The only time I ever drove through Nebraska, they looked at us like we were aliens.

LadyLazaruss you look far too young to be a professor, and I mean that as a compliment!

Batcar01, nope, they don't know how to drive here, nor do they know how to plow the roads properly. Here they leave an inch to two-inch high layer of slush behind when they plow, but in Cleveland where my mom lives they push the plows down on the pavement so hard that they throw up sparks.

we really don't see too many people drive bad in sbow here. of course, it hasn't really stopped snowing since November.

LadyLazaruss
Funny. Californians haven't invaded Nebraska yet. I wonder why....

Three words: "Downwind from cattle."

:-)

01-22-03 07:32:36 PM Llarken
The only time I ever drove through Nebraska, they looked at us like we were aliens.

We fear anything thats not covered in red, black and white. Especially in football season. Its like the allegory of the cave, if we ever saw anything but our own shadow's we'd tear ourselves to pieces. (In rural NE anyway.)

01-22-03 07:33:26 PM Ebawb
LadyLazaruss you look far too young to be a professor, and I mean that as a compliment!

Thanks. I take it as a compliment. I'm feeling rather old since I made a Muppets Show reference during class and confused the hell out of them.

What does a Fark Irony tag and the song Isn't it Ironic by Alanis Morrisett have in common?

Neither one of them have a lick of irony in them.

LadyLazaruss Must have been a class full of savages. Kids these days, no culture I tell ya!

Here in Seattle people dont "forget" how to drive, they never knew in the first place.

Also, a few years ago, our daughter was flying in for Christmas, from Atlanta (Georgia, not Atlanta, Texas). An ice storm came through the Shreveport area, and iced over the runway. That rarely happens, so we don't have any de-icing equipment at the airport.

Long story short, I had to drive 200 miles to Dallas, because DFW was the closest terminal open. On the way back, the roads were clear of ice, but the small bridges that go over the little drainage creeks on I-20 were iced over. I could do 60 on the road, but had to slow down to 15 to keep from losing control on the bridges.

I kept getting passed by these guys in Dodge front wheel drive minivans (the I-have-a-front-wheel-drive-car-so-I-can-go-fast mentality). One guy blasted past me at about 70. I caught up to him about two miles up the road, as he was sitting about 100 yards down the side of I-20.

I laughed.

i live in arkansas (the south to those of you who may be uncertain--hey, i have friends who call us midwest). anyway, to comment on the Weenerser, the ONLY reason those asshats see so many northern plated cars in the ditch when it snows here is because these moronic arkansans can't even drive in good weather, and when it snows they really screw up...thus, pushing the northerners into the ditches

Ebawb- Much better you talentless hack. Why do you hate America so much? You obviously weren't breast fed as a child. :-)

01-22-03 07:36:42 PM Intentionally Left Blank
Three words: "Downwind from cattle."
:-)

You're forgetting "no landscape but corn", "nothing to do but bar hopping in most towns" and "mullets-ville" but thats ok. I'll forgive you this time. :>)

weenerser????? wow, what a filter result for 1st commenter. and those friends i mentioned who call us midwest are from places-other-than-arkansas....that is all, carry on

Absolutben I don't hate America, I hate my fellow Americans. Of course I hate pretty much everyone so you could say I am an equal opportunity misanthrope. As for the breastfeeding, I really can't remember. (THANK GOD)

Oh shiat wait, I mean, ╒uck you! It's people like you that make these threads suck. Goddamn it all to hell. Why must you lick the nut of our elected officials?

Muppet Show, hehe man that was fun. God i'm old :-(

Maid...im originally from saskatoon, but have lived in calgary and montreal as well so i have gotten to experience all of the lovely canadian style winters:

-Wet and chill to the bone
-Windy and icey
-Freezing and snow to your nipples

I.am.madame.yes. I am afraid we are going to need photographic evidence of snow on your nipples!

