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« on: May 05, 2012, 02:52 PM » |
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My wife is going to Buffalo in about a week. I read there was about 2' of snow there a week or two ago. Not here...  Tom |
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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2012, 03:23 PM » |
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I'd love snow over here or at least a week of temperatures that are not 10 degrees above average (been around that level since October). At this rate, I fully expect to be matching Riyadh's summer high's of 130.
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2012, 09:13 PM » |
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Yeah, we got some of that snow here too. Real wet heavy stuff. Its all gone now. Actually it finished off the telephone pole that carried the power line from my house to my shop. The pole was rotted at ground level and it broke off. The cable was holding it up for about a week. Just got the line buried today.
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2012, 09:22 PM » |
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I grew up in upstate New York and over the course of my first 24 years there were some years when we had snow in May and some years when we had snow in September, that's why I live in California!
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2012, 09:30 PM » |
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I grew up in upstate New York and over the course of my first 24 years there were some years when we had snow in May and some years when we had snow in September, that's why I live in California!
Yup. Still happens. I wouldn't say every year, but it is not uncommon. At least it doesn't stick/ stay in those months...... often. Seth |
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2012, 09:39 PM » |
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Seth, 6 months of "winter" was way too much for me  I love to see the sun shine more than once a month  |
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2012, 11:28 PM » |
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I lived in Syracuse for 15 years. They actually average more snow than Buffalo, however it comes in smaller doses, more frequently. One winter I was there it snowed 40 consecutive days.
You can handle the snow with equipment. The long winters though are tough. That I don't miss.
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2012, 05:31 AM » |
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Snow?
White stuff, right?
Nobody holidays in Oz for the snow skiing !!
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2012, 09:11 AM » |
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I lived in Syracuse for 15 years. They actually average more snow than Buffalo, however it comes in smaller doses, more frequently. One winter I was there it snowed 40 consecutive days.
You can handle the snow with equipment. The long winters though are tough. That I don't miss.
I am not far from Syracuse, I used to work there. Spent the night on the lobby couch one night due to a blizzard. Big super market right around the corner for food and such. And being a cable TV company, the accomadations had all the TV I could watch.  Seth |
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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2012, 10:38 AM » |
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if there is snow up north, we might get some waves in Puerto Rico a couple of days after... guess what I'm hoping for.
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« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2012, 04:33 PM » |
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It was not May, but sometime in the late 1950's I was taking a trip to Buffalo (Orchard Park) to visit my Uncle and Grandfather. On the way, i heard there had been three feet of snow in Buffalo. i was prepared for the worst. by the time i reached Orchard Park, i had seen NO SNOW. there had been me along rt 6 in Pennslyvania and up into New York State, but no more than 4 or 5 inches. I told my father about it a while later. he had been brought up in Buffalo and he said, "They just like to advertise the snow there."
My Uncle, where i lived for 6 years in Southern Mass, had a great garden. I have seen him planting sweet corn in a snow storm. Of course, he had glass over top and about a foot of fresh horse manure about a foot below the surface of the soil. He did tomatoes much the same way. they were started in the house, but by mid to late April they were already out in his "HOT BED". We had tomatoes and sweet corn a month or so before anybody in the area.
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« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2012, 05:17 PM » |
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I lived in Upstate NY for my first 24 years and we had a neighbor that had Fig trees along our back yard fence line. Every fall the neighbor would prune his trees, dig a trench and lay the trees in the trench covered with plywood and 3 feet of dirt. Every spring when the ground de-frosted he would dig them up and stand them up and he would have his fresh figs year after year. I guess he really missed his farm in Italy.
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« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2012, 10:42 AM » |
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I grew up in upstate New York and over the course of my first 24 years there were some years when we had snow in May and some years when we had snow in September, that's why I live in California!
Yup. Still happens. I wouldn't say every year, but it is not uncommon. At least it doesn't stick/ stay in those months...... often. Seth Went to college in Plattsburgh NY (just 40 minutes south of Montreal) and my wife went to Buffalo - it's amazing how two different parts of "Upstate NY" can have different weather. Plattsburgh was always freezing, but the snow wasn't bad. Buffalo handles snow better than any city I've been to. That's what's great about NY - people think "upstate" is anything north of NYC, but I guess to anyone who has lived in NY, we are a bit more specific.... |
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« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2012, 09:10 PM » |
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I grew up in upstate New York and over the course of my first 24 years there were some years when we had snow in May and some years when we had snow in September, that's why I live in California!
Yup. Still happens. I wouldn't say every year, but it is not uncommon. At least it doesn't stick/ stay in those months...... often. Seth Went to college in Plattsburgh NY (just 40 minutes south of Montreal) and my wife went to Buffalo - it's amazing how two different parts of "Upstate NY" can have different weather. Plattsburgh was always freezing, but the snow wasn't bad. Buffalo handles snow better than any city I've been to. That's what's great about NY - people think "upstate" is anything north of NYC, but I guess to anyone who has lived in NY, we are a bit more specific.... I was stationed at Camp Drum and it is cold and has a lots of snow! Nothing like snow poles lining the roads to keep the snow plows on pavement. Jack |
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« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2012, 10:25 PM » |
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Yes, part of my family is from Spring Valley, NY. Referred to by them as "down state", but to anyone IN NYC or Long Island as "upstate". When I am on LI I have quit telling people I am from "upstate" because they think I am from just north of NYC, when I am actually 5 hrs north.
Interstate 90 (Thruway) seems to be a general demarcation line between more snow and less snow.
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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2012, 09:16 AM » |
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Snow?
White stuff, right?
Nobody holidays in Oz for the snow skiing !!
You guys got snow, I remember working in Oberon and getting covered in the stuff! Lambeater |
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2012, 09:56 AM » |
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Snow?
White stuff, right?
Nobody holidays in Oz for the snow skiing !!
You guys got snow, I remember working in Oberon and getting covered in the stuff! Lambeater Oberon - that's inland ... We call the people that live in places like that Morlocks  |
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« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2012, 10:12 AM » |
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Snow?
White stuff, right?
Nobody holidays in Oz for the snow skiing !!
You guys got snow, I remember working in Oberon and getting covered in the stuff! Lambeater Oberon - that's inland ... We call the people that live in places like that Morlocks What about the people in Launceston, you got cousins there!  worked there as well. lambeater |
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« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2012, 06:09 PM » |
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Snow?
White stuff, right?
Nobody holidays in Oz for the snow skiing !!
You guys got snow, I remember working in Oberon and getting covered in the stuff! Lambeater Oberon - that's inland ... We call the people that live in places like that Morlocks What about the people in Launceston, you got cousins there! worked there as well. lambeater LOL. - no, I was born in the UK For those unaware, though Australia is huge, the population mostly clings to the coast. |
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