blizzard

[Classicblast]

I don't hate snow. And like Possum and Jason have mentioned there's a lot of ways snow can be fun.

[Beangirl]

I don't hate it either. Where I live in Los Angeles you can Ski or Snowboard in the Mountains . Race Dune Buggies in the Desert and Swim or Surf in the Ocean all in the same day.

[fartinggurl]

It's been pretty bad here in Ohio since Monday. When I was driving home from school on Monday, it was just starting to snow, there was ice on the roads, and it was dark (I take some evening classes). While I was driving, I skidded on the road a few times, and I almost crashed into a car.

Today it snowed three more inches, and there was some icy rain. Luckily I don't have classes on Friday, and I didn't have to go anywhere today. There was no way I wanted to drive around in that again. The weather today was worse than it was Monday.

[thunderbird]

classicblast said:

I don't hate snow. And like Possum and Jason have mentioned there's a lot of ways snow can be fun.

We had a lot of fun sledding as kids. You mentioned that squall where we kind of couldn't see far ahead enough to find our way home for a while but other than that time we enjoyed some winter days.

I can understand not wanting to be out in it for long long spells though.

[fartinggurl]

We got hit here in Ohio by a blizzard on Friday. We have at least 10 inches of snow where I live. Why couldn't we get hit with this in December? Oh well, I'm used to Ohio weather.

[Kevin]

We had around 20 inches here in Columbus.

[fartinggurl]

I heard it was pretty bad down there.

[Mist.]

spartan said:

We had around 20 inches here in Columbus.

haha I live about 20 minutes from columbus
we were in a lvl 3 a couple days ago.
shoveling was a pain. =p

[Phil]

Hey, the Mist has come back.

Yeah we had about the same weather in Bradford. my screen door froze shut.

[Kimm]

I would have to say that floods are probably the worst of natural disasters.

Snow and ice can be trouble, tornadoes are very damaging but you can protect your self from almost anything but floods thats major devastation.

[Mahnarch]

Up here in Holland, Mi. we're being prepped for one more little hit - probably monday or tuesday - in the measure of 1-2 inches.

I hope not, cuz I'm getting the motorcycle bug already.
I sat on my bike yesterday and thought about starting it up but, I didn't. I didn't want to roll it outside and I know it would fill up my garage with smoke - what with all the Seafoam and Sta-bil soaking in the gas tank (winterized fuel).

It's just about flood season here, also.
I'm sure Alice St. is going to be shut down in the next week or two once the river swells up and I'm sure that the Grand River is going to be overflowing Grand Rapids shortly.

It's an awesome spectacle and I'm glad I didn't buy a house on the river front.
Their insurance has to be through the roof.

[dannyboy]

I'm sure everybody's measure is different, so I'm going to throw this out there.

How many inches of snow constitutes a storm?

[Beangirl]

I am going to vote for Earthquakes. You cannot predict them. You never know how strong they will be and once the ground starts shaking you have no place to go that is safe. Unless you are in an airplane. I lived through a major one in 1987. It was only a 5.9 but it killed 4 people and totally destroyed my hometown's business district. It was awful.

[Classicblast]

I never experienced a major earthquake. I have seen just about everything the United States has though otherwise. I've been in tremors they're a little scary.

[Mahnarch]

How many inches of snow constitutes a storm?

One flake, for me! I hate the snow. I have no use for it, what so ever.

***

I can't fathom what an earthquake feels like.
I've tried to imagine it but, it's never the same.

So, when if California going to fall into the ocean?
I wanna make sure I buy up a lot of Nevada land beforehand.

[Beangirl]

Earthquakes start with a sound like the roar of an Ocean. Once you hear it you will always know it. Then the shaking starts. It can be a slip thrust which causes you to be thrown . Or a slip roll, the most common . The fault breaks sending energy rippling through the Earths crust on both sides of the fault. The ground just rolls and rolls . Buildings that are not reinforced go down. How much energy is released determines the magnitude. a real E ticket ride.

[Pumpkin]

I miss winter sometimes. Here, it was 95F last Friday, and it "rained" muddy drops on Tuesday. All the cars here look like they had chocolate milk poured on them and then had it dry in the sun. Strange, really strange. Usually rain cleans the dirt off of things, not create the dirt.

No quakes though, except when they blast at the local quarry

[Classicblast]

beangirl said:

Earthquakes start with a sound like the roar of an Ocean. Once you hear it you will always know it. Then the shaking starts. It can be a slip thrust which causes you to be thrown . Or a slip roll, the most common . The fault breaks sending energy rippling through the Earths crust on both sides of the fault. The ground just rolls and rolls . Buildings that are not reinforced go down. How much energy is released determines the magnitude. a real E ticket ride.

That sounds frightening.

But you can hear the ocean and you know what kind of a storm is coming? I still find the thought of the ground moving scarier than anything else that nature has to offer.