# I love snow
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 30, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635 "2003-01-30T15:55:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Damascene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damascene)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/1 "2003-01-30T15:55:53Z")
Yippee! It’s snowing!
Now to most of you US Dopers, that may not sem like such a big deal, but here in the south of England, we don’t generally see a lot of snow. So as soon as it started to get seriously white today, I just couldn’t contain my excitement. I just had to post here and tell you all about it!
I don’t know about you, but there is something about snow that turns me back into a little kid. There is something truly wonderful about watching a million, million soft white flakes come silently swirling out of a sky the colour of milk. There’s a kind of magic in it that makes me stand and stare at it for hours, a goofy grin on my face and a deep sense of childlike wonder in my heart that I hope will never fade with age and time.
I hope I never become too world-weary and cynical to lose that feeling. And I hope that the current flurry keeps going until the world outside my office is covered in a deep, clean blanket of white stillness…
Ahhhhh, snow!
So, else out there is just a big kid at heart who loves snow?
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### Author:  [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/2 "2003-01-30T16:02:13Z")
Me.
I’m also an inveterate sledder. If there’s enough snow on the ground for a good sleeding session I forget everything else.
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### Author:  [@bifar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bifar)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/3 "2003-01-30T16:08:43Z")
Woke up this morning in Berkshire to a real Winter Wonderland. It’s melted now, though. ;-(
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### Author:  [@Damascene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damascene)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/4 "2003-01-30T16:22:46Z")
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> \*Originally posted by bifar \*
> \*\*Woke up this morning in Berkshire to a real Winter Wonderland. It’s melted now, though. ;-( \*\*
You live in Berkshire? So do I! But I’m at work in Hampton (near Hampton Court Palace/ Kingston) at the moment, and it’s a veritable blizzard out there! Huzzah! It’s a new Ice Age! Soon we’ll all be riding Woolly Mammoths to work and hunting our breakfast across the pack ice on the Thames with spears!
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### Author:  [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/5 "2003-01-30T18:34:06Z")
snow sucks…If you had a very steep driveway that you had to shovel… I am sure you would understand
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### Author:  [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/6 "2003-01-30T18:40:25Z")
I have a steep driveway, too steep to stand on when it is slick, that I have to shovel, but I love snow. I ski on it, play with my kids in it, run in it, and just like looking at it. (Going for a long run on a snowy day makes my month. It is rain that I hate.) In fact, if it doesn’t start snowing more here in CO, I may just leave. We haven’t had any decent snow, outside of the mountains, in years.
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/7 "2003-01-30T18:55:10Z")
I’d die happy if I never had to see or deal with snow again. It sucks.
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### Author:  [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/8 "2003-01-30T19:07:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Indygrrl \*
> \*\*I’d die happy if I never had to see or deal with snow again. It sucks. \*\*
I am not kdding… I said the EXACT same thing last night while I was out for dinner with my fmily…
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### Author:  [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/9 "2003-01-30T19:08:15Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Indygrrl \*
> \*\*I’d die happy if I never had to see or deal with snow again. It sucks. \*\*
My senitments exactly. We just got absolutly dumped on here in the last 2 weeks. ☹
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### Author:  [@belkathy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belkathy)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/10 "2003-01-30T19:10:40Z")
I don’t mind snow so much… it’s the freezing cold wind that always accompanies it that bothers me. It’s just hard to enjoy myself when my ears are throbbing, my feet are numb, and my nose is flowing.
Not like I see much of that kind of weather, though.
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### Author:  [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/11 "2003-01-30T19:41:28Z")
I love snow, but then again I live in Southern California where we don’t really see it much. I go on ski trips to the mountains every so often but I’ve always wanted to live somewhere with snow. But many people who live with snow hate it, so maybe I don’t have it so bad with the constant sunny weather all year. Still, it does get kinda boring…
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### Author:  [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/12 "2003-01-30T20:07:38Z")
If you are active, the cold does not bother you. I know people who run shirtless in the snow. Really, it is the humidity and wind that makes you miserable. You wouldn’t think that humidity causes problems when it is below freezing, but it does. I’ve been colder in PA at 30, then in CO at 10. (That’s degrees Fahrenheit.)
Personally, I would rather be a little chilly than too hot any day. When I’m hot, I don’t feel like doing anything.
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### Author:  [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/13 "2003-01-30T21:07:51Z")
When you have to deal with freakin’ feet of the crap, you have a different viewpoint. Check out my location.
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### Author:  [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/14 "2003-01-30T21:30:57Z")
I have no problems with several feet of snow. 7 months of snow would bother me. Not 7 feet.
Duration is definitely the key. The ski resorts in CO typically get 250 to 500 inches of snow a year. But, living with it three days at a time is a lot more fun than living with it for 7 months.
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### Author:  [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/15 "2003-01-31T01:47:47Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Damascene \*
> \*\*Yippee! It’s snowing!
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> There is something truly wonderful about watching a million, million soft white flakes come silently swirling out of a sky the colour of milk. There’s a kind of magic in it that makes me stand and stare at it for hours, a goofy grin on my face and a deep sense of childlike wonder in my heart that I hope will never fade with age and time.
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> I hope I never become too world-weary and cynical to lose that feeling. \*\*
As long as you stay in a place where snow is a rarity you probably never will.
If you get a chance to take a sabatical somewhere, try Duluth, Minnesota.
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### Author:  [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-snow/151635/16 "2003-01-31T04:05:12Z")
Occasional snow is fun.
Continual snow is not.
Before I moved to the northwest, I lived in places like Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, etc.
The last winter I lived in New England (1994) I once shovelled my driveway seven times in three days. I moved to Oregon that April.
Here, I can, if I wish go DRIVE to the snow up in the cascades - and I do once in a while just to visit the old white demon every so often.
But, then I come back to my nice warm house in nice rainy Portland where I don’t have to shovel the precipitation.
But you snow-lovers, go right ahead and enjoy it. I’ve never been one to try to bring someone down over crystalized dihydrogen monoxide.