Because of global warming, many people who are kids now will never be able

[raccoon]

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]

1. Well I still can. They changed the bus cut-off to 1.75 miles (guess where my street was).

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]

2. Imagine my surprise...

HopeHoops trying to turn this into a sax thread.

[HopeHoops]

4. That sax was bought in '76 and I gave it to my youngest daughter a few years ago.

Nice axe.

[lunatica]

3. The weather isn't going away, it's getting more extreme

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]

13. So that's what's been happening to our rain.

Several times lately, we've been seeing some clouds that looked promising, but yielded nothing.

[LiberalEsto]

5. What a pity

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]

6. They can tell their grand kids they walked to school and back home through knee deep running water

uphill...both ways!

[Brigid]

7. I wouldn't bet on that.

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]

9. Yup.

[elleng]

8. Not really, 'cause its more properly called 'climate change.'

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]

10. I never had to walk through snow.

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]

11. I know, sad isn't it?

[HelenaHandbasket]

12. My Mom Used To Tell Us

That she had to walk five miles to school up hill both ways...uhhhh LOL.