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^ kz - I'm feeling fatigued with it, too. But I don't remember that being the case in Buffalo. Maybe it was just because I completely expected winter to = 2-3 feet of snow on the ground at all times; maybe it was just because when I lived there I was a kid and didn't have to do all that much shoveling / car maintenance.

More than anything, though, I think I'm more annoyed with snow as a pedestrian. Much harder to jaywalk when there are giant snowdrifts between the street and the narrowly shoveled path on the sidewalk, harder to get around people coming the other direction, especially if they have bags and dogs. I'm in NYC right now and the past few days' slush oceans at corners have been disgusting and treacherous (you'd think a city with such high pedestrian volumes would figure out how to eliminate the need to tiptoe over snowbanks to avoid these). It's hard to say whether these issues stem from even a city like New York prioritizing snow removal from roadways vs. sidewalks or whether cars really do just have an inherent advantage during weather like this (you know, except during the most intense moments of storms when their windshields are whited out and they have a change of spinning all over the ice).
 
Another awful New Yorker checking in (Mohawk Valley)


Originally from the Central Region and I went to school above the snow belt (Adirondacks), and in higher elevations, vapor water, combined with cold arctic, caused the snow to be heavier. Which is strange, since we were a good two and a half hours east of the lake.

Anyways, czsz, it's a matter of getting older. When you're younger, you can handle cold, snow, any type of weather. Not so much when you get to be an old fart like me (Old fart meaning I'm pushing thirty). I too dream of Costa Rica.

I was reading the Boson Globe, and the article about where all the snow in Boston is going to go. The solution is to go take the snow and dump it in the Harbor. Well, the issue there is that that snow has been exposed to salt, dirt, asphalt. It would cause an environmental disaster. Sooooooooooooooooo, where are we going to put these snow mountains? It really comes down to safety or the environment. On the other hand, if we took care of the planet better, we wouldn't be having this much snow.
 
Paul Levy (former BIDMC CEO and former MWRA Exec Director) is actually advocating for the city to dump the snow in the Harbor now.


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Can't they do something to melt it rapidly and then filter it at Deer Island?
 
Levy advocates dumping snow in the harbor (which is salt water) -- not in the rivers (which are fresh water)
 
czsz said:
I'm feeling fatigued with it, too. But I don't remember that being the case in Buffalo.
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I should add that I only experienced Buffalo for two school years, which by comparison to my hometown--beautiful, sunny Albany (yeah right)--was quite the eye-opener. Being holed up on UB's North Campus didn't help perceptions either.

But when I said the snow in Buffalo didn't bother me, that's skewed by the fact that UB had maybe the best snow-clearing system on earth (never did we have a snow day while I was there), something Boston couldn't ever compete with. So while Buffalo was really, really dreary, this right now is more annoying than anything I ever had to deal with out there. Plus, I walk a mile and a half to work, and speaking of which, I'll be doing exactly that in about five minutes.....
 
I'd say the ratio of women to men eating prepared food at Starbucks is approximately 100 to 1.
 
^Wow...I'm sorry, I guess having fun something unrelated to arcitecture in an open, random forum is frowned upon.

Forgive me for not wasting your bandwith and starting a new thread in general. I'll do that from now on if that makes things better.
 
Oh, let's all relax. I don't have any interest in reading "Sanford, Maine" entries but I don't get my skirt all up in a bunch when other people do. We're all adults here.

So most people don't like having links to porn on this site. Now we know.

You're welcomed back, MMC, in my opinion. And I know you're reading this b/c no one who says, "Good-bye World" ever says good-bye for ever. (Which is why I have at least three accounts on this board ...)
 
I enjoyed it but I can see why it wouldn't be welcome here.

So MMC FTBPed? Gotta be a first here. I like it, way to be.
 
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