10-27-2013, 05:38 PM
(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.