As someone who used to live in a ski valley in Colorado, I’m with the baffled crowd. It reminds me of the first year I spent in culinary school. We had a young lady up from Brazil (into the heart of Colorado? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…). She had never seen snow before that ski season. By the end, she never wanted to see the stuff again.
I love a good snow, provided I don’t have to go out into it and can watch from my heated apartment with a lovely cup of tea.
I’m lucky enough that I don’t HAVE to get out in the stuff when we do get it. Most things just shut down in the South, anyway. There are people who have to go out in it for various reasons, but since I don’t I never feel the need to add to any possible dangerous driving conditions, so I’m content to stay home and play in the stuff. PLUS it almost always entirely melts in a couple of days (if it even sticks around that long), so it’s definitely a special occasion for most of the people who have lived here all our lives.
Christine
My love for snow & snowstorms is also greatly aided by the fact that I stay home during the day, and even if I do have to go somewhere, I don’t drive, so it’s less of a big deal.
SurlyQueen
Pretty much the same for me. I’m able to stay home, so I do!
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Sharsarannon
I, a displaced Californian in the Rockies, still get like this about snow, much to the bafflement of the locals.
Kaunisenkeli
As someone who used to live in a ski valley in Colorado, I’m with the baffled crowd. It reminds me of the first year I spent in culinary school. We had a young lady up from Brazil (into the heart of Colorado? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…). She had never seen snow before that ski season. By the end, she never wanted to see the stuff again.
I love a good snow, provided I don’t have to go out into it and can watch from my heated apartment with a lovely cup of tea.
SurlyQueen
That’s the real reason, right there.
I’m lucky enough that I don’t HAVE to get out in the stuff when we do get it. Most things just shut down in the South, anyway. There are people who have to go out in it for various reasons, but since I don’t I never feel the need to add to any possible dangerous driving conditions, so I’m content to stay home and play in the stuff. PLUS it almost always entirely melts in a couple of days (if it even sticks around that long), so it’s definitely a special occasion for most of the people who have lived here all our lives.
Christine
My love for snow & snowstorms is also greatly aided by the fact that I stay home during the day, and even if I do have to go somewhere, I don’t drive, so it’s less of a big deal.
SurlyQueen
Pretty much the same for me. I’m able to stay home, so I do!
TheHeroesOfCRASH
My girlfriend in Texas saw her first serious snowfall in decades. The local kids were playing in the snow… all two inches of it.
Also, would I be correct in assuming that your winter outing involved “bread booties”?
SurlyQueen
Man, I WISH I had been saving bags the way my Mom did when we were kids, but alas, we didn’t have any spare bread bags.
I very distinctly bemoaned this fact, and will be saving at least a few bread bags in the future.
monkshandgames
I’m with Rafe here. Snow is of the Devil.
#notevenonesnowflake
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