Look kids, snow!

[feren]

It must be March, because it's snowing. In Minnesota we had the theory that you couldn't have a March without March Madness. We further hypothesized that you couldn't have March Madness without a snowstorm of blizzard severity. In fact, it wasn't a hypothesis, I think it was something on the order of an immutable law of the universe: In Minnesota, during March Madness, it snows a great deal.

I'd never really paid attention after I moved to Illinois, but I'm starting to think maybe the same thing is true here in the Windy City.

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give us our damn precipitation back!

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

Stop stealing all our snow and give some of it back to us suffering from a lack of it in New England!

I see water bans coming up, oh, April this year rather than June or July. :-(

This is also the warmest winter on record in New England since the National Weather Service started tracking them. The ground hasn't really hardened up, the ponds never really froze over significantly, and what little precipitation we've had has been absorbed into the ground rather than run into the reservoirs. There are some local wells, but most of eastern Massachusetts feeds off the mighty Quabbin reservoir between Worcester and the Berkshires.

Re: give us our damn precipitation back!

[genet.livejournal.com]

Blame the boys up in Michigan. When I talked to one of our techs up in Novi on Thursday, he told me they had rigged up a huge fan to send all their snow down to us. :P

I'll have to see if we can borrow it to send it east. :>

Re: give us our damn precipitation back!

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind another April Fool's blizzard like we had in 1996. It actually closed work for a day or two. :-)

Re: give us our damn precipitation back!

[roho.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, the Quabbin. I remember fishing in that as a kid, and being profoundly disturbed as the boat would pull away from the shore...cause if the light was just right, you could look down into the water, and see the foundations of buildings sacrificed to the god of Water Supply.

Course, they probably don't let you do that anymore, times being what they are. Too bad if so, it was good fishing!

Re: give us our damn precipitation back!

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

Nope, they don't. Since last September you haven't been allowed to go near it, really. That was one of the first things they locked down, especially as the antrax scare was working its way through our collective psyche. Consider that this is our primary source of drinking water.

I've read a few stories about the cities and towns which were sacrificed to build that reservoir. Ever hear the story of Asa Snow? There was a lot of resentment, even then, to destroying towns to provide water "for the Easterners". Of course, I don't think the ground is all that great for wells around here, and does anyone honestly think we'd get water from the harbor? x.x