No snow. No Fluftwaffe to blanket everything in a cold ivory glaze. There’s not even enough white stuff to make a snowball. It’s all going to places like Louisiana, Florida, and the DC metro. What can I say aside from thanks for taking all that shitty weather off our hands, guys!
Pic is of the ass-end of the State Capitol in Albany, snapped yesterday afternoon.
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Is the Palace Theater still there in Albany? And Albany isn’t really “upstate”.
As a fellow New Yorker and resident of snow-blanketed Long Island I say, respectfully, ‘F**K YOU, Sir! ‘ JK. I was very surprised by that picture. I thought you guys would be hibernating under 4 feet of snow by now.
We needed it in the DC area. Nothing says FU to the liberal nutjobs around here like a (literally) record-breaking snow fall that is so bad it shuts down the federal government and general area for 4 consecutive days.
I have never understood people who do not want global warming.. global warming leads to a greener, more productive and nicer earth. Did you know that seasons as we know them today started about 3-6 million years ago (after the panama gap between the atlantic and pacific was bridged by volcanoes). Until then there was very little ice in the northern hemisphere or anywhere else except high mountains and antarctica and life on earth was more bountiful than the last 3 million years.
Global cooling leads to more snow, crop failures and miserable weather. Hope the current sun cycle picks up..
FB,
Here is something for you.. an example of business adapting to a changing environment.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-blacktar14-2010feb14,0,4784251,full.story
“Among the idiosyncrasies of Xalisco dealers is that they generally do not sell to African Americans or Latinos. Instead, they have focused on middle- and working-class whites, believing them to be a safer and more profitable clientele, according to narcotics investigators and former dealers. “They’re going to move to a city with many young white people,” Chavez said. “That’s who uses their drug and that’s who they’re not afraid of.”
Might want to eat those words, Ferdi. I just passed the Palace AND the Capitol, tail out, no traction at all.
Was going to say. It’s straight white outside where I am.
Ah well, at least it was nice on my day off.
Silicon Valley was sunny and 70 today. Just like yesterday. And tomorrow.
Only about 15 days in a year are grey and rainy (and still well above 50 degrees in the daytime and above freezing at night). No snow in the valley. Ever.
But even here, we envy the impossibly perfect weather of SoCal. Just 3 latitude degrees further south, but 10 degrees warmer and sunnier.
Mike,
I just wish they didn’t pay all those goonion workers for staying home and not going into their cushy gummint jobs because some other gummint worker failed to plow (or lacked the money to do so)
Dude, we’ve barely had a speck of snow in Toronto all Winter. Knock on wood. This is the first Winter where I haven’t wanted to kill myself by February. My window is OPEN.
@ Anoukange: Albany is upstate. You’re from Buffalo. That’s not even New York, it’s fucking Canada. Anything west of Amsterico is Western New York. Anything north of Queensbury is the Adirondacks. Anything south of Kingston should carpeted in napalm.
Max-Buffalo IS Canada, that’s why I speak French.
Sofia- “My window is OPEN.” ….I hate you.
Fifth Horseman: If you’re in the SC valley, e.g in SJ or LG, etc, I think the weather is better than socal – milder in summer, with a hint of winter. Gotta say this year we’ve gotten a fair amount of grey days and rain compared with recent years though.
Too bad the wonderful weather is offset with insane real estate and a lot of lefty wackjobs.
In contrast, here on the New York state owned sandbar off the coast of Connecticut, there’s ten inches of snow on the ground that melted from the previous snowstorm…
For the record, Buffalo is NOT Canada.
Sofia:
Uh, that was a joke. Inter-provincial rivalries played out for your amusement.
lynch,
I don’t think we had more than 15 days of actual rain. Clouds without rain don’t count.
milder in summer, with a hint of winter.
I consider those to be minor negatives. The SoCal coast constitutes A+ weather in my book : 67 in winter, 85 in summer, almost always sunny.
While people in the NorthEast/MidWest/Ontario might have only 60-90 ‘very good’ days in a year (60-90 degrees, sunny), Silicon Valley has maybe 330 and SoCal about 360.
Sofia- yes, but I could look out my window and SEE Canada. :)
Ferdinand, do you suppose we could get Blinky to sign Buffalo over to Canadia?
I’d pay a kidney to watch the press conference at which he buries his nose in the document and signs away a major metro area . . .
Snow is fun & it does get dull hearing people complain about snow. If you don’t like snow, then move to a place where it doesn’t snow. Personally would rather be cold than hot. But people who complain about cold weather & snow don’t appreciate the seasons changing. Finally, the word F word you does become dull. If you hate some1, then why do you tell them F word you. To say the F word means sex & it makes no sense for a man to say to another man f word him, because it sounds like a sexual proposition.
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