Oh my fvcking gawd!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Temperature is one thing. Snow is another.

Canoga Park has elevation. Westwood is at sea level.

Okay, it's a whole 600 ft. difference in elevation. Congratulations, you win that particular frozen pissing match.

I'm not trying to win some "my winter was colder than your winter" competition. I'm just getting tired of hearing, "OMG this is the coldest it's ever been!" and, "There hasn't been weather like this in 60 year!" and, "It's the apocalypse!" everywhere I turn.

If, in my short span of existence, I can remember off the top of my head winters that were at best incrementally better (or more realistically, just as bad in different ways), such as a winter with snow and temperatures of -8 degrees at near sea level (as far as I've seen, nowhere with an elevation under 1000ft has come even CLOSE to -8 this year), then this is hardly unprecedented, apocalyptic weather. It's people with short memories. And if I can pull that up from memory, I can only imagine that there are plenty more examples if one were to actually look up the historical weather data.

But I guess people somehow feel better if they convince themselves they're living through the worst winter ever. *shrug*