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How's the weather?

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BuckBackHome said:
My younger son is in school in NW Ohio. He says it's like they've never seen snow.

Supposedly mix of ice and snow here in NE Ohio. Ughhh.
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To be fair......even when we are supposed to just get a couple inches people around here act like idiots. Hate to sound like an old fart, but when I was young it was never like that. Hell, even after the Blizzard of 78 ( the measuring stick most people around here use) things were pretty much back to normal two days later. I can remember 8-10" snowfalls and people didn't over react. Now if we get 3" it seems like everybody goes off the deep end. "It's Northern Ohio people! We usually get a lot of snow! All that being said, if this storm is anything like they are predicting ( just upped the totals to 20+), it's going to be on a historic scale for the area and one for the record books.
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
Ok newbie, go get your shine box and leave the geography lessons to someone who lives here8D
You do realize you moved to one of the only counties east of the Cascades that is blue right? Damn, my redneck niece and her husband just moved out of Prineville for more conservative Douglas county (pretty sure their militia bought a compound there)! I think even the Greater Idaho nuts didn't even bother to include Bend/Redmond/Prineville.

You're in my old stomping grounds--the Deschutes, Crooked, Metolius. Spent a lot of time in Bend in the 80s and early 90s but as the area grew and friends moved away it became more of a stopover for lunch on the way to one of the rivers or to the southeast. Curious how the hell you ended up there (beautiful surely and hope you have a great view of the Cascades)? Retirees seem to gravitate more towards So. OR.

Anyways, it is an outdoor recreation paradise. Don't know what your hobbies are but I still have a few connections there--especially in fly fishing. And like it or not you gotta come to Portland for the airport or the VA! If you come unarmed I'll even have a drink with you.

Really, anything outdoors related (except golf) hit me up for a recommendation. I've spent almost 40 years exploring this state. Oh yeah, then there are the bars and breweries.:beer:

PS: if you go east, say to Burns, and proclaim you're from Redmond they'll roll their eyes and mutter something about little LA (which is the Bend-Redmond-Prineville "megapolis"). Keep going east until you hit Idaho and they'll just sneer and say "Fucking Oregonians". Welcome to the west!
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have you ever seen this guy rolling around Portland?

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gmen6981 said:
To be fair......even when we are supposed to just get a couple inches people around here act like idiots. Hate to sound like an old fart, but when I was young it was never like that. Hell, even after the Blizzard of 78 ( the measuring stick most people around here use) things were pretty much back to normal two days later. I can remember 8-10" snowfalls and people didn't over react. Now if we get 3" it seems like everybody goes off the deep end. "It's Northern Ohio people! We usually get a lot of snow! All that being said, if this storm is anything like they are predicting ( just upped the totals to 20+), it's going to be on a historic scale for the area and one for the record books.
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And we didn't put snow tires on the car when he was home 2 weeks ago. Dang.
 
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Dearest Martha,

Your letter of January 31st just recently came into my hands at about 12:30 today instead of 10am on account of the quarter inch of sleet accumulating in my driveway, this no doubt made the postman hard put to deliver it at the usual times. I am injoying good health and I hope you are injoying the same and you musn't think I need a letter from you first to write back. The reason I haven't written you back yet is that it started raining here some 28 hours ago and now we've come upon some hard times with the infernal mixed precipitation.

I suppose you've read in the papers by now the various hardships such a weather system might impose upon the good folks of the lower great lakes. I'm sorry to personally report that many of the local schools are closed for the day, and such is the despair of the local teenage children that won't emerge from their rooms and seem fixated on their iphones.

I can report however that the beer rations are holding out well, though perhaps a second bottle of habanero sauce might have been more appropriate as we were able to smoke for some hours yesterday a butt of pig and the leftovers are quite plentiful.

They say the snow will come for us soon and with it the white death. If this is the last letter you recieve, know that your love was in my heart.

My love to you and the folks that were smart enough to go to Florida for the winter.

-AKAK
1st Ohio Desk Jockey Company A.
 
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I haven't been outside yet, so no clue how much is out there. It is definitely less than the snow on MLK Day, which ended being about 16 inches. All I know is my neighbor has already plowed my drive once and it is supposed to keep snowing until after midnight.
 
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Mike80 said:
I remember a storm in like 1994-95 (I was in 8th grade in PA) where we got a FOOT of sleet before it turned over to snow. It was awesome!
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I expect it was the same storm I remember from MD. We got 3 feet on Sunday and then another foot on Thursday. No school for the entire week. It was amazing.
 
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