It’s snowing! Snow is falling from the sky! White real snow!
I’m from South Carolina, you know. We don’t get that at home. I’m here in Pittsburgh to see my grandma, and it’s coming down like a bastard! Light fluffy fairy snow!
Okay, the natives are pissed, and I don’t know how the roads will be in the morning at grandma’s - hell, I don’t care. For us southeners, it’s a thrill. Just wanted to share that. 
Welcome to the frosty north (ish), Zsofia! You MUST:
A) Make some snowballs and throw them.
B) Make a snow angel.
It’s the LAW!
I’m kind of excited about it, too, because all we’ve had so far this winter is ice. Bleh.
I’m sitting by the fire with a glass of wine, enjoying the snow outside my window, and stubbornly refusing to think about the fact that the snow thrower is out for repair and whatever piles up will have to be hand-shoveled.
Enjoy it! Is it supposed to accumulate much?
I think it got to 72 here today, sunshine and windy.
It was fluffy non-snowball stuff today, but maybe tomorrow I can make a snowman. I think it’s supposed to stick - there are closings for tomorrow, which blew my mind. I thought they never closed up here!
When I was in college, there was a fellow living down the hall who was from Kuala Lumpur and had never seen snow. This was in Michigan. The first snowfall of the season we dressed him up warm, went out and had a snowball fight and built a snowman. He was enthralled, like a little kid.
It’s been a long time since I thought of that day. Thank you for reminding me.
You should have seen me enthusiastically brushing it off my aunt’s car. The experienced northeners just laughed indulgently at how much fun I thought it was.
Zsofia, if you get a chance, and it’s nice fluffy snow that’s coming down like in a snowglobe, go run in it. It’s really peaceful and exhilarating at the same time.
I HATE snow!
…Yeah, I said it!
I’ve dealt with that crap my whole life, as I’ve always lived in Western New York. Summer’s are great, but always fleeting. It’s just a tease!
Most likely I’ll never get out of here, as much as I hate the long cold, wet, and often sun deprived winters. I don’t think it’s seasonal depression either. I tried the light… I think I just reeeeally hate the winter time here in WNY, and SNOW!
I would rather make a sand castle than a snowman anyway.
(there are many people here where I live that LOVE snow, I think they’re CRAZZY!)
Zsofia, your post reconciled me (temporarily) with the snow. I always enjoy the first snowfalls of the season, but I spent 3 hours shovelling tonight-- and that’sonly the snow on the steps, porch and pathways to the garage. Our snow removal service clears the driveway.
I’m exhausted, but your post was a good reminder of the fact that I would miss snow terribly if I lived in a place that never had any.
Fluffy light snow is great for snow angels.
Ice storms, however, are still my enemies.
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I’m glad other people do get to enjoy snow.
(Even though I still think they are CRAZZY!:dubious:)
When I was a kid, a cousin of my mother’s was visiting from Cuba during a heavy snowstorm (this was pre-Castro). He wanted to fill a box with the stuff and send it back to his family.
I remember being around 12 years old, already a snow-hater. One day, my brother stomped into the house demanding that I turn over my coat, boots, and mittens. He’d met a girl, and she’d never been sleigh-riding. She grew up in Belfast, where apparently the weather is not as sled-friendly as it is here in PA. I’m pretty sure that was the day that sealed the deal so to speak. They’ve been married since that year, and are now grandparents.
I like to look at the snow. For about 20 minutes. Then I’m done and it can go away til next year for all i care.
Tonight we are experiencing the first beautiful snowfall (before this, it was all sleet and hail and the like), but I don’t think it is accumulating and the gale force winds coming off the shore are pushing it all up into the mountains.
I don’t own a car anymore, so I don’t have to worry about digging myself out. I enjoy the snow.
Make a snow angel or two for me, Zsofia! If our snow ends up sticking (and persisting through the weekend), I’ll make one for you!
I live in snow country and would never admit it, but since I don’t have to drive to and from work any more, I can finally enjoy the snow, a little. I can’t imagine living in a place without it… For most natives, the thrill kind of wears off about the 6th month in. February and March are the worst for storms still to come. So we here in Central NY have moved on from Pissed Off to Dull Acceptance as we rev up the snowblowers. … The snow is beautiful, though, and we’ve learned to run out and stock up on necessities (including library books, birdseed for the feeders, and stuff to bake with) on the rare non-snowing days so we can watch it come down in comfort…If you try to make a snowman, you may find it’s a LOT harder than it looks. Lately, I’ve been seeing very creative snow sculptures, like a beautiful gigantic octopus, colored with sprayed on food dye (mixed with water).
Snow is why we happily hike in shorts in April to find something alive and green in the mud and leaves.
Love it. As a kid I wanted to bottle clouds.
I bet I could bottle up ‘Colorado Snow’ and sell it.
I’ll have to plow today. It’s kind of a drag, but I don’t have to mow grass in the summer. Not at my altitude.
Driving in it is not an issue. Well, except for tourists and guests that basically just get in the way. I’ve pulled two vehicles out of the ditch this year. SOP.
This is a pic from last year. My ‘driveway’ Snow? What snow? 
And poor ‘Puddles’ my plow truck that I’ve owned since high school. She’s a real trooper.
How did I know that was gonna be a Dodge? 
Dodge?
She’s a Chevy. '76 Short bed half ton. 350 CI. Auto trans
Perhaps the best plowing vehicle ever made. 
Or at least for me.
It’s a good old truck. Don’t know what I will do when she goes to the great junkyard in the sky.
We could use some here in eastern Colorado. The wind blew like a sonofabitch a couple of days ago and there was so much dust in the air that when I looked out the window from my cubicle, it looked like the sky was overcast. It was just dust! Yup, we sure could use some snow.
I grew up in SC, went to school in MA, and have lived in CO for the past mwethiuysf years (actual time mumbled to fool myself into thinking I’m younger than I am). There’s a small (not so small, actually) part of me that still gets giddy and excited about the first several snows of the winter, since snow was such a rarity at home. Enjoy it!
