OT : Re: wondering
From: Marte Halleck <MorJHalleck@worldnet.att.net>
Paul & Yvonne Tyerman wrote:
>
>
> I've always wondered what it must be like to live in places where it
> snows!!!! We have the VERY occasional flurry, but its a momentous occasion
> and certainly not regular. The idea of being snowed in and stuff like that
> is totally alien to me.
Paul & others in Oz or SA:
I live in the Rocky Mountains & would love to share some of my yearly
bounty of white stuff with you -- if we can just figure out the
shipping. For instance, on Oct. 24, 1997 it began to snow on my mtn. &
by the next morning we had a smidge less than 4' accumulation.
Embarrassingly, I got my 4-wheel-drive stuck so we were effectively
snowed in for about 3 days until the snow melted enough to dig the truck
free. That storm was just the first of many 2', 3' & 4' snows we got
from Oct. thru April last year -- & of course, it even snowed here on
June 5th to enliven the Polar Trek, a/k/a the Denver AIS Convention.
(OK, it was more like white rain & didn't stick, but still...)
This Oct. 24th it was quite sunny & about 65F at my place with no snow
to date & none likely in the immediate future. In common with much of
the continental US, we've had a remarkably mild, dry fall so far --
haven't even had a truly killer frost yet up here, just enough to whack
the annuals & tenderest perennials. I figure we'll have to pay for this
later but hope that we can pass on the truly bitter cold (to -35F) we
sometimes get in Dec-Feb. Given my druthers, I'll take bounteous snow
over searing cold any time, but then the weather gods rarely listen to
me.
I've lived in cold climates all my life & when I was younger & crazier,
I spent much time ice skating, skiing & tubing (sledding on inner tubes)
-- but at this stage I'd just as soon try a climate with fewer extremes
of weather!
Marte in the mtns Zone 4/Sunset 1 Colorado/USA -- who will be
happy to take any warm climate Iris-talkers to see the year-round ice at
nearby St. Mary's Glacier or a few miles further to Loveland Pass for a
snowball fight in July...
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