• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    The situation isn’t much better in US resorts. I live in the Jackson Hole area and by this time last year I had a four foot layer of snow on my front yard (typical). This year, most of my lawn is fully exposed. Boomers born and raised here tell me that snowfall used to bury the town in yards of snow back in the sixties. The town would be cut off for days.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 months ago

    I live in a ski town, got turned down for a job last week because the snow’s been shit this year and the tourist traffic is down. Was a stormy weekend which should help, but fuck, we’re definitely the one’s ringing the most alarm bells about the climate, you can even get the conservatives on board when the local economy gets obliterated.

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      11 months ago

      What a sad, sad commentary on the state of the climate discussion. “We can’t ski anymore” is the only rallying cry that works. Maybe we don’t deserve a climate that’s not trying to actively murder us.

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        11 months ago

        Well for the local conservatives it isn’t even the mountain conditions it’s the lower tourist traffic and the economic impact of that which has them rallied.

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      11 months ago

      Of course. If the base cost of every outing is hundreds of dollars, you’re probably doing something you shouldn’t be doing.

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    11 months ago

    Haha, rip bozos. Maybe you’d stay in business if we did something about global warming earlier. Get rekt

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    11 months ago

    I want to laugh but no snow implies lower water reserves and a poorer landscape.

    But fuck ski resorts. With the skis. Sideways.