# I wish we would get some snow **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251 "2009-02-03T14:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/1 "2009-02-03T14:45:41Z")
What a sucky winter! Not a flake of snow to be had. Every single day has been warm, sunny, and dry. I want to step in slush! I want to shovel some driveways! I want to slip on some ice and break my ass! I want to cancel plans because of inclement weather! Fuck fuck fuckity fucking fucksterizer! Where is the snow I so rightfully deserve already? Damn this gorgeous weather. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/2 "2009-02-03T15:04:24Z")
You so wish you were me. I’ve broken my ass three times in the past week alone. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/3 "2009-02-03T15:05:46Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > What a sucky winter! Not a flake of snow to be had. Every single day has been warm, sunny, and dry. I want to step in slush! I want to shovel some driveways! I want to slip on some ice and break my ass! I want to cancel plans because of inclement weather! Dude, where are you? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/4 "2009-02-03T15:08:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Dude, where are you? On a beach in sunny Hawaii. No, wait… I’m in Boston, murdering that fucking groundhog. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/5 "2009-02-03T15:09:47Z")
[You’re going to start mooning me now, aren’t you?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504719) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/6 "2009-02-03T15:11:35Z")
I’m in London. All your snow are belong to us. I had to take the baby to the doctor for her immunisations this morning, and pushing the stroller through the ice/snow/slush on the sidewalks was like trying to break the Plains with a plough. I’m tuckered out. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/7 "2009-02-03T15:15:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m in London. All your snow are belong to us. Well dayum. Could you spare a little for us? We haven’t any yet this year. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/8 "2009-02-03T15:39:58Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > On a beach in sunny Hawaii. No, wait… > > I’m in Boston, murdering that fucking groundhog. I thought it was a uniquely Boston moment two weeks ago, when I had to get up at 6:30 and shovel the driveway for two hours so I could go to my root canal appointment. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/9 "2009-02-03T15:48:58Z")
It’s even snowing here. Hasn’t done so and lay on the ground in the best part of a decade. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/10 "2009-02-03T15:50:49Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I thought it was a uniquely Boston moment two weeks ago, when I had to get up at 6:30 and shovel the driveway for two hours so I could go to my root canal appointment. Ouch. I had a nice snowy moment a week or two before Christmas. I’d just spent about two hours shovelling my GF’s driveway, and came back in get warm, when a snowplow came by and undid everything I’d just done. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/11 "2009-02-03T15:59:00Z")
Dude… never shovel BEFORE the plows come by. What are you, new? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/12 "2009-02-03T16:04:13Z")
Here in NYC, it’s snowing and not sticking. It’s just cold enough to make the talking heads on NY1 talk about “Wintery Mix.” Meanwhile, I want some fucking snow. The kind of snow that makes me close my office and send everyone home. The kind of snow that makes people think for a sec about going out to the grocery store for some milk but then go “Nah!” and turn around and go back inside. The kind of snow that makes me nostalgic for hot cocoa. I want to stay home from work tomorrow, take my quad out and do some donuts on the street in front of my house. But NOOOOOOO. Our last couple snow events have been half-assed. Snow that turns into rain and then into ice overnight, then back into rain. Laaaaaaame! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/13 "2009-02-03T16:17:00Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Dude… never shovel BEFORE the plows come by. What are you, new? 😉 Yeah well… I would have if I was certain that the snow was going to stop anytime soon. But it was getting late in the afternoon, GF’s kids were getting cabin fever, I needed to go home, and the forecast called for continued snow throughout the night. And the snowplow was coming by every half hour. By the time I dug out the end of the driveway, another 3 inches had fallen. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/14 "2009-02-03T16:24:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > What a sucky winter! Not a flake of snow to be had. Every single day has been warm, sunny, and dry. I want to step in slush! I want to shovel some driveways! I want to slip on some ice and break my ass! I want to cancel plans because of inclement weather! > > Fuck fuck fuckity fucking fucksterizer! Where is the snow I so rightfully deserve already? Damn this gorgeous weather. Dude, isn’t it always sunny with pink clouds in Barack County? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/15 "2009-02-03T16:29:39Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > And the snowplow was coming by every half hour. The what was what now? Where does your girlfriend live, Xanadu? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/16 "2009-02-03T16:35:23Z")
I ain’t seen the grass, my roof or the lake for about 8 weeks now, all snow covered, and with mounds and mounds of it. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/17 "2009-02-03T16:40:10Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > The what was what now? Where does your girlfriend live, Xanadu? Arlington. So yeah, pretty much. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/18 "2009-02-03T17:31:50Z")
Jeebus, I’m lucky if the plow bothers with my street _once_. Occasionally you can find my neighbors and I _shoveling the street_. Like a block party, without the fun. And it’s not like I live in the middle of nowhere, my street connects to R60. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/19 "2009-02-03T17:41:22Z")
Arlington is not Boston. This fact has been pointed out to me many many many many many many times. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251/20 "2009-02-03T19:12:16Z")
The last big snowstorm that hit us here, I had to spend about two hours in the car sliding through the slush to take my wife to our appointment, where I learned that our insurance won’t even cover the blood tests her doctor wants to do to figure out how best to treat our fertility issues, meaning that we might not be able to afford to try to get pregnant this year. Then I had to drive home and shovel. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-we-would-get-some-snow/484251.md?page=2)