Is there anyone on RF who has never seen snow?

[Katzpur]

We just had another big snowstorm here in Salt Lake City. The way I figure, winter is only about 1/3 of the way over, and I'm already so sick of it I could scream. Do any of you live somewhere where it never, ever snows?

 

[Hacker]

Oh your so lucky, we had rain all day today, I'd rather have snow over rain any day. I LOVE snow, that's the ONLY thing I like about winter and we ain't gettin any! Just twice or so. Plus you live near the mountains, OH I'll bet the scenery is out of this world.

 

[Booko]

Goodness -- I learned to drive in the stuff.

I miss it, though.

 

[Buttercup]

Goodness -- I learned to drive in the stuff.

I miss it, though.

Are you living in MI now? Your profile says so. Should be snow there I would imagine.

I didn't see snow until I was a teenager and we went to the mountains in southern California. I remember it being quite amazing.

 

[jacquie4000]

Oh your so lucky, we had rain all day today, I'd rather have snow over rain any day. I LOVE snow, that's the ONLY thing I like about winter and we ain't gettin any! Just twice or so. Plus you live near the mountains, OH I'll bet the scenery is out of this world.

Here to PA is short on the snow this year............

 

[Hacker]

Here to PA is short on the snow this year............

Yeah I live in Pa too, and the weather is suprisingly warmer. I'm not complaining about that, but I really AM missing the snow this year.

 

[Booko]

Are you living in MI now? Your profile says so. Should be snow there I would imagine.

Oh yeah, I'm back. I should change that.

No, there wasn't a bit of snow in Michigan, and still isn't. It's not unheard of to have a green Christmas now and again, but there's always snow by now. The heaviest snow is usually in February.

 

[Katzpur]

Oh your so lucky, we had rain all day today, I'd rather have snow over rain any day.

Really? Not me! I absolutely detest snow!

I LOVE snow, that's the ONLY thing I like about winter and we ain't gettin any! Just twice or so. Plus you live near the mountains, OH I'll bet the scenery is out of this world.

Snow-covered mountains are beautiful; I've give you that. I live about five minutes away from the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, so I'm at a pretty high elevation -- I'd say I'm at 5000 or 5500 ft. If I could just look at it from a distance, I could handle it. But walking in it or driving in it just plain suck. And once it's been on the ground for a day, it's been walked through and stomped down or splattered with dirty water or coated with automobile exhaust. And it just lasts, and lasts, and lasts, and lasts!!!!!!

 

[lunamoth]

I love snow. We had the infamous three feet over Christmas, and then some more, and now today we got another 6-8 inches. School was cancelled and I got my exercise shoveling.

I was sad that we left town before the big snow first hit.

 

[jonny]

We just had another big snowstorm here in Salt Lake City. The way I figure, winter is only about 1/3 of the way over, and I'm already so sick of it I could scream. Do any of you live somewhere where it never, ever snows?

The only thing that I hate about snow is the bottoms of my jeans getting wet. Other than that I love it. I spent all day Monday skiing at Snow Bird.

 

[Tigress]

I never thought I liked snow, but we haven't really had any this year, and at times I find myself missing it, even with the hassle. I'm so used to there being snow that Christmas without it was a bit depressing. Temperatures are such here that I've been wearing my spring/fall jacket with a sweater, instead of my heavy winter coat.

 

[Lindsey-Loo]

Well, usually we deprived children here in Tennessee would have had two or three snow days by now, but the weather is weird this year, it's only flurried once and that didn't even stick. It rained all day today.

 

[Mavrikmind]

It's been raining for the past week It's been grey and over cast but no snow

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

Let's just say that I live in a part of the country where the word "snow" is defined as "stocking up" and "school shuts down." People absolutely go nuts. Put simply, you can forget about grocery shopping when that happens.

And don't even get me started on what happens when the snow--or worse, ice--actually arrives....

 

[michel]

I have seen snow on only a handful of occasions in my life.

The very first time I saw ice in the roads was when I was 11 years old; my parents felt quite embarassed at the number of people who were staring at a 11 year old boy getting excited about ice on the pavement.

In England (here in Bournemouth), we might see a dusting of snow maybe every three/four years - but 30 miles from here, there can be as much as 6 inches of snow.... wow!!!

 

[Katzpur]

Let's just say that I live in a part of the country where the word "snow" is defined as "stocking up" and "school shuts down." People absolutely go nuts. Put simply, you can forget about grocery shopping when that happens.

I think that's pretty much the case in a lot of places. In order for the schools to close here in Salt Lake, we'd have to get about three feet of snow in a 24-hour period and the electricity would have to be off throughout the city. Otherwise, it's just another day.

And don't even get me started on what happens when the snow--or worse, ice--actually arrives....

One thing we don't really see here is ice storms. From what I've heard, I wouldn't want to experience one. We do get "black ice" on the roads, though. The day after a snowstorm, the weather will warm up to just over freezing. The snow on the streets will melt and turn to water. Then, by evening, the temperatures drop below freezing again and the water turns to ice -- not everywhere, but in patches. You're driving along on the freeway, thinking that the roads look pretty good and then all of a sudden you hit ice. It just comes at you out of nowhere.

 

[Katzpur]

I have seen snow on only a handful of occasions in my life.

The very first time I saw ice in the roads was when I was 11 years old; my parents felt quite embarassed at the number of people who were staring at a 11 year old boy getting excited about ice on the pavement.

In England (here in Bournemouth), we might see a dusting of snow maybe every three/four years - but 30 miles from here, there can be as much as 6 inches of snow.... wow!!!

I think I'm going to move to Bournemouth.

 

[Jaymes]

Let's just say that I live in a part of the country where the word "snow" is defined as "stocking up" and "school shuts down." People absolutely go nuts. Put simply, you can forget about grocery shopping when that happens.

And don't even get me started on what happens when the snow--or worse, ice--actually arrives....

My friend's dad is from Maine and one of his favorite pasttimes is watching people in Georgia try to drive in ice or snow. :biglaugh:

 

[PureX]

I live in the snow belt between Cleveland and Buffalo along Lake Erie, and we've had only 11 inches of snow so far this winter, which is something like a third of normal. It seems that global warming is beginning to have some dramatic effects. I don't really want to see the snow, but I don't like seeing the weather patterns changing like this, either.

 

[Gentoo]

I remember my first winter in Maine - 2002-2003, I was a freshman in college. What a wonderful introduction it was -40 wind chill, total of about 6 ft of snow, let me just say, 20 degrees felt warm enough to run outside without a coat on. When spring hit, everyone was so hot in the 50 degree sunshine