Delightful Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 The thing about growing up - no one tells you how hard it is. Or that it's hard at all. It just seems like this magic thing that happens at some point, until you hit teenage years and realise reality is very different. :/ Speaking of growing up and new experiences. It snowed in Jerusalem. For reasons beyond my control I was out the city. Now the roads are lined in solid icy white. It's gorgeous, but I've *still* never seen it snow! This Australian is very disappoint. 4
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 The thing about growing up - no one tells you how hard it is. Or that it's hard at all. It just seems like this magic thing that happens at some point, until you hit teenage years and realise reality is very different. :/ Speaking of growing up and new experiences. It snowed in Jerusalem. For reasons beyond my control I was out the city. Now the roads are lined in solid icy white. It's gorgeous, but I've *still* never seen it snow! This Australian is very disappoint. You've never seen snow? That is tragic. Seriously; I'm not being sarcastic here. The worst part about living in Arizona, in my opinion, is that it never snows in the winter and you have to drive at least two hours to see any. I hope you get to see it at least once, because there's nothing like being there when the ground is all covered in white, and the air is so cold you can see your breath.
Delightful Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 It's been cold enough that I've seen my breath before, and I can now see the whiteness, but I have never seen snow actually *falling from the sky* nor been able to build a snowman. 1
Guest Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) It's snowing right now, outside my window. Just giant white flakes of snow, drifting and drifting. The best kind of snowfall. It's so beautiful outside. I can't even tell where the borders of house, yard, and road are anymore. The trees have a light dusting, as do the bushes, and it all looks like a Christmas Card (except maybe not in Australia). We'll have to find a corncob from somewhere. Edited February 21, 2015 by Snoopy
Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 I've never seen snow either. *bursts into do you want to build a snowman* 1
Delightful Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 A corncob? I might be a little jealous Snoopy. That sounds absolutely beautiful. 1
Guest Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 Well, there's goods and bads. It's fun for a while, but too much means you have to break your back shoveling. For me, the perfect amount it five or six inches. One year I got two 25in. snowfalls in one year. It was crazy. My cousins in Alabama NEVER get snow, except for one time when they got a measly one-half inch. School was canceled, because Alabama doesn't have the requisite equipment like salt trucks (even with one-half inch, dangerous ice builds up on the roads). They rushed to the park and built this snowman. They sent a picture of it to us, and it was nasty. Sticks and leaves sticking out everywhere, dirt all over it. But they were so proud of it. They've always wanted to come up to Virginia during the winter, because snow.
Guest Posted February 21, 2015 Posted February 21, 2015 A corncob?As in:Frosty the snowman, Was a jolly, happy soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose, And two eyes made out of coal. There's more to it, just Google it. It's a song from a classic Christmas movie called Frosty the Snowman in America. Along the lines of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a Charlie Brown Christmas, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. And yes, it is extremely beautiful. It's really ineffable.
Voidus Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 Never seen snow either, although I'd love nothing more. I love living in Australia with the sole exception of the weather, I wish it was winter forever and we could get some actual snow.
Frosted Flakes Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 When my buddy from Texas came to my wedding, he saw snow for then first time. The very first thing he did was pee his name into the snow, then cram snow down the back of his girlfriend's shirt. I think he was more excited to see snow than to be at my wedding.. 2
Meg Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) Reading of snow here I remembered that the weather forecast told of snow for the night. And really it's a bit whiter than yesterday. And it actually snows but only little snowflakes that don't help for a white landscape. Living not far from the German-Austrian Alps I'm used to snow. I admit that I can't imagine what it would be like to never have seen snow. Having winter forever -- I wouldn't want it. That's too cold. edit: The emoticon crashed the post. Edited February 22, 2015 by Meg
Voidus Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 I enjoy cold, it's been about 40C for the last week now, I'm well and truly tired of hot weather.
Delightful Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 I enjoy cold, it's been about 40C for the last week now, I'm well and truly tired of hot weather.Yeesh. That's no fun :/.
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 Like I said, snow is fun for a while, until you've shoveled the wet, heavy snow. And sometimes it falls and it's so cold that you can't even make a snowball.
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 For those who wished they would see snow.... Do you want snow? You can have all the snow in Montreal if you want And you can have the cold as well, because over here we ARE FED UP WITH THIS AWFUL FREAKING COLD WINTER Global warming anyone? Apparently, weather is getting warmer: EVERYWHERE ELSE AROUND THE GLOBE. But not here. Never here. Here, it has actually got colder :angry: Why? WHY? WHY??????????? What did we do to deserve this? Weather forecast says it will be -35°C tomorrow, then -28°C after tomorrow.... Season's average is -4°C!!!!!!!!!!!! This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules? We have been freezing for over a month now! And what did this stupid groundhog said again? 6 more weeks of winter? More like 3 more months of winter! Help Sorry. Needed to rant against the weather.
