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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBecause of global warming, many people who are kids now will never be able
to tell their kids how they walked to school through umpteen feet of snow.
I guess they'll have to come up with something else...
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)The snow wasn't so bad, but I came home carrying my dufflebag and a sax in freezing rain and I shit you not, I stood my jeans up in the corner. They were frozen solid to the point where I couldn't bend my knees. I had to take them off downstairs before coming upstairs. Even after living in NH for ten years, I never had a repeat of THAT incident! I think it was about three hours before my balls even dared to try coming back out.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)HopeHoops trying to turn this into a sax thread.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Nice axe.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)People who are kids now will experience much harsher winters.
The main ingredient in global warming is moisture. One or two degrees is enough heating to make water turn into vapor in much larger volume than before therefor when that gas condenses there will be much larger storms, be they hurricanes or snowstorms. The droughts are where the winds suck moisture out of the land after they have dumped water elsewhere. That's why you get places that are flooding and places that are going through droughts.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Several times lately, we've been seeing some clouds that looked promising, but yielded nothing.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)It was worse for girls in the 1960s. We not only had to walk through umpteen feet of snow, but we had to do it in dresses and bare legs.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)uphill...both ways!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I call it "climate change" because climatologists say it really means more extreme weather (hotter summers, colder winters). My (non-expert) guess is that we are in for a BRUTAL winter.
elleng
(131,107 posts)I fully expect some of those umpteen feet of snow in future winters, had one only ?3 years ago, and for my (yet unconceived) grandchildren, but I do get your point, and am very concerned for their futures.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I grew up in South Florida. But I did have to walk to school and home in extreme heat and humidity practically all year, as my kids did, since they also grew up in South Florida.
linux80386
(51 posts)HelenaHandbasket
(51 posts)That she had to walk five miles to school up hill both ways...uhhhh LOL.