Who Here ISN'T in California?

[Quarteria]

Re: Who Here ISN'T in California?

When I lived in Tennessee there was a ‘blizzard’ () of about nine inches of snow. That basically shut down everything (except a few of the gas stations) for an entire week. One of my roommates had a 4x4 pathfinder and chains, so we could get around without too much trouble (and give rides to the poor saps who tried to drive without winter-driving experience.)

I don’t hate cold weather. I really like the change of seasons. I love snow (and it often gets too cold to even snow in WI). But winter in Wisconsin sometimes feels too long to me without a break (that is when I start daydreaming about heading to southern CA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia… etc...) [None of that is conscious metaphor.]

I have kin down in Alabama who, when we were younger told me that if it snowed, the schools were closed. ...Can't really blame those southern states, I mean, they don't have the means to fight the cold as we do up here and if there was no plows or no salt trucks, we'd be just as screwed as they are no matter how little the snow.

Ah yes...gotta love those "too cold to snow" days. And the xxxxing wind chill meter!!! "It's 14F out, but, the wind chill makes it feel like it's -10."

[Anahita]

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When I was a kid, we had snowfalls of FEET, not inches, in Wisconsin. Schools would close for a couple of days. My friends and I would carve out snow caverns and tunnels and all sorts of cool stuff.

I remember being about five years old and walking into my backyard (on top of a thin ice coating) and falling into the snow. My poor dad was frantically tunneling his way through a few feet of snow to ‘rescue me.’

A blizzard:

[L_Vuitton]

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Im in canada!!

[TomServo]

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California here we come, right back where we started from.

Marissa died.

[Anahita]

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California here we come, right back where we started from.

Marissa died.

Isn't that the theme song for the OC? (I haven't actually seen that show, but they opened for Sting's concert in Madison.)

[RUDO]

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IT'S CALIFORNICATION

[Anahita]

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I miss my Cali men.

[Sip]

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Welcome to hotel California ...
such a lovely place
such a lovely place.

[Anahita]

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Welcome to hotel California ...
such a lovely place
such a lovely place.

I like to escape to Wisconsin...
(and "New York City"--I can't 'blow your nose' if it is frozen snot, but I still can 'blow your mind.' )...

and, in winter, from Wisconsin, to

[Siggie]

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OMG you spelled it correctly!

And why aren't you home Sig? School?

It was on the map I looked at to see where Yellowknife is.

Yeah, I'm away for school.