Since snow-saturated New Yorkers are concerned about floods

[GoddessOfGuinness]

when all the stuff melts, why the heck don't they ship the excess to Arizona, or someplace where persistent drought is a problem?

[Stephanie]

1. Can we get another round over here?

:hi: Thanks!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Sure thing...

:beer:
If only snow was made of beer.

[Warpy]

3. Don't ship it to New Mexico, thanks

We've got about 3 times the normal total snowfall here in the Rio Grande Valley.

[all.of.me]

4. yeah, i am looking forward to the march winds drying this mess out....

we may need the moisture come june, though!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I think the predictions are that drought conditions will improve where you are...

but Arizona's drought is expected to persist. I may be wrong about that.

While you were getting snowed on, we were having 60-70 degree temps. Now it's looking like the DC area is going to have to settle for its ice storm as the closest thing we'll see to snow this year. :-(

[all.of.me]

6. i left new hampshire after the winter of 86-87.

it snowed a foot every other day. i am not making that up. we had to get a grader to come and plow our road, 1/2 mile long. after that, it rained for nine days in april. i lived on a river, and we were canoeing over my neighbor's daffodils! bridges were washing out, the basement in my brand new house was flooded, power was out for a few days. it was bizarre. i hope you all don't experience that. it made that long winter just that much longer....

[Warpy]

7. I got sick of Boston winters about the same time

and started saving my money to move out here.

I still find it difficult to bitch about the weather out here, although I managed just before New Years Eve.

:hi:

[all.of.me]

8. i was pretty tired of winter by 2007, too!

sadly, this is normal! we have been spoiled since about 1994, i'd say. but this will screen out the rif-raf that moved here for the mild winters! :)

[burrowowl]

9. As native to El Paso and ABQ

The more damn snow the better, don't know when we will get more. Snow pack is always needed. Placitas creek will have WATER!
:woohoo: :applause: :party:

Some nice picnics!

[all.of.me]

11. i know! this is nothing to the local people!

i have been in this house for 8 years. the ditch has run for 2 of them. that is SAD.

[Warpy]

12. Uh, I'm surrounded by New Mexico natives in my 'hood

and they're complaining, too. This is just too much of a good thing.

[all.of.me]

15. not here.

they want more. it'll never be like it was a generation ago, though. i grew up in connecticut, and it snowed tons there when i was a kid. now people who live there don't believe me we had lots of snow. it's changed everywhere, and it'll never go back to that. i'm not even sure what 'normal' is anymore.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. I'm so sorry you had that experience...

But that's exactly the kind of scenario I'm talking about. If they'd trucked that snow off to a drought stricken area, it couldn't have cost more than disaster relief; and so many lives would have been happier for it.

[all.of.me]

16. thanks.

it was a turning point in my life, for sure. i was so sick of new england winters, but that one pushed me over the edge. i packed my truck and ended up in the desert that winter. tucson, exactly, where the january days were 65 degrees, and the sun faithfully rose and went down every day. i went home in the spring and sold my house.

i understand what you are saying, though!

[ClintonTyree]

10. If you want to buy it...

we'll ship it. We certainly don't need the water right now. The water tables are about as high as they're going to get and the spring run-off is just going to go down the St. Lawrence and out to sea. I'm sick of looking at all the crap too, it's everywhere. We had our first day of above freezing temps in 37 days yesterday. It soared to a balmy 43 degrees yesterday, one day after a record -33 degree temp in Watertown, NY. Talk about a temperature shift!
Ah..spring is in the air! Temporarily anyway.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. We rarely get snow in March

but I'm wondering if this won't be one of those years when we get it.