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missbuster replied to your post “oo we’ve got thundersnow! originally my neighborhood was in the 1-3″…”
THUNDERSNOW SOUNDS SO AWESOME!!!! I had to drive 1.5 hours north into the wilderness with no snow tires so let’s see how I get home when that snow crosses the border and gets to Lake Ontario’s north shore.
Thundersnow is really eerie, mostly. You know how loud thunderstorms are, with the rain and the rumbling and the wind and all? Thundersnowstorms are weirdly muffled. Snow is silent, and also muffles everything, so the thunder kind of rumbles and thumps distantly even if it’s really nearby, and even the wind is muted, and it’s just. Foreboding and weird.
The first time I saw it was– well, you used to just be able to say The October Storm, but it was 2006 so it’s kind of outside of people’s memories now, but there was a huge freakish storm in mid-October of 2006 in Buffalo that took down the entire power grid for… three to seven days, I think? And it was a violent thundersnow storm and the sky was green and you didn’t know if it was lightning or another transformer exploding, because the trees had leaves so the storm took them down onto power lines, and it was wet heavy snow and sometimes it was enough clinging to the lines themselves to take them down, and long story short 600,000 people were without power for a week, and in my social circles you still can make idle conversation by bringing it up and getting people’s crazy stories of how they survived it and what they did for the week following. (It happened during the day, too, so tons of people got trapped at work. I did! I was at the airport then, bartending, and the buses stopped running and my dude made a heroic journey to get me as they were slapping the travel ban in place. I’d just ordered Martha Wells’ Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy from Amazon and it had arrived and I had to dig it out of the snow by my door and then I read it by candlelight in the bay window of Dude’s mom’s house as we gathered there for warmth and baked everything from the freezer for an excuse to have the gas oven on so we wouldn’t freeze.)
I don’t think that snowstorm hit Ontario? I hope this one didn’t and you made it home.
I got home last night and Dude had left work early and was shoveling the walk. I had a bike light on the front of my backpack and used it to show him where the starter cord for the snowblower was, and so he got that running, and I went inside and did the damn dishes instead.
This morning I see the snow was mostly over when I got home last night, there’s not much more on the walk after we shoveled it out. I guess I’ll see if anyone shovels their walks this morning– but our accumulation was only maybe three or four inches, so it’s not as bad as last time, I should be fine schlepping through it.
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missbuster replied to your post “oo we’ve got thundersnow! originally my neighborhood was in the 1-3″…”
THUNDERSNOW SOUNDS SO AWESOME!!!! I had to drive 1.5 hours north into the wilderness with no snow tires so let’s see how I get home when that snow crosses the border and gets to Lake Ontario’s north shore.
Thundersnow is really eerie, mostly. You know how loud thunderstorms are, with the rain and the rumbling and the wind and all? Thundersnowstorms are weirdly muffled. Snow is silent, and also muffles everything, so the thunder kind of rumbles and thumps distantly even if it’s really nearby, and even the wind is muted, and it’s just. Foreboding and weird.
The first time I saw it was– well, you used to just be able to say The October Storm, but it was 2006 so it’s kind of outside of people’s memories now, but there was a huge freakish storm in mid-October of 2006 in Buffalo that took down the entire power grid for… three to seven days, I think? And it was a violent thundersnow storm and the sky was green and you didn’t know if it was lightning or another transformer exploding, because the trees had leaves so the storm took them down onto power lines, and it was wet heavy snow and sometimes it was enough clinging to the lines themselves to take them down, and long story short 600,000 people were without power for a week, and in my social circles you still can make idle conversation by bringing it up and getting people’s crazy stories of how they survived it and what they did for the week following. (It happened during the day, too, so tons of people got trapped at work. I did! I was at the airport then, bartending, and the buses stopped running and my dude made a heroic journey to get me as they were slapping the travel ban in place. I’d just ordered Martha Wells’ Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy from Amazon and it had arrived and I had to dig it out of the snow by my door and then I read it by candlelight in the bay window of Dude’s mom’s house as we gathered there for warmth and baked everything from the freezer for an excuse to have the gas oven on so we wouldn’t freeze.)
I don’t think that snowstorm hit Ontario? I hope this one didn’t and you made it home.
I got home last night and Dude had left work early and was shoveling the walk. I had a bike light on the front of my backpack and used it to show him where the starter cord for the snowblower was, and so he got that running, and I went inside and did the damn dishes instead.
This morning I see the snow was mostly over when I got home last night, there’s not much more on the walk after we shoveled it out. I guess I’ll see if anyone shovels their walks this morning– but our accumulation was only maybe three or four inches, so it’s not as bad as last time, I should be fine schlepping through it.
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