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My little part of the world (Long Island, NY) is expecting 20"-30" (30cm - 45cm) snow in the next 36 hours. Winds, 40+mpg, gusts to 60mph (roughly, >65km/h, 100km/h, respectively)
Assuredly, I'll be snowed indoors on Tuesday and it'll be pointless to start digging out until Wednesday. Then there's digging out.
So screwed. So very very screwed. If the electricity should fail, being screwed will be the best part of it.
Once again, I remember why I regret not being born rich.
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Eng->Metric corrected: 50cm - 75cm is more like it, before drifting
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 26-Jan-15 7:23am.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: 30cm - 45cm) snow in the next 36 hours
W∴ Balboos wrote: I'll be snowed indoors on Tuesday and it'll be pointless to start digging out until Wednesday
Be glad you live in a country where this is a catastrophe 
Here you would be expected to get to work in time 
Edit: This message still apllies for 50cm-76cm of snow :P
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modified 26-Jan-15 7:17am.
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HobbyProggy wrote: Here you would be expected to get to work in time
I suppose that it cuts down on the number of pensioners (survivors) - so it makes sense. My conversions to metric were corrected: 51cm - 76cm.
Actually, I lived in Chicago for 5 years (metric: 5 years) - including the infamous "Blizzard of '79". Such things, however, are never spoken of aloud. http://www.chicago-l.org/mishaps/blizzard79.html[^]
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I know i know, saw that they were corrected, still applies 
Well that blizzard looks rough, but nothing we hadn't have here in the black forest.
I remember days, weeks of driving through streets where snow has been piled up to walls of 2 m hight.
But, yeah, we are used to it since ... ever?
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You mean he won't? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I didn't mean that, he wrote he'll expect to doig out at wednesday, so i assume working on tuesday is not an option?
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You'll find that 20 to 30 inches isn't 30 to 45 cms! It's 51 to 76cms. So you're even more screwed!!
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Ahh - yes - shows the state of mind I plan on being in.
I was thinking in terms of 12" = 30cm and as though it would b 1 - 1 1/2 feet of Satan's Cream Cheese.
My values won't even bring me to tomorrow's lunch.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Whatever happens I doubt you top the snowfall[^] in the Norwegian mountains. Although we didn't have a storm to fallow the snowfall.
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No matter how beautiful it may look, my mind returns to the pragmatic:
Since I think people who winter in places like Canada (and Wisconsin) are qutie out of there minds, you could imagine what I'd say about the Norwegian mountain dwellers.
The only proper way to spend a winter^
Any questions?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I totally agree, although I get very uncomfortable if it get above 25 degree. Celsius that is not Fahrenheit 
However, the depth of the snowfall is about 3-4 meters here. The problem is that the roofs starts to collapse.
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That's some nice load of snow
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Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope... You are not getting me to live there.
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I won't force you
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Good and Holy...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Assuredly, I'll be snowed indoors on Tuesday and it'll be pointless to start digging out until Wednesday.
When the snow starts get outside quick. Then you won't get snowed in. 
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Considering the shape of my dwelling, that gives a whole new meaning to "thinking outside of the box".
Unfortunately, I expect that all I'd think about was how to get back into the box.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Don't.
Get into work, or a bar instead.
Work means the boss thinks you are a "team player".
I have found that bars try very, very hard to maintain light and heat one way or another - so that customers will stay longer!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I wish we could have real snow. It doesn't have to happen often. This tropical heat in RSA is really annoying.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Grew up in Northern Ontario... don't miss the snow.
The 2 winters I distinctly remember:
1. sometime in the early '70s; we had 5 feet of packed snow in the back yard. Built tunnels that we could run on top of and not have it collapse.
2. 1987 - living in Southern Ontario; went home to visit my parents for the week. Big storm; snowed in; 6 foot drifts in the driveway. My brother worked on day with a tractor and 4 foot wide blower to clear the driveway. Shut the city down, and this a city that knew how to react to snow. There was too much to clear in one day. Called work to say I wouldn't be in the next day.
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And that, my friend, is why the saying goes: "Jamaica, No Problem!"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Me too.
I'm just a little north of you, in southern CT. Oh the fun.
Scott
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Yeah - you (as will we) will be getting the worst of it.
Just one thing: A smiley face? Really?
So many emoticons from which to choose and you go for delirium.
Must be a New England thing.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I was feeling lazy - it's Monday. It was the first one.
How's that?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: My little part of the world (Long Island, NY)
I think I've located your problem 
(Hey, I went to college out on the island... The winds off the north shore are just evil, that's the only place my car ever did a 360 in an intersection)
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