Holy cow! It took me forever to get home! My usual commute takes tops 15 minutes. It took me nearly an hour! I sat on the highway for 35 minutes while firefighters pulled someone from a rolled truck!

I.am.madame.yes.- I have to agree with Ebawb. We must have photographic evidence.

Boobies!!!!

I'll take "Things we can all agree on" for 1000 Alex!

We have blizzard-esque conditions (lots of wind, and falling snow which is being blown around) here today. Have a blizzard warning too.

On the plus side, it's shorts weather, only 0 C without the windchill. Yesterday it was -30, and I was running around in a t-shirt.

Im here in Denver (Golden, actually) and the weather suprised the crap outta me.

Check this out - Every year, TransworldSnowboard posts 100 predictions for the following year. Its a big joke list, intended to be funny. Anyway, one of theirs that was "Due to cloud seeding in the Rockies, the mountains will be buried under 100 feet of snow, while Denver dries up in its worst drought ever."

Who woulda thought, the most mild winter I can personally remember, and Winter Park got almost 15 FEET of snow before winter had even started.

I.am.madame.yes.: Saskatoon rocks. Lived there for about 4 years, would go back at the drop of a hat. My sister is in Calgary and I spent a good month partying there when she first made the move. The only winter weather I have managed to avoid is the panamonium that hits the lower mainland here in BC when they get a whiff of snow. I think those folks need to be shipped to the US, they just don't compute.

this isn't the worst use of the ironic tag ever. there have been far worse.

FuzzyLogic - I watched the news last night. You must have what close to 6 or 8 feet of snow now? I know I saw only the roofs of some houses poking up through the snow. That's unusual for Newfoundland.

I made no effort to read the article. If the poster's blurb about Denver not having snow since October is accurate, I'm amazed. Here in the great Commonwealth of Virginia, we've had a pretty cold winter. Last time it was this cold was probably 1996. Colorado is always snowier and colder than Virginia.

Let me put these in geographical terms, k?
-Wet and chill to the bone - Montreal
-Windy and Icy - Saskatoon (not the fruit)
-Freezing and snow to your nipples - Calgary

Stupid Front Rangers.
Denver's in the tropical lowlands, as far as I'm concerned.

LadyLazaruss
You're forgetting "no landscape but corn", "nothing to do but bar hopping in most towns" and "mullets-ville" but thats ok. I'll forgive you this time. :>)

Yeah, yeah, 'tis true... Have a native Nebraskan in the office, so, we know...

(Gawd, it was nice to get back to Cleveland for the holidays. Much as I like the Colorado Front Range, It takes cosmopolitan Cleveland (!) to remind you of what a cow-town Denver is!)

Farkinfreks, easy drive here, but COLD! (Well not to you, maybe, but to us in (your) deep south...)

Just replace Snow with: Rain/No Rain/Nice Sunny Day, and October with the other 11 months out of the year, and you have:

North Carolina.

We dont even have real snow plows. We have garbage trucks with plows bungee-corded to the front of them (and when the bastards do come by they dont bother to stop and pick up the trash!)

..that being said, I've put my 4x4 in a ditch before when it snowed... you can still to this day see the pit I carved out with my tires / bumper and I came to rest in the ditch. Even made it on the news (Does that make me 'Fark-Famous'?)

Hi. I'm from Denver, born and raised here like a true hick... And I posted the article. The "ironic" tag was used becuase ATLANTA has received more snow this year than Denver has. This is quite literally the first snow of the year, unless you count the bits of frost that accumulate on the grass at night, and this really isn't ammounting to much more than that. Last month, Denver was supposed to have received between 9-10" of snow in an average year. We got about half an inch for the whole month. Hooray for Colorado! What's this cold weather crap in the middle of winter all about? WTF? :-)

Interesting side-note to this.

