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    Man, this winter that we're having in the U.S. has been EXTREMELY brutal! We've had extremely cold record-low temperatures, akin to what we'd find in Alaska and the Arctic regions of Canada, and we've been pounded by snowstorm after snowstorm! And because the temperatures are so cold, instead of the snow melting by the next day, it freezes into very slippery ice! I even fell on the ice last week, twisting my ankle and hurting my arm!

    The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, and he was extremely right! Ever since my spring semester in college began, we were snowed out at least once per week!

    I am really sick and tired of this winter! Snow, snow, go away, and don't come back another day!
    Is that your final answer?

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    Gimme my snow back. I don't want to go to work. If we get a bunch this whole town shuts down. But it moved out of her and dumped on the east. I don't wanna wooorrk.

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    I do like snow. But everyone hates me for it

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    At least you're not drowning like us Brits!

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    I'm iffy on the snow. I mean on the one hand, I love snow. It's pretty and fun to watch and throw at people and it gets me out of work. But on the other hand, it gets me out of work and I need money to buy stuff. Also it gets ugly when people with comically oversized trucks drive in it.

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    zomg it's winter and it's snowing!

    I know I know a lot of places that don't normally get snow got it. Welcome to winter for the rest of us every year.

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    Never did like winter.

    I'm ready for spring now.

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    By extreme, you mean normal, right?
    everything is wrapped in gray
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    can you hear me in the void?

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    According to Wikipedia, "Snow is precipitation in the form of flakes of crystalline water ice that falls from clouds."

    Snow facts:

    - The average snowflake has a top speed of 1.7 metres per second
    - Chionophobia is the fear of snow
    - 12% of the Earth's surface is constantly covered in snow and ice
    - The largest snowflake on record was observed in Montana, USA in 1887 and was around the size of a large milk pan
    - It has been stated that Eskimos have over 100 words for snow... this is total bollocks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperMillionaire View Post
    I even fell on the ice last week, twisting my ankle and hurting my arm!
    People actually fall on ice? What are they teaching you Americans in school these days?

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    The south west of England is basically underwater.

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    The Chicagoland area has been hit extremely hard this winter. I am annoyed with everyone around here because last year everyone was complaining that we don't have good old fashioned Chicago winters anymore (and apparently it was forgotten that we had a HUGE snow storm in 2011). Well, instead of a huge snowstorm, we have had temperatures worse than the coldest parts of Canada and Alaska, and instead of the usual one and done snow storm, it has been deciding to drop several inches every few days. I hope everyone is happy.

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    a legend says that there was once a winter with snow in holland!

    its been around 10 degrees celcius the whole freaking winter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by SuperMillionaire View Post
    I even fell on the ice last week, twisting my ankle and hurting my arm!
    People actually fall on ice? What are they teaching you Americans in school these days?
    They teach us that Canadians can survive for many months on nothing but maple syrup and that you guys live in igloos and end all your sentences with 'eh' which replaces 'over' in radio transmissions. And when nuclear winter comes as a result of WWIII (which will conveniently be Russia's fault and not the US) you will be one of the last civilizations left alive on Earth because of your built-in resistance to cold temperatures.

    Okay, I'm making this up, public schools wouldn't be this clever 8D

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    For someone who was making stuff up, that was eerily accurate.

    Seriously though, I haven't slipped on ice in 6 or 7 years despite walking on it all of the time, often on ground with a slope. It's a skill. And I don't think I've ever been hurt falling on ice except the one time I landed on a giant rock sticking out of it but I only bruised my arm. People need to learn how to fall safely.

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