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To: Windflier

I only like snow on TV, with football happening in the middle of it. Any closer to TV is too close. Of course part of that is having grown up in the midwest, Chicago snow is no fun, there isn’t a hill in the time zone so all that sledding and skiing and stuff is a non-starter, it’s really humid so the snow isn’t good for creativity (snowmen and balls) and it tends to turn to slush and sludge quickly, and speaking of sludge it also picks up pollution so it tends (at least in the 70s) to be more gray than white. Maybe if I’d been somewhere that snow was at all entertaining it would be different, but for me snow is just a visual indicator of cold wet weather.

Which of course is why I live where I do. Enjoy your snow.


64 posted on 12/12/2010 9:42:32 AM PST by discostu (Keyser Soze lives)
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To: discostu
...having grown up in the midwest, Chicago snow is no fun...

Sounds positively dreadful. No wonder you hate the white stuff.

You probably wouldn't mind North Texas snow. It doesn't get dirty, like it does in Chicago, and it's light enough that we don't really need snow plows for the roads. We got 12 inches last winter, and it was 'historic'. I'm sure that's a hoot to you ;^)

There's little need to shovel snow out of your driveway out here, and the cities don't come to a standstill because of it. The counties sand the major roads, which is usually all that's required to make them safe to travel.

Altogether, I'd say that our normal snow conditions are pretty much ideal. You can even build snowmen out of the stuff, and there are enough hills and slopes to sled on.

65 posted on 12/12/2010 9:55:37 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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