One for Ross....and others in Ohio

[Rich]

Why I Love Ohio at Christmas Time...

When it's Christmas time in Ohio,
And the gentle breezes blow,
About seventy miles an hour
And it's fifty-two below.

You can tell you're in Ohio
'cause the snow's up to your butt,
And you take a breath of Christmas air
And your nose holes both freeze shut.

The weather here is wonderful,
So I guess I'll hang around,
I could NEVER leave Ohio,
My feet are frozen to the ground!

 

[catwoman]

So that's why an acquaintance moved to North Carolina yesterday from Ohio.
Said she couldn't take another winter in Ohio.

Wonder if she's heard about the ice storms in North Carolina?

 

[Ross]

It's a warm 13 degrees here right now with a very warm wind kicking it to -6. Yeap, gotta love Ohio!

 

[ALCapshaw2]

If you think OHIO (or Michigan) is bad in winter,
you've obviously never wintered in IOWA or MiNNESOTA
or the Dakotas! (40 Below every January is NORMAL!)


'AL'

 

[Harpoon]

While I was at the CIA (shhhh.... Don't tell anyone, or I'll have to kill ya) we had a day of minus 20º plus a wind chill. A fair chunk of the city was closed, including all the schools in greater Cleveland...


Except Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Art (all on the same campus)

There's also a high school located on said campus and a day care center, they were both closed.


On that happy day I had a class, the ONLY class for the day, at 8:15am. English something something something....

We all faithfully trudged throughthe blistering wind and snow to get to class, we sat for half an hour in the classroom with no teacher present.


Finally someone came in and said the teacher wasn't going to make it in that day, she was snowed in.


Out we go, trudging back through the snow and in to the comfy beds in our dorm rooms....



Yeah, I really needed that early morning wake-up, a trudge through the snow, time to twiddle my thumbs in a partially frozen classroom, followed by another trudge through the FRIGGIN' snow....


Now, the snow belt happens about a mile or so south and east of downtown Cleveland. West and north of that point, there is NO snow, none, zip, nada.

CIA had it in feet.

 

[epstns]

We have similar experiences here in Chicago. One January day about 25 years ago it was -26 degrees, with a wind chill of something like -82! That day I shovelled my 120 foot driveway, started 3 cars and went to work. Only then did I find out how cold it really was, because I was alone in the building. Only about 4 or 5 of over 2,000 employees actually made it to work. So much for the tough midwesterners. Hah!

 

[dwfreck]

Oh yea?

Well when I was at Ohio State, they NEVER closed, no matter what! I remember I had to walk ten miles across campus and back through 5-foot piles of snow just to attend a dumb bio-sciences class (the professor and one other student were the only other people there) AND it was uphill both ways...

Back then we didn't have coats OR gloves OR boots OR scarves OR hats, AND I was so poor that I could only afford to wear a pair of boxer shorts and a V-neck T-shirt...

And, of course, the ICE AGE was just ending, so the wind really came whipping off the glacier that covered what is now Lake Erie...

And those darn campus mastadons were so aggressive that you frequently had to dive into a snow drift to hide from them...

 

[Shirley]

I especially enjoy the bit about the campus mastadons! Ha Ha.
Keep the laughs coming.

Shirley

 

[Kathy]

And, of course, the ICE AGE was just ending, so the wind really came whipping off the glacier that covered what is now Lake Erie...

Certainly, I would be entitled to more sympathy for trudging across the fields at Bowling Green, in closer proximity to the glaciers.

We seem to miss a lot of the lake effect snow in this corner of the state. We just send all of our snow over to Ross. A lot of storms pass south of us as well. The weather was more dramatic when I lived in upstate NY in the snow belt. My MN native dad always made a skating rink in our back in December which didn't melt until March.

 

[Ross]

I don't know, where I'm at we are pretty fortunate considering that evil lake is so close. Unless the winds do a straight North/South shot, we don't see much lake effect snow. 30 miles North of me is a whole different story though.

 

[hensylee]

I grew up in Miami - we had no heat in schools (or houses) so when the temp went down to 50 they closed all schools!

I would give nearly anything to see 50 today outside my house. It's a coolish 23...........(in Florida yet!)

 

[dwfreck]

It was cold throughout Ohio this past weekend, but colder, by far, up near the "glacier"...

I drove to Lorain and back on Saturday to "rescue" some organ pipes for our church, and the daytime temp was in the single digits. I felt like I was back on the ski slopes...

 

[Shirley]

Hensylee,

I think that you have it rougher than the rest of us here up north. It sure sounds cold to say 23 in FL. That's cold enough up here. Hopefully you don't have a wind chill factor with that.

Shirley

 

[ALCapshaw2]

It was 60 and SUNNY in North Alabama today and is supposed to stay that way for several days.

I just LOVE Alabama 'Winter'

'AL'

 

[hensylee]

Shirley - wind chill factor makes it awful. Plus, we don't build for cold weather and we don't have wardrobes for cold weather. We mostly all have some exposed pipes, too. When it's going to be freezing we are all advised not to forget the 3 p's - people, pets, pipes. As Al says, it's gotten warmer yesterday. But I wear sweats every day (and night). I heard on TV last night that on this date in 2000, it was 76 here - whatta change.