Snow Images! (Almost 56K Friendly.)

[ShadowTiger]

Yes, I am fully aware that a 56K user had started a non-56K friendly topic. I did shrink all the images so they were less than 400x400 pixels apiece though. At the very least. :P I really had to, otherwise my 56K would simply stop uploading them. They're small, or they're not seen at all. Anyway, I took all of these pictures roughly an hour and half ago, and spent every moment since trying to upload them.


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My Corner Computer - PII 300 MHZ 256 MB Ram. Less than a gig of space left, though, to be fair, it is kinda a 14 Gig Hard Drive. :sweat:

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The computer directly diagonally across from it. AMD Athlon 1800 512 MB Ram, 3/40 Gig HD left.

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For all you desktop pic lovers, this is an actual picture of my desktop.

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A picture of my backyard after the huge snow of Feb 12th 2006. One day after it, I keep hearing loud crash after loud crash as icicles fall onto the cement (And unfortunately placed lawn chairs. X_x' ) below.

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An image of my backyard after the snow. (To the right of the above image.) The red posts in the middle there used to be a wooden swingset, which was replaced by the one to its right. Too bad I just realized it's not in the picture, lol.

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If you turned around 180° from the previous image, you would see this, more or less. These are pots which lined the side of the driveway. I'm amazed how much snow was actually already there before we started piling snow onto them. It didn't look that different, believe it or not. Scary to think about.

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My precious mound of snow. Every snowstorm, I do my best to accumulate a tremendous pile of snow in that location. It's been my ambitious ever since the huge blizzard of January 1996. Took quite a while to assemble it.

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Another picture of the Mound. I still find it kinda hard to believe that just yesterday, it was actually taller than I am. =/ It really was! ;_;

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Yet another picture of the mound.

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My neighborhood in one direction.

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My neighborhood in the other direction.

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I think this is another picture of the Mound of Snow I made, but I seriously can't identify the background. It looks kinda like a swamp to me. I swear, I have no idea what that is. :laughing:

Heh. Yeah, sorry Rainman. :p I'll see if I can upload them at a faster location next time. ... ... I'll bet all this snow is like, gone, by Thursday. :sweat: By the end of the week, the temperature is supposed to have rised by about 40 degrees. That's a HUGE Change. The sky is already totally blue.

[Rainman]

You compressed those pictures entirely too much. :P

We haven't gotten too much snow here in Pittsburgh. And thank goodness for that since the city has virtually no snow removal system. The streets just become a brown slush mess.

[Petoe]

Damn... Josh, that's a lot of snow! Poor NY. :p

But I wish we had as much snow up here in Finland. i just lvoe that stuff, and fortunately we have a good snow removal system here unlike in Pittsburgh...

[koopa]

Ah, snow ... I like that stuff :) Wish we had some more over here in Switzerland. Instead, we've got a week of rain forecast. I saw some pictures from NY on the news, looks quite dramatic.

[ShadowTiger]

Yeah, New York is the great Mixing Bowl. New York gets almost all the weather. It gets a full 120 degree range of temperatures, ranging from 10°F below, all the way up to 110°F. My closet is full of clothes I want to wear, have to wear, and never know when to wear. lawl.

[Machiavelli]

Yeah, New York is the great Mixing Bowl. New York gets almost all the weather. It gets a full 120 degree range of temperatures, ranging from 10°F below, all the way up to 110°F. My closet is full of clothes I want to wear, have to wear, and never know when to wear. lawl.
I feel you, really.

I strongly dislike snow. My cousin dragged me outside yesterday in the thick of it to help her shovel out a car. I gave up after a few minutes. One of my friends made $140 from shoveling a guys driveway.

The worst part of walking through snow is finding where the sidewalk ends and the street starts...

[Orion]

Oh no... snow... I don't get to see that 182 days of the year... *rolls eyes*

If I knew you guys liked snow that much I'd let you take the two feet we've had sitting on the ground since December. Okay not really. It all melted since it's been an unusually warm winter, but you know. It's amazing how people who arne't used to it react to it. In fact it's hillarious to see people flip out when the temp drops below 20 and there's a dusting of snow on the ground.

