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I am sitting here in Rochester, NY where we have received 8-14 inches of snow in the last 24 hours with another 6-10 inches to come today. More forecast for the weekend. The bigger problem is that we have NO TEMPERATURE!!!! That's right - it's ZERO degrees. Unless you look at the wind chill factor, then it becomes -12 degrees. it is too cold for salt to do anything with the snow/ice on the roads. The entire metropolitan area is one big bumper car arena.

AAARRRGGHHH!!!! I really HATE winter.

I'm a bit to the north of you in Burlington Ontario, woke up to -20c thats -4f but I can see green grass on most of my property.

I don't really mind the winter but this is just a bit too cold.

Ray is hinting around so his wife will let him do a Florida Golf Getaway!

Today is the first day we've got away from the ZERO range. It is about 16degrees right now, but with the wind chill it is around 2degrees. There was a city to my neighbor to the north in Minnesota that had -54degrees yesterday, and that was not with the wind chill.....wow

I grew up in Iowa, so I guess I'm just used to it....

Randy

Hi Ford (sounds like I'm talking to myself ).

There are a variety of things that come together here that make winter particularly ugly and you are probably aware of most of them. Sitting 12 miles south of Lake Ontario and just east of Lake Erie is brutal because of the "lake effect. The lakes are warmer than the air, so the moisture is sucked up by the winter breezes. This provides cloud cover for most of the winter and also dumps ungodly amounts of snow on us. If you combine the dark, the cold, the snow depth and mix in a duration of 5 months it just wears on you. It would be QUITE a bit better if we would see the sun occasionally. If we get 5-6 sunny days between December and April, it's been a spectacular winter. Also - I'm not playing much golf during this torture either.

I had a girlfriend who went to the University of Rochester, and I was invited to attend her graduation about 13 years ago. It's June, so I fly up from Alabama thinking I'll be just fine with some shorts and light shirts.

Oy vey...

I don't know what I was thinking, and I don't know why Susan didn't warn me. And I don't know how you're dealing with it now. Of course, it was 10 degrees here in Nashville when I got out of bed, but lots of sun and not a snowflake in sight. Have fun up there, Ray!

Every year I play in an Ice Golf tournament. There is a lake near Des Moines that they set up 18 holes of golf. You actually use a putter the hole time, pretty fun, but make sure you dress warm.

I saw that -54 degrees reported my the Minneaplois news. I guess they where a few degrees away from breaking a record! I wonder what you do when it's that cold?

From Denver:

I suppose that is why so many folk are moving to Denver. We get the snow, believe me we do; however, it usually melts within 2 to 3 days after it has fallen. Also, we get over 300 days of sunlight a year, so our winters are not depressing. Right now we are in a cold spell and it is 20 outside. Not bad. Coldest it was here in Denver was 0 with a -10 wind chill. I still love it that you can shovel your driveway and all the snow will melt before noon the next day.

Trouble is, I’ve got to get the move-ins to move out so our roads will clear up!!!

I really need to balance this a little. In the summer, it really is beautiful here. Mike, I have to think that June day was an anamoly. For example, I did wake up one May 8th morning to 7" of snow. The winters are annoying here, but it doesn't compare to :

"Donner, Party of 12"