yay, we have a white Christmas!!!!!

[rainbowbright]

It's actually been snowing all day long, the last white Christmas we had that I can remember was about 18 years ago. It's so pretty.

[fuerein]

The news just said the last time we had a white Christmas here was back in 2002 (that was before I moved here). Right now, at about 6pm, it is 45 degrees out. definitely not a white day today.

[rainbowbright]

This year has been really weird, weather-wise. We didn't ever think winter was going to come because until about three weeks ago, it was in the 60's, now we're getting pummeled.

[Dorothea]

Yeah, I saw that on the weather channel the other day, rainbow. Dang it, if we're not missing it being down here in Northern Louisiana. :( lol Oh well. How much have you gotten so far, rainbow?

[rainbowbright]

we haven't gotten very much, It has been snowing all day, but it's been blowing around. It's extremely cold and windy. I'll send you over some ice-cold wind to Louisiana.;)

[Dorothea]

LOL Thanks. It was in the 50's here, and in the evenings, it gets down to the low 30s. We'll be returning to Colorado Springs this Sunday. As far as I could see, the weather was going to cooperate when I checked yesterday....but you know how the weather is....LOL I'll have to check towards the end of the week again, since I'll be driving back (like I drove here) Saturday and Sunday through Texas and NM and then Southern CO.

[rainbowbright]

That's a long drive, at least you're not driving through Kansas blahhh!!!

[Saint Melania]

The only "white Christmas" we ever seem to get is a bunch of fog. Well, it's white! ;)

[Nichole]

SNOW...................I am sooooooooooooooooooo jealous!!!!!!!! Where we live it doesn't snow! It is typically warm all year. Today it rained off and on all day and was in the 50's. My twin called from WA state and said they were getting snow, but it was melting as it hit the ground. She was pretty excited, because she hadn't seen that since moving from SD (where we grew up)!!!!!!!!!

[Tonks]

pshaw...we had two feet+ of snow on the ground when I arrived in MA on Saturday. luckily it has melted some...currently in the mid-20s.

blah.

[Melethiel]

Send me some snow. It's somewhat colder than it was a few weeks ago, but I'm still walking around in a t-shirt. :sigh:

[rainbowbright]

wow, my husband is willing to trade places with any of you that don't get snow.. He grew up here but is not tolerating the cold anymore. I, however, hate it when it DOESN'T snow. Bring on a blizzard, I'll be under my blanket in front of the fire place, sipping hot chocolate and reading a book.

[Saint Melania]

The last time it snowed it was in 1975, I think. It stayed on the ground a short while, and then melted. Before that, it was 1962. That stayed on the ground a short while, and kids made snowmen. Only the ones in the shade stayed. :) It may snow again. Then again, it may not.

[fuerein]

wow, my husband is willing to trade places with any of you that don't get snow.. He grew up here but is not tolerating the cold anymore. I, however, hate it when it DOESN'T snow. Bring on a blizzard, I'll be under my blanket in front of the fire place, sipping hot chocolate and reading a book.
I normally hate snow, though I often wish we would get one big snowfall sometime because people around here don't understand winter driving and thus for as little as 6" offices have been known to close in the past. We haven't had anything like that in the three years I've been here, but boy a day off just because of less than a foot of snow? I'll take one a year please. ;)

[rainbowbright]

I remember when my dad was stationed in Virginia, after living here for 7 years, and it started snowing, the whole city was shut down and they had snow plows driving all over the place- it only snowed a few flakes and didn't even stick to the ground; we were laughing our heads off. Also, another year we lived there, the whole country was getting buckets of snow and we were only getting rain. I guess that's why it's so green there.

[Dorothea]

wow, my husband is willing to trade places with any of you that don't get snow.. He grew up here but is not tolerating the cold anymore. I, however, hate it when it DOESN'T snow. Bring on a blizzard, I'll be under my blanket in front of the fire place, sipping hot chocolate and reading a book.
That's me. If it's going to snow, dump a good foot or so. It's not worth it for a couple inches. :P

[fuerein]

Yea, I'm in N. Virginia but orginally from N. Indiana (about 1.5-2hrs mostly east from Lake Michigan). Yeah I laugh when I hear the news announce that Virginia's DOT has called up extra plows and such and then they show a 3" expected snowfall. Extra plows for 3"? Wha?

[Dorothea]

We lived in Fairfax, VA back in 1984-1987. There was a huge storm that came through one of those years. We were out of school for a week. LOL Nobody plowed our cul-de-sac, either. Our neighbor thought he'd try to go to work in his little Volkswagon bug and got caught in the middle of the court, stuck. People in the court tried to push his car out of the snow. It took some time. The guy should've given it up. At that time, i remember everything shut down, and they didn't have hardly any plows! More like make shift ones! Totally unprepared for that. It had snowed like 2 feet or something.

