Snow

[Mitera Nikkou]

It has been a few years, but my area is getting some snow right now. Wet and heavy snow, of course. I wish I could go out and play in it.

[Helel]

We got snow as well, but it's all melted by now, since the temperature rose, and then we just got a bunch of frigid rain. This is the first time it's snowed in a place I've lived in about 17 years. :O

[Anamnesis]

Be careful, Helel...You'd better close your window, lest you let the reyn in :O

[Helel]

Be careful, Helel...You'd better close your window, lest you let the reyn in :O

The door's still open. But if you still want to try, I sleep right next to the window. Literally. The bed's right there.

[Anamnesis]

I am aware, Helel. You know my weakness, though...If you leave the door and window open, I can't get in, because it's just not awesome enough without breaking anything! @_x
Regardless, I hope to see snow when I go up there in March..It would be really nice :O

[Mitera Nikkou]

This area (northern part of South Carolina) gets snow every few years, not including the occasional ice storm. So far the greatest amount I've seen was about thirteen to fourteen inches, about four or five years ago.

All I have are regular pants and T-shirts, and one corduroy jacket, so I can't play in the snow. I'd likely get hypothermia because I'll want to play around for too long. ;/

[Stellar]

Okay, this is the suburban California valley girl in me beating it's way to the surface to reply. I hate snow.

It's like the worst thing in exsistance to live with and is the reason I so want to move away from the northwest.

I give it one plus though... It's pretty. It's as beautiful as the night sky is to me. But I don't like the cold. And I certainly don't like being near the snow.

Keep it in the postcards please.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Nevar! Snow is here to stay! ;p

I've lived in a country environment for nearly every moment of my life, so I have a great fondness for snow. The more snow, the better. Blizzard? No problem!

Of course, it may be that I've been lucky to live in places where the snow looks soft and pure all of the time. I've seen the kind of snow that people tend to complain about, but I've never had that kind around the house. So long as I can stay warm enough to enjoy the snow then I'll be there, in it.

I think my favorite kind of snow, back when I lived up in the Catskill mountains, was the kind that had an inch or two of an icy, sparkly crust. Back then I was light enough to walk on it. And having three-foot long icicle swords was fun, too. I have nothing but good memories with snow.

And, of course, it's fun to slide on. :D

[ZeroForever]

meh snow is fun until you need to drive in it... got in a car accident in the last major one in the spring of last year... and almost got in a another one which made it not so fun, that and shoveling suxs.

[Helel]

Granted, I'm from the south, so I haven't had to live with blizzards, but after living with a friend in Atlanta (who I swear is a carbon copy of me personality-wise, and vice versa) who's from Colorado Springs, I can say that I have a really good tolerance for snow and the cold and most anything else in between.

I recall when I went to Switzerland in March a couple of years ago, there was two, three feet of snow everywhere from a snow storm several weeks before I came over. I had plenty of fun in the snow, though some of it was kinda gross for various reasons. I got to help with moving some from the front of my friend's house, and it turned into a snow fight in the middle of our work. I can be such a little kid at times in the snow, since I never really had the chance to be a little kid in the snow.

And stuff.

[Mitera Nikkou]

You should have been up north during the "storm of the century." It was awesome. My mother took my sister and I to an old lady's house, to watch over her during the blizzard, and the work afterward was nothing but an adventure rather than a chore. Case in point, it started by having to get outside via a second floor window, because the door was about two feet under the snow. But on the side of the house the snow drift was right up to the windows on the second floor, where we got out of the house. I had fun helping to dig out the door, then to make a path to the road. Some time after that some friends (Jehovah's Witnesses) helped us dig out our vehicles.

The only annoying part was when a snow plow came through and pushed snow back into the yard, filling in about half of the path we had made to the road. ;/

[SweetSophia]

White blankets of death-bringing moisture descending from above?! No thank you. I was in Chattanooga during the Storm of the Century. That was my first exposure to snow and despite everything I had seen on television and movies it was cold, wet, dirty and hurt when you got smacked with it. Frankly I just don't see the appeal in it. It's just a whole lot of wet that staves off the presence of life in the surrounding area. Give me heat, sun, surf and sand any day of the week. It's already got to Northern South Carolina, heaven forbid old man winter wrest his deadly tendrils on my part of the state.....

[Helel]

You should have been up north during the "storm of the century." It was awesome. My mother took my sister and I to an old lady's house, to watch over her during the blizzard, and the work afterward was nothing but an adventure rather than a chore. Case in point, it started by having to get outside via a second floor window, because the door was about two feet under the snow. But on the side of the house the snow drift was right up to the windows on the second floor, where we got out of the house. I had fun helping to dig out the door, then to make a path to the road. Some time after that some friends (Jehovah's Witnesses) helped us dig out our vehicles.

The only annoying part was when a snow plow came through and pushed snow back into the yard, filling in about half of the path we had made to the road. ;/

My roommate told me about some huge snowstorm in Colorado about how he basically described the very same conditions as you did, though it was a totally different storm. I think. I dunno. I'll check Wiki about it anyways.

Also, quick question, what is it that people usually say about the snow precipitation conversion into just normal rain? Isn't it 10 inches of snow per inch of rain or something? Or was it a foot of snow per inch of rain? Someone please enlighten me.

[Sensei Kimiko]

Maybe, I'm funny in this regard, but having been up north a few Christmases, I can generally say, I prefer those cold snows to the odd wet snows down south. It's like powder. Of course, I generally would rather that all the snow I see is on TV, especially when I have to work.

[Gee-chan]

We got a bit of snow in Yorkshire this year. We also got the second flood in 6 months. The people who don't live at the top of hills are not happy (I am one of those who does live on a hill so it was some guy's field that flooded instead of our house )