# It's snowing!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870 "2000-11-19T19:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/21 "2000-11-19T23:23:08Z")
I love snow…but we haven’t gotten any. Too far south. No, today it got up to maybe 40 degrees and it RAINED ALL FREAKING DAY. And I had to go out in it. Ick. Your snow in Raleigh-Durham sounds like the snow we got here last January. It snowed all afternoon, and it was beautiful, and I think I was the only person on the road who had even a theoretical knowledge of how to drive in it. (I had to drive home from school AFTER it started.) Loads of fun. I did stop at the store, but to stock up on hot chocolate. Then I sat all afternoon, watching it snow, drinking hot chocolate. Mmmm. One of my favorite memories of all time. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/22 "2000-11-19T23:47:12Z")
I just got back from pulling a car out of drifts on the main road leading into our building. -I was out having a smoke in my truck, off property. (can’t smoke on company grounds) Here comes my department director in his 99’ Eclipse. (WTF is he thinking?) I chuckle to myself as he hits the first 1 ft drift - ‘Wuufffff’ Then the slow continous rise of snow leading to a 2ft drift… his car slowing down and coming to a stop. He tries to back up and get a better run… ‘wuff’ Just enough power to get his front wheels of the ground. I have my 5 year review at the end of the week! I love snow!! ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/23 "2000-11-19T23:51:35Z")
Sticking means staying on the ground, right? If so, it’s not sticking too much right now. In fact, the snow stopped falling about two hours ago, but I’m still playing in the stuff thats remaining. Last year, while I didn’t get to see falling snow, I got to sled in it. I was in Massachusetts, and there was tons of it all around. The only problem I had was that I was wearing denim the entire time. Needless to say, I was _cold_! Here’s hoping I wake up to snow once again. ---
**Author:** ![JuanDeCuba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JuanDeCuba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuanDeCuba)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/24 "2000-11-20T00:16:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whitetho \* > \*\*In Raleigh-Durham we now have about 2 inches on the ground. It started out this morning as rain, switched fairly quickly to snow, and after a few hours started sticking on the ground. The temp is barely freezing, so the snow has been huge wet flakes all day long, the kind that sticks nicely to the trees. \*\* You may have 2 inches on the ground in Raleigh but here in Durham we don’t have moer than half an inch. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/25 "2000-11-20T00:55:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > > \*\*_sniffles_ > > Kill it. Take a huge knife and just stab the snow. That’ll help. (It’ll help my mental state, anyway =\>) \*\* > > We haven’t been taking our medication, now **have we** , dear? > > Try to stay calm. \*\* Nah, as a resident of Vermont, I agree. It’s cute for the first snowfall, but after that it’s just a reason I have to get up a half hour early to dig my car out of the drift that will have inevitably formed around it during the night. That’s assuming there was no new snowfall, and that the wind just blew the remain snow around. If there is NEW snowfall, then the roads will be dangerous, as I am too poor to shell out the $200 for snow tires. Not to mention that here in Burlington we have parking bans when there is a heavy snow, and you can’t park in the streets. Which means the garages fill up in about two minutes. However, sugar on snow is yummy. And I do like the way a field or hillside looks when no one has trampled on it. And ooooooh, sledding. I highly recommend those cheap plastic innertubes they sell as pool accessories, take a running start and leap on one of those puppies and pray you pointed yourself away from trees! OK, maybe winter doesn’t suck THAT much… ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/26 "2000-11-20T02:51:34Z")
No fair. Why doesn’t it ever snow in Florida? Oh well, in December I’ll be in Boston and I’ll get to freeze my butt off. I hope they give us time to play in the snow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/27 "2000-11-20T05:02:05Z")
I’m in Raleigh too. I didn’t even know it had started snowing today until about 1 PM–I didn’t look outside until my mom happened to call and ask what it was doing outside. I had a great time watching all the people swarm out of the complex where I live to go to the grocery store. The driveway has a slight incline, and it was fun watching people spin their tires at the base of the incline. I didn’t really drive anywhere today, but I did make a few tiny snowmen. I put one on top of the mailbox. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/28 "2000-11-20T05:09:47Z")
**SwimmingRiddles** , I agree with you on most of it. Skiing is damn fun, but I hate the winter cause I’m always so cold. Up here in Montreal we get some hefty snow (thank goodness, none YET), quite a pain. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/29 "2000-11-20T05:11:23Z")
Not that anyone asked but it snowed here in Telford, Tennessee too! It just barely stuck on the grass for a little while and then melted but it was really nifty to wake up to snow-covered ground! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/30 "2000-11-20T07:45:33Z")
Can I visit you all? I’ve never had a snowball fight. Ludo, isn’t snow _cold_? I guess it sounds silly, but I hadn’t seen snow for several years when I went to Squaw in 1997 and I was shocked at how cold it was. It looks more like confetti and less like ice on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/31 "2000-11-20T13:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > \*\*Can I visit you all? I’ve never had a snowball fight. > > Ludo, isn’t snow _cold_? I guess it sounds silly, but I hadn’t seen snow for several years when I went to Squaw in 1997 and I was shocked at how cold it was. It looks more like confetti and less like ice on TV. \*\* ::tosses snowball in Kyla’s general direction:: We can have a snowball fight right here! ::_Smack_:: heehee… Yes, snow is very _cold_. Seeing it on movies and TV just doesn’t do it justice. Not at all. I made like two snowball w/ my hands, and I swore I had frostbite. Snow is also very wet! Before I had ever touched it, I had the naive idea that snow was dry, and never melted when you got it on you. Calvin and Hobbes never looked wet, so I just figured…Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/32 "2000-11-20T14:19:32Z")
Looks like we will have some accumulation here in the Laurel Highlands of PA. (Indiana County). Lake effect. We’ve had some nice flurries. The last week or so. I am shocked that it is snowing in North Carolina! Didn’t they fight the Civil war to keep snow north of the Mason-Dixon line? ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/33 "2000-11-20T14:54:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ludo \* > \*\*I can’t **BELIEVE** this!!! > > I go to college in NC, but I’m from Florida, so I’ve never seen snow fall before, what should I do? > > \*\* So, I guess you weren’t here back in January when we got a surprise 19 inches of the white stuff. That locked the Triangle down for a week! I’m from the mountains of western NC, so it wasn’t anything I hadn’t seen before, but a lot of the locals just went bat-sh\*t. No groceries to be had anywhere - heck, most stores didn’t even open the first couple of days. The most fun was the people who thought they could drive in it. It was great watching the plow-drifts melt for over two weeks and seeing cars slowly appear from out of them. BTW, in the mountains snow doesn’t stick it **laaays**. (Weathercaster: “It’s a-comin’ down purty fast, but we’re gonna hafta wait an’ see if it’ll laaay.”) Oh, and another thing… Yesterday I discovered what I’ll be doing for eternity when I get to Purgatory - changing a tire in the snow. …a literally hellish experience. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870/34 "2000-11-20T21:42:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > \*\* > The most fun was the people who thought they could drive in it. It was great watching the plow-drifts melt for over two weeks and seeing cars slowly appear from out of them. > \*\* Oh yeah. I was watching WRAL (channel 5), and my favorite part was when they started talking about 4 wheel drive vehicles getting stuck. They then cut to a picture of a TWO WHEEL DRIVE Ford Explorer, stuck in a snowdrift. They cut back to the scene about 15 minutes later to show a Jeep Wrangler pulling the Explorer out of the drift. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing/41870.md?page=1)