Kasimir he/him Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 For those who wished they would see snow.... Do you want snow? You can have all the snow in Montreal if you want And you can have the cold as well, because over here we ARE FED UP WITH THIS AWFUL FREAKING COLD WINTER Global warming anyone? Apparently, weather is getting warmer: EVERYWHERE ELSE AROUND THE GLOBE. Do y'all also have the climate change deniers who'll point to all that snow and argue that global warming can't be happening because, loads of snow?
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 Do y'all also have the climate change deniers who'll point to all that snow and argue that global warming can't be happening because, loads of snow? Let's just say the amount of skeptics have drastically increased in the past year or so... 2014 was the coldest year we have had in what.... a 100 years? And 2015 does not look better: in fact it is worst :angry: It is not we have abnormal amount of snow: it is just so cold... They showed this map on the news the other day... Weather has gone up everywhere on the globe, but here. The map was red and there was one blue spot, right over here It is a malediction. We may very well be the one place in the world where people were actually hoping for global warming.... :ph34r: We were not made for the cold... Why didn't Jacques Cartier steered his boat a little more the the South? Why?
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) There's climate-change deniers everywhere; I'm one myself (at least, I don't believe in man-caused global warming, and I find it amusing that in recent years the rhetoric has changed from "global warming" to "climate change". There used to be "major scientific evidence" for global cooling about a decade or two ago.). And before someone calls me ignorant, trust me, I do my research. Edited February 22, 2015 by Snoopy
Kaymyth she/her Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) I live in the American Midwest. Y'all can have our snow, and our cold, all of it forevers, so far as I'm concerned. My feet are freezing constantly, and it gets downright dangerously slcik out there, as the slowly color-changing bruise on my backside can attest. (Seriously, this thing is spectacular. A baseball-size splotch of Holy Crap Human Skin Can Turn That Color I Had No Idea.) There's climate-change deniers everywhere; I'm one myself (at least, I don't believe in man-caused global warming, and I find it amusing that in recent years the rhetoric has changed from "global warming" to "climate change". There used to be "major scientific evidence" for global cooling about a decade or two ago.). And before someone calls me ignorant, trust me, I do my research. You know, my first instinctive reaction to this was, "Nooo! Don't talk politics, that'll get the thread locked!" And then I remembered, this is 17th Shard, not the other forum I'm active on where the first hint of politics brings the mods down like the wrath of Odium. Carry on. Edited February 22, 2015 by Kaymyth
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 Yeeahh...I almost didn't say it, but then I figured no one would start a flame war...
Briar King Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Southwest Louisiana here and I can count on one hand how many times I've seen snow. 5. I'm 34 and my one and only snow man was in 1986. The last time it snowed was dec 4 09. I loved the 2014 Winter cause for 3 weeks in a row we got sleet and freezing rain 1 day each week. My area was completely shut down business wise cause we aren't prepared for that here. The Gulf of Mexico shreds our chances of getting it even if it's 32F.
Voidus Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 For those who wished they would see snow.... Do you want snow? You can have all the snow in Montreal if you want And you can have the cold as well, because over here we ARE FED UP WITH THIS AWFUL FREAKING COLD WINTER Global warming anyone? Apparently, weather is getting warmer: EVERYWHERE ELSE AROUND THE GLOBE. But not here. Never here. Here, it has actually got colder :angry: Why? WHY? WHY??????????? What did we do to deserve this? Weather forecast says it will be -35°C tomorrow, then -28°C after tomorrow.... Season's average is -4°C!!!!!!!!!!!! This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules? We have been freezing for over a month now! And what did this stupid groundhog said again? 6 more weeks of winter? More like 3 more months of winter! Help Sorry. Needed to rant against the weather. Trade me? Please?
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 The year I left Washington, it snowed so much we wound up getting 7 feet over the course of a few weeks. Shoveling all that snow was a pain, but I think it was worth it when we had 10-foot snow berms flanking either side of the driveway, and we could pat all that snow down and hollow it out to make an igloo. Of course, when the temperature dipped into the negatives and we had to buy special heaters to put on our car engines so they wouldn't freeze at night….that was a bit of a pain. But still, I'd take all that snow over the 110-degree summers here in Arizona any day.
Briar King Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 At least yall have dry heat there even though it's high in temp. Here we have wet heat and mosquitoes. When it gets 100 here im climbing out of my skin. The humidity makes it so much worse.
Kaymyth she/her Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Having lived in both the desert Southwest and the Midwest, I can attest to the humidity factor: 110 degrees in Phoenix is easier to take than 90 degrees in Missouri.
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