My Great Lakes geography leaves something to be desired--I can't always remember which is which, and I certainly don't know offhand which cities are on which lakes. Or even which cities are on the Great Lakes in the first place. I would be hard pressed to find Toledo on a map of Ohio if it wasn't marked. Didn't even realize it was on a Great Lake. Pretty sad, I know. Geography used to be my best subject. I can name probably all the states on a map, but the cities within those states? Forget it. And Ashtabula? Could just as easily be Timbuktu for all I know, sorry to say. So how did you end up in Toledo of all places?
--- In [email protected], "David Patch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Daria Akers" > <daria.akers@> wrote: > > > > People in Oswego know not to wait till the snow stops falling to start > > shoveling. My dad did his Masters at Syracuse and his doctorate at > Cornell > > (Ithaca) - the stories my parents used to tell me about the weather > would > > make me cold just hearing them. Not only that but people die from > slipping > > on the ice or when icicles fall from gutter and poke someone's eye out. > > (wait maybe not.. that was a red rider BB gun) > > Just in case Daria's description creates any confusion: it gets damn > cold in Ithaca, but Ithaca is not in the Snow Belt the way Syracuse > is. Cayuga Lake is big enough, believe it or not, to create its own > lake-effect, but it ain't nothin' compared to what Lake Ontario > produces. Not that Cornell doesn't get snow, but not six feet at a > time, thank God. Molly Weingarten can undoubtedly attest to this. > > If I lived downwind of a Great Lake, you wouldn't catch me shoveling > that much snow in any case. I'd have a big-ass snowblower. But Toledo, > being at the (normally) upwind end of Lake Erie, doesn't get snow the > way metro Cleveland, Ashtabula, Erie, and Buffalo do. This is my 14th > winter here and the most we've ever gotten from one storm is 12 > inches, which pales in comparison to the blizzards I remember growing > up in metro New York (or to the 2003 Washington storm that kept me in > Argentina for an extra day of vacation when my connecting-flight home > was cancelled.) If Toledo gets lake-effect snow at all, it blows all > the way across from Lake Michigan. > > David Patch > Cornell '88 >
