Snow day!

[dr_tranny]

Gah, people around here. I swear, half an inch of snow and everybody has a fucking stroke. Reference:

http://www.komotv.com/news/4761366.html

And all other related stories from that thar webbysite.

The upshot is my work is closed for the day because of the stupidweather. So I get to spend the day at home doing nothing.

As opposed to being at work, doing nothing.

But at least here I can play games and read LJ.

Comments

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

But up there, what, snow isn't a regular thing in the winter? o_0

[mrmikeyman.livejournal.com]

In the mountains, yes. Mt. Baker's ski area holds the Guiness World Record for single-season snowfall. In fact, in the last five days they've received over 98" (that's more than 8 feet O.O) of snow.

Down here in the lowlands, not so much. We usually get one or two "snow events" a year, where we'll get somewhere between a trace-3" of snow. Every 5 or 10 years we get a fairly sizeable (for this area, anyway) storm where we'll get 8-12". And once or twice a century we'll get a truly monstrous storm where they measure the snowfall in feet. The last one of those was back in 1980. I distinctly remember that one, although I was only 4. We had just moved up here and got snowed in at a Holiday Inn for a week. Helluva welcome.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

I've interesting Holiday Inn experiences as well. My family and I once lived in one for two months in a little town in Nebraska until a house came up on the market (yeah, very small town my father's job sent him to), we stayed in the only suite they had and had to remind us every night that we were staying in the room Glenn Close was in when she was filming a movie.

How far away is Mt. Baker? We have similiar phenomena here as well, where nearby we'll have lots of snow while we're drastically different weather-wise, but perhaps not to the same extent as you.

Hmm, 8 feet of snow, wanna share?

[mrmikeyman.livejournal.com]

Oboy, Glenn Close. *finger twirl*



That should illustrate the distance between me and Mt. Baker fairly efficiently. As a general rule around here, once you get above 2500' elevation, you're gonna get snow in the fall and winter. Lots of snow. Below that, not so much. *sob*

Sorry, I don't share. I'm a greedy bastard when it comes to my pretty pretty snows.

[mrmikeyman.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I fail at interwebs.

http://pics.livejournal.com/mrmikeyman/pic/00003ys9/

Clicky.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

It's okay, I have days I fail at too. Love the map, btw.

Okay, I gets teh picture now. See, I live at about 6,500 feet right here and I live next to a scary canyon (scary in that it is death if you drive it in the winter) where you climb to about 9,000 in the car before leveling out near the Wyoming border. and we get virtually whatever the canyon gets, though perhaps a bit less since we're lower, but still, as we're so close, we get dumped on all the time.