no one cleared the sidewalks yet. Nothing is open. The federal government is closed Monday, and I suspect most everything else will close with it. It's ludicrous.

What did you expect. In Washington DC, Congress is the town council.

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10 Feb 2010, 7:49 pm

All I can say is these people are sea-level sissies. I mean seriously, here in Laramie, where it is very possible to get snowfall in JULY, we trudge through feet-deep snow and -10 degrees F during the evening and still everything stays open; schools, the University, banks, post office, city hall... nothing ever closes here.

Yeesh... if the federal government were more like us Wyoming folks, then I think that America wouldn't have half the problems it does now.

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10 Feb 2010, 7:56 pm

I think its funny/ironic that the snowstorm shut down the federal government and, wait...did anybody notice? The lights still come on, I'm still getting mail, and...nothing's changed. Federal government? What federal government?

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11 Feb 2010, 9:26 am

Why it didn't happen where I live? I WANT SNOW!! !! !

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11 Feb 2010, 2:20 pm

It's snowing up here in North Texas area. Two inches have already fallen and it's still snowing. The local public schools are open. I was out earlier today snow skating on an old skateboard deck I have. I saw a couple kids out skipping school and having fun in the snow.

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11 Feb 2010, 6:04 pm

got like 2 feet up here, on top of a foot from saturday. being that this is the boonies, only the major roads have been plowed.

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11 Feb 2010, 10:08 pm

IT'S FINALLY MELTING!! !! !! !! !! !! !

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12 Feb 2010, 8:42 pm

Wow!

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