Post here if a one foot snowfall is routine in your area:

[hedgehog]

Fulton New, York





We laugh at your snow!

[montanacowboy]

1. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

We have 1 foot on a daily basis most time and today is 18 below zero and that is not the wind chill - had wind gusts yesterday at 40mph, so I didn't even want to factor that in.

[MnFats]

2. this winter it has been so.....another 6-7 inches today,,,

after starting with a kickass storm of 22" early december.
i confess i am tired of this...

[MorningGlow]

3. Wedged between Buffalo and Rochester here

A foot? Pffft. We can shovel that in our sleep.
:rofl:

[hedgehog]

6. Here in Fulton, we don't bother shoveling only a foot of snow!

[MorningGlow]

8. Yep--studded snow tires

and gun it out of the driveway! :D

[MineralMan]

4. Not routine, but not all that rare, either.

We had one like that in December. I cleared my driveway four times during the blizzard, just to stay ahead of it. No fun! St. Paul, MN.

[notesdev]

5. based on the past two winters

a foot of snow is becoming pretty routine here in Virginia. Got it four times last year and looking at our third this year so far.

[hedgehog]

7. Take a close look at the photos I posted - you'll see that even though

the snow is deep, the road is clear!

[notesdev]

28. Yeah nice

around here they can't keep a road clear with less than an inch of accumulation

Snow is to Virginians as holy water is to vampires, one of the things I've learned living here.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. one foot of SUNSHINE today in Los Angeles!

[MoonRiver]

10. 8-12 predicted

Good news is that will mean NO SCHOOL! :bounce:

Edit: Yes, this happens here frequently.

[hedgehog]

12. You guys close schools for only 8"?

[MoonRiver]

24. Plus lots of ice, but yes KC does that.

[hedgehog]

29. Ice is an entirely different beast than snow. First of all, you can't drive on ice!

You can drive in the snow, but not on the ice!

Second, an ice storm can do permanent damage to every tree and shrub, and take down every electrical line for many square miles.

A couple years back, I went out and took some pictures of a deep snow fall we'd had. I totally forgot about that storm until I developed the photos, because we had an ice storm a few weeks later that did a number on us.

[MoonRiver]

30. Yes, ice is the worst.

Last year I fell on it and got a concussion. Not fun! But this area will close schools for 8 or even less inches of snow also.

[Raven]

11. Yes. Southwest NH. 2 feet forecast tomorrow/Wednesday. Oh joy! n/t

[Canuckistanian]

13. You're lucky

You can still SEE your vehicle.

WE have to go out in snowshoes with long sticks to find our vehicles after the snow... and that's what we call "a light dusting"!

[old mark]

14. Not this winter, so far, anyway, but snowing 2 or 3 days per week is the routine...

We usually get at least one snowfall over 1 foot every winter, occasionally it buries the cars completely...we had a blizzard of over 5 feet of snow about 16 years ago, could not get to the main road for 10 days.
That's one reason we moved to the outskirts of the city.

mark

[saras]

15. Uncommon, but routine

Happens once, maybe twice, pretty much every year.

When it does, the people in the know go out and watch the idiots crash their cars.

One year we got one right before winter break at the university. On this road near campus with a lot of student housing, the street was lined with folks out in their front yards with lawn chairs, coffeepots, etc. watching people slide their cars down the hill. After they'd quit sliding people would go and offer them help pushing their car off the road, hot coffee and cookies, etc. But there was no way to stop them from trying to drive up or down the hill without chains or brains.

Another year I watched someone come around a corner onto a 30 degree (STEEP) hill and slide all the way to the bottom, spinning in slow circles, bouncing off of parked cars. At the bottom, uninjured, they get out of the car, look up the hill, and see another car just starting to slide down the same hill. What do they do next? They get between their car and the car sliding straight at them, waving and yelling to stop and not hit their car. They got out of the way, luckily, before it was too late. If they'd have tripped it would have been a disgusting useless disaster, but as it was, they got a round of applause from the dozen people walking in the area.

I love living in a college town.

[wtbymark]

16. from a former CNYer

yea yea, I grew up with the lake effect. Now I live in Reno, where there's barely any snow. In fact, this week we're in the 50's. BUT, Reno is 40min from Lake Tahoe where 3-4-5-10feet is the norm. So you great lakes people that think the 'machine' is bad, has never seen a pacific storm hit the Sierra's. What would be 5days of 2"/hr snow rates and 110mph winds at the ridgetops in CNY? (answer= a complete disaster)

Another winter tid-bit: when I lived out east, I never owned a pair of snow tires or chains (Chains?!?!?!?)
Here they are mandatory. No salt out here. And Nevada has the WORST drivers on the planet.

