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[ILikePie]

I was watching national geographic a few days ago, and they had a show talking about the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which is pretty darn cool (Hehe, 'cool'). Anyway I thought we should have a thread about various winter festivals and wintery things around the world.

I guess I'll start it off. Here in Israel we don't get much of a winter, the cold starts towards the end of January and ends before February (That's about two weeks of constant rain). So we don't really have much of a winter. When does rain though the south floods a people go 'flood chasing' (Kinda like storm chasing). Most people celebrate Hanuka in December.

I know this is kinda late, but I thought it be nice to know what goes on around the world.

[Jude]

What part of Israel? I know in the OPT (well, Jerusalem-Bethlehem area) it pisses down rain all January and February but is the rest of the that bad too?

Anyway in the northeastern US we usually get one or maybe two big snows a year and maybe everything shuts down for a day, or more than one day if it's a really big blizzard. All the kids get happy and go out sledding, traffic accidents increase, the sidewalks turn into ice for the next week and then it just turns into disgusting brown mush that lingers for weeks on end.

It's pretty nice for the first couple days though.

[Hawkfrost]

What part of Israel? I know in the OPT (well, Jerusalem-Bethlehem area) it pisses down rain all January and February but is the rest of the that bad too?

Anyway in the northeastern US we usually get one or maybe two big snows a year and maybe everything shuts down for a day, or more than one day if it's a really big blizzard. All the kids get happy and go out sledding, traffic accidents increase, the sidewalks turn into ice for the next week and then it just turns into disgusting brown mush that lingers for weeks on end.

It's pretty nice for the first couple days though.

They shut stuff down there?
Here in Canadia a blizzard is considered a minor nuisance, nothing gets closed.
I still remembered going to school in -44c one day, and the teachers still made us go out for recess.

[Jackrabbit]

What the hell.

[Creaca]

I live in Texas, East Texas to be precise, so its more or less just Woodlands and Plains, with the occasional Peach Orchard. The last snow we got came at the price of having everything shut down for a couple of days. But, it was fun making a snowball.

[Duke 2.0]

 The DC area freaks out when snow happens. It is the rhesus macaque of weather. Everything gets canceled, snow truck drivers are interviewed on the news, people are asked to prepare for the apocalypse...

 And then three inches fall.

 But yeah, this winter has been the most snow winter I have seen in my life, with one snow at more than a foot and two others at a couple of inches.

[Cthulhu]

We get like Duke said if there's more than three or so inches of snow in a large area.  Last year we had a full five-day week off.

I wasted it grinding my Death Knight's BS/Mining.

BS indeed, but it did feel good to have a Titansteel Destroyer I made all by myself.

[Hawkfrost]

The DC area freaks out when snow happens. It is the rhesus macaque of weather. Everything gets canceled, snow truck drivers are interviewed on the news, people are asked to prepare for the apocalypse...

 And then three inches fall.

 But yeah, this winter has been the most snow winter I have seen in my life, with one snow at more than a foot and two others at a couple of inches.

If it doesn't reach your waist it's still autumn.
If it doesn't reach your shoulders there hasn't been a blizzard yet.

Though I must admit, it does make walking a dog difficult.

[Jude]

What part of Israel? I know in the OPT (well, Jerusalem-Bethlehem area) it pisses down rain all January and February but is the rest of the that bad too?

Anyway in the northeastern US we usually get one or maybe two big snows a year and maybe everything shuts down for a day, or more than one day if it's a really big blizzard. All the kids get happy and go out sledding, traffic accidents increase, the sidewalks turn into ice for the next week and then it just turns into disgusting brown mush that lingers for weeks on end.

It's pretty nice for the first couple days though.

They shut stuff down there?
Here in Canadia a blizzard is considered a minor nuisance, nothing gets closed.
I still remembered going to school in -44c one day, and the teachers still made us go out for recess.

Well yeah, it's a straightforward law of nature that the further north you go, the more snow there has to be for business as usual to be disrupted. In the southern US an inch of snow will have schools shutting down, partly because there isn't the infrastructure to get roads plowed and salted, and partly because people are so unused to seeing snow that they shit brix and don't know what to do and so they just call it all off.

Whereas the further north you go, the more prepared everyone is for it and the less it fazes them.

[Heron TSG]

This year it's been a bit too cold for much snow (up in almost-canada), but last year we had a snowstorm where it snowed for a week straight, depositing two and a half feet. We went to school anyway.

A week later, Portland got half an inch, six people died in car accidents, and the whole city shut down for half an hour.