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12 Feb 2006, 7:14 pm

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I live in wisconsin and can recall the winter of 1984-1985. We got so much snow that a drift formed on one side of our drive way and got so high at our garage that I could climb up on the far side of the drift and get onto the roof of our garage with out needing a ladder.

I lived in North Dakota with my dad and Stepmom from 1975 to 1979, and finally left there in 1981. I remember the winter of 1978-79 to be particularly bad and remember seeing similar snowdrifts there as well during that winter. Between the initial Thanksgiving day whiteout to the beginning of January we got about 60" of snow which was more than we had gotten the entire winter previous. The actual Low Temp of that winter was -60 without a windchill factor, and it was the only'Snow Day' that I remember having during the entire time that I lived there.

This was also one of the worst floods in the Grand Forks Area, prior to the flood of '97. We had been living in Bismark for about two years, but had been lived in Grand Forks previously, though my dad was still going to school there.

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12 Feb 2006, 8:33 pm

My dad once told me about the winter of 78-79. Lake michigan froze over completely. It was a COOOOOOOLD winter.

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12 Feb 2006, 8:39 pm

MY COLLEGE CANCELLED SCHOOL FOR TOMORROW!! ! You know if I'm happy about it it's much needed in my little world. I usually HATE snow days.

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New England as a rule really isn't that bad as far as snowfall is concerned. Buffalo, NY and Erie PA on the other hand get some serious snowfall due to their proximity to the eastern Great Lakes.

And Vermont is worse than MA- but snow's a bigger deal in MA because they don't plow, sand and salt properly.

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12 Feb 2006, 8:47 pm

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Giving traction in snow if my car gets stuck. I didn't know where to get a bag of sand and this was the next best thing.

Try a home improvement store like Home Depot, near the concrete. You can find sand there.

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12 Feb 2006, 10:15 pm

i like when it snooooows. they cancelled school for us tomorrow i heard in new york they had lightnign along with the snow. that must've looked amazing.... it sucks though that so many people are without power. the snow was weighing down a tree over oru driveway heh. we were stuck for a lil bit until someone mustered up the energy to get all the crap off the tree.

its so weird seeing the neighbors actually talking to each other and stuff while cleaning off cars and shoveling the sidewalks... heh usually you just get a "HI! BYE!" and then its over. its cute seeing the little kids sledding and rememebring doing that when i was little. the thin gi l ove the most about snow is making SNOW PIE!! you get snow, milk, vanilla extract, and sugar and mix it up in a bowl. though it seems less and less healthy with each passing year's news about pollution and acid rain.. hehe.

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12 Feb 2006, 10:20 pm

hell_grey wrote:

i like when it snooooows. they cancelled school for us tomorrow

i heard in new york they had lightnign along with the snow. that must've looked amazing.... it sucks though that so many people are without power. the snow was weighing down a tree over oru driveway heh. we were stuck for a lil bit until someone mustered up the energy to get all the crap off the tree.

its so weird seeing the neighbors actually talking to each other and stuff while cleaning off cars and shoveling the sidewalks... heh usually you just get a "HI! BYE!" and then its over. its cute seeing the little kids sledding and rememebring doing that when i was little. the thin gi l ove the most about snow is making SNOW PIE!! you get snow, milk, vanilla extract, and sugar and mix it up in a bowl. though it seems less and less healthy with each passing year's news about pollution and acid rain.. hehe.

I wonder if that means school here is cancelled.

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12 Feb 2006, 10:54 pm

Got a few inches snow in Vt. near Mass. border, luckily was light fluff to shovel.

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its so weird seeing the neighbors actually talking to each other and stuff while cleaning off cars and shoveling the sidewalks... heh usually you just get a "HI! BYE!" and then its over.

Yeah, one of the nifty things about weather (if it's extreme enough for people to need to do something about) is the shared nature of the experience. For people like me who infrequently have common links with others' activities, unusual (relatively) events provide me this brief window of belonging, in a minor way. Like a power outage or a heat wave or powerful storm may push people to seek each other out, until "normality" is restored & folks disperse...

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13 Feb 2006, 12:06 am

We got our "big" snow fall Friday, about 2-3 inches in some places, which is about as much as we can expect in one year. Can you believe they shut down everything for that little bit of snow? :lol: Most of what fell melted the next day so I didn't even get to make a mini snowman. But I did walk in it barefooted (I love the feeling of snow on my bare feet). We used to get real snowstorms every year up until the late 80s, I'm talking about 8-10 inches. But our last big storm was in '88 and we haven't had much since.

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13 Feb 2006, 2:14 pm

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i heard in new york they had lightnign along with the snow. that must've looked amazing

Winter lightning is an experience all with in itself. I recall a March 1992 storm that produced lightning.

Very long lasting, deep, and loud claps of thunder. As day time turned to night time, the flashes of lightning lite up the sky in a manner that made any summer thunderstorm look wimpy by comparison.

Speaking of winter, looks like it's finally gonna arrive here in wisconsin, six weeks late BTW!

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
400 AM CST MON FEB 13 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A SIGNIFICANT STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE LEE OF THE
COLORADO ROCKIES ON WEDNESDAY...AND THEN QUICKLY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE
PLAINS. THE STORM COULD PRODUCE SOME SNOW IN WISCONSIN AS EARLY AS
WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH SNOW THEN LIKELY THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.
THE AMOUNT OF SNOW THAT FALLS IS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE THIS FAR IN
ADVANCE...BUT A SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE. MUCH COLDER AIR WILL
SURGE INTO THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF THE STORM...AND THEN LINGER INTO THE
UPCOMING WEEKEND. ANYONE WITH TRAVEL PLANS DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE
WORK WEEK SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LATER FORECASTS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY SNOWFALL REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

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13 Feb 2006, 9:55 pm

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hell_grey wrote:

i heard in new york they had lightnign along with the snow. that must've looked amazing

The first time that I experienced this was early on a Saturday morning in January 1990, when I was walking to my job as a prep cook. We had recieved about 15-18 inches of snow the night before, and the storm was on the verge of dying out/moving further Downeast, when I saw flashes of lightning, and incredibly loud reverberating thunder not unlike that described above.

The second time that I experienced this type of storm was towards the end of December 2003, though the sound of thunder was a bit more distant.

Consider yourselves lucky to have experienced/witnessed a relatively rare weather phenominon.

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