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Green Room - Week 12 - Day 2

Good morning.

So how are you guys doing?

What do you have planned for today?

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Happy Birthday to our old friend

desert_rose and our new friend

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I'm not sure where you are, but it sounds a lot like where I am: Delaware. We have a winter weather advisory for an inch of snow today. Granted the "Followed by sleet and freezing rain" is pretty nasty, but when I lived in Buffalo they would have laughed and this and told you about the time their car got stuck under 7 feet of snow in the course of one night*!

*True story. Happened to me my first real Winter in Buffalo.

It isn't "really cold" in Maine until the ocean freezes solid enough to drive on it either.

Here in Delaware, at the slightest hint of snow, the smallest dusting, the stores become crammed full of people. Those people aren't there for canned goods, or flashlight batteries, or things that might actually come in useful if something were really happening.

Those people are buying bread and milk.

Seriously.

Bread and milk. WTF, Delaware?

That happens here in MAssachusetts as well. You'd think that these people's cupboards and fridges were completely void of anything if they hear of a flake of snow falling. It's such a strange behavior.

I could understand if it were canned goods, dried stuff, or anything that would keep if power went out/they were snowed in. I know it's just a dusting, but I can appreciate them being prepared. Bread and milk though?

They're just weird. :)

Everybody wants French Toast when it snows!

Ah, never thought of it that way. :-D

I keep milk in all three forms of "storage" around because I only cook with it. I don't drink it.

dried, canned, and Permalat.

What's Permalat? I know the other two.

Think milk-in-a-box.

It can be used just like fresh milk, but it is treated and packed in special boxes for longer-term storage.

It doesn't taste tinny like evaporated or condensed milk.

Ah, I know now. Never used it, but I can see the draw to it.

Louisiana. There is no snow. I repeat. There is no snow. There is drizzling rain, and there is a 30 degree temperature and the wind chill is in the ::gasp:: twenties, and this may cause ice on bridges (which I have to cross) and overpasses.

I can understand Louisiana a bit better, since they truly aren't prepared for icing due to their location, but Delaware? It's like they think snow never happens. We live in the NE US, and they don't even have plows, just trucks to drop a salt slurry?

Bah!

But yeah. Good luck with the other drivers in LA.

I think it's because Delaware/Maryland/Virginia are just south enough and closer to the ocean so that snow either shouldn't arrive or, if it does, it melts the minute it hits the ground. So it's natural that nobody would be prepared for the onslaught of ice or snow actually sticking.

My husband lived in Oklahoma for 5 years before moving back up this way. While he was down there, he experienced a few terrifying ice storms -- terrifying because, of course, they're not prepared for ANY kind of weather like that, people don't know how to drive in that sort of weather, and everything became a huge mess :shudder:

Delaware's yearly snowfall is somewhere in the range of Buffalo's monthly Winter snowfall, which we thought was hilarious. What we didn't know is that the rest all comes down in the form of rain, which sucks. This is going to be our second Winter in this area, and last year was super rainy. We're hoping for a little more snow, even if it means dealing with poor drivers. :)

I'd imagine most places in the south get kind of crazy with even the smallest amount of snow, and super crazy with any amount of ice.

Really? I never would have guessed that :shaking head: But which would you rather have -- blizzards or torrential downpours?

I'm 2 miles from the ocean, so the temperature has to plummet and remain there for us to get whalloped. Those who live further inland get whalloped anyway, no matter what.

Honestly?

Blizzards.

But the comparison isn't quite fair. It's not torrential downpours that we get, it's just slightly rainy all day. It's not even the wetness that really bothers me, it's that it's dark and dismal, drizzling rain, every day. It's just blech, you know?

Yeah...we're currently having that bleak drizzly stuff too :( It's supposed to be changing to snow sometime later today and going through tomorrow afternoon. Couple of inches at the most. I'm so happy I'm not at work fending off the "I NEED BREAAAAD!" crowd!

Me? I like an old-fashioned blizzard once in a while. I'm realizing, though, that the older I get, the less tolerant I am of cold, so I'm beginning to lean toward the torrential downpour :(

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DQ Blizzards are yummy. The rest? Not so much!

the greatest summer of my adolescent life was spent in dover. you don't hear of people being from DE often.

I've only met a handful of people that could say they were from DE. I live in DE, but am from NY. :) I love the area, and plan on staying here for quite some time, barring unforeseen circumstances, of course.

I did my undergrad work up at SUNY Buffalo - I lived there from 1985 to 1990. When were you there?

2000 to 2007. Started in Lancaster, ended up in Tonawanda with a great house. Felt like moving and ended up here in DE. No particular reason; just wanted a change.

One of my old roomies in college lived in Tonawanda! Weird, eh? :)

...and I'm in the middle, with 1996 to 2000.

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