Winter Solstice 2014

[Sorus]

I would like to visit snow, as it's been years since I saw any, but I am glad I don't have to contend with it on my commute. This city would shut down if it ever snowed here.

[Savor Dam]

Snow on the Peninsula is practically unknown, fortunately. That narrow landspit from Silicon Valley to the Golden Gate has the Bay to the East and the Pacific to the West. The right weather conditions for snow there are almost unattainable.

[Sorus]

1976 was the last time we had real snow here.

(And most of you would probably snicker at calling a couple of inches 'real snow'.)

[Savor Dam]

Wow. Yes. Somewhere, I have a photo from that morning of my childhood home - blanketed in snow - in the Blossom Valley district of San Jose.

[michaelm]

If they'd plow the roads around here *as the snow is falling*, it would be okay. But nooooo, Virginia's not a northern state, we can't afford to have an adequate snow-removal response, it doesn't snow often enough to justify the cost, etc.

When we first moved south, we didn't expect snow, but when there was a snow storm predicted the first winter we were here, we discovered that the city had snow plows. They put the crew on alert, but as it hadn't snowed by 2am they sent them home. Snow started at 4am, so when the crew were preparing to go in, they couldn't make it in as the city was in chaos...

[aliantha]

If they'd plow the roads around here *as the snow is falling*, it would be okay. But nooooo, Virginia's not a northern state, we can't afford to have an adequate snow-removal response, it doesn't snow often enough to justify the cost, etc.

When we first moved south, we didn't expect snow, but when there was a snow storm predicted the first winter we were here, we discovered that the city had snow plows. They put the crew on alert, but as it hadn't snowed by 2am they sent them home. Snow started at 4am, so when the crew were preparing to go in, they couldn't make it in as the city was in chaos...

Yup, that sounds about right.

[Sorus]

First really cold day of the season, and my heater was commandeered by the UMCP.

[aliantha]

I'm not surprised. The Lady Morgana usually sleeps on the radiator when the heat is on here.

[Sorus]

She figured out that it shuts off if she sits too close to it, and somehow found the perfect angle to not block it and still absorb all the warms.

[Linna Heartbooger]

cats... amazing.
remind me what UCMP stands for in this context?

michaelm- I feel like I heard stories like that a lot.
yours epitomizes a lot of them.

[Avatar]

It's from the Gap series... United Mining Companies Police..the cat is Min Donner you see.

--A

[Linna Heartbooger]

Ah. Thank you. I knew of another fantasy series that has spaceships and intelligent cats in charge of... many things.

So I thought it might be that one.
Or a play on "RCMP".

Too bad I can't ask questions about this Min. (Spoilers, wrong subforum etc)

[Avatar]

Go read the Gap books.

--A

[Linna Heartbooger]

Not old enough yet.


--LH

[Linna Heartbooger]

Not old enough yet.


--LH

[Linna Heartbooger]

Not old enough yet.


--LH

[Sorus]

You can say it as many times as you want, but I'll still agree with Av.

Min Donner is technically my nemesis. Feline Min may not have nearly as much power as her namesake, but she is very much in charge around these parts - who could say no to that face?

[Avatar]

It's SRD's best writing in my opinion.

--A

[Sorus]

It's SRD's best writing in my opinion.

--A

I agree.

[Avatar]

You are clearly a woman of taste and discernment, mon Capitaine.

--A