In a message dated 1/7/2005 11:19:24 AM Pacific Standard Time,
pdale@rgv.rr.com writes:
Forgive my excitement, I grew up in Los Angeles. No snow there ever. 
Brian, three years ago in the Woodland Hills section of L.A. where I live it
snowed for about 1 hour and it stuck in the hills and going over the Santa
Monica Mountains. It was pretty, for about 1 hour.
Happy snowplay,
Liz
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I must tell you, slow news day or not, that the amount of
time that our local newscasters have spent on the snow in LV is
exhorbitant. One would think that it was positively balmy here.
Actually, I just heard it went down to 7 degrees last night, and now
they're saying that the warm up won't arrive until Sunday. I almost
went a-- over teakettle taking out the garbage,
To paraphrase the inscription on WC Fields' tombstone. "I'd rather
be in Las Vegas!"
Babe
In a message dated 1/7/2005 11:19:24 AM Pacific Standard Time,
pdale@r... writes:Forgive my excitement, I grew up in Los Angeles. No snow there
ever.
Brian, three years ago in the Woodland Hills section of L.A. where
I live it
snowed for about 1 hour and it stuck in the hills and going over
the Santa
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Monica Mountains. It was pretty, for about 1 hour.
Happy snowplay,
Liz[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
I live on the South side of town, up the hill from GVR. I moved here
three years ago after living/working in Milwaukee for 30 years.
There is no comparison. First of all, I did turn partially white
while walking the dogs this morning. However, the drive to GVR was
uneventful and I spent seven hours at the joint. I could never have
done something so entertaining as that in Milwaukee. the roads in
Anthem are wet and not snow covered.
jackessiebabe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>I must tell you, slow news day or not, that the amount of
time that our local newscasters have spent on the snow in LV is
exhorbitant.To paraphrase the inscription on WC Fields' tombstone. "I'd rather
be in Las Vegas!"
Well, Babe. At least they were reporting on an actual "storm". Back
here in Philly, anytime there's more than a couple of inches in the
forecast (which more often than not never shows -- lately we get about
twice the number of snowfalls that stick to the ground that you do) it
receives as much airtime as the recent tsunami.
That in turn sets off ... well, a columnist newly relocated to Philly
from the midwest commented that there was clearly a local tradition of
having french toast during "snow emergencies".
I'll let you figure that one out.
- Harry
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Well, Babe. At least they were reporting on an actual "storm".
Back
here in Philly, anytime there's more than a couple of inches in the
forecast (which more often than not never shows -- lately we get
about
twice the number of snowfalls that stick to the ground that you
do) it
receives as much airtime as the recent tsunami.
That in turn sets off ... well, a columnist newly relocated to
Philly
from the midwest commented that there was clearly a local
tradition of
having french toast during "snow emergencies".
I'll let you figure that one out.
- Harry
Harry, I must be suffering from brain
freeze. I haven't a clue about "french toast and snow emergencies".
I do know however, what the ACTUAL inscription on W.C. Fields
tombstone said: "I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia"!
I don't suppose that he was talking about the weather though.
Stay warm during your non-snow.
Babe
jackessiebabe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Harry, I must be suffering from brain
freeze. I haven't a clue about "french toast and snow emergencies".
You're forgiven, Babe ... it's been some 20 odd years since I left
Northern Michigan winters (Traverse City), but I have no problem
recollecting that both molasses and brain sap are slow to run until
sometime into April ...
The "french toast" quip was an observation that at the slightest
suggestion it might snow there's an immediate run on the grocery store
aisles for milk, bread and eggs.
- Harry
Here we have a local tv station that has a contest to win t-shirts
that say, "It's Buffalo. It snows. Deal with it!"
I know what you mean about snow being a big story in Philly. We
were in Atlantic City one January and they had 9 inches. The whole
area shut down for 3 days for a snowfall that wouldn't even have
closed the schools here. We need at least a couple of feet for that.
Three years ago we had 7 feet in 4 days starting on Christmas eve.
There was a newly arrived news anchor from Georgia. Her first big
story was this storm. She quit before the end of January.
We'll be in LV the end of February. Please have the snow removed by
then 
Thanks,
Pam in Buffalo
Well, Babe. At least they were reporting on an actual "storm".
Back
here in Philly, anytime there's more than a couple of inches in the
forecast (which more often than not never shows -- lately we get
about
twice the number of snowfalls that stick to the ground that you
do) it
receives as much airtime as the recent tsunami.
- Harry
Here we have a local tv station that has a contest to win t-shirts
that say, "It's Buffalo. It snows. Deal with it!"I know what you mean about snow being a big story in Philly. We
were in Atlantic City one January and they had 9 inches. The
whole
area shut down for 3 days for a snowfall that wouldn't even have
closed the schools here. We need at least a couple of feet for
that.
Hi Pam,
Boy, do I know what you mean! In 1966 we did a brief and much hated
stint in Cleveland. We lived in the Eastern suburbs, right in the
path of Buffalo snowbelt. I have never seen so much snow in life,
even though I've lived in Chicago since I was a young kid.
The entire family, from the youngest kid to me, told my husband that
if he didn't get us back to Chicago we were all running away from
home. That was the last winter we spent in Cleveland.
Unfortunately, we moved back to Chicago in time to live through
the biggest snowstorm to ever hit Chicago. The storm of 1967 still
tops the record books for the heaviest snowfall ever in a 24 hour
period. The entire Chicago area was completely shutdown. I remember
sending my young teenage son to the grocery store, dragging his sled
behind him, down a normally very busy street, for some groceries.
They wasn't a single vehicle on the street.....only other sleds!
Ah, the bad old days.
Babe
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