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(10-27-2013, 03:01 PM)retrolinkx Wrote: [ -> ]^

We don't deal with any type of weather well, you should've seen the snow last year.

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It's over 30C ? Trains cancelled because of melting cabling.
It's under -2C ? Trains cancelled because of frozen cabling.
If it ain't mild, it ain't running.

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(10-27-2013, 03:11 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: [ -> ]I'm looking at the picture and thinking... Wait, that's snow?!? Pitiful excuse to be called bad weather. Wait 'till you guys experience a full ice storm.

You have to understand how intense anything un-mild is over here. As children, we would flock to the radio everytime there were a few snowflakes to hear if our school was closed (and laugh at the schools that weren't).

Y'all will never know the exciting wait as they would read the list of closed schools. If you Americans are like in Canada, nothing changes for anything short of a death-blizzard. I love it.

Its like that in Texas also. It is ices over in my area, consider school over.

(10-27-2013, 03:49 PM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-27-2013, 03:11 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: [ -> ]I'm looking at the picture and thinking... Wait, that's snow?!? Pitiful excuse to be called bad weather. Wait 'till you guys experience a full ice storm.

You have to understand how intense anything un-mild is over here. As children, we would flock to the radio everytime there were a few snowflakes to hear if our school was closed (and laugh at the schools that weren't).

Y'all will never know the exciting wait as they would read the list of closed schools. If you Americans are like in Canada, nothing changes for anything short of a death-blizzard. I love it.

That was one thing that actually did surprise me when I visited London. You Brits don't seem to have any real seasons, period. I think it got a low temp one day, like 2 degrees Celsius, and people started going nuts. I was just thinking "It ain't freezing temp yet, you dumb nuts. Quit complaining and move on." Course, this was in "Spring" when I visited also.
I do remember school being out for snow quite a bit though. Worst was an ice storm back when I was in elementary school. We had several days of non stop freezing rain that led to an accumulation of around 3-4 inches of solid ice coating everything. True, that's not deep, but it was freaking ICE, not snow. You could stand on top of it and not make a dent. Couldn't go anywhere. Power was out for 2-3 weeks. Had to heat by a wood burning stove.

All of this snow talk is making nostalgic for when we had a crazy storm with snow drifts reaching over 3-4 feet. It was fun and we had 2 days off of school, and a third 'optional' day where you could just not show up and it would be alright.

It hasn't snowed in the south in a decade.

(10-27-2013, 11:41 PM)Lightmatt Wrote: [ -> ]It hasn't snowed in the south in a decade.

Man, it snowed in 2011, and I'm almost as South as the South gets.

(10-27-2013, 11:43 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-27-2013, 11:41 PM)Lightmatt Wrote: [ -> ]It hasn't snowed in the south in a decade.

Man, it snowed in 2011, and I'm almost as South as the South gets.

Not in Alabama :V

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