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[skywaterblue]

My paid time expired today. I'm working up the courage to tell my mom, but in the mean time it is funny which icons LJ has decided I can keep.

It's snowing again, hard. My mother says the news said it might be up to 10 inches, and I might possibly believe that given that Noelle says it's raining downtown but snowing at their condo in Aliante and powerof3 says it's snowing in her hood.

Last time I got questions about snowing in Las Vegas: it usually seems to happen once a winter, which makes this second snowstorm a bit odd. It's doubly odd that it is snowing so much everywhere in town: Las Vegas is a big valley, and while we often get snow here (because my parents live closer to Red Rock and thus closer to the mountains than downtown in the bowl) it's really weird for it to snow elsewhere. So very strange.

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[powerof3.livejournal.com]

I was all o.O at the icons LJ decided to keep for me when my paid time expired.

It's actually starting to stick down here. I'm hoping I get enough that I can build a small snowman, but I doubt it. This weather is crazy, though.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

And now there's a goddamn snow advisory for this neighborhood.

[cleo]

My girlfriend is freaking out (Vegas is home for her). She wants to know what part of Vegas you live in.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

On Charleston between Red Rock and The Lakes.

[libra-iruka.livejournal.com]

Also snowing on Trop and Boulder where I am.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

You live assfar away.

Noelle's having a haunkkah party, if you wanna come.

[libra-iruka.livejournal.com]

where does she live? I still rely on the bus system so if she lives near where she did in high school, it's probably a no-go. But tell her I said "Hi".

Laaaa~ the snow! It's almost like being back in Chicago!

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I'm missing Chicago hard tonight.

Yeah, it's at her mom's old place. But it's not till Sunday, so...

[libra-iruka.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't know why I thought it was today. I think i'm working that night but I'll double-check!

[fashionbeast.livejournal.com]

My grandparents and a quarter of my family, all dyed-in-the-mitt Michiganders, raised on pasties* and Vernor's, moved down to North Carolina a couple of decades ago.
Now the thing to know about Michigan is that we get bastard-evil winters up here. Not as cold as Minnesota, but darker, wetter, and meaner. Winter kills up here, and I don't just mean up in the Upper Peninsula.
North Carolina is right at the northern edge of what could be considered the funny and sunny south. They get, occasionally, a few inches of light, powdery snow. Once a year. MAYBE.
Which results in school cancellations, winter weather advisories, and -I'm not making this up-the stockpiling of foods. See because they so rarely get anything resembling proper winter down there, people don't have things like snow shovels, and the city certainly doesn't spend money on snowplows, that's be as ridiculous as a hurricane relief team stationed in Milwaukee.
As a result of decades upon decades of life in the "Winter Wonderland," my family members stride through this every year like Nordic Gods, looking confused at people who are unable to pull their cars into their driveways because of an impeding half inch of powder, and at the panicked mothers at Food Depot buying gallons of water and reassuring their children that "It'll be all right, Daddy's gonna get home as soon as he can, it'll be all right!"

...Y'know, I can't remember quite where I was going with this.

*That's , not

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I'm watching them hyperventilate on the news RIGHT THIS SECOND. Although to be fair, we apparently only have twelve plows for the entire county and they're snowed up on Mount Charleston. And you KNOW we all don't have salt and salt machines here.

They've closed the airport (no plows), some of the bus routes, most of the highways and almost all the city and county facilities, including the libraries. (Libraries: open til 9pm here.)

Meanwhile, I'm like, bah. Let me put on my snow shoes and walk to the bar.