KSYR From United States, joined Jan 2006, 443 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 422 times:
Well, I thought that since Buffalo and Rochester have had their own piling-on threads, it was time for Sorrycuse to get in on the fun. As a former Watertown native who has spent more than enough time in Sorrycuse, I'll get the ball rolling.
Syraucse is the snowiest major city in the US. Snowier than Rochester (sorry KROC), snowier than Buffalo. It is our one claim to fame. But does anyone recognize us for it? NO! Its pretty bad when the one thing that you are good at (getting dumped on with snow) isn't even recognized by many people.
Crapchester has a waterfall. Sorrycuse has a mega-mall that will never be built.
Buffalo has an amusement park. Sorrycuse has a massive dome.
Is there anything good in this city?
And, for the record, this is my first post (although I have been a longtime lurker).
Newark777 From United States, joined Dec 2004, 8796 posts, RR: 39 Reply 2, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 412 times:
Quoting AirCop (Reply 1): What is the snowfall annually for Syracuse? Thinking that a couple of cities in the UP of Michigan might give Syracuse a run for their snowfall.
It might snow more there, but there's no major cities up there.
KSYR From United States, joined Jan 2006, 443 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 383 times:
Quoting AirCop (Reply 1): What is the snowfall annually for Syracuse? Thinking that a couple of cities in the UP of Michigan might give Syracuse a run for their snowfall.
Syracuse averages 114 inches a year, while the past two years it has picked up 180 and 150 inches, respectively. I believe Marquette is snowier, but it lacks the amount of population that Syracuse has. Sorrycuse is generally regarded as the snowiest major city of 100,000 people or more.
That's another thing. They were planning on building this whole mega-resort complex there and projected 35 million visitors anually. Does anyone actually think that millions of people would visit anywhere in upstate NY, be it Buffalo or Rochester or Syracuse, in the middle of winter? I mean, besides those hardcore winter-sport fanatics (who would be better off heading further west).
KROC From United States, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 91 Reply 5, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 370 times:
Quoting KSYR (Thread starter): aucse is the snowiest major city in the US. Snowier than Rochester (sorry KROC), snowier than Buffalo.
The title of Snowiest Major City in America is based on a 10 year average and is given every 10 years. The last time it was given was 2000. So, sorry Sorrycuse, but if you want that title, you have to wait another 4 years.
And Buffalo does not have an amusment park. There is one in-bwtween Craptown and Buffalossippi. Plus Craptown has its famous park SeaBrezze right in the city. Nothing like the smell of Lake Ontario in the summer heat while you ride the Bobsleds.
And hey, thank god for I-690. If that wasn't there, one would have to take I-81 from the 90. At least with 690 you get to skip a good chunk of Sorrycuse.
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DesertJets From United States, joined Feb 2000, 6702 posts, RR: 18 Reply 7, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 353 times:
Quoting KROC (Reply 5): And hey, thank god for I-690. If that wasn't there, one would have to take I-81 from the 90. At least with 690 you get to skip a good chunk of Sorrycuse.
Whaddya mean, 690 takes you right through Sorrycuse; and right past the highly polluted Lake Onondaga (but it hasn't caught fire, since mercury isn't all that flamable)... at least the Thruway authority had the common sense to route 90 north of the city, and well south of Rochester; so motorists didn't have to actually see those two cities.
And to pile it on more, SYR is the only airport that I know of that doesn't have a single flight that leaves after ~ 7:30 pm. So for whatever reason you come to the 'Cuse, make sure you get out before sundown or you will be stuck till the following morning.
Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia
Matt D From United States, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 52 Reply 8, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 349 times:
How about Riverside CA? If there is anything good about that city, anything at all, it would have to be the Tyler Mall. At least it's sort of upscale. Everything else, watch out.
A couple of years ago, when the 909 area code split to 951, Riverside fought long and hard to keep the 909 in its area. Since 909 was introduced back in 1992, it gained the reputation of being associated with "the dirt people". If you lived in "the 909", you were considered a backwards, back woods, back water hillbilly ignoramus.
And Riverside FOUGHT to KEEP that reputation?
The other high point of Rivertucky...I mean Riverside is the great Castle Amusement park: nothing beats a great day of miniature golf, bumper cars, a "freefall tower" that goes maybe 30 feet high, and a train ride that goes maybe 2 miles an hour.
Castle Park is definitely an ethnic melting pot. Of course there was that time where the whole park was barricaded by at least 4 dozen police cars, SWAT teams, and a couple of helicopters hovering overhead.
The papers said the next day that a "racial altercation occurred".
What the papers did NOT say, was the cause of said racial confrontation, which I suspect was a black teenager and a Mexican teenager fighting over a white trash teenage girl.
KROC From United States, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 91 Reply 9, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 333 times:
Quoting LHMARK (Reply 6): Yes they do, It's a maximum-security bemusement park, complete with concentration campground, called "Martin's Fantasy Island."
I never considered that an amusment park or Grand Island to be "Buffalo".
Quoting DesertJets (Reply 7): Whaddya mean, 690 takes you right through Sorrycuse;
Not as much as I-81 from I-90 does.
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LHMARK From United States, joined Jan 2000, 7245 posts, RR: 54 Reply 15, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 305 times:
Onandaga Lake is so polluted that college crew teams competing against SU have to get shots if they fall in. It's nothing but fetid water and dead Snorks.
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PanAm330 From United States, joined Mar 2004, 2148 posts, RR: 12 Reply 16, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 302 times:
I actually don't think Syracuse is that bad, as much as I need to get out of here at least once a month. The city itself is sh*t in most places, but there are some nice parts like Armory Square or the SU campus. Some of the suburbs are quite nice (the Fayetteville-Manlius area, where I live, was voted in the top 100 places to live in America recently), especially the upscale ones. As much as people make fun of Carousel Centre/ DestiNY, it's a great mall. The ideas that they have for DestiNY are absolute jokes, but as it stands right now, Carousel is a great place to shop.
The SU sports are actually something this town can brag about (basketball, at least), and SU itself is an excellent school. Don't see Buffalo having a private university anywhere close to the ranks of SU, do you now?
We need a new airport terminal, though. ASAP. And the fairgrounds need to be demolished.
Syracuse, in my opinion, beats both Crapchester and Buffalo by a long shot.
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KSYR From United States, joined Jan 2006, 443 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 years 10 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 264 times:
Quoting KROC (Reply 5): The title of Snowiest Major City in America is based on a 10 year average and is given every 10 years. The last time it was given was 2000. So, sorry Sorrycuse, but if you want that title, you have to wait another 4 years.
Syracuse averages 114.6 inches of snow a year. Rochester averages about 90. Two years ago, Syracuse received 180 inches, or about twice Rochester's average.
And lets not bring up the Golden Snowball Award (which city has won that three years in a row again?) Â
And finally, in case you still had doubts, here's a biased website that will fil you in-
The amusement park I was refererring to was Darien Lake. Not exactly in Buffalo, but close enough.
Quoting KROC (Reply 18): Yeah, SU Football is really packing the Dome these days.
Actually, it is. I flew up for a game in October and the dome was about 80% filled. And this is with the worst football team in years (although not by a long shot, we've been pretty bad in the past).
And lets not get started with basketball...
DestiNY USA? Another thing Sorrycuse screwed up. That could have turned KSYR into a world class city, but people there were too afraid to give progress a chance and have all but shut the experiment down. It was supposed to be completed in 2004. We are in 2006 now and construction hasn't even started yet.
Sure, there are worse cities. Marquette, anyone? Â
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