First Damned Snow

[hmhaines]

A great menace has overtaken my hometown. People are being accosted everywhere, we can't walk out the door without being attacked. This cold, heartless monster is going after our children, our homes, our pets, our gardens, and our poor, poor mailmen. Ye gods, did we displease you?! Why have you forsaken us!?
Arm yourselves, take up torch and snow shovel. Take to the streets! (But quickly take to the driveways when the plow comes down your road.)
Damned winter.

 

[cossackjack]

In the CO Front Range we received our first measurable snowfall of 3-4" on 10/6/2016. Otherwise its been dry since August & no other precipitation expected for the remainder of the month.

 

[hmhaines]

My preferred ambient temperature is somewhere in the high 70s to mid 80s. Anything under 70 is cripplingly cold for me. Can't stand this garbage. Oi.
Have I mentioned I'm moving to Minneapolis for love?

 

[mso489]

Not many days of snow here, and it usually melts off before more falls. Sounds pretty benign. However, we have wrathful ice that coats everything with a deadly eighth of an inch. Worse, people from the snow states scorn any complaints because of their vastly greater precipitation, but forget we have much more limited salt and sand trucks and plows, etc., so frequently have to just wait out the glaze, which melts off quickly some places but waits in shadowy spots in others. Lots of power out and vehicle wrecks despite the bright looking days that often accompany this. It's the stealth winter. It's not Buffalo or St. Paul. And we can have balmy days as early as February. But we ignore the ice at our peril, and can't look for sympathy from the snow-blower states.

 

[hmhaines]

I am constantly amazed by the fact that humanity inhabited those places before the existence of electricity, LL Bean, and overpopulation.

 

[texmexpipe]

Snow here in Upstate as well. Woke up to an inch on the ground and ice on my car. Time to start adding an extra 15 to my morning schedule for de icing and warm up.

 

[iamn8]

It's in the eighties here. I'd kill for snow... literally.

 

[aldecaker]

I'm with Nate. Supposed to hit 96 degrees today; it's the end of October, for God's sake. Enough with the heat down here.

 

[hmhaines]

It's in the eighties here. I'd kill for snow... literally.

I'll trade ya.

I'm with Nate. Supposed to hit 96 degrees today; it's the end of October, for God's sake. Enough with the heat down here.

Send me some!!

 

[pappymac]

Snow? What's that? Is it like a fine sand or something?

 

[derfatdutchman]

They did get some snow in the northern part of PA this morning, only had rain and a few sleet pellets. Wish it would have snowed. I could have lit the fireplace and settled down with a good book and a pipe.

 

[hmhaines]

Snow? What's that?

It is a plague of terror and sadness that flutters haphazardly to earth, bringing with it tremendous cold and wicked demons.

 

[iamn8]

I went to school in Montana. People back home would say that I must love snow, but it's not that so much as it is a love of the seasons. By January the snow sucks, but you look forward for spring and onward. It sucks when seasons just blend into a few weeks of 50's and the rest 80++.

 

[ssjones]

No thank you!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I haven't even started wearing socks yet. I was just working with the framers in shorts. I'm not a snow person. The climate here in Alabama suits my coat. We'd have already closed down all of the interstates and schools. Everyone immediately just drives into a ditch and walks home in stuff like that. Deadly stuff, that is. Scary.

 

[crashthegrey]

Snowing like crazy in upstate NY today. I went for a walk and discovered they clear cut the trail head outside of my office. Not a great day, all in all.

 

[pagan]

That's global warming for you. Someone call Al Gore and tell him all about it :rofl:

 

[crashthegrey]

He bores the hell out of me. I'd rather not be the one to call.

 

[aeropuffer]

I live at 8000 feet elevation, and it never snows or frezes. The kids don't know what snow is except in pictures.

 

[jpmcwjr]

You are pretty close to the equator, no? Sounds like a pretty fine climate....elevation keeps you cool in Summer, sun warm in Winter. Well, cool-ish and warm-ish!