We moved back to San Diego from Western PA a couple of years ago, and I don’t miss the snow at all. (I grew up near Chicago, so I got plenty of it when I was kid, too.) Thing is: it’s not the snow itself that got on my nerves, it’s the weeks and weeks of filthy gray muck you got in between those Christmas card snowfalls. Yuck.
I grew up in Sunny Southern Arizona… and I don’t see how anyone can like THAT shit. Or Southern California. How can you stand it?! I think you’re just deluding yourselves because everyone says you’re supposed to like the sun.
Me, I’m totally eating up this weather. I adore it and I keep running to the window to look at it again, or finding stupid excuses to have to go outside for a minute (check the mail, check the latch on the gate, etc). Sure I like being comfortably warm, which is why I bundle up when I go out in it and I don’t stay out too long. I’d much rather be warm inside my house looking out the window at snow than be warm inside my house looking out the window at grass. (or being outside in the grass). Snow rules!
Man, I wanna go skiing. 
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Born and raised in Michigan. I once heard summer in Michigan defined as three months of bad sledding.
We don’t get as much snow as some of the folks in Canada do, but we get a lot of fucking snow. Personally, I hate it. I was nodding my head in furious agreement with UncleBeer’s first post. I was ready to ask him to make room for me in his room in Hell. Then he pussed out, and called it a “mild occasional annoyance.” Feh.
I hate snow. You like it? Come on up–I’ll give you ten bucks to shovel my driveway & sidewalk. Take the snow back with you too. Just get it the fuck away from me.
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satan, you’re fucking nuts. i know snow. i grew up in chicago & remember only too well the winters where you saw nothing but grey sky–no sun at all–for 3-5 months. we had the heaviest, stickiest, wettest, coldest snow all of you nuts could want to see. like cher3 said, after it falls, it just sticks around, gray & nasty, for the rest of the winter.
i was there for the blizzard that dumped 30"–that’s THIRTY INCHES–of snow on that major metro area & shut down the entire midwest for 3 days. they had to haul the snow off in dump trucks to the lake. some of it was still in 6’ high heaps until may. you’ve been whining about a measly foot or so of snow all day. try to swallow 30", baby.
after living in colorado for nearly 10 yrs i went back to chicago one march to stay a few months. i left there may 23. it snowed that day. i was thrilled because it had been a mild winter & that snow reminded me why i hated cold weather.
as for colorado snow, i lived 2 hrs from every major ski area on the western slope. delta, colorado, for you folks out there. i was lucky enough to be there for the blizzard that shut down all the western slope schools for the first time ever. you think you know snow? you don’t know shit.
i’ve lived all over the country & arizona was the place i came back to because i never wanted to see snow or feel cold again. gimme 80 deg in january. shove the snow up your ass.
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the cheerful poopie head
Um…
I don’t think Satan is complaining about the snow, people. I think he likes it, but he’s complaining about how people in NC can’t handle it.
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Yeah, I guess we got the idea from all those tourists who pay good money to get away from all the frigging SNOW where they are, and have a holiday with sun and surf in Sunny California (or Florida, etc.)!
Just got in from driving in one of those confectionary- sugar-and-crystal snowfalls and I must admit it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. The snow is sparkly, everything’s white. It’s great to be alive.
Of course, I love thunderstorms, too. I can watch them all night.
I live in Oregon (valley) so it snows only a bit, but what pisses me off is that when it does snow (GASP) 2 inches Portland absolutely shuts down. It does it EVERY winter, and still no drivers own chains. “Well, why should I own chains? It never snows here!” they say, surprised. Well it did it last year and the year before that, you fuck-wit. Do you see a fucking pattern here? So the city shuts down, completely disabled, and people run into telephone poles, etc. And all the people who don’t own cars and don’t drive rejoice, because the busses have chains, and they’re used to walking the 20 blocks to work, so their day isn’t affected, and they still can see snow as kids do. This is their day of revenge.
I do, however, remember growing up in Juneau where it snowed more (we used to jump off the roof into the drifts) so I do understand others’ hatred of LOTS of snow for months and months. Once in while, though, it’s nice. I like to go to north Idaho for Christmas.
Lisa, I love thunderstorms too…they are so wild and primitive!
and you dont have to shovel them.
Oh, no you don’t. If you ain’t here now, don’t come down. If you can’t think ahead before winter comes to fly down to Florida, don’t whine about the snow when it falls. Some of us left in time. The others shall suffer, or celebrate, depending (Opal…) 
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i’m w/ you, kelli & lisa. thunderstorms are great. the sun comes out & the water drains away rather than heaped up months.
