TheBanyanTree: snow, snow, and more f'ing snow

[Monique Colver]

Were you talking Vancouver, as in me, or Vancouver, as in Olympics? Because
here in my Vancouver, we've had no snow this year. Wait. One day I did see a
few flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground. Last year we had a
fabulous week or two of snow. It was very pretty, there was panic in the
streets, and I stayed inside and watched it from afar. I can do that because
I work at home. It was pretty. I was hoping for more this year, but so far,
nada. Only rain.

I've lived in snow plenty of times. North Dakota. Wisconsin. Places where
there's no panic just because of snow, everyone