THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE HAVE A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

It is possible to make a snowman out of hail, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist with the service's Oxnard office.

(Thanks to Annie Where-but-here)

Comments

[Coconuts]

Hail, snow.....whatever. Just blame it on Al Gore.

[Mitch]

Why do I have to suppress a giggle when I read Oxnard?

[Sharon Lurie]

But if a snowman is made out of something other than snow, does he not then cease to be a snowman?

[queensbee]

the ice man cometh?

[Telecomdropout]

Mr. Telecom calls the place, "Nards of an Ox", whenever we go there. Probably the same reason you get the giggles, Mitch.

[Mitch]

Telecomdropout,

My late aunt and uncle lived in Visalia. When we would drive up the coast from Oceanside back in the early '70s I always giggled a little, inwardly, when I saw the Oxnard exit. At the time, I thought it best not to tip my parents off to my occasionally embarassing sense of humor.

[Telecomdropout]

Whoa - that was a DRIVE back then !! Mr. Telecom's cousin lives in Port Hueneme*, and we are often up there for whale watching, kayaking, and other pleasant diversions. Oxnard always made me giggle as well - your parents probably knew you thought it was amusing - heck, THEY probably thought it was funny - but didn't want you to know they knew !

*pronounced why-nee-mee.

[bonmot]

That depends on whose ox is being narded.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Oxnard city meetings sometimes bring up the point that their city name is fugly. They discuss what they can do about it. Big verbal scuffle, but they never change it. I wish they'd do what every other Cali town does to prettify their name - just call it "Rancho Oxnard."

Tele - Port Hueneme is often pronounced "Pork My Weinie." Now you really have something to laugh about.

I sent this in because personally I found it hilarious that locals would not recognize snow when it literally hit them in the face. It's snow! It's hail! It's wintry mix! It's graupel! WTFBBQ???? Buncha tropical kookoos.