Snow: The Fluffy Stuff

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Gemme

I agree. It's abnormal and NOT natural for there to be negative degrees. Humans are not designed to withstand freakin' negative degrees.



Your cold and ice is only for 12 weeks? That's not a bad deal, I'm thinking.

One has to understand that come March, when it is 40 degrees people will be wearing shorts and tee shirts. If the roads are clear then it is nice out (even if there is 4 feet of snow) I try to think positive. Generally Jan Feb and March are the hard core winter months here. Last year was way worse and not normal. Having said all this sometimes we have snow before Halloween!

[Leigh]

I have no problem with snow, its the sometimes -40 or lower temperatures I have to deal with that I really dont like. Not only that, but it lasts a few months generally except for some odd reason this year has been mild .......... the cold temps have only so far been hitting us this week but man the winds we've been having up here are bitter cold so I hope it goes away soon!!!!

[Hudson]

Snow on the ground and 16 degrees here. Fun moving weather! (I mean that.)

[labete]

I like snow. I just don't so much want it delivered to me. I'd generally rather go to it. I don't think I could live where there's snow most of the winter -- much less where you have to dig out your car, shovel your walk, or FFS shovel out your house because there's snow higher than the front door -- and keep my remaining sanity. I don't know how y'all who live in such conditions do it. I'd go nuts. I'll take the fire ants and palmetto bugs any day if that's what the options are.

My brother and sister-in-law are in the process of moving to Laramie, WY for my brother's job, and I'm fairly certain they're nuts. A Georgian and a Floridian moving to Wyoming in January???

[MsDemeanor]

I'm guessing that this is not an audience that would appreciate my complaints about the fog having not lifted for three days and how the damp 40's temperatures mixed with the wet air creeps in through every window and crack and through gloves and coats and stuff.

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

I'm guessing that this is not an audience that would appreciate my complaints about the fog having not lifted for three days and how the damp 40's temperatures mixed with the wet air creeps in through every window and crack and through gloves and coats and stuff.

Actually I feel for ya. I do not like cold and damp. Snow usually means cold and dry. I think (i could be wrong) it is easier to get warm when it is cold and dry.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

Actually I feel for ya. I do not like cold and damp. Snow usually means cold and dry. I think (i could be wrong) it is easier to get warm when it is cold and dry.

I agree. Once the chill from dampness gets into your bones, you're done for. It's shivering, icicle city for you, bucko.

Brrrrr....

[Niceguy]

Ahh... finally back to Arkansas weather! It was a toasty 58 degrees today! Now if we can just maintain our winter average highs until February is over, that would be great!

[Jess]

We still have some frozen "snow" from the week before Christmas. It has been too cold for it to melt. Def the "coldest" winter I can recall.
There are some flakes blowing around out there right now, but it is not expected to accumulate. I think this is the first day in a few weeks it has been "warm enough to snow" LOL...

Blessed are the wood choppers!!!!

[Random]

Originally Posted by Diva

You could move to Texas and sweat Your hiney off in July and August.......<giggle>

Woman.. don't tempt me..

I've been craigslisting apts in your area for about a year now!!!

If I could have found a cute lil craftman ANYTHING in my price range.. I do belive I would pack up the kiss of cats and the butch and head that way...

[Random]

Originally Posted by Unndunn

No! No! Nooooo! Don't let it fool you! On paper it looks okay. But you have to remember that winter weeks are kind of like dog years. One week of snow and ice and cold is like a month of nice weather. Every November/December I tell myself that's it no big deal, it won't be long before spring is here. And then in January I start asking myself how long it's been and isn't it time for spring? In February I'm sure it's time, but it's not. Then March comes and we all start wearing short sleeves when the temp gets above 45F because we're sure the warm weather is right around the corner. Then when we recover from getting sick from wearing short sleeves in the winter weather we go back to telling ourselves and each other that it's just about over. Then we finally hit April and it's still cold but they say that it's spring so we try to act like we're warm.

Nods.. Nods..

Dog years.. that is it exactly...

There has been snow and ICE.. (My new personal phobia) on the ground for two freaking months... But it feels like 100 yrs...

Sigh.. It get's up to 20 and there is partial sun... It's like spring break.. everyone is out sunbathing..

[Random]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

I'm guessing that this is not an audience that would appreciate my complaints about the fog having not lifted for three days and how the damp 40's temperatures mixed with the wet air creeps in through every window and crack and through gloves and coats and stuff.

Nods..

The coldest winter I ever spent was in savanna, ga...

I was frozen for 4 months..

[Bit]

Snow's due in tomorrow... this would not be a problem if we had had a normal January, but nooo... after the Arctic chill that almost did me in, we had two weeks of--I kid you not--SPRING. 50+ degrees, day after day! Non-freezing nights! The lilacs are budding!

