Snow!!!

[2hams]

Got your attention, didn't it?

Just sitting here getting anxious to go camping and thinking about snow. Although I no longer live in snow country, it made me curious, so I searched for Syracuse NY, where I grew up. Sure enough, the "Salt City" makes the top of the list of 101 cities with >50K population with highest average snow (just under 120" a year). Multiple "winner" of the Golden Snowball Award (competition in upstate NY cities for most snow). One the current top 10 snowiest US cities.

A couple other brief factoids... Syracuse gets more snow, on average than Buffalo -- the latter makes the news since they get snow in fewer larger storms. And, despite what you might think, Syracuse is called the Salt City not for the amount spread on the roads in the winter but rather for the salt deposits. Folks familiar with the area know that the "real" snow is in the Tug Hill area, where snowbanks reach the power lines and there are two garages -- the summer garage by the house and the winter garage down by the road.

That said, we got snow in Virginia Beach this winter, so it must be time to head south!

[BillB800si]

After this lousy winter here in the Detroit area we will leave wonderful Michigan on DECEMBER 27th. Two days after Christmas and we'll be out of here. We're becoming SNOWBIRDS and will love it.

Happy trails,

[BurbMan]

Drove back from Chicago today and saw a class A DP with FL plates and a nice toad covered in slushy salty mess on I-65 fighting the snow and ice along with the rest of us. I was in 4WD most of the way and was glad I wasn't towing the TT!

[WyoTraveler]

It is a trade off though. More snow and less people or more people and less snow.

[rockhillmanor]

Yup. From Wisconsin Great Lakes area here....or at least I 'used' to be!
The last year we had back to back blizzards that buried my motor home in, is when I put the house up for sale that following spring and headed South. NO MO snow for me.:C

[F105]

2hams wrote:
Got your attention, didn't it?

Just sitting here getting anxious to go camping and thinking about snow. Although I no longer live in snow country, it made me curious, so I searched for Syracuse NY, where I grew up. Sure enough, the "Salt City" makes the top of the list of 101 cities with >50K population with highest average snow (just under 120" a year). Multiple "winner" of the Golden Snowball Award (competition in upstate NY cities for most snow). One the current top 10 snowiest US cities.

A couple other brief factoids... Syracuse gets more snow, on average than Buffalo -- the latter makes the news since they get snow in fewer larger storms. And, despite what you might think, Syracuse is called the Salt City not for the amount spread on the roads in the winter but rather for the salt deposits. Folks familiar with the area know that the "real" snow is in the Tug Hill area, where snowbanks reach the power lines and there are two garages -- the summer garage by the house and the winter garage down by the road.

That said, we got snow in Virginia Beach this winter, so it must be time to head south!

And having been born in Rochester ( right between Buffalo and Syracuse) and raised in Henrietta ( just South of Rochester) I can attest to the amount of snow these cities get each year.

However in the 1950's and 1960's when I lived there,the amount of snow that the. Rochester area gets seems to be much less nowadays than back then.