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2010-10-27 14:40:20
SenorToenails
Veritas et Scientia
+444|6596|North Tonawanda, NY

JohnG@lt wrote:

I had a buddy from Olean and he used to bitch about getting 7 feet of snow at a time.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Well, Olean is a different story.  I lived just north of Buffalo for 17 years and then in Rochester for 8 more, and I've never experienced many huge storms in the winter.  The year that my parents actually lost power for a week (very unusual) was when I lived Rochester, and while only 75 miles east, got no adverse weather at all.  Olean is in ski-country, part of the 'snow belt' which gets a LOT of lake effect snow with any western or north-western wind.  They get more snow, they are in the middle of nowhere so they don't have as many means to deal with it, and it's a lot of hills, mountains (kinda) and valleys down there.  I can see how that might happen there.  lol!

Edit: NT and Olean are only a bit apart, lol - Google Maps

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2010-10-27 14:42:07
HaiBai
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
+304|5949|Bolingbrook, Illinois

JohnG@lt wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


I don't think anyone outside of Siberia deals with your kind of winters... It's scotland, they get rain and a bit of snow, just like us flatlanders.
hahaha, it's not so bad here!  Besides, shoes with mesh on them aren't so good for cold, wet weather, that's all. 
It's not so bad there? I'd call getting snow by the meter, on any given day, while being forced to have two cars, one a disposable winter car designed to last precisely three winters, a bad thing.
the hell?  you only live in new york, you don't need a separate car for winters
2010-10-27 14:47:31
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5824|London, England

HaiBai wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:


hahaha, it's not so bad here!  Besides, shoes with mesh on them aren't so good for cold, wet weather, that's all. 
It's not so bad there? I'd call getting snow by the meter, on any given day, while being forced to have two cars, one a disposable winter car designed to last precisely three winters, a bad thing.
the hell?  you only live in new york, you don't need a separate car for winters
It was a news story years ago about people in the Buffalo area having a nice car for the summer which was garaged all winter, and then a beater for the winter.
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2010-10-27 14:50:51
SenorToenails
Veritas et Scientia
+444|6596|North Tonawanda, NY

JohnG@lt wrote:

It was a news story years ago about people in the Buffalo area having a nice car for the summer which was garaged all winter, and then a beater for the winter.
People with convertables and sports cars do.  I don't know anyone that actually does that, though!  It's not a half bad idea...the salt can really expedite the corrosion of the metal on a car.  In the winter when we have a warm day every so often, I take my car to have the undercarriage cleaned.

Edit: Scratch that, I do know someone who garages the car all winter--my uncle used to have a corvette, and I don't think that never came out in the snow.

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