Posted on 09/20/2005 5:25:47 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon
And we're currently in year 4 of a drought!
Living only 30 miles from Milwaukee, yes indeed it's a disaster.
But not natural one, and even FEMA won't touch the pollution and corruption we currently hear about . . .
I too live about 30 miles from Milwaukee (Saukville) and cannot stand the city. I am content living in my small town biggest city I feel safe in is West Bend
Bandera Field is a potentially avtive volcano in N.M. Of course that's western N.M. though...
Doesn't Hampton Roads get hurricanes?
We get one about once a decade – and a fairly mild one at that. Isabel tore up some areas a couple years ago, but overall it was pretty minor (unless you lived in Poquoson). I had to “suffer” without electricity for almost 36 hours (!!).
Now you've done it. You'd better watch out. Actually, the prevailing southwesterlies really prevent lake-effect on the western sides of the Lakes. It's the areas east and south that get nailed. The worst place is right at the east end of Lake Ontario in Adams Center. It's the snowiest place in the US. The wind can come and pick up moisture from the open lake for the whole length of it and since Adam's Center is on the Tug Hill Plateau and higher up, all the snow lands there. They usually get 5 inches an hour, for hours. Some places up there don't plow much. They just keep driving on it and packing it down. You run out of places to put it after a while.
When the wind shifts to the East we can get lake snow even out to where I live, but only rarely. Lake snow is the best. It's so quiet and still and it just keeps coming - I love it.
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