I have a professor who just moved here from Spokane, and he thought that because the snow melted already, that wouuld be it for the year. That made me laugh histarically and his face went into shock when I told him we generally get snow into May. It's hillarious to hear how is is afraid to drive in the snow too.

BTW, a 40 degree change isn't much. We pull that off here overnight :P

[Machiavelli]

It's amazing how people who arne't used to it react to it. In fact it's hillarious to see people flip out when the temp drops below 20 and there's a dusting of snow on the ground.


It's not that funny :shakeno: . My first time seeing snow was in 1995. Then the big one in 1996 came freaked me out a bit. Fucking cold. It was fun after I got used to it though. I wish I could find that picture of a snowman we made...'twas priceless.

[ShadowTiger]

I'm moving to Minnesota.




I strongly dislike snow. My cousin dragged me outside yesterday in the think of it to help her shovel out a car. I gave up after a few minutes. One of my friends made $140 from shoveling a guys driveway.

The worst part of walking through snow is finding where the sidewalk ends and the street starts...Heh. Yeah, it's a lot easier in the suburbs of Oceanside than it is in Queens. XD At least I would assume so. Actually, you've got grass to worry about in the Suburbs. So much grass. >_< The shovel gets pwned by dirt, and the dirt gets onto all the snow piles, then the snow melts, and leaves weird little piles of unidentified materials on your lawn.

Orion - Some people just love snow no matter how much they get. I got BOMBARDED by snow today, but I'm still looking forward to it later in the week when it snows again, and I have the pleasure of brushing off the car to go to school.

If you don't like snow, that's all well and good. If you do like it though, hey, enjoy.

[Rainman]

Snow shovelling was always a lowsy business prospect. Most of the old people who needed it shovelled preferred to make their grandsons/sons/husbands do the work. Plus I lived on a corner which gave me about three times the work than most people in my neighborhood, so by the time I got that done I was usually to sick of shovelling to do any more of it.

[ShadowTiger]

Plus I lived on a corner which gave me about three times the work than most people in my neighborhood, so by the time I got that done I was usually to sick of shovelling to do any more of it.I know what you mean. I have a house with a large amount of sidewalk and driveway to shovel. The sidewalk is twice as large as most other sidewalks, and the driveway is roughly five times larger than my sidewalk is. It also has more bumps and cracks than anything else. Having the shovel stop midpush, vaulting you clean over the handle into the snow, punching you in the crotch on your way over is rarely how I plan to spend my morning. :p

Eh, to each his own. ^-^' You can still make a quick buck off of it, as Mach said. I shovelled my neighbor's driveway and sidewalk on my own. They were quite happy to see it.

[algam86]

Wow, that was a lot of snow...We barely got anything!

*A.K.A. we didn't get jack crap.*

I buy a shovel, and I'll be using it to scoop up crap from these cats around here. This winter was totally unproductive in the snow factor down here in Kentucky. (And don't ask where it is.)

I like snow. I was expecting it, even...Maybe I should've went to New York and got covered in it, came back, and get rained on...

[vegeta1215]

Cool pics BH4. We got about 10-14 inches here in Pasadena. I was out of town when it snowed, so most of the shoveling had been done before I got back. Ha! :D

On the down side, I have to walk my dog in the snow and he goes crazy playing in it.

[Drunken Tiger]

I miss the snow, there is no such thing as a white Christmas, or snow on New Years.

But i guess to compensate, we go to the beach!! :)

[Orion]

I guess what upsets me about snow is that 90% of people don't know how to drive in it. How many times do you have to pound it into people's heads that you are going to skid on ice, so you have to increase stopping distance. When you learn to drive here, it's pounded into your head that you do NOT slam on your breaks on ice, nor do you swerve, and worse of all, you do not slam on your brakes and turn your wheel at the same time. The result of any of those three will cause you to lose control. But no, people don't get that. Ugh.

My perspective on snow is this. If there's snow on the ground for a White Christmas, great. Otherwise, it can stay away for all I care. That is unless there's enough to get me out of class. My college is in the middle of nowhere, so it closes every so often. Of course, once I get done, it might as well not snow. Ever. Unless I want a snowball fight. Or to sled.

[Lilith]

Man, you guys are pussies. Except Orion. Word to my midwest crew.