Posted on 12/31/2024 11:27:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
aka....winter
GLOBAL WARMING!!!
I have definitely noticed that everything — everything — is now hyped to Doomsday Level 1, Red Alert, “We’re al going to die.”
It gets cold in the winter and in many places it, uh, snows. By the way, it gets hot in summer too.
Sheesh.
Watertown NY and its environs downwind of Lake Ontario get an average of 16 FEET of snow per year.
I think they’ll be able to handle it....
The Tugg Hill Plateau south of Watertown is pretty much the snowiest place in the lower 48.
It is the area on the map directly east of the end of Lake Ontario where there are no roads. It is a big empty wilderness area.
I had a college buddy that grew up in Lowville, NY.
Right on the edge of the plateau. The only thing in that town was the AMF bowling pin factory and an Ethan Allen furniture factory. At least they were there back in 1984/85 when I was there. We went to Syracuse together.
It's also Great Lake-salmon fishing in the streams feeding into Lake Ontario. I've met folks from all over the USA and even South America who travel to the area for fishing. I have been with a friend who is a real expert on the streams in whole area from Watertown to Rochester. He's caught some real monsters.
I seem to remember a report about that weather station breaking all kinds of records when they exceeded the 1,100-inch mark within the last five or six years. One ski resort had to shut down for most of the winter because the ski lifts — towers and all — were completely buried in the snow.
And steelhead. Can’t forget those fighter lunkers!
Great place for pike and walleye was called Missanabe Lake north of Sault St Marie, MI. Man those walleye were a sight to behold. That, and the moose and grizzly that came around daily.
The salmon run on the Salmon river is what comes out of the Tugg Hill Plateau. I have never gone there when the fish are running up stream to spawn, BUT I hear it is a madhouse. Know several people that have. Meaning the banks are lined elbow to elbow. Lines are constantly getting tangled/crossed. Plus, most of the fish are actually snagged with a treble hook.
The fish are not that healthy either. They are going up stream to spawn and then die. It is not real sport fishing.
The upper peninsula of Michigan also gets huge amounts of lake effect snow. Same with south western NY on the PA border in the Allegheny mountains near Jamestown. Syracuse is actually the snowiest major city in the country. I spent two years of college there. All the outdoor stairways were covered so they would not have to shovel them off constantly. The worst place is SUNY Oswego. Right on the SE shore of Lake Ontario. They had tunnels connecting the buildings because of the snow/wind coming off the lake.
We stayed at the Sandhills Lighthouse on the UP back in 1996 when it was a BnB and the owner showed us pics of the front end of the lighthouse covered in snow & ice. They stayed open year round for people who like to play in the snow.
This is the perfect time of the year to go Sasquatch hunting down around Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helen.
STAND BY FOR WINTER STORM [enter name here]!!!!
Typical sensationalism by the media.
I’ve done winters in MS, ND, WA, CA, and HI.
All those states get snow, lots of it.
Locals know how to deal with it.
One state I spend a lot of time in was FLA.
I don’t think they they got much snow that stuck,
but it was a real hoot
to see the reactions of the locals to two
Boeing engineers from WA state driving through
town with the top down on a rented convertible
in January!
Well, we ARE all going to die. So there’s that.
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