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The Pussification of Ohio Winters

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jimotis4heisman;1090818; said:
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/23329/1/V089N4_101.pdf
thats for chardon-smack dab in the american manufacturing belt snow belt, certainly not columbus and it denies your claim...
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So Columbus had an average snow cover (1") of 29 days per winter from 1945-85, how does that deny his claim that there was "snow on the ground for a month or two". I can remember getting 8-10 snowdays a couple years growing up here, it's certainly been awhile for that kind of action.
 
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jimotis4heisman;1090663; said:
snow on the ground for two months? in columbus? doubtfull....
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You obviously weren't around for the garbage workers strike of '67...

As for school closings and wimpy winters:
Four Yorkshiremen Sketch

Monty Python


Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort.

Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope
 
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From the pdf linked ...


The snow depth and number of
days with snow cover can vary widely within a small region
depending on wind drifting, shelter from vegetation,
and differential melting rates​
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and


These data presented for Chardon represent small clearings
with some shelter from trees nearby. Snow depths
and persistence of snow cover will be less in open fields
and greater in forests than reported here.​
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So someone in Chardon could have seen persistent white on the ground in large but discontinuous areas. Yet the day might not be counted as one with snow cover, as in places with full exposure to the sun ground was revealed or snow depth was < 2.5 cm.

As for Columbus ....
 
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fuck_winter.jpg
 
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I was hoping we'd get 5-9 inches like I was told. I don't remember the last time we had that much snow. If it snows at all, I want it to snow like crazy. This 1-2 inches crap is annoying, especially when it starts melting immediately.
 
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All I know about pussifying winters is I had to drive to school a few years ago with a few inches down.. yet little brother and sister get snow days for fucking rain.

One good thing about winter, is playing king of the mountain (mountain).
 
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gregorylee;1090642; said:
I haven't even been able to get the kids out sledding this year.... We used to have real winters, when the snow was at least on the ground for a month or two. Closing school for 2 inches, road crews ill prepared, it's embarrassing.
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I feel your pain. This winter has sucked ass for the Mid-Atlantic
 
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