Here in NC, when folks here "Snow" there are a few things that come into high demand:

- Bread
- Milk
- Bottled Water
- Any type of incedeniary / non-eletical-requiring-heating device (Fire Wood, Natural Gas Stoves & Heaters, etc)
- Any type of 4x4-resembling vehicle
- Portable Generators
- Salt
- Snow Shovels
- Etc..

All this, for the mere *mention* of a single snow flake, or the chance there-of.

Same is true for Florida, sans snow-specific items, during hurricane season.... and add batteries, duct-tape & plywood..

ElCommie - Oh man, rule #1 - NEVER admit to posting ANY artical, more or less one with a farked up tag.

Nemo1934 - Trust me bro, Denverites have more than enough distain for all you hillbillies.

;)

Gold_phinger:
And you don't know hate until you hear Western Slopers talk about the Front Range. (Fort Collins, Boulder Denver, it's all the same to us- one big polluted megalopolis.)
I'll take the thin air any day.
:)

01-22-03 08:42:35 PM Intentionally Left Blank
It takes cosmopolitan Cleveland (!) to remind you of what a cow-town Denver is!

Can't agree with you more. I lived in Ohio a while back while I went to grad school. Definitely liked it better there--but had to move back for personal reasons. I always laughted at Ohioans that referred to their state as the Midwest or being boringly rural. Felt like Crocodile Dundee.

Mick: Heh, thats not BFE. (whipping out a map of Nebraska.)THIS is BFE.

People in Colorado are amazingly inept at winter driving. It's totally the opposite of what you'd expect, possibly because of all the Californians and Texans that move there. Or the NYC people driving like jerks.

But it's weird that sometimes you can have snow in the morning, and by 4pm it's gone.

This is why I drive my Canyonero!

What's an "ight dusting of snow"?

Kevin Mitnick is back online and it snows in denver. Coensidence?

Betanerd - Coensidence? In grade three are you?

Heh. Funny 'cause it's true. I should know, I live out here.

Tack, presumably with a silent "l?" :-)

just enough to cover things, and unlike Ohio snow, Colorado snow can be swept away with a broom. Try that in Ohio and you snap the broom handle.

LadyLazauruss, where'd you go to grad school? CWRU, CSU? OSU?

NoSkillzDotNet, when I lived in Florida and the Blizzard of 93 hit, the response was "Oh, hey everybody -- it's icy outside! Let's drive around and have a look!"

(As an aside, why do people buy bottled water instead of just filling gallon bottles from the tap?)

Nemo1934, I never had any problems with western slopers, but then, when I moved here first thing I did was tour the state to learn about it, and never tried to pretend I knew things I didn't. I never felt anything but cordial feedback from that!

BLATANT THREAD JACKING!

We need to have a Colorado FARK party!!!!

This Californian and Texan nonsense is just that. EVERY conservative region is being invaded by someone. Funny, if all the Californians are moving to Colorado, the which Californians are invading Oregon, or Seattle? People just say Californians because in some placeslike Colorado Californian automatically means hippie commie pinko fag.

I lived all over CO from 1981-1999. Good Luck. It's a magnet for morons. Luckily the good stuff there belongs to the USA.

I'm an ex-Californian now in Denver, and I've never had any problems driving in the snow. Especially not since I got a car with anti-lock brakes and traction control. (My wife learned winter driving in New Hampshire, so Denver conditions pose no problems for her.)

I didn't see a hell of a lot of snow today...just a teensy dusting when I went out at lunchtime, not even worth getting the snow brush out of the trunk. (My office is at the extreme south of the metro area, south of the toll road.) Morning drive-time was about average, I'd say, but I didn't leave home till about 8:15, by which the worst of it might have been over.

Pity there's a red air-quality advisory today; it would've been a good day to use the fireplace.

01-22-03 11:15:38 PM Intentionally Left Blank
Bowling Green State University. Just south of Toledo. Went to Cleveland a few times. Love the art museum there.

"Pity there's a red air-quality advisory today"

Yes it would be great to go back to Jan, '02 before the EPA rules were relaxed. People think its bad "just because".