Hey Californians... Does This Look Familiar ???

[WillyT]

Was snowing on Big Sur, Mount Hamilton, and Mount Diablo earlier today!

I want some valley snow, you???

[proud patriot]

1. I want Snow it's been since I was a very young child

since we've had snow, 197? something ..we made these little snowmen
it was very cool... Shoot you remember , you were sacto/bayarea then ?
if I remember correctly.

It's been so cold , I feel like I deserve some snow ..

[EFerrari]

2. It snowed at De Anza College, Cupertino, in 1972.

We all went to the windows to watch.

[WillyT]

6. LOL !!! - I Was A Junior In High School That Year...

we went to lunch, and found several inches of snow on the ground.

We started body-sledding though the quad, and NOBODY went back to class for the rest of the day!

Even some of the teachers came out and sled with us.

[EFerrari]

7. I was 17. I got sprung from high school and was passing for a grown up

at De Anza. I remember the snow because it was the same day my boy friend came home from Fort Ord for a visit.

There was no cable yet.

We had snow.

lol

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. You went to De Anza??

I'm comin' up there and kickin' your ass.

[EFerrari]

21. Too late.

lol!

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. We stole a couple of your football players seven years later

Rick Rebozzi and Robbie Rocha from Lincoln High. They were gonna go to De Anza in '79, but Coach Grim lured 'em to Hartnell, and they won us a Coast Conference championship.

Rebozzi went on to Boise State, but got thrown out for having someone take an English exam for him. Worse, the guy flunked it.

[EFerrari]

30. That's really LAME.

LOL

I had all kinds of jocks at Cal when I taught English 1A/B. I had the whole hockey team in one of my 1B sections. They were great. Instead of writing a final paper, they wrote a script for two characters that never get a love scene in Pride and Prejudice and half of them came to class in drag.

I used to go see their games that always seemed to happen in the middle of the effen' night. That was fun!

[Occulus]

40. Was the script part of the exam, or did they just DO it?

And what was your reaction?

I'm curious. It sounds like a funny story...

[EFerrari]

41. I gave them a choice. They could do a critical essay or write

that scene and perform it for us.

[TahitiNut]

28. It snowed there more recently, too. (FWIW, my favorite Jamba Juice was across the street.)

I lived in Monte Vista (near Stevens and Foothill) from 1983-1992. De Anza was great for concerts and 'cultural' events.

[EFerrari]

32. The drama department was in the basement of Flint Center.

We used to show up at dawn and leave the next day when the sun came up. It wasn't even finished inside yet, at the time. That was before fish became obnoxious.

[TahitiNut]

53. The acoustics in Flint Center are really excellent.

I remember listening to George Winston (piano) play there without any amplification to a sell-out audience. Awesome. Really awesome.

My FAVORITE falafel stand was just on the other side of 85 from there, next to the new post office ... Vivi's Falafels. Yum!! (I miss that.) He had outstanding baklava, too - made with pistacios and raw honey, like it should be.

(sigh) I miss being there.

[EFerrari]

63. Was the new post office on the Mervin's side of Stevens Creek?

I think I used to go there. There was also a great smoothie bar in that strip center before smoothie bars were a thing anywhere.

What I loved about De Anza was the book store across the street. Clean Well Lighted Place. I rarely could afford to buy anything but the owners let you browse forever. They were cool guys.

[TahitiNut]

64. I haunted A Clean Well Lighted Place at all hours in the 80s ... it was a terrific bookstore.

The folks that worked there were actually literate and knew the stock. (Good coffee, too.) Mervyn's was on the south side of Stevens Creek and to the east of De Anza, near De Anza Boulevard (across a parking lot from Marie Callenders, as I recall). The new post office is in Monte Vista, on the north side of Stevens Creek and to the west of De Anza and west of 85. The Oaks Shopping Center has had its ups and downs ... with a decent second-run movie house, a Hobee's restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, some artsy-fartsy boutiques, a really good ice cream parlor ... and Jamba Juice.


(Note on directions. I consider Stevens Creek Boulevard as an east-west main drag. Sillycon Valley folks had a strange sense of compass direction. They could drive "north" on Stevens Creek in the early evening and the sun would be directly ahead, setting on the center line of Stevens Creek and making a visor essential to see ... but folks would still declare they were going "north." Bizarre.)

[RufusTFirefly]

65. What about Coffee Society, Tahiti?

When I was down there (late '80s, early '90s), the coffee came from Coffee Society, which was just around the corner from A Clean Well-Lighted Place. The theater was the Oaks, and it showed second-run movies for a bit more than a dollar, plus the cost of a membership card, which was a one-time only purchase, assuming you didn't lose it.

By the way, it snowed in 1988 in the Bay Area and, as I recall, so many pipes froze in San Francisco that they stopped responding to calls. I had just moved out from the East, so when my girlfriend and I woke up one morning and found frost on our windshield, we thought nothing of it. We scraped the windshield and went on with our day, only realizing belatedly that it was a bizarre occurrence in Mtn. View, Calif.

[TahitiNut]

75. "Coffee Society" was almost exclusively a teen and 20-something crowd - De Anza students mostly.

