It’s September 8 and Edmonton and Calgary are getting a snowstorm. It must be due to global warming. Get the long johns out. Stock up on the fire wood. Buy another shovel. Stock up on rock salt. And get ready for rising natural gas prices again. Fall in Alberta lasted for about 3 days. It’s supposed to drop into the 40’s at night later this week in Philly.
Snowfall warnings in place for areas surrounding Calgary. Calgary does have a special weather statement in place. 5-10mm of rain expected this morning before changing to snow this afternoon. We could see 5-10cm before it tapers off near midnight. Temperatures falling throughout the day to 1.
I was just up in Glacier National Park last week and it was freaking gorgeous weather. It’s still hitting the 90’s at home. I’d love a good winter for a change. 10-15 ft of snow from Nov-Apr would be heaven! Bring on the sub zero temps for weeks on end!
A winter like that sends all the fudgepackers and their Pugs back to Cali-fucked-up-fornia along with their non-fudgepacking brethren, as soon as the weather breaks vowing never to return. It also keeps the bug population in check. I’ve noticed that the Mexicans don’t care for it either but they keep a pot of pozole on the stove all winter long!
IS, I don’t mind winter anymore and I like the idea of the cold chasing away the riffraff, but Minneapolis has oodles of gays, so that’s not working. Also, I was talking to a Mexican immigrant who said that other than in the depths of January, he prefers our weather to that of his hometown near Acapulco. He’s a good guy and probably illegal – at least initially. That’s why I don’t want to deport them all. People just need to deal with winter the way the Ojibwe always did: remote car starters
IW, I don’t know if winters actually reduce the numbers of gays around here but most seem to come here from Cali. You can tell because they’re always waxing poetic about how beautiful “the bay” is and bitching that they have to shovel the snow in their yards just so their pugs can take a crap. By the end of a long, cold winter they are ready to bail!
Great.
I don’t give a flying fuck id we have to put it in the living room, but this is the year we WILL get a fuckin’ SNOWBLOWER. I’m getting to goddamn old and tired of shoveling this shit by hand, and then trapsing my ass over to mt parents house to repeat. We’re getting a snowblower … otherwise I’ll just let the damn snow accumulate, and I’m NOT kidding.
I hope Ms Freud reads this.
Stucky……..you PUSSY! Shoveling snow is probably the only thing that keeps you from dropping dead when you bend over to tie your shoes when venturing out in spring. It’s good for you!
Do what I do and go out to shovel between 1-4am. It’s so beautiful and peaceful that it almost makes one believe in jeebuz!
Stuck, I bought a helluva good snowblower a couple of years ago. I don’t mind shoveling most of the time. It makes me feel like I accomplished something – like I’m Hardscrabble Farmer. Still, use of machinery is a good, macho activity. I’m usually thinking about how the gays aren’t out blowing snow. They’re in their condos blowing each other. At least they’re getting some, I guess.
Cold-as-the-drool-on-an-Eskimo’s-tool Calgary is also reported on IceAgeNow, definitely not a global warming website. If you like bundling up to go out, you’ll like IceAgeNow. For those of you who are curious about climate theories, read Robert Felix, the site author’s, “Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps.” or “Not By Fire But By Ice.” Felix is the Chicken Little of cold climate change but he argues so convincingly you’ll think that he’s probably fight.
Stucky: two words… Snow Shoes.
Nuff said.
Snow is never any real problem here. No snow blowers anywhere around these parts. (we’re in BFE Texas). I love the winter. Our electric bill becomes minimal not running the AC. We heat with a wood stove that does a great job. Wood cost is nothing but our labor and that labor is good productive exercise. For some reason I like splitting wood with an ax. Its a great to feel the swing as the blade meets the wood and splits it all the way with a satisfying crack. It’s a good feeling to see the stack of neatly piled split wood grow and grow. It’s not really very hard as soon as you let the ax do the real work.
In a way using an ax is like using a hammer, a tap to set and one swing to drive a nail all the way home. It feels good. I’ll bet people who play golf would understand how good a perfect swing and strike feels. I get a kick out of watching people use a hammer, pounding away three or four times or more to drive a nail if they don’t bend it first. It’s an ugly clumsy thing to see most folks use a hammer and all the work they do when it should be a graceful almost effortless action. It’s not very amusing however to see people splitting wood incorrectly where one miss cut or slipped swing could end up in a horrible wound to the leg.
Anyway bring on the winter, its still too summertime hot down here.
No one understands that when you jokers up North freeze your nuts to your pants leg, all those idiots up stakes and come down here!
Then we have to put up with idiotic gray snow birds until next May. Our vehicular accident rates go up 40%, we have to drive the back roads so we won’t get stuck in traffic jams on the main roads.
It SUCKS that what it does. All we want to do is be left along, get in some world class speckled perch fishing in, make sure the garbage cans are secure against our four legged bandit black bears and bearlets) that cruise our rural neighborhood this time of year as natural food thins out.
We DO NOT need NOR WANT swarms of snow birdlets to drive up prices, clog up gas stations, make us locals stand in line to eat out and generally booger up our peaceful was of life that exists from May to Mid October.
I knew I should have stayed on Moorea when I had a chance all those yours ago.. Or maybe Rarotonga, the only place I’ve ever been where there were no ugly women (I’m stalking striking beauty here) and not a single good looking man An further, the men were stupid as well as ugly too.
Spent a couple of months there and thought I’d gone to South Pacific Heaven..
Maybe by next year gas will be up to $6.70 a gallon, inflation ticking along at about 25% a year and everyone stays up North and leaves us in peace. Dreams. Dreams, Dreams….
MA
(below, find a Rarotongan girly relaxing between dance set!
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Rapid City, ND sees earliest snowfall since 1888
An early September winter storm in the Black Hills has dumped up to 8 inches of snow in the area, while Rapid City received its earliest snowfall in more than 120 years.
Jon Chamberlain, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Rapid City, said almost 1 inch of snow had fallen in downtown Rapid City by 8:30 a.m. while 2 inches was measured in higher elevations in town.
The snowfall in downtown Rapid City is the earliest in the city since 1888, the NWS said. The previous early snowfall mark was seven-tenths of an inch on Sept. 13, 1970.
Chamberlain said while it is unusual for Rapid City to see snowfall this early, it isn’t for the Black Hills.
“It’s a little on the high side, though,” he said.
Downtown Custer reported 8 inches of snow, while 7 inches was reported at Mount Rushmore. Other snowfall totals: 6 inches five miles south of Hill City; 4,5 inches in HIll City and 4 inches in Sundance, Wyo.
Chamberlain said roads in the Black Hills are staying relatively snow-free because the snow is melting once it hits the pavement and ground.
A winter storm warning is in effect until noon Mountain time Thursday for the northern and central Black Hills including the cities of Lead, Deadwood, Hill City and Mount Rushmore.
The NWS says many areas across far western South Dakota might experience a hard freeze by Friday morning as temperatures are expected to dip into the 20s and even teens in the Black Hills.
The high will be 51 Friday, 60 on Saturday, 62 on Sunday and 67 on Monday.