well i'm a summer man myself.
gimme the tropics anyday over this winter madness! our record snowfall is over 140 inches /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
in fact, the snowmobile registrations/tourism here this year is predicted to make over $$300 million..
Edit:
here are a few pictures from our '98 ice storm.. over an inch of ice on EVERYTHING..
300,000 homes without power. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
http://www.bairnet.org/potw/icestorm98/default.htm
and here's a bunch more of that ice storm from a gov site. there's a nice picture of a layer of ice by a ruler that looks to be @ least two inches thick.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/gyx/icepix/ice_storm_98.htm
haven't been able to find any good pictures of blizzards tho, sorry. but snowdrifts here, and there are alot of them, can get to be 25-30 feet tall.. zing!
the temperature averages in this part of the state tend to be @ least 10 degrees lower than the rest of the state..
on average monthly, we have an inch or two less of precipitation than the rest of the state, BUT, in the winter, almost 10 inches more than the rest of the state of snowfall..
wow. i really put myself in2 a bad mood. i'm done bitching now tho.
2nd Edit:
i'm stuck in research mode.
and now i see that Caribou, ME (about 10 minutes North from here) is ranked in the top 5 snowiest cities in the country (lower 48), according to the National Climatic Data Center and the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University..
and we've even placed #2! we were the favorites for #1 in 2000 but Rochester, NY beat us out when they +15.5 inch departure from their normal average.. but 2000 is the most recent year i've been able to find exact numbers on.
Valdez, Alaska averages 326 inches of snowfall tho.
i guess some1's always in worse shape than yourself.
YOU'D LUV WINTER HERE!
