when did i move to Canada?

[boogieshoes]

it's sleeting outside.  i'm in the greater NOLA area, and it's sleeting outside. o_O.  if this keeps up, i'm going to fly south for the winter.  trufax.

-bs

ETA:  we just heard they closed Gulfport, MI, airport.  that's pretty good for a non-hurricane storm in the south.  according to SysAdmin D, the more localized area i'm living in, which doesn't usually get the worst of anything, is expecting 1"-6" of snow...  people are going mildly nuts around here.

 

Comments

[masgramondou.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'd like to have the answer to that question too since apparently we moved there too. We got some six inches of global warming landing on us here on the French Riviera today.

Still it looks pretty - http://www.di2.nu/201002/11.htm

[imonkey50.livejournal.com]

Trade you my 13" of snow.... *hugs*

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

*hugs* all is well, i'm just tired of my TMJ acting up. makes it hard to eat...

-bs

[murstein.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Vancouver, BC is actually in Canada, but is frantically importing snow in order to have enough for the Winter Olympics.

I don't know if this is just the Most Powerful El Niño On Record, or something weirder is afoot. But it's definitely odd.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

For some reason, Canada's having one of the warmest winters on record while points south get dumped on.

Even Toronto's got essentially no snow. Vancouver, which gets a couple months of London usually, is having a nice extended fall instead.

Vancouver isn't really where the imported snow is going, it's going further up the Fraser Valley, to the places which get it normally. Putting the Winter Olympics in Vancouver is only viable because of its proximity to places which actually get winter, as it tends to get 2 straight months of rain instead.

[murstein.livejournal.com]

Ah. I hadn't looked that much into the Olympics, or Vancouver's climate. I just saw mentions of importing snow, then a few hours later, this post.

Michigan's not getting much snow this winter, either. For that matter, it's been over a decade since I last saw an overnight hip-deep snowfall, like the DC area got last weekend. I used to get one or two per winter, before I enlisted in the Army, and I'm pretty close to where I lived before enlisting.