I remember that snowfall ... I just couldn't remember which year it was. It was also the year that my huge jade plant (3' high and 5' wide in my patio) became a heap of mush. That was sad - but the roots recovered and it started anew.

I recall that folks were freaking out at Santa Clara University ... snow on the bouganvillas! (Of all things.) The San Jose Merc was full of pictures at the time. I, of course, only 5 years out of the lake effect of Western New York, was enormously amused. I still had my snow shovel - used it like a dustpan in the garage - and never felt the slightest need to use it.


I notice that they had to close Hwy 9 a few days ago due to a deep snowfall in the Santa Cruz mountains down to 1000' elevation. Awesome! Skyline Drive had to be a real trip for the crotch-rocketeers.

[proud patriot]

48. I was 3 in 72

[WillyT]

52. Man... You ARE Young, Aren't You ???

[proud patriot]

57. Why Thank You

[EFerrari]

62. You're two years older than my oldest son

whom I had when I was 10.

[Arugula Latte]

77. I remember it snowing in the East Bay back then ...

I was in elementary school and we all ran outside, screaming, and rolled on the ground.

[villager]

3. I remember that Bay Area snow!

I was in my early teens...

Now expatriated to el Lay, getting rained on..!

[EFerrari]

22. I remember an even earlier one. I think it was in 1960 or so. I was

five or so.

Try waking up your hardworking mom on a Saturday morning to tell her it snowed and you want to go out to play. She thought I was fibbling.

[villager]

25. in the East Bay?

n/t

[EFerrari]

27. We were in Westlake, near Daly City. n/t

[proud patriot]

37. The one I remember was in the east bay , contra costa co

[TahitiNut]

29. (Yechh.) You can always drive up to Mt Hamilton, Trish.

If I could afford the shipping costs, I'd send you a whole backyard full.

[proud patriot]

35. Come back for a visit Mike

[WillyT]

33. Hey Beautiful !!!

I feel the same way. If it's gonna be cold, grey, and miserable...

I WANT SOME SNOW!!!

[proud patriot]

36. Hey Handsome !

I guess from the looks of this thread we are very lucky
to live in such a mild climate ..

Umm that's why I'm staying

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Aint nuthin like a big ol rainstorm

to wash the stench of humanity off the sidewalks.

[EFerrari]

5. Hey -- every time you post that thing, my power goes out!

lol

[WillyT]

9. Oh Crap... Sorry !!!

[dorkulon]

8. Screw you guys from Buffalo, NY

I'll mail you some. Now STFU!

[WillyT]

11. I've Always Wanted To Shovel On To Buffalo...

Sorry.

[dorkulon]

13. Lake Erie's got you covered...

well, it's got us covered, anyway.

[proud patriot]

51. Oh man

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. If it makes you feel better

some folks will freeze to death in this state (and south of the border in the colonials in tijuana)

Now, does that make you feel a tad better?

[dorkulon]

15. A little, yes.

Thanks!

[TahitiNut]

31. Buffalo - where lack o' wanna is more than just depression and "lake effect" is winter.

Where only the hardiest attend a Bills game in Rich Stadium in December. (BRRRR!)

[dorkulon]

38. I've been to 2 Bills games, and left early both times.

It is fucking COLD in that stadium! I bent my keys trying to scrape the ice of my "seat"--more of a metal bench, really. Seriously, how does Buffalo not have a dome?

[TahitiNut]

56. REALLY cold! I went to a couple games there in December, back when O.J. played.

I think that's why so many fans top off their "antifreeze" in the parking lot before the game. It TRULY pays to dress warm and have a stadium cushion to sit on. It also helps to have battery-powered heated socks and hand warmers. But the fans are terrific. Almost as fun as the SF 49er fans, I think. (Oakland Raider fans, otoh ... yikes.)

[dorkulon]

60. Yeah, I was completely unprepared.

Regular wool overcoat, thin gloves (I was actually working at the game, a one-shot job handing out free Marlboros to people as they came in--weird, I know). Everyone else had all kind of accessories, and many had mini-TVs and were listening to the game on the radio. What I learned: It's way better to sit in your warm living room and watch the game on TV--you can actually see what the heck's going on, even!

[proud patriot]

34. You can stay on the couch in my sons room

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Goody, we need water... even if it is gonna be cold, wintry et al

hell, this has been a very mild winter

[EFerrari]

14. It's only 43 degrees here. Colder than a Republican's heart. n/t

[WillyT]

16. I Did Not Know That Republican Hearts Could Even Register !!!

It's amazing what one can learn here.

[lonestarnot]

43. I didn't know repiglicons had hearts period.

[tularetom]

17. It snowed yesterday on Rte 43 in SLO County

Just north of the James Dean intersection. We went through at noon - they closed the road at 3 or 4. It's only 2000 feet elevation.

[kestrel91316]

18. It has been very cold and rainy in Los Angeles for a couple of days,

and they say the worst is yet to come over the weekend. The Grapevine is shut down not just to snow, but a thick layer of heavy ice covered by snow on the road that they are going to have to CHISEL off, it sounds like.

