We're not in Kansas anymore.

[mckitterick]

Nope, it's more like Minnesota or something.

Geez, what is this, the fifth major snowstorm in as many weeks? I always thought of Kansas winters as mild, warm, and un-snowy. Um. Also, for the ride up to my office this morning, the temp was -1. That's in Fahrenheit. I just scooted home, barely in time to avoid having to leave the scoot at Wescoe Hall for the weekend.

Where oh where are the Kansas winters of yesteryear?

Chris

Comments

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

I'm from here. These ARE the Kansas winters of yesteryear. They're ba-ack!

[stuology.livejournal.com]

Having lived in Kansas since I was 5, I can say this is a typical winter. We've had some enjoyably mild winters these past few seasons.

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

I add to the previous: according to my mother, who grew up in Kansas, this IS the Kansas winters of yesteryear.

This _is_ Kansas!

[bodandra.livejournal.com]

I've been expecting this kind of weather for 15 years now.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Geez, Chris -- you never read Little House on the Prairie, did you -- especially the part about the huge blizzard?

When I moved here I thought it was shockingly without snow until the winter of 1979 when we got 3 or 4 feet of snow and kept it for a month or two. Mostly it has been snow-free again, but we really could end up with the climate of yesteryear as a regular thig.

[orin2.livejournal.com]

Blame global warming.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Heh -- that's *next* Friday when it is supposed to reach 63 degrees. Really.

[jimmycarter.livejournal.com]

What universe do you live in man? :)

It's going to be 65 tomorrow here in Portland. Low of 45 ish.

YAY!

[ericreynolds.livejournal.com]

Yeah, rub it in!

[jimmycarter.livejournal.com]

OKAY! Hehe.

This is the town that shut down the schools when it was GOING to snow, but didn't.

[ericreynolds.livejournal.com]

And it wasn't supposed to snow here, but it DID.

The kids would love it in OR.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

It trule is the Latter Days, man. Ask anyone from the northeast.

[ericreynolds.livejournal.com]

Well, my dad grew up in Kansas and he had to "walk ten miles to school in ten feet of snow...."

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine told me that the winters of yore in KS, when we had snow for *weeks* on end was a weather anamoly in the entire scheme of things, but I'm beginning to think it's been the other way around.
The winter I moved here (Feb 94) it snowed all the time through Feb too. We had sooo much fun tromping around in it to look at apartments and houses.. not.