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Russell Nash

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on: November 12, 2007, 08:04:22 PM
Berlin had a freak snowstorm on friday (nov.10th) and I go to throw my first snowball of the season.  Did anybody beat me?


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Reply #1 on: November 12, 2007, 09:08:36 PM
New York's been quiet... Too quiet. On that front anyway. Still noisy otherwise.

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Reply #2 on: November 12, 2007, 10:20:08 PM
Miami... meh.

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Reply #3 on: November 12, 2007, 11:33:24 PM
We got enough snow in Michigan last week to make things a little slushy, but not enough to make a snowball.  You win this round...
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Reply #4 on: November 13, 2007, 02:50:47 AM
Cool!

We usually have snow by now in Central MN but nothing so far.  Going golfing tomorrow.  Awesome. 

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Reply #5 on: November 15, 2007, 02:53:45 AM
Curses!
The mountains got a few swaths of snow, but we didn't get up there 'till the 11th; apparently we were a day late and a snowball short.

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Reply #6 on: November 15, 2007, 11:43:09 AM
My snow here was gone in less than a few hours, but the snow I got off the back of a car was fairly dry and about a cm deep.


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Reply #7 on: November 15, 2007, 01:23:05 PM
I live near Atlanta, GA now, so no snow yet.  We may not get any at all.  In fact, I don't think we've had any accumulation in 3-4 years, so we're due.  I miss my snow :'(


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Reply #8 on: November 18, 2007, 03:21:26 AM
We had a couple of inches of snow last week (in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada) but the rain melted it all in a day or so.

Then today, strangely, I saw a pickup truck with the cargo bed piled high with fresh-looking white snow and a shovel handle sticking out of it. I can only guess it was really scrapings from a hockey rink that he wanted to use for something.

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Reply #9 on: November 19, 2007, 05:15:25 PM
Quote from: Planish on November 18, 2007, 03:21:26 AM
Then today, strangely, I saw a pickup truck with the cargo bed piled high with fresh-looking white snow and a shovel handle sticking out of it. I can only guess it was really scrapings from a hockey rink that he wanted to use for something.

I never thought of the hockey rink shavings.  I guess I could pretty much make a snowball any week of the year with the shavings laying outside our hockey arena.  They don't tend to last a day during July or August, however. 

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Reply #10 on: November 20, 2007, 12:41:20 AM
Ahhhh...Zamboni droppings.  ;D

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Reply #11 on: November 27, 2007, 12:34:15 AM
Quote from: FamilyGuy on November 20, 2007, 12:41:20 AM
Ahhhh...Zamboni droppings.  ;D
zombie droppings?

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Reply #12 on: November 27, 2007, 09:59:10 AM


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Reply #13 on: November 30, 2007, 10:34:28 PM

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
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Reply #14 on: November 30, 2007, 10:40:44 PM


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Reply #15 on: December 02, 2007, 01:01:18 AM
I just got hit by a snowball.

In Seattle.


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Reply #16 on: December 03, 2007, 04:39:37 AM
I'm pleased to note that the city that does sleep, just not all at once, has had it's first snow, and looking at the weather forecast more will be forthcoming shortly.

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Reply #17 on: December 04, 2007, 05:11:19 AM
Quote from: Ocicat on December 02, 2007, 01:01:18 AM
I just got hit by a snowball.

In Seattle.

Thrown by a zombie.

Driving a Zamboni.

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Reply #18 on: December 14, 2007, 05:42:21 AM
Quote from: Thaurismunths on November 27, 2007, 12:34:15 AM
Quote from: FamilyGuy on November 20, 2007, 12:41:20 AM
Ahhhh...Zamboni droppings.  ;D
zombie droppings?
More like droppings from "Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons".
(Eeuw.)

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