And tomorrow the high temp will be twenty degrees lower than today, and it will snow. The low temps will drop into the teens again. Sheesh.

The thing which made the snow so hard for me before was that I've never lived in a house in snow country--in the apartment complexes, there were long carpeted hallways between the outside world and my front door. Here at That House, it snows right up to my front door even though I have a full-size covered porch. I really don't understand that, lol...

I'll grant you that my floors are not exactly beautiful right now, splotched with old carpet glue as they still are... but SHEESH, having melting snow tracked from the front door to the back really bothered me! It took me quite a while to figure out what to do.

Now one of my best bathtowels has been sacrificed to the snowy-shoe gods so that we have a place to let shoes dry, and one of our bath sheets plus another towel have become a sort of carpet that extends a good five feet into the living room. Voila! No more salty slush melting into our hardwood floors!

*hey, they aren't gonna get ruined on MY watch... so glad I figured out how to avoid it!*

Bonus: doorway puppy accidents are contained, too.

[violaine]

auggggh!


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[Blade]

Love snow, hate ice. We don't get much of either but people down here don't know how to drive in either. I live out in the county and go to work early so I'm usually the one making the new path to town. But I must admit my butt draws up if I meet someone on the road, ya never know how they are going to be driving.

[christie]

Originally Posted by Bit

Snow's due in tomorrow... this would not be a problem if we had had a normal January, but nooo... after the Arctic chill that almost did me in, we had two weeks of--I kid you not--SPRING. 50+ degrees, day after day! Non-freezing nights! The lilacs are budding!

And tomorrow the high temp will be twenty degrees lower than today, and it will snow. The low temps will drop into the teens again. Sheesh.

The thing which made the snow so hard for me before was that I've never lived in a house in snow country--in the apartment complexes, there were long carpeted hallways between the outside world and my front door. Here at That House, it snows right up to my front door even though I have a full-size covered porch. I really don't understand that, lol...

I'll grant you that my floors are not exactly beautiful right now, splotched with old carpet glue as they still are... but SHEESH, having melting snow tracked from the front door to the back really bothered me! It took me quite a while to figure out what to do.

Now one of my best bathtowels has been sacrificed to the snowy-shoe gods so that we have a place to let shoes dry, and one of our bath sheets plus another towel have become a sort of carpet that extends a good five feet into the living room. Voila! No more salty slush melting into our hardwood floors!

*hey, they aren't gonna get ruined on MY watch... so glad I figured out how to avoid it!*

Bonus: doorway puppy accidents are contained, too.

You could also use cardboard boxes - its what we do (Jess is brilliant!!)

Break the box down flat... slushy wet nasty shoes have a place to live!

[Jess]

Originally Posted by christie0918

You could also use cardboard boxes - its what we do (Jess is brilliant!!)

Break the box down flat... slushy wet nasty shoes have a place to live!

That reminds me... have boxes at ready...

We're supposed to get some snow( beginning Friday- Saturday ) also. So after the last lil bout of 18 or so inches we are a tad better prepared...

Icemelt.. check
Food.. check
Movies.. check
Extra wood.. check
Daddy wood.. grin
Happy snowbunny.. check check

Try to make the best of it Miss Bit! Our lil guys do NOT like their feet wet, so finding a dry patch to haul them to is kinda fun. I need a double puppy papoose!

[BestButchBoy]

Snow. Loathe it. Especially when I'm shoveling it.

[Bit]

Aww, Christie, thank you but I don't think cardboard would absorb it all and then dry out again.... I couldn't believe that everyone who came over just blithely tracked the stuff in as if I don't give a damn about my floors... SHEESH.

Originally Posted by Jess

Try to make the best of it Miss Bit! Our lil guys do NOT like their feet wet, so finding a dry patch to haul them to is kinda fun. I need a double puppy papoose!

Oh lord love a duck, Jess, I thought mine would be cooperative, and *I* don't want to be tracking through snow and ice--so I put a puppy pad on the porch.

They ran away from the doggoned thing, couldn't wait to get down in the yard "where they belong." *eyeroll*

I suppose this is actually a good thing, right? I mean, who wants the stuff on their front porch, really? But it sure threw me for a loop, what with taking the puppy out 672 times a day at first!

Edited to add---- I tried making that dry patch, shoveled the snow away, etc---they insisted on going into the unshoveled snow!

[Jess]

Originally Posted by BestButchBoy

Snow. Loathe it. Especially when I'm shoveling it.

Yo! Big Apple! Don't you have a doorman???? Where's Carlton when you need him???