Snow sucks

burmafrd;3790950 said:
weenies. 7 winters in watertown, NY none of what you mentioned is anything but normal where I lived.
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I know what you mean. Grew up 40 minutes northwest of Albany. The Adirondacks were my back yard. Then I went to college for 4 years about an hour north of Watertown. You get to use to it especially the cold. But everyone here is talking about inches. Where I live now, they talk about how many feet we are going to get every storm.
 
burmafrd;3790950 said:
weenies. 7 winters in watertown, NY none of what you mentioned is anything but normal where I lived.
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Heh. I live in the mountains in western Maine and I know where you're coming from. I couldn't figure out what all the panic was about.
 
nyc;3790203 said:
18 inches shoveled on Christmas

7 more inches shoveled today.

Snow sucks.

That is all.
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Where the heck are you in new york city that you got 7 inches a day ago? I work in manhattan and live in brooklyn and barely any of it stuck.
 
There's nothing wrong with snow, I love it.

That's why I've lived the majority of my life in Cali and Phoenix and just moved to Florida.. :muttley:
 
Rochester, NY checking in and I concur, snow sucks. Had a lot before Christmas, not much lately. We received 46" in December and it gets depressing really quickly. Usually over 100" during the winter, so lots more is coming. Can't wait!!!!!! (ugh).
 
burmafrd;3790950 said:
weenies. 7 winters in watertown, NY none of what you mentioned is anything but normal where I lived.
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Yep, that is the worst area. We get snow ...... Oswego, the tug hill plateau (off the east end of Lake Ontario), Watertown .... they get hell!
 
I love snow because I've only been in it a few times. The last time I was in snow was about 12 years ago.

I grew up in south Texas and we rarely got snow maybe once every 5-7 years and it wasn't much.

When I was in the 4th grade a front blew in and we were expected to get about 3-4 inches of snow that night which was unheard of.

I woke up early the next morning and looked out the window and it was like a winter wonderland outside. Snow was coming down pretty heavy and our yard was covered. They closed the schools.

Me and my brother put on our coats and ran outside and started throwing snowballs at each other and built a snowman.

People were in their yards with their video camera's you could tell by how amazed everyone looked that snow was a very rare site for us. In Calif we get snow in the mountains and a few low lying area's got some snow a couple of weeks ago which is rare.

I live right on the beach so snow is out of the question here. Vegas got some snow last week.
 
TheCount;3792139 said:
Where the heck are you in new york city that you got 7 inches a day ago? I work in manhattan and live in brooklyn and barely any of it stuck.
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I now live in lower Connecticut, though I still work in lower Manhattan.
 
Ugh! I come to Texas and now its snowing here too!

At least I don't have to shovel it here. As long as the roads don't ice up, I'm okay.

I made a connection in Memphis, I wonder if it ended up snowing there too. :laugh1:
 
Austin 3-16;3794490 said:
I feel sorry for some of you.i live in South Africa,i have never touched snow!
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Never touched snow?

I feel sorry for you.
 
If you are prepared for snow, .. it's awesome.

If not, .. it is a major headache.

If you live where it snows a lot and you aren't prepared, .. shame on you.
 
WV Cowboy;3794576 said:
If you are prepared for snow, .. it's awesome.

If not, .. it is a major headache.

If you live where it snows a lot and you aren't prepared, .. shame on you.
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Prepared is a relative term. I'm guessing you mean owning a $500+ snow thrower. Most less than that can't handle heavy snow. My neighbor works harder than I do shovelling with his pos snow thrower.

I own a nice shovel, and always have rock salt on hand. The only time I really hate the snow is when it dumps 8+ inches and I do not get to shovel early. I really hate it when it snows, melts, and refreezes before I get to shovel it.

Snow itself isn't bad, its the issues it brings with it if you don't have time to take care of it before it gets out of control.

Snow throwers are for people who can't physically handle shovelling or live where it dumps 40+ inches a year. Though 40+ inches will be the minimum this year it seems as my wife said we are getting 12 more inches Tuesday night :/
 
Just finished clearing 5" from my driveway.

That was a complete waste of 30 minutes.

I HATE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!
 
nyc;3795065 said:
Prepared is a relative term. I'm guessing you mean owning a $500+ snow thrower. Most less than that can't handle heavy snow. My neighbor works harder than I do shovelling with his pos snow thrower.
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:laugh2: I've seen those.

I own a nice shovel, and always have rock salt on hand. The only time I really hate the snow is when it dumps 8+ inches and I do not get to shovel early. I really hate it when it snows, melts, and refreezes before I get to shovel it.

Snow itself isn't bad, its the issues it brings with it if you don't have time to take care of it before it gets out of control.
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I know, that's when snow really sucks if it snows a bunch in the night or if you just can't get out there soon enough to stay out in front of the accumulation.

Snow throwers are for people who can't physically handle shovelling or live where it dumps 40+ inches a year. Though 40+ inches will be the minimum this year it seems as my wife said we are getting 12 more inches Tuesday night :/
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I have a medium sized lawn tractor that I put a snow blade on the front, and weights and chains on the back tires. I'm pretty lucky that the place where I park my Yukon behind my house, the place I turn around (and sometimes park a 3rd car-my son's) and my driveway (~35-40 ft.) are all reachable with the tractor.

I also drive my tractor about 10 blocks and do my father-in-laws driveway. He is 82. He has a monster snow blower but he just can't do it anymore. Plus his driveway is big and wide, and is pretty steep.

On the way back from his house I usually hit a pretty big driveway of a widow lady from our church.

So no shoveling for me. I just bought a smallish leaf-blower to clean off vehicles and a short sidewalk out front.

I hope you can stay out in front of the accumulation Tuesday night, and watch your back.
 
Living in Houston it is no concern, while some of you had to shovel snow this past weekend I was playing golf. I love to take a winter vacation to go snow skiing but when the vacation is over I want to come back home where snow seldom falls. :laugh2:
 
nyc;3795065 said:
Prepared is a relative term. I'm guessing you mean owning a $500+ snow thrower. Most less than that can't handle heavy snow. My neighbor works harder than I do shovelling with his pos snow thrower.

I own a nice shovel, and always have rock salt on hand. The only time I really hate the snow is when it dumps 8+ inches and I do not get to shovel early. I really hate it when it snows, melts, and refreezes before I get to shovel it.

Snow itself isn't bad, its the issues it brings with it if you don't have time to take care of it before it gets out of control.

Snow throwers are for people who can't physically handle shovelling or live where it dumps 40+ inches a year. Though 40+ inches will be the minimum this year it seems as my wife said we are getting 12 more inches Tuesday night :/
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wow. no doubt your from the south.

There is so much wrong in this post its kind of comical.
 
I hate snow because anytime there is just a little bit of it, folks in the D/FW area just seem to lose their minds and forget how to drive.
 
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