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Reminds me a bit of Robert Crumb, not sure why.

I was going to say it looks a lot like Josh Lesnic's latest effort, except his protagonist has red (almost orange) hair, and this effort is more auburn.

Still, she makes a cute Monica.

Opus the Poet wrote:I was going to say it looks a lot like Josh Lesnic's latest effort, except his protagonist has red (almost orange) hair, and this effort is more auburn.

I was trying to remember what comic she reminded me of and you just jarred my memory; she looked like she belonged in Lesnick's Girly.

Dr. Otter wrote:Reminds me a bit of Robert Crumb, not sure why.

If this was by Robert Crumb, Monica would have a gigantic rear and thunder thighs. But now that you bring it up, a Crumb-style Monica would be really cool. The Crumb-style Golem Girls would probably be really scary, and I won't speculate what refreshments Crumb's Tina would be selling.

Post white Xmas here in Reno - 2 inches on the Valley floor - and 2-3 feet up on the Mountains. LOVELY DAY TO DO NOTHING.

I like it!

as363 wrote:Post white Xmas here in Reno - 2 inches on the Valley floor - and 2-3 feet up on the Mountains. LOVELY DAY TO DO NOTHING.

As it happens, I am aware of this. I've got friends in Fernley, and saw pictures of their white Christmas. As you say, it's a lovely day to do nothing - and go nowhere. (No snow for me personally; it just rained buckets where I am.)

Wyvern wrote:

as363 wrote:Post white Xmas here in Reno - 2 inches on the Valley floor - and 2-3 feet up on the Mountains. LOVELY DAY TO DO NOTHING.

As it happens, I am aware of this. I've got friends in Fernley, and saw pictures of their white Christmas. As you say, it's a lovely day to do nothing - and go nowhere. (No snow for me personally; it just rained buckets where I am.)

We had a white Christmas in Dallas...and a lot of the white is still lingering. It's weird!

That said, I didn't get to stay home yesterday or today...because even though our area is poorly equipped to handle winter weather, the roads were not bad in most places. It would have been nice to have gotten a snow day off work (especially since I don't have any vacation time left for this year).

We had a good six inches of snow before Christmas, and now we're getting 1 to 1½ foot more.
I like snow.

Three inches yesterday, with sleet/rain on top, now icy slush, but melting for that extra sloppy driving experience. Nice, but bleah.

It is now official: we have beat the "storm of the century" (March 4, 1971, with a total of 43.2 cm of snow), by having a total of 45 cm of snow fall on us yesterday!

45 CENTIMETERS????*







* - 45 cm is roughly a foot and a half of snow. Something we get REGULARLY up here. Poor Texans.

jwhouk wrote:45 CENTIMETERS????*







* - 45 cm is roughly a foot and a half of snow. Something we get REGULARLY up here. Poor Texans.

At one time. Not cumulative, not over a few days, not for the season, but only in a few hours. There is more to come later, just as there was some last week. For the city of Montreal, with island effect, it's not bad. (I'm sure other parts of the province actually got more than that, but I don't have the numbers...)

Yes, I know that's nothing compared to the freak storms that have hit the States in the last few years...

But it's still quite enough to mess up the roads and the transit system for which I work... Some of my colleagues were stuck in the snow for 6 hours or more, before the company's tow trucks had time to get to them, since there were so many of them stuck... We're good at dealing with snow over long periods, but not quite as good when it all falls at once...

Oh, mon ami, we get that at one sitting up here as well. Perhaps you have heard of "the Frozen Tundra"?

It could be much, much worse! Why, one time I remember being told that it rained soooo hard in Los Angeles...

(How hard?)

It rained so hard, there were Puddles!!!!! Completely ruined the detailing jobs on everybody's cars. Splashes and everything! Some even had to use their wipers -- truly sad.

this reminds me of the story my sister tells about when she first moved to Virginia, from Michigan where we grew up. apparently when they get an inch or so of snow, the city shuts down... buses don't run, kids get snow days from school, etc... anyways, she's driving down the freeway doing the speed limit, looking at all the people that have spun-out in the ditches and median, and she's like "what goobers, they can't drive in this piddly little amount of snow?!"... she's going for a while and then she notices cop car lights in the rear view mirror, so she thinks he wants to pass her and gets over... nope, he's pulling her over!. as she's wondering what for, he comes up and before he asks to see her drivers license, etc, he asks "do you know why I've pulled you over?" she's like "um, no officer..." "well, you were driving too fast for the conditions, i'll have to see your drivers license and registration, ma'am" so she pulls out the reg, hands it to him and gets her purse out and hands him her Michigan drivers license as she'd only been in the state for a few months and hadn't yet renewed it... he takes a look at it and goes "OH... You're from Michigan... Have a nice day, Ma'am..." hands her the stuff back, trudges back to his car and drives off...

jwhouk wrote:Oh, mon ami, we get that at one sitting up here as well. Perhaps you have heard of "the Frozen Tundra"?

I presume you are not living in the actual arctic... so the only other reference I see, looking quickly, about the Frozen Tundra would be Green Bay, Wisconsin. If that's the case, then you would be "benifiting" from lake effect, making your snowfalls more intense.

We know snow, here, but it's not usually that bad...

Wikipedia wrote:Annual precipitation is around 980 mm (39 in), including an average 218 cm (86 in) of snowfall, which occurs from November through March.

and this: Yearly Snowfall Averages for Quebec This one includes several cities from the province of Québec, which you can also look at in a monthly fashion, following the links on the left. Please note, I am originally from Québec City. You will notice in those charts that Québec City gets more snow than Montreal...


But then, when I look here, I see then normal annual snowfall in Green Bay is only 136.9 cm (53.6 in), with monthly snowfalls of 35.6cm (14 in).

So if you are from Green Bay, either your memory plays tricks on you, or someone hasn't updated the Wiki properly lately...

But then, if you claim the Wiki was not updated, you'd have to explain this:



Of course, you could be living in some other "frozen tundra", and I did all that research for nothing...

All this to say, still, that we're no slouch when it comes to snow...

Yes, I live in Wisconsin. No, I do not live in Green Bay. See that little orange band that winds through the top part of the state, just below the glob of yellow? THAT is where I live. In fact, just north of that spot that says 59.6" in North Central Wisconsin. (That little spot is Wausau, by the way.)

That's 151.4 cm, of course, which isn't the same as the 218 cm that Montreal gets annually. However, we get a LOT colder; our average temps are -5/-17 C, with an average of -11. Compare that to -6/-15 and -10 in Montreal.

Snowing, just a little, here in North Georgia tonight.

However, the temp is 34-plus Fahrenheit, so...

Gives me to think about the possibilities for January and February...