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[67eringobragh]

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[eunster1313]

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@downunder-61 wrote:

Close - it is 6.57pm Monday 17th here - and the heat is still driving me insane !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you live in a snowy place, send me a pic LOL

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[chapeau-noir]

Needs to be a Starbucks up there, too ^^

Foggy and dark here.

[katzrul15]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

Needs to be a Starbucks up there, too ^^

Foggy and dark here.

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And evidently a heli-pad!   Lol

It was a foggy and dark morning, the espresso machine gurgling on the counter and a hint of adventure lay hanging as the opportunties for today were endless.   Suddenly, rudely interrupting my train of thought a ..................

[redmodelt]

What is this "snow" you speak of?

You can't fool us, I know you get snow on the big island!  LOL 🙂

[doug_5857]

I went to Australia in 2001 for 3 weeks and I loved it. Met a lady online and she let me stay at her place. She was my tour guide and I brought enough money to have a good time for the both of us. Best Vacation in my life. Landed in Melbourne and lived in Victoria then she drove from a little place close to Shepperton and Rochester and I think one place of interest was Echuka .   forgot to put the closest small town I live is Black River Falls, Wi

[maxine*j]

Photo taken a couple of miles from me, yesterday evening.  Every year, every year without fail, it snows here in Central Pennsylvania.  Every year, every year without fail, a significant per cent of the population cannot remember how to drive in it.  You come across these, you think it must be surely someone visiting from Florida, you check the license plate -- nope, it's a local.

[chapeau-noir]

Significant that they're both SUVs - the cars most likely to get into accidents in bad conditions around here are...you guessed it...SUVs.  The drivers seem to think no skill is allowed because SUV!!!  Not so much - you still need to pay attention and drive properly, it's just a little easier.  Last one rolled on the ravine near my house in snow that I could get through with my 20 year old Subaru station wagon no problem.  Ended up taking out a power line when it fell into a neighbor's yard.  SMH.

But yeah, every time the rain starts here in late Sept we get these people floundering around and yep, they're locals.  What...you forgot the 9+ months of it we had last year already?  Really?

[doc-holmes]

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@downunder-61 wrote:

Close - it is 6.57pm Monday 17th here - and the heat is still driving me insane !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you live in a snowy place, send me a pic LOL

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We just had roughly 35-40 cm of snow fall here in Ottawa today. Be careful what you wish for. 

[redmodelt]

Plates maybe local, but maybe the drivers aren't! Lots of Mid-Westerners that moved to Oregon would give us natives a hard time about driving in snow, till the first time they met our "wet" Oregon snow with a layer of black ice on the road under it. 🙂

[chapeau-noir]

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@redmodelt wrote:

Plates maybe local, but maybe the drivers aren't! Lots of Mid-Westerners that moved to Oregon would give us natives a hard time about driving in snow, till the first time they met our "wet" Oregon snow with a layer of black ice on the road under it. 🙂

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That's very true - we have a lot of people coming and going in and out.  We also have the wet snow over ice, though Portland has those ice storms that, honestly, I'll take our horrible squalls over any day (I got caught in one once and was trapped for several days - fortunately, I really like Portland).

But yeah, midwesterners who move here laugh at us for our poor snow driving (most of us STAY HOME when it snows, we already know we don't drive in it) - but we get snow so infrequently that how are we supposed to learn? I only know because I've gone up to so many snowy trailheads in my day that I HAD to.

Then they hit one of our windstorms with hail spinning sideways and trees falling over and mudslides, when visibility is almost 0, and then get the flipside - oh yeah, OK - everybody has their weather challenges.

[redmodelt]

Key point and why many stay home if they can, infrequent, lack of practice.

[downunder-61]

Well, I certainly have taken this thread off topic LOL 

Thanks for all the pic's, was hoping they would make me feel cooler, but no, just made me envious........

[chapeau-noir]

I had a coworker years back who had come from Michigan a while before.  She had all kinds of tips and tricks to drive safely in the snow and could drive around in it in her beater sedan.  We joked that she was the Famed Michigan Driver (and appreciated her tips).  Her biggest tip was "just stay home" lol - I liked that one. 

[wrong66]

No, you didn't take it off topic. There never was a topic.