This always cracks me up when I see my neighbours doing this. Make trail to car, dig out a 3′ swath around vehicle, clean, clean, clean off car, warm car up and then turn off. Spend hours doing this only to realize that they aren’t going anywhere until snowplow comes thru and the rest of the driveway is cleaned out. Maybe should have done the driveway first, but too tired by then.
And that’s why I live in Atlanta. Of course when we get frozen stuff here every 10 years or so, it is usually in the form of sleet, frozen rain or an ice storm. That’s when yankees start in on us about not knowing how to drive in those conditions. I don’t see many of them doing a good job on ice.
I am going to try to take some photos of what it is like here in buffalo right now. my parking lot has a 8 foot high snow pile, and i saw a 15 foot one today.
Bella, we have a very old wall unit that is doing a valiant job. The kids go to bed with a frozen face washer and a fan but that’s it. It reminds me of the drought we had when I was a kid. I was furious because Mum wouldn’t let me run under the sprinkler!
DJ, We have had snow on the mountain that I live at the bottom of the last two winters, but it is very unusual and only lasts a day or two. I don’t think it really effects driving though.
Jeez Bitsy, I complain about the cold but I can handle that a lot better than heat. You can dress for the cold but there’s only so much you can take off for the heat and then what? You’re still melting. My thoughts are with you. Think cool!
bitscared, that is more than a tad warm. I have been through 130F in Kuwait and NO A/C! It would get to 150+F in the tents! That was our shade???? And we had to be in our desert uniforms or PTs. Either way it was danged HOT! We were under orders to drink 6 liters of water a day. That is a lot easier than you think in that heat!
Here in north Ga. we don’t get much snow(although the blizzard of 93 was a humdinger) and it still brings out the kid in me when we get some. I remember a few snowy days from childhood. My mother would bundle us up and send us out to play. Meanwhile she would be watching and laughing at us from the kitchen window while she was cooking a large pot of chicken soup. If after a couple hours it was still snowing she sent us back out to gather a panful of clean snow, then she made snowcream for us.
And that my friends concludes my trip down memory lane.
We have the teensiest little dusting of snow here in the UK at the moment and it’s as though the whole country is under seige. Shocking and pathetic compared with you guys!
I put in my time in the North. Got tired of it 5 years ago and moved to SoFla. This morning it started out about 55 and I was moaning that it was too chilly to go out in my kayak, but I wore shorts and short sleeves all day. If I never see snow again or shovel a foot and a half of snow off my driveway again, I’ll be okay. And it never hits 100 even in the summer.
This always cracks me up when I see my neighbours doing this. Make trail to car, dig out a 3′ swath around vehicle, clean, clean, clean off car, warm car up and then turn off. Spend hours doing this only to realize that they aren’t going anywhere until snowplow comes thru and the rest of the driveway is cleaned out. Maybe should have done the driveway first, but too tired by then.
Very familiar scene around here. Funny the first time a month & a half ago, but not so much anymore.
Next he’s going to turn the wipers on…
Yup.
We had about half that much snow this week, but then an inch of solid ice. It was seriously lame.
And that’s why I live in Atlanta. Of course when we get frozen stuff here every 10 years or so, it is usually in the form of sleet, frozen rain or an ice storm. That’s when yankees start in on us about not knowing how to drive in those conditions. I don’t see many of them doing a good job on ice.
I am going to try to take some photos of what it is like here in buffalo right now. my parking lot has a 8 foot high snow pile, and i saw a 15 foot one today.
Well it’s been 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) plus for the last week or so. No snow here but lots of heat stroke.
I heard Bitsy that you’re having a heat wave. Do you have air conditioning? Extreme’s on both sides suck.
bits – Do you ever get snow there? Enough to effect driving?
Here we get up in 90s a few times in summer, but 100 is rare.
DAYUM a 104..time to jump in the ocean
Bella, we have a very old wall unit that is doing a valiant job. The kids go to bed with a frozen face washer and a fan but that’s it. It reminds me of the drought we had when I was a kid. I was furious because Mum wouldn’t let me run under the sprinkler!
DJ, We have had snow on the mountain that I live at the bottom of the last two winters, but it is very unusual and only lasts a day or two. I don’t think it really effects driving though.
Makes me love South Carolina even more.
Jeez Bitsy, I complain about the cold but I can handle that a lot better than heat. You can dress for the cold but there’s only so much you can take off for the heat and then what? You’re still melting. My thoughts are with you. Think cool!
bitscared, that is more than a tad warm. I have been through 130F in Kuwait and NO A/C! It would get to 150+F in the tents! That was our shade???? And we had to be in our desert uniforms or PTs. Either way it was danged HOT! We were under orders to drink 6 liters of water a day. That is a lot easier than you think in that heat!
I have also been in -30F in up state New York.
So you could say I understand “Baked Alaska”.
Guard SGT (ret)
Here in north Ga. we don’t get much snow(although the blizzard of 93 was a humdinger) and it still brings out the kid in me when we get some. I remember a few snowy days from childhood. My mother would bundle us up and send us out to play. Meanwhile she would be watching and laughing at us from the kitchen window while she was cooking a large pot of chicken soup. If after a couple hours it was still snowing she sent us back out to gather a panful of clean snow, then she made snowcream for us.
And that my friends concludes my trip down memory lane.
We have the teensiest little dusting of snow here in the UK at the moment and it’s as though the whole country is under seige. Shocking and pathetic compared with you guys!
I put in my time in the North. Got tired of it 5 years ago and moved to SoFla. This morning it started out about 55 and I was moaning that it was too chilly to go out in my kayak, but I wore shorts and short sleeves all day. If I never see snow again or shovel a foot and a half of snow off my driveway again, I’ll be okay. And it never hits 100 even in the summer.
What is this “snow” you speak of?