Perky TV news girl last night up there was whining about how the snow was "a foot deep" and you could see looking right at her feet/legs that it wasn't over 6" deep. Our news bimbettes are really moronic sometimes. Those boob jobs rot their brains.

[melody]

19. Cold and rainy and beautiful in northern LA County

It almost feels like winter even.

[Jed Dilligan]

23. It snowed in Davis in 1976

one of my first memories.

[mitchtv]

24. Nothing here a few High clouds

but the mountains around Coachella Valley are pretty ( less than an inch in two years)

[KitchenWitch]

39. It has been raining like crazy here in near coastal OC.

I am about 6 miles (as the crow flies) from the coast, at about 85 feet above sea level.

[lonestarnot]

42. WillyT

What website address is that from? I would like to look at AZ.

[WillyT]

44. Hey lonestarnot !!! - Arizona !!!

Main site: http://www.intellicast.com/Default.aspx

Enter your zip code for local stuff.

Lots of features, but it takes some exploring to use them all.

Have fun!



Onedit: Was that the one you wanted???

[lonestarnot]

46. Yes thanks so much!

Perfect. We are supposed to be hit pretty hard on Saturday. Desert is still pretty parched, it it hits hard and fast we could see flooding.

[Gormy Cuss]

45. HEY! Don't even think about it.

The SO wanted to move here from Boston to get away from snow. If we have real snow in our backyard I'll need to start packing.

[proud patriot]

47. Don't worry it only happens once every 30 some years

if it happens .. Still hasn't happened since the early 70s .

[WillyT]

49. Yeah... Plus Ya Get A Day Off !!! - Where Else In The Country Can Ya...

call into work snowed in, with only an inch and a half of snow on the ground???

[proud patriot]

55. LOL.. Screw calling in I'm playing in the snow with 50 3-5 yr olds

I love my job

[EFerrari]

58. You know you're outnumbered, right?

lol

You must be very patient, proud patriot!

[proud patriot]

61. LOL you have no idea LOL

[Gormy Cuss]

59. every 30 years or so...hasn't happened sincd the '70s....

Hmmm... maybe I SHOULD be worried.
I like the snow on Mt Diablo, where it belongs.

[EFerrari]

50. It's funny that some of us talk about snow as other people talk about UFOs.

If we have a meet up, I'll book the hall and order up the ice sculptures.

lol

And, yes, you expats have to come, too.

[WillyT]

54. I'm In !!!

[krispos42]

66. Ah, Californians and snow

You guys actually have to try to figure out which president was in the White House the last time snowed on you.

Heh.

[FirstLight]

67. Blech!

I'm in Tahoe...it has been drizling the crap for days and no sign of warming up...my TOES have been frozen for weeks!
I am SO looking forward to JUNE!

...and I remember a few inches of snow in 75 or 76, I was in kindergarten in the Bay Area

Ford was president!lol

[FirstLight]

68. ...funny, I thought this thread was going to be about crazy weather

and Global Warming/Ice Age cometh...

[WillyT]

72. Welcome To DU, Journalgrrl !!!

Glad ta have ya aboard!!!

[Hekate]

69. Out here in Goleta we could see the Santa Ynez Mts all frosted yesterday, gone today. Heavy rain...

I have a bucket out in the yard that's really filling up. I finally dunked a yardstick in it this afternoon and came up with 7 inches. My gods that's a lot in a short period of time for this region. On the one hand, we desperately need the rain, on the other hand the land can't take too much all at once or the hills get slippery.

I know there's flood warnings for the burn region, but I am hoping the soot gets washed away in the forest. Twice since the Zaca Fire went out we've had winds blowing from over the mountains that dumped untold quantities of fine black soot all over the place.

The mountains looked gorgeous yesterday. We stood across the street with our neighbors and just admired the view while they took photos. My friend who lives in the mountains off Paradise Rd phoned to tell me there were big fluffy flakes falling.

There are small inland counties in Northern California where they get lots of snow. Some of them spend fully half of their public works budgets on snow removal. Mount Baldy in SoCal has good skiing.

But for us it's a real novelty.

Hekate

[troubleinwinter]

70. 55 yrs as a northern Californian

(now 2 away)

The first picture didn't look unusual. The second one DID!!!! That snow is very unique.

I lived on Mt. Hamilton (NOBODY ever lives there! My father was an astronomer) when I was a baby. My silly mother hung my cloth diapers on the clothesline, and was amazed when all they did was freeze board-stiff.

What doesn't show is that I was on the phone with a DUer pal today who witnessed snow clear to the foot of the Santa Cruz mountains (south) this afternoon.

[EFerrari]

71. I froze stiff once when we drove up there in January.

It's cold up where those stars are.

[troubleinwinter]

73. We got a little snow here in Arizona overnight! (Not unusual, I'm a mile high)

Betcha the San Francisco beach didn't get any!

[EFerrari]

74. I'm thinking we might see ice before this storm is over.

The wind is really cold. I can't keep this place warm.

[WillyT]

76. Yep... The Wind Is Starting To Gain In Strength, Again...