[hedgehog]

31. Yes, but people visit Lake Tahoe in the winter. I've yet to hear of someone

volunteering to visit anywhere in the Great Lakes snow belt in the winter!


Not to mention : if you can't drive in the snow here, we send you to Florida for the winter!

[Brother Buzz]

17. One year we had a whopping three inches of snow

A television news truck drove twenty miles over to our town just to broadcast it 'Live' on the noon news.

[Vinca]

18. It seems to be routine this winter! 18" -24" in the forecast. AAARRGGGHH!

[badtoworse]

19. Northern NJ

Not that unusual. It happens once or twice a year. Sometimes not and sometimes more.

We deal with it; it's not a big deal.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. It happens 2-3 times a year here in So Cal. n/t

[cali]

21. yep. regularly get snowfalls of a foot or greater here in the Kingdom.

[Retrograde]

22. We keep our snow up in the hills

So we can admire it from a distance and not have it get in the way. OTOH, this is the first day since I got back in town that the sun's out.

I spent nearly 20 years in Buffalo, though, and a foot's nothing: they didn't even close the schools for that little!

[hedgehog]

34. One year in Buffalo, there wasn't a clear day from November until February -

I remember the Courier-Express posting a front page article noting that it was the first time the sun had been seen in about 3 1/2 months.

I also remember that it wasn't until I saw the article that I realized it's been that cloudy that long!

[surrealAmerican]

23. Not exactly routine, but ...

... it's the sort of thing you expect once or twice a winter in Chicago.

[damntexdem]

25. Sure, routine here.

Happens every 50 or so years. And it snows at least once in almost all winters.

[backscatter712]

26. Doesn't happen super-often here in Fort Collins, but it does happen from time to time.

We're getting hit by the winter storm too, but we're only getting up to six inches of snow here.

However, the temperature tomorrow night is expected to drop to 11 below.

[Habibi]

27. I'm in Syracuse this winter

and it seems pretty routine here. Still sucks, though.

[Crystal Clarity]

33. My daughter is a Syracuse U Graduate

and she tells me that you guys have it just as bad (if not worse) then us. Yikes!

[Habibi]

38. It ain't been fun, that's for sure.

I live in Rochester, in normal times, and we don't get near the snowfall Syr. gets. Having to shovel it all myself (long story), all I can say is: I'm tired.

[underpants]

32. Is it the left foot or the right foot?

[madinmaryland]

39. This is DU, so I would assume it is his left foot. nt

[underpants]

42. funny

:bounce:

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. Tucson here. Cumulatively? And over how many decades? n/t

[madrchsod]

36. not as much as lake effect but we get our share.

i live 100 miles west of lake michigan but if the storm is big enough we`ll pick up some lake effect on the back side.

the record here is 86 inches total in 78-9.

[hedgehog]

40. The giveaway is your use of the term "storm"

Around here, we don't generally have "storms.


It's just snowing.



Again.




Or


Still.

[madrchsod]

46. yup.. you get every drop of water off all the lakes....

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Not routine, but not at all unusual.

Usually our snowfalls are between 6-8 inches at a time, but we've been known to get two or three feet within a 24-hour period, often later in the spring, March or April.

ed. Thompson Pass near Valdez averages 600 inches of snow a season, with the record being over 900 inches. They usually manage to keep that highway open despite the snow.

[northernlights]

41. Pffft! 1 foot is a dusting. 2 feet is routine.

Which is what we are apparently scheduled to get on Wednesday.

[UpNorthSusie]

43. Very Impressive! But We Got Ya Beat!

We have at least 4 feet of snow on our roof! We also have about 5 feet on the ground here in Northern MN.

[hedgehog]

44. Yes - but the reason we don't have five foot on the ground is

that we get so much snow so fast that it insulates the ground. The ground never freezes, so the snow is melting from underneath.

I spent a few winters near Columbus, Ohio. Not much snow, but the ground froze like iron and the grass all turned brown. Here, the grass stays green under the snow!

[FirstLight]

45. high sierras, here...

we've been known to have 3-4 foot storms.average about 2 feet when it's a good one

this year has been weird though, almost 60 last week, and barely above freezing this week

i prefer the summer, personally...i miss my beach! :cry:

[madamesilverspurs]

47. Not uncommon, but not routine. n/t