Cold Is a Realative Thing

I got this in an email:

COLD IS A RELATIVE THING.

65 above zero:
Floridians turn on the heat.
People in Upstate New York plant gardens.

60 above zero:
Californians shiver uncontrollably.
People in Upstate New York sunbathe.

50 above zero:
Italian & English cars won't start.
People in Upstate New York drive with the windows down.

40 above zero:
Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, and wool hats.
People in Upstate New York throw on a flannel shirt.

35 above zero:
New York city landlords finally turn up the heat.
People in Upstate New York have the last cookout before it gets cold.

20 above Zero:
People in Miami all die.
Upstate New Yorkers close the windows.

Zero:
Californians fly away to Mexico .
People in Upstate New York get out their winter coats.

10 below zero:
Hollywood disintegrates.
The Girl Scouts in Upstate New York are selling cookies door to door.

20 below zero:
Washington DC runs out of hot air.
People in Upstate New York let the dogs sleep indoors.

30 below zero:
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Upstate New Yorkers get upset because they can't start the tractor.

40 below zero:
ALL atomic motion stops.
People in Upstate New York start saying...'cold enough fer ya?'

50 below zero:
Hell freezes over.
Upstate New York public schools will open 2 hours late.

now I know why so many leave up state NY . I have two neighbors within a block from there.

is this true JayinNY ???

Funny !! My wife was born in upstate NY on the Canadian border and attests to its' accuracy. She couldn't remember any late openings though. LOL

Seen the same e-mail with a few different places mentioned, but upstate NY certainly is one of them! As a side note, a sure way you can tell someone is from downstate NY is that they say they're from upstate NY--"upstate" is a term mainly used by people within spitting distance of NYC.

Well, not exactley!

Well there's the NYC area, then "upstate NY" and then the lake-effect area of New York that gets the most snow in the USA east of the Rocky Mountains (I've got a place there on the Tug Hill Plateau). Mostly from Lake Ontario lake-effect storms that sometimes last a week and drop 12 feet of snow.

Chucky Shumer calls anthing on the other side of the George Washington Bridge "upstate" and any snow over 1/2" a blizzard.


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thats too much for me!!

Nics pics JD, Tug Hill isent that the snowmoblie capitial of NY? LOL

I think ill just stay in alaska thank you.

I moved to NY for college, And its always snowing here mind you im a little bit west and north of albany (cobleskill) but its jsut always snowing, Most of the time it doesnt ammount much but it can be bright blue sky and still snowing ....i dont know how you northerners do it

Does it snow in July in NY? It does in California. In fact, I almost got stuck in a snowstorm in the middle of August in the White Mountain range.

We have a joke about Northern Maine, they have 10 months of winter and then 2 months of something that's not quite winter. :wink:

All in all we (Maine) have had a very mild, snowless winter.

I like snow so it's been a bit of a let down for me. Never understood why folks complain up and down about winter but live in the northeast, it's not like you didn't know it was coming!

K

Yes. They don't salt or sand the many miles of backroads there - to promote snowmobile travel. And in the summer, the place is over-run with four wheel ATVs.