gravitylover

My wife has been calling me scrooge for a few years now

Ooooo puppies

All this chatter about it maybe staying warm, or at least not cold, into January and the abundance of ice storms the last two years is pretty disappointing. The end of the 17/18 winter was 2 ice storms, 18/19 started with one then had 5 in a row to end the year with one snow storm mixed in there then this year started with 3 already. If this is the new climate normal for my area I'd just as soon see 50 degrees every day and bail on winter altogether, this from a guy that's been a dedicated winter lover for his entire life and lived the winter life for 25 years between being a ski bum at some of the greatest mountain resort areas on the continent then opening his own ski shop. We've had a few warm days now but with the melt and overnight refreeze my patio, steps and driveway are a disaster. At ~3am this morning I heard someone honking incessantly in the street by the house so I got up to see what was going on and one of our cars had slid out of the driveway and was blocking the street. I parked it on nearly dry pavement when I came home yesterday but the ice crept underneath as it froze and the car slid.

I'm a sales rep and travel all over the state, there are some unbelievably affordable spots and many of them are in serious snow zones. The hill towns south of Buffalo and the western Fingerlakes towns south of Rochester are just plain cheap places to live. Problem is persistently wet or white and grey and windy conditions are the norm but the good days are superb. Big snow in the winter making for great skiing and fat biking so if you can handle the cold you're good and beautiful continental influenced days in the summer with incredible skiing, mountain biking and fishing. The people that are making a living out there really seem to enjoy where they live, unfortunately that's getting harder and harder to do.

Flagstaff AZ is the right place. 2 hours south and it's summer 330 days a year and a few minutes uphill and you get 200+ inches a year. The city itself is at just about 7k feet and is actually a very affordable place.

It creates it's own cold air

Yep. When that 1" snowfall causes a car to slide into a pole and knock the power out when it's 22° it quickly becomes "an event". When you can't flush for days because the well pump can't run it sux...

Dude he called me out a couple of times We enjoyed each others company

WWBB That's it! Boom haha that place was an unmoderated party LOL he blew up weekly.

4:20 actually

I guess I missed on the sarcasm. The wind there is terrible. I don't remember it being such a problem before that chair though but my memory may be clouded by rose colored lenses I'm saying, in general, I really miss surface lifts. You could always stay out skiing when they were everywhere, chairs also used to be much lower and below the top of the tree line so they could keep running longer. Just look at the phenomenal run the red chair had at Magic, that sucker hardly ever closed.

When there's wind? Yeah... I love t-bars and pretty much all surface lifts except rope tows.

One thing that really stands out to me is how few times there were more than one such storms in any particular year. It happened more in the last 18 years than the previous hundred.

I could almost see it if the bay was frozen and the ocean slushed over like last year. A sand bar that holds no heat at all would actually become a heat sink a few feet above sea level.

Check this out

I'm just about 8 miles from where that Shrub Oak ob was taken and I got 2.6".

Well, shoot. My wife and I have been debating whether or not to commit to a 2 day outdoor event (in the hills of Dutchess County) on 11/3-4 to kick off holiday sales for her new small business. I'm not comfortable pre-paying for a spot that may be cold and wet if this end of the month scenario plays out to the cold side which appears to be the consensus at the moment.

Take that back No more, just no more...

Halloween will get snowed out again for the third time this decade.

103"? WOW.

Yeah there can be significant differences in max depth and regular clearing amounts. Like was mentioned in that writeup, 30" was out of line.

Hahaha

That 65 degree Xmas Eve a few years ago was wonderful. Mountain biking in shorts and t-shirts that night was something I'll never forget. There was a whole bunch of riders out hootin' and hollerin' and just having a big old time like it was mid summer. I wouldn't mind another one like that

Very few of the old clubs were as successful much later than that either. At that point small shows had transitioned to theaters rather than clubs but there was still a strong bar band scene and very occasionally the bigger bands would show up for those bar shows.

I remember that well, my neighbor didn't stop raving about it for days afterwards. That was a year or so before I started going there because they didn't like my fake id I remember that too. I also remember some of the incredible shows the club in Island Park used to get when we first moved to O'side in 1970. Most of the really great stuff, The Doors, Grateful Dead was slightly before that but until ~73 that place killed it. She used to live in Rockville Center right at the edge of the RVC Country Club. Nice house