Alright, I need to get this out of my system. I know this is where we're supposed to post heavy shit about the world, politics, greyfaces, etc., etc. But allow me to belch some fire about my current hated enemy, the Goddamned Snow!!!!
The thing of it is, we don't just have "a lot of snow", we've got a Motherfucking Ton of Multitudinal Snow! It' over my head in some places and I'm 6 feet tall. But of course we get no play in the evening news for this because the rest of the country thinks its normal. Bull shit it is! I've been around this rock for almost 33 years now and I've never seen snow this high. But when some tards in Colorado skid on a icy road because they're going to goddamned fast, it's a big news story.
Here's the thing. Someone like me, a fairly healthy and sturdy guy is struggling to keep up with all of it. I have to clean out the driveway, shovel off the roof, AND on top of all that, if I want to continue to keep the house warm, I have to dig a 30 to 40 foot long path from the edge of my property to my oil hookup. Again, I'm a strapping 30 year old guy. There's this poor widowed dude down my road, he's gotta be pushing 70, who's gotta do the same thing. We've got roofs collapsing in schools, accidents because the snowbanks make it a suicide mission just to pull out of your driveway. Our town maintenance departments have fun out of salt, the Maine Turnpike authority has pretty much run out of it too.
And another fucking "wintry mix" is on its way. But it doesn't surprised me that we get ignored. Maine's always been one of those states that just exists but doesn't get talked about very much. I imagine Wyoming feels the same way, or will once Cheney is outta there. And to be sure we'll survive and get through it, well most of us anyway. I'm pretty sure there have been people who've dropped dead to heart attacks or strokes while trying to move all this shit around. But this is truly a winter that will go down in history. We're all WAY past fed up with it. It stopped being funny in December of 07.
So, if you have a friend or family member from our great state, my suggestion is to tread lightly, because more than likely, they've been in the same bad mood the rest of us have been in for the past 3 months. I know I'm more than ready to kill a motherfucker.
Youch. You have my sympathy. Snow is the reason I don't live in montana anymore, and it was never THAT bad.
That is an insensate amount of snow, RWHN. Don't get a heart attack,
and do your warm-ups.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Maines a costal state. Therefore that much snow that would last that long is unlikely. Lots of snow at one time, sure, but then you would see some meltage due to ocean currents and air masses.
Maybe the gulf stream is dying already?
I now live just far enough in-land that we don't benefit too much from being on the coast. My folks in the northern reaches of the state have it even worse. Caribou, Maine which is just 10 miles away from my hometown, has received 13 feet of snow this winter. Where I live now, we've received "only" a little over 10 feet. I need to take some more pics to show just how epic this snow is.
shit RWHN that's a lot of snow, good to see you could still sneak a pun in the thread title, though :)
Yeah I'm sick or something.
I heard on the news thismorning that some dude was shovelling off the top of his greenhouse when it completely collapsed underneath him. Luckily it collapsed just right so he ended up on top of the debris and not buried.
My wife told me about another story where some guy was shovellin off his roof, he fell in a way that was like he was diving headfirst with his arms out, and just his legs were sticking out of the snow. I guess one of his neighbors saw him just in time, otherwise he would've suffocated.
See normally we do kind of shrug off winter. We laugh in that sarcastic sort of way when we talk about snow. But not this year. Everyone's pissed, everyone's depressed, everyone's sore. I honestly believe it's like a slow-motion natural disaster.
Sounds like it's time for a get-away to somewhere warm and southerly.
/gentle suggestion for your sanity
but then who's going to keep his roof from collapsing?
We're actually contemplating getting away for the Easter weekend. We just haven't figured out where we'd like to go.
I get the feeling even Buffalo would be a welcome change.
Everyone calls me crazy for loving the cold and the snow, but I cant get enough of it. I'm probably moving somewhere with more of it.
I'm thinking Sweden actually.
My in-laws are selling their house, and you won't even need to get a passport.
Wont even need to get a passport? Huh?
my inlaws live in Maine, you need a passport to go to Sweden.
Oh, I thought you meant I wouldnt need a passport to fo to Sweden. I was like "uh, no."
No, its as cold in Nebraska as Maine I'm sure. Thats not all I'm interested in. I want out of the country, permanently. And being Tundra Yeti, I need somewhere cold. Cold and metal.
Plus Swedish chicks are fucking hot.
Quote from: Doktor Loki on March 03, 2008, 07:20:44 PM
Oh, I thought you meant I wouldnt need a passport to fo to Sweden. I was like "uh, no."
No, its as cold in Nebraska as Maine I'm sure. Thats not all I'm interested in. I want out of the country, permanently. And being Tundra Yeti, I need somewhere cold. Cold and metal.
Plus Swedish chicks are fucking hot.
Sweden isn't that cold. Try Finland. Coastal country with testicle numbing arctic winds and subzero temperatures all winter. Plus, you get 51 straight days of night in the middle of winter in the northernmost parts of Northern Finland since it's within the arctic circle.
Haiku for you.
After ten billion
snowflakes, the people of Maine
died on the inside.
You finish shoveling
only when your lungs extrude
from both your nostrils.
Such snow drives moose mad.
Cities perish. Strong men weep.
Then comes mud, dammit.
~~ Jack of Turnips
My condolences. :sad:
We don't get any any snow here, but if it's any consolation, we do get ash storms if it's a particularly fiery year.
I couldn't deal with living in such a cold climate. If it even goes under 50 F here, I shiver uncontrollably.
But I have noticed that the weather has gotten perceptively colder in the last two years...
Time to migrate south!
Man, this morning is all kinds of fucked-up. I walked outside the house and it was like 44 degrees, the air had that damp-Springy feel to it. Then I see all the 23 tons of snow in my yard, and so I go back inside and cry a little.