Blizzard!

[sherryillk]

We are under a blizzard warning! A blizzard warning!!! How cool is that? I don't think I've ever been in Hood River under blizzard conditions before. Hell, I don't think I've ever been in a blizzard before! My first blizzard! I'm so excited! Please, let it be awesome! I want to be snowed in! I want to see a ton of snow! Please don't disappoint me now that I've let myself hope for this. Seriously, this is wonderful news~!

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[muscatlove.livejournal.com]

The blizzard of '94 was one of my defining childhood memories. I think it snowed 6 feet in my hometown, which was *ridiculous* - getting 2 ft of snow, which happened occasionally, was considered overkill, but 6 ft is like lake effect or something and I lived in a very suburban valley with good population density, so this was out of nowhere. The plows never did come and clear off most side streets, so school was canceled for 2 weeks, and when people banded together with snowblowers to get cars unburied and hire private plows, they ended up creating 6+ foot high mountains of snow at the foot of every driveway, which our gang of kids carved stairs into and then used as giant snowslides. <3 We would all bundle up in giant snowsuits and go to the old strip mines at the far end of our neighborhood and climb the huge mountains of cast-off rocks and sled down them and try not to hit trees/giant boulders. It was a blast, and I remember when we had to go back to school, we had an assignment to write a story, and one kid wrote "The Blizzard of 94 and How We Had To Eat Amer," about being forced to cannibalize one of the kids in our class who was on the pudgy side. (Lucky, he was highly entertained to be the star of the story, so to speak.)

[sherryillk.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty awesome actually. I feel a little too old to be enjoying the snow as much as I used to as a child but there's still something about excessive amounts of snow that still gets me excited. We're not going to get as much snow as you guys did back in '94 as we're only getting about 3ft of snow accumulation but it's still something that we're not really all that used to, especially in the last couple of years.

[harumi.livejournal.com]

Since I've regularly suffered from power outages because of blizzards at least every two years as a child, I'm glad I'm in a place where such a thing isn't a possibility. Because damn that would SUCK here.

[sherryillk.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I was always jealous of all those people who had to deal with blizzards and massive amounts of snow every year. Oregon is so temperate that if we get one major snowfall (major as in more than three inches of snow), we were very lucky. Most of the time we didn't even have that.

And I've got to say, I was almost hoping for a power outage as well. I've had maybe two in my entire lifetime and maybe I've romanticized it a bit in my head, but it also seems like an interesting event to go through.