[rainbowbright]

We lived in Hampton and York County '92-'94 and then moved back here. I guess it's too close to the coast to get anything major, hurricanes would even miss us

[Protoevangel]

I love a good snow, but not here, and especially not when I have to work. When it snows much here, it usually turns into a nice sheet of ice... and I live on a hill... Not a good combination.

[SeekingTheLight]

Being originally from south Texas, I never had any snow, ever. Then when we moved overseas to Estonia, we had so much snow that it was really a pain. The last winter we were there, it snowed so much one night that our car was literally covered - you couldn't see the roof. Crazy! So, now I have to say that I don't really miss it much. Plus, when it all starts melting it turns into this nasty brown slush that looks really gross, you know?

[fuerein]

When I was really young (pre-K) we lived out west in Idaho. Well, this Siberian cold front swept down from Canada and dumped a bunch of snow on us in a really short period of time. There was enough that I tried digging tunnels in it (can't remember how successful I was, but I tried). I remember it being really deep, like as high as my head, but then, like I said I was pre-K at the time so for some reason I don't think I should still proclaim it was that deep even if that is how I remember it.

[Dorothea]

Being originally from south Texas, I never had any snow, ever. Then when we moved overseas to Estonia, we had so much snow that it was really a pain. The last winter we were there, it snowed so much one night that our car was literally covered - you couldn't see the roof. Crazy! So, now I have to say that I don't really miss it much. Plus, when it all starts melting it turns into this nasty brown slush that looks really gross, you know?
Yeah, the slush is kinda gross, but nothing is worse than having it snow and then the next day rain on top of it. Ugh!! I hated it would do that in Eastern Washington.

Luckily, that doesn't happen much in CO because the elevation is so high.

My mom told me when were were living in Maine (where I was born...we were there for a couple years), and she said it would snow several feet, and she said one time the plow came around and was moving snow out of the way, and happened to dig up a small car that was covered in snow. LOL Nobody could see it until then!


When I was really young (pre-K) we lived out west in Idaho. Well, this Siberian cold front swept down from Canada and dumped a bunch of snow on us in a really short period of time. There was enough that I tried digging tunnels in it (can't remember how successful I was, but I tried). I remember it being really deep, like as high as my head, but then, like I said I was pre-K at the time so for some reason I don't think I should still proclaim it was that deep even if that is how I remember it.
LOL We dug tunnels in the big blizzard of 1982, when we lived in Belleville, IL at the time. Again, another 3-4 days off of school. lol And we had a ball because a friend of mine and a couple of my sister's were stranded at our house for 2 days before their parents came and got them. :D

[MariaRegina]

When I was a child in Reno, Nevada, we used to roll up the snow on the frat house lawns. The college kids in the frat houses were on their winter break and we had a blast.

We would start with a small ball and roll it until it was taller than we were, but before it was too heavy to move, we would roll it into a structure we were making. The structure was at least 5 feet tall, had no roof, but four walls made of those huge snow balls with a tiny opening for us to squeeze inside. Inside the structure, it was quite warm because we were protected from the wind.

This all started out when we were making huge snow men and found that we could not put one ball on top of the other.

[MariaRegina]

Later on, in our own backyard, we used this same construction, but packed snow inside them. We then made a sled ramp out of snow and steps leading to the ramp. For months afterwards, we were able to slide down this snow mountain we had created, because it snowed several times and we kept making it bigger and better. This took place when I was in the fourth grade. That was my last winter at that old house on frat row.

[Dorothea]

When I was a child in Reno, Nevada, we used to roll up the snow on the frat house lawns. The college kids in the frat houses were on their winter break and we had a blast.

We would start with a small ball and roll it until it was taller than we were, but before it was too heavy to move, we would roll it into a structure we were making. The structure was at least 5 feet tall, had no roof, but four walls made of those huge snow balls with a tiny opening for us to squeeze inside. Inside the structure, it was quite warm because we were protected from the wind.

This all started out when we were making huge snow men and found that we could not put one ball on top of the other.
That sounds like a great fortress for snowball fighting. ^_^

[MariaRegina]

Yes, we first started with one wall from which we would pitch snow balls. We had piles of snowballs. Later we merged these small snowballs and then made our structure.

[fuerein]

That sounds like a great fortress for snowball fighting. ^_^
Sounds better for king of the hill to me. Our elementary school had a large open paved area with a dirt field about half the size of the paved area at the back that was frequently used for football during spring and summer. During winter all the snow from the paved section would get plowed onto the near side of the dirt field, creating this 4' high by 20-30 yard long ridge. Ahh the fun of playing king of the hill and getting roughly thrown down a rough snowy ridge. :)

[Dorothea]

Sounds like great fun!

[Dorothea]

LOL You know, I never played that when I was growing up. :eek: :D Sounds like fun. :D I was more into the sledding down whatever hills I could find. :P

[MariaRegina]

Neighborhood kids would climb up the snowballs and then play king of the mountain and follow the leader and dance along the top of the five foot high ridge.

My parents had no clue. And yes it was fun.