Ever seen what 19 feet of snow on the ground looks like?

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In Atlanta, it snows about every other year. We almost never get more than one inch of snow. Every time snow is predicted, the weather forecasters go insane and treat it like some sort of huge natural disaster.

This is a typical winter weather forecast

1st forecaster : now, you can see these clouds coming in, it seems Atlanta and much of the southeast has about a 60 percent change of 1-2 inches of sno-

2nd forecaster: WERE ALL GONNA DIE !!1!! !!11!!
stock up on food and batteries, hide the baby, lock yourself in the closet and say goodbye to your loved ones, its a NEW WORLD ORDER MAN!! ! It's the mother%&#ing APOCALYPSE! Watch out for zombies, board up the windows and HUNKER DOWN, y'all, the terrorist have won.... *twitch*

Wow!

I also love snow.

Wow! That is a lot of snow!

This thread caused me to have the most epic of dreams.

I was driving along the northern California coast with my family. We happened upon the most beautiful snow covered landscape I had ever seen, with a village situated in the middle of it. The pristine mountain tops had the most magnificent shine, like snow covered diamonds in the early morning dawn. When I looked out toward the ocean, it had taken a beautiful sparkle, the likes of which are only seen in paintings, never in reality.

The village itself was small, only a general store (Walgreens) and houses. What the village lacked, due to its mundane character, the landscape made up for in spades.

where about seattle do you live? I'm in beacon hill.

The banks weren't really overhanging like they look. It's an optical illusion. Still, there were places on the road where there were signs advising people not to stop because of the avalanche danger.

I heard an avalanche in the distance that sounded like muffled thunder. I couldn't see where it was though.

It's amazing to me how they can keep the road open all winter. It snows practically all the time from October through April up there.

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It's the same thing here in Seattle. Sure, it snows tons up in the mountains, but rarely do we get much accumulation down here at sea level.

It’s really a pain when it does snow here in the city. Seattle is full of steep hills that become practically impassible in the snow. They don’t even have plows or salt trucks so we just have to wait for it to melt.

Well that's way more snow then we ever get here...

In Ohio we have rapidly changing weather in the winter. Typically we'll get a random snowfall in the Autumn, which melts the next day. Then we'll get snow falling of increasing amounts through December (sometime's it'll all randomly melt and start over). Then in the middle of January we'll have a nice 2 or 3 weeks with no snow at all. And then it'll go back to snow, sometimes ending in a climatic blizzard in March. Immediately after said blizzard (if it occurs) all the snow will melt, never to accumulate until next Winter.

Well it's completely normal to have 10-20 feet of snow on the ground by April on Mt. Rainier. The moisture comes from the west straight off the Pacific Ocean and then gets lifted thousands of feet by the terrain. That's why it's the snowiest place on earth. It's always dumping snow on Mt. Rainier even when it's only a slight drizzle here in Seattle.

The thing is it’s normally hard to get a nice day with bright sunshine on Mt. Rainier except maybe in July or August. The place is in the clouds and raining or snowing 95% of the time. I was lucky to get up there on such a nice day. Today it’s back to the gloom.

Didn't Ottawa, Canada get 15 feet (4-5 m) of snow this winter?

Hehe, if I had been in that much snow, I would have done a cannonball off the roof into it.