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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10539 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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LOL!
I was just reading AnimEigo's webpage and came across this GEM
Now, I honestly don't mean to belittle anyone, I know everything is relative, but for people that are used to snow, 2" is nothing and for those of us who live in somewhat colder climates, 20 degrees F (-7c) is rather mild. Right now it is -17c in Montreal, which is 0f, it has already gone below -32 celcius, which is -32f. Of course, with a 75(celcius) degree temperature difference between our Winter lows and Summer highs, Montreal is considered the most extreme large city in the world (the 3rd most extreme city in the world, counting two smaller cities in Canada). But still, I find it remarkably funny that a state of emergency was declared over 2 pidling inches of snow, I understand that certain states may not be equiped to clear snow because they don't expect any, but 2" isn't even worth clearing (during and immediately after minor snowfalls, we regularly drive in 3-4 inches of snow before the roads are cleared. Any Montreal driver can tell you about driving in 10" of snow on more than one occasion after a large snowfall. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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Hehe, it's pretty funny when you read the article like that, but I'm pretty sure they meant 2' of snow, not 2''. I mean, who would declare a state of emergency over two freakin INCHES of snow?
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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Sorry we can't ALL be as prepared as you CANADIANS. Yeesh.
-Zac |
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10539 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Nope, 2 inches, Miagi just looked it up one the net. And for the record, he's American and was amused as I was. I'm sure anyone living in Maine, New England, New Hampshire or any other state that receives snow, would actually find this hilarious too. |
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Hotaru
Posts: 481 Location: NY |
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Whaaaat? Where is Wilmington? Florida? Cause that's the only way this would even be justified!! There's life four inches of snow on the ground from friday and monday's snow storms. It's gonna snow again this weekend, and we haven't even had off from school! New York hasn't seen this much snow in mad long!
But then again, Bloomberg is a prick...oh well. I'm a senior, and i can cut class!! Wow, the things people over react to. I mean, i know you canadians have it worse (but in a sense you have it better since bush doesn't run your country) but we've had a lot of snow too. But TWO FRICKIN INCHES?! Jeeeeeebus. Pansies |
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Cassandra
 Posts: 1356 Location: Birdsboro, PA |
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For the record, I used to live in Wilmington, North Carolina...where AnimEigo is. (Almost went to work for them...dammit, I should have stayed.) Anyhoo...it NEVER snows there. 2 inches is a lot to them. They are right on the shoreline, the worst they get is hurricanes. A LOT of hurricanes. Now, I was born and raised in Philadelphia and I live there now....2 inches is nothing (unless it's 2 inches of ice). We're expecting about 7 inches this weekend....that's when a lot of stuff will shut down, but no state of emergency.
Southern shoreline cities just aren't used to snow. EDIT: Just for some references, a lot of movies and tv shows are filmed in Wilmington....Dawson's Creek, The Crow, Black Dog, Elmo in Grouchland 
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Aya Reiko
 Posts: 166 Location: Nowhere and Somewhere |
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Wimps.
<---- From Montana. <---- Typically refers to Montana as "The Frozen Wastes". |
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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-40C = -40F.. but close enough.
this is something that state college people do all the time. and, the first "big" snowfall of the year (3-4") signals a dramatic increase in the number of accidents. this is because the transient student population consists largely of people who've rarely (if ever) driven on snow before. obviously: people who don't drive in snow never learn how to drive in it. :) |
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Hotaru
Posts: 481 Location: NY |
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I think that everyone really over reacts when it snows sometimes. Like...early december i guess, there was all this buzz about "the big snow storm" and the ten o'clock news was showing footage of people at Home Depot and stuff.
"The shovels and salt are all sold out, John. People are in a mad-race against the clock." The next day, there was like...a dusting of snow. "Are you snowed in? Can you see outside your window?...of course not. The big snow storm turned out to be not very big at all." Pat Kiernan. But then, two weeks later or something, there was another snow storm coming, no one cared, and it actually snowed significantly. Then again, this is New York. People over react to everything |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3906 Location: CO |
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What annoys me about Providence, RI is that everytime it snows, they pour so much salt on the roads they're white for the next month. I'm from Colorado where we pretty much learned all our driving skills in the snow. Salt? Please. Just give us frozen mountains anyday.
Some of y'all people are wimps. 
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Emerje
 Posts: 7548 Location: Maine |
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Maine here. 2 inches? That's a dusting, I drive through snow drifts deeper than that. Right now it's about -15F, it's been hovering around 0 all day. What have I been doing tonight? Have I been hiding inside with the heat cranked up? Hell no, I've got the fan on and I've been going outside every hour to check on my laundry at the minilaudromat off the side of my apartment. I've been in and out all day and most of the Mainers have been the same way, even saw a few people at Walmart yesterday in shorts and Teeshirts. I guess people from the NE are hardened to the cold, it's part of growing up, it's part of our lifestyle, we've just learned to adapt. Kinda funny story, right now in New York the International Toy Fair is going and people from all over the travel for the latest news from the toy industry. Last night I was talking to Toygodd from Action Figure Times (http://www.aftimes.com/) and Rob from RTM (http://www.toymania.com) on RTM's chat room. TG comes from Southern California and we couldn't help but laugh as he described the layers of clothe, scarfs, gloves, boots and what not he was planning on wearing. I guess some people are just built for the weather. Emerje |
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Hotaru
Posts: 481 Location: NY |
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Well, it is pretty blistery in New York. My legs are like logs if I only wear 1 pair of pants. you gotta don the hat, scarf, gloves, spandex, long sleeve shirt, sweater, diesel coat, and thick as socks, or else you're gonna freeze yo' ass off
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Case
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No doubt. Up until today, we've had to shovel just as much sand out of our driveway as snow. Being in the middle of the country, Iowa tends to have a lot of moisture in the air. So, while we're far from being either The Great White North or Death Valley, we tend to get quite a bit of extreme weather. Tornados, winds, and heavy rain in the summer... Big snowfalls in the winter. Most of the people are pretty well adjusted to it - the exception being downtowners and high school kids in the more gated communities. But regardless, the city (especially OUR city, I think) seems to go overboard in combatting the weather. They throw down hundreds of pounds of salt and sand, so that our roads are brown and gritty after the snow has melted, until we get a decent rainstorm to wash it all away. The other day I went to get my car washed because it was finally above freezing for a change, and I couldn't help but notice that the road sparkled with chunks of rock salt the whole way to the car wash. Needless to say, it was dirty again by the time I got home. -_- I'm suprised that our grass doesn't all die. All new black soil was brought in when our house was built back in the early 90s, but it's got to be about half sand by now. ...Mom does complain about the one end of the garden being too sandy to grow anything in, tho. Maybe that's the aftermath of the salting and sanding from 20 years ago. 
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jmays
ANN Past Staff
 Posts: 1390 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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St. Louis is getting pounded with sleet/freezing rain/hail as I type. A sheet of ice covered by light snow is being topped off with another layer...now that's deserving of some serious concern...
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Phoenix
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 84 Location: Montreal |
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I remember a couple of years ago Toronto got a couple of centimeters of snow and closed down all the schools; meanwhile here in Montreal, we had a couple of feet of snow and I was still trecking up the Oratory hill in a skirt to get to school.
Also, a couple of weeks ago it was so cold here I quite literally got frostbite. Not fun. |
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