# Oof. I guess that means winter is here, eh? (kinda long) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657 "2001-11-28T04:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/21 "2001-11-29T03:08:13Z")
You all are welcome. We on the West Woast sent that across special for you. I understand we will be tossing another your way soon–it comes thru here tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/22 "2001-11-29T03:30:57Z")
I wish winter would come here. It has been in the 70’s for the past 2 weeks, and no cooler than mid 50’s at night. I already put away my summer clothes, and it just seems kinda weird to have the A/C on in November. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Red\_Menace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@The\_Red\_Menace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Red_Menace)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/23 "2001-11-29T03:43:50Z")
Just thought I might let everybody know that as well as in Minnesota, my fair state of North Dakota has entered winter as well. It’s 20 degrees outside right now, and it feels very cold. I’m having some motivated forgetting of what it’s like to get up for class and step outside to it being **negative** 20. I think that my [University](http://www.ndsu.edu) should put walkways connecting all the buildings. Who cares if they’d have to triple tuition? It’s worth it! ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/24 "2001-11-29T03:45:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Punkyova \* > \*\* > Remind me again…Why do we all stay in this climate? \*\* Because I believe you can’t fully appreciate summer without knowing a true winter. And because too much sun makes you stupid. I’m actually in southern Wisconsin (no snow yet), but I’m driving up to the Cities tomorrow afternoon/evening for a job interview. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/25 "2001-11-29T04:24:45Z")
Footnote: The door lock of the truck I borrowed from grampa to go to work today iced over, and I had to spend an extra freakin’ hour trying to de-ice it. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: * * * > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by tigg, alice, and Lindy_ > ::squints:: > > ::does the math:: > > So, I guess this comes out to a > > WOO!!! Chique’s ok!! > > ## ::huggle:: > > ::yipes:: > > ## Good thing you’re ok! > > Glad everything turned out OK in the end, chique. Yup, just fine, thanks 🙂 Just awfully aggravated 😛 And Lindy? You can HAVE all that freakin’ snow. Every. Last. Flake. [sub]BTW…ever get that postcard I sent?[/sub] > [@](#): > > Chique, you gotta get yourself a real car, like say, a mini-van! Yep, I’m loving my AWD mini-van in this snow. I can’t even get it to slide on purpose. > [hijack] Sauk Rapids? The funniest thing happened when I used to work in a greenhouse. We would ship orders to Sauk Rapids and we needed to write the name of the town on the boxes so they would get on the right truck. I don’t know who wrote it, but Sauk Rapids became Sock Rabbits.[/hijack] Boscibo, if I had the money for a new car, do you think I’d be driving my real wheel drive P.O.S?? Thanks for rubbing it in, though. 😛 [sub]The person who wrote Sock Rabbits - not from around here, eh? [/sub] Ethilrist? DAMN that was tempting to take out the _12_ wheel $175k vehicle, but with a top speed of 12 m.p.h…Um. I think I’d be about halfway home by now. And The gas mileage would KILL me! jayjay, Narrad, UncleBill can all collectively bite my ass 😃 > [@](#): > > I feel sorry for the folks in and around Wilmar, MN. They got 30 inches in two days. Yeah, that’s the same system that dumped on us - it just kinda hung over here for a few hours. When I walked up gramma and grampa’s driveway at 11 p.m. it was about 20". Hell, the next morning, the snowplow left four foot piles at the end of the driveway in town, and right now the smallest snowpile in our yard is about eight FEET. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by easy e_ > Because I believe you can’t fully appreciate summer without knowing a true winter. You have no CLUE how true that is, hon. Exactly right 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/26 "2001-11-29T11:48:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\*Ah, yes. **IT** has arrived–that dreary, bleak, godforsaken time of year that some people call winter. > > But it’s _not_ winter. > > Winter is snowball fights, sledding, skiing, making snow forts, hot cocoa with marshmallows, and cuddle-time by a fireplace. Mostly, winter exists in people’s imaginations as blissful solitude interspersed with happy little outings involving fluffy snow, sleigh bells, and gaiety. > > Fuck that shit. What this is, is typical Minnesota purgatory. From now until at least April we will be struggling with poor driving conditions, limited visibility, **black ice** (and don’t you _dare_ tell me it doesn’t exist because I’ve experienced it first hand a thousand times), and air temperatures in the lethal range. The roads narrow because of the snow build-up along the curbs left by the plows, the sidewalks narrow because you have to leave the snow you shovel _someplace_, and that’s usually along the sides. The _world_ narrows because you simply don’t have access to all of those wide open spaces were you used to traipse merrily along during the summer. > > In fact, life itself draws back from winter. We stay inside. We sleep more. It’s dark all the time (or so it seems since working people get up in the dark and drive home in the dark), and that contributes to people being a bad mood–and now it has a name: Seasonal Affective Disorder. People get snarly (ever vist a mall during the Xmas rush?). > > No, winter is nothing near blissful; it’s just something that must be endured. > > \*\* Wow, another person who’s wise to the fact that winter isn’t just three months on the calendar. I hate winter, and it’s a struggle to get through those four or five months the world is as you described- without attacking skiers who wish aloud that we had more snow. Winter in New Hampshire hasn’t begun in ernest yet- this morning is the first time we’ve gotten even a dusting of snow that sticks to the ground. We were supposed to get an ice storm starting around 12am, but either not going to happen, or it’s going to spring itself on us while we’re on the way home from work to maximize the chances of fatal road accidents. It’s been unseasonably warm so far, and it makes me paranoid, I think we’re going to be in for a hellish winter this year too. I think back to the week in March when three storms dumped 52" of snow on us over a week’s time, and cring- that was less than half of the total snowfall last winter… That reminds me, I need to buy a new snow shovel. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657/27 "2001-11-29T12:00:13Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by easy e \* > \*\* And because too much sun makes you stupid._\* Yeah, but it’s a DRY stupid! ~UncleBill, who wishes he could go to work in shorts today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oof-i-guess-that-means-winter-is-here-eh-kinda-long/95657.md?page=1)