Darn MN winters

I am in the great white north. Not canada but close enough.

No thanks. I'm seem some short times in WI winters, and IL winters are enough for me. I'm glad we don't typically get ice storms here though. The last winter I lived in OK, it rained, and then it froze. People had a solid inch thick of ice on their cars, and quite a few people cracked windoshields trying to chip off the ice.

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I'm glad we don't typically get ice storms here though.

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Move about 3 1/2 hours south from where your at and you can enjoy some of our ice storms. We usually get a couple a good ones during the winter season. We had a real good one last year, almost 4 inches of freezing rain. Kids were out of school 5 straight school days because of it...Darn Ice!

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Originally Posted by tman

Ahh!, You guys don't know winter, try visiting the Great white North in Febuary....lol

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I've done it :D In November and December and January and February and.... yeah.... I've braved the Canadian winter in my old Lincoln, crossed the Bay of Fundy in rough seas in the middle of winter... oh the things I do for a long distance relationship! Ah well, it makes winter in Massachusetts feel a little warmer :P

That's us tough skinned Canadians. We brave the winters like it's nothing. Proud of it too. :) Heck, I've been outside with just a tshirt on when it was snowing and blowing. Gotta love cool weather. Sadly my snake doesn't, so I gotta help her out during winter. :(

Funny thing is, some people think of Canada as always cold...then they're shocked when they go to Toronto for a business trip in July, packing a parka, and come off the plane with the 90 degree weather hittin them. Ah, stereotypes. :D

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Ahh!, You guys don't know winter, try visiting the Great white North in Febuary....lol

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Yeah, I hear ya. Here in western NY, we get HUGE amounts of snow, and even a few ice storms where everything is covered in a coating of ice and the power infallably goes out. So if I disappear from the forum for a month or so, don't fear; we are probably just buried under 8 feet!
Luckily though, my boyfriend got us a 2-seater snowmobile so we should be able to have at least some outdoor fun this winter. Watching TV for a million hours does get boring.

Hooray for cold!

I don't think we've had our first freeze yet, but the wasps oustide my apartment (if not dead) are so sluggish I can knock down the nests without fear of reprisal. Only found 2, I think my landlord took care of the rest. If you're wondering why I didn't use raid earlier in the year, one of the nests ended up between the inside of my window and the storm window (tiny gap in screen). This window is in my bedroom and I wasn't sure what the raid would do the wood. also, I didn't want to smell it in my bedroom for weeks.