& isn’t it funny, kelli, that all those canadian retirees move to the sunny, unsnowy south every winter once they don’t have to work for a living? you guys push them south w/ pitchforks or something to persuade them they would rather be in the sun than in the snow?
I am willing to wager that 20+ inches of snow, while not unheard of in Chicago (or Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland or any other snow-prone towns) would STILL be a major pain in the ass for the municipality.
Heck, when I was in Cleveland for a couple days after they had a modest 8-10 inches of the stuff, back roads were still a nightmare.
Quit yer snobby attitude. 20 inches of snow is mighty imppressive anywhere, except maybe Siberia.
When you ADD to the fact that it is in a place whose previous record snowfall was under 18 inches and took place in 1927, I think you see even more why this is huge.
And another thing - I’m a native New Yorker. I as well have been in this kind of weather before. But the minute someone fgoes, “Well, it’s only 20 inches of snow” ANYWHERE is the day we hit another ice age, kiddo.
And for thee record, yes, I do in fact love snow. And I love huge storms, and had a blast yesterday walking around in it all day taking pictures.
I only sae that RALEIGH being under 20 inches of snow, is fucked. I stand by that. I may be out of work all week, and when I lived in places that got more snow, that never would have happened.
Yer pal,
Satan
oh, crap. really, the only reason it’s imppressive is that you’re in the middle of it & no one is used to driving in it. in the mountains they count in feet not inches. as a harbinger of an ice age it’s pretty pissy.
rather touchy for someone who whined all morning & then played all afternoon . . .? if you were only making a light-hearted observation, this should have been in mpsims.
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Satan, you’d better like snow – it looks like we’re stuck with it for a while.
Just as an aside, I think we’ve seen that North Carolinians (sp?) are some bad-ass M.F.‘s – we currently have 20 inches of snow, we’ve had a bunch of hurricanes, flooding, Jesse Helms, etc., and we’re doin’ just fine.
Anyway – SNOW RULES!!
Satan sez:
“There is no reason to not love snow.
“It’s cold!” Well, no shit! But when it’s REALLY cold, it doesn’t snow. It’s cold WITHOUT snow.”
Bucky sez:
I don’t know what all the white crap at the North and South poles are, but when we got snow herelast week in MN it was about 5 degrees about zero Farenheit. Know what? That’s cold, with or without snow. Satan (and you snow lovers)better have grown up someplace like Wisconsin instead of NC, or he can’t say that he loves snow because he’s never really experienced it!
Oddly, I just kind of like cold. In my salad days, however, I used to bodily pick up people who talked about how much they loved snow, fling or sling the offender over my shoulder, walk outside, and hurl them into it.
NOW who likes snow???
Bucky
Oh, well. We can always make more killbots.
Can someone PLEASE tell my a city which 20 inches of snow is nothing, a non-event, not worthy of even noting, anywhere in the United States, please?
There will be places that have had WORSE, mind you. I’m very aware of this. But that is not the question.
Please name a city where a storm of 20 inches in one evening is “nothing.” As in, they get at least one 20 inch storm every year without fail.
Having lived in New York City, and spoken to people who spent time in Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and various mountainous areas of West Virginia, I can safely say that no such city exists.
Quit your pompous BS, special.
And also, I never bitched about anything - I jokingly commented on how Raleigh is FUCKED! Come on down here and see if I was right… Oh wait… YOU CAN’T! Because RALEIGH IS FUCKED!!
Silly me for being correct and all…
Yer pal,
Satan
lighten up.
Yep. Every goddamn day. So bite me.
Snow is pretty cool if:
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You can afford the luxury of taking off from work.
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You don’t have to drive anywhere.
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You’re not snowed in for more than one day.
Looking out the window, it’s beautiful. It’s fun to goof off in.
But God help you if you have to drive with all of the spastic Forrest Gump clones on the road.
If it snowed everywhere but on the road, I’d be all for it. But since that’s not the case, send the stupid shit back to Canada or wherever it comes from.
What should have been a 3 hour trip on Tuesday morning took 9 FUCKING HOURS!!
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Brian is right about the 20 inches of snow thing. Even here in Michigan, where we get a lot of fucking snow, 20 inches in a day or two would shut the city I live in (Flint) down.
As for chains on the tires, they’re illegal here now. Chains to bad things to the roads, I guess. I don’t know. They’ve been illegal for as long as I can remember.
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When I lived in AZ I would pay good money to escape to Colorado where there was GLORIOUS SNOW! Mmmmm…skiiiiiing!
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