Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

[John M.]

We're well on our way here too.

They are saying we may have snow on the benches (which is where my house sits) on down to the valleys by this weekend.

Heres a picture I took from my front porch this weekend.
You can see the snow has allready hit the mountain.


BTW that makes me wonder. SWK told me that they might have a heavyweight wool kilt in my size within about two weeks. That was three weeks ago now, and it's now to cold to wear my canvas Kilt outside of the house.
C'mon, hurry hurry hurry already. :sad:

[starbkjrus]

Here in the DC area it seems there are two types of people driving in the snow. The first are those who drive like nothing has happened, and the second are those who just creep along. In most cases when it snows, something between these two speeds is called for.

I do think that snow is beautiful when you can watch it out the window.

Dave, you've just described all of my neighbors. It's the same on this side of the river. (I'm in Reston). I don't claim to be an excellent snow driver but I DID learn to drive in it in suburban Chicago.

[Southern Breeze]

Here in north Ga. all you have to do is say the word snow to cause a major panic! Any thing over a quarter inch is a blizzard to us.

[Big Paul]

OK! OK! Cut it out guys... I'm missing my snowmobile bad enough... No, really I love snow! I can't wait to take the dog for a walk it it... He loves it too, but not for too long because of his short coat...

[Kilted_John]

yup. Half an inch of snow will shut down Vancouver.

That's nothin'. Seattle shuts down when it looks like it might snow... :-) It also shuts down when the sun comes out, or when it rains. No one knows how to drive here, unless it's just cloudy. Even then, ya gotta wonder about people...
-J

[Mr. Kilt]

Well, it was a typical start to a Calgary winter. An inch of snow and all hell breaks loose. 123 collisions recorded between midnight and noon today, 1 of them fatal. Traffic was pretty much at a standstill for the entire morning rush. It's interesting to note that the majority of cars that went off the roads and into the ditches were 4x4 SUV's. Seems like the owners of such vehicles (I have one myself) seem to think that they are invincible in winter conditions. Fun fun!!
On the plus side...aside from running really late, I had no issues at all with my first foray into ice and snow with a 40' transit bus. It handled the road conditions better than I expected. Might not be such a scary winter after all.

[bubba]

I always told my boys that if they weren't carefule they'd slide into the ditch in the snow. Rear wheel drive goes in backwards, front wheel drive goes in front first, 4 wheel drive sideways, but get sloppy and you're going in regardless.

[cormacmacguardhe]

Anxiously awaiting our first snow. The mountains are showing their first snows and my wife and I are eager for the white stuff to fall. We live about 120 miles northeast of Seattle, and about 40 miles southeast of Vancouver. Being at a higher elevation we do tend to get more snowfall. People around here tend to drive only marginally better in the snow than the people in town.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

I always told my boys that if they weren't carefule they'd slide into the ditch in the snow. Rear wheel drive goes in backwards, front wheel drive goes in front first, 4 wheel drive sideways, but get sloppy and you're going in regardless.

Bubba, you have that right! I was amazed when we lived in Raleigh, NC for 6 years how people with 4x4's thought that it was some kind of silver bullet. Just could not get them to understand that if one wheel started spinning while on ice and snow, that the other ones were probably going to be following very shortly. Saw people with 4x4 Ford Explorers who had NEVER put it in 4 wheel drive before, decide that the perfect first time was when the interstate was covered in ice! As a side note, Raleigh gets very little snow, and a 1/4" of snow does shut the city down, and if I recall there are like 4 snowplows for the whole city. May have changed since we let in 1999.

[Blu (Ontario)]

... I do think that snow is beautiful when you can watch it out the window.

Not so beautiful stuff... when you have to get up extra early in the morning, shovel a quarter ton of the stuff by hand, then negotiate a treacherous, time consuming trip over rough snowpacked streets in the dark, just so you can spend the 8 or so hours of precious winter daylight in the office watching the road salt and ice accumulation eating away at you car... then drive home again in the dark to a driveway that city plows have filled in, shovel another few hundred pounds of snow from the end of the driveway, and flop down exhausted with a sore back wondering why you have no energy. Rest up cuz you'll likely have to do it again next morning... Yeehaww!