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[textualdeviance]

It shouldn't be surprising, but it's still annoying. After Snowpocalypse melts away, we're left with tons of water everywhere. Yay, Floodpocalypse. :/

Didn't we just do this last year?

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[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

After Snowpocalypse melts away, we're left with tons of water everywhere.

Melting snow? Melting???

We've just been getting our first snowstorm of 2009 today (going into tomorrow), our fourth for the season so far; and the concept of melting is as far away from us as April at best.

*envies your Floodpocalypse, seriously*

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

That's part of why things can be so dangerous around here in winter. It doesn't snow very often, but it doesn't stay cold enough for the snow to stick around. It melts and refreezes for a week or so (leaving the roads basically impassible), then melts completely all at once. We usually get one or two small snowstorms each year, and they melt off without much incident. But when it dumps a ton, like it did recently, and then warms up back to our usual temperatures, the sudden volume of water being added to our systems is just too much for them to handle.

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

It doesn't snow very often, but it doesn't stay cold enough for the snow to stick around. It melts and refreezes for a week or so (leaving the roads basically impassible)

Ugh! In very early and very late winter (say, to mid-December and in April), we often get snow turning to rain then freezing, with the result that the sidewalks especially turn into ice rinks, really dangerous and horrible. The roads are generally a little better maintained, but when you're talking about 3 million people trying to get around in those conditions, it's pretty hairy!

then melts completely all at once

Luckily we don't get that! Hope the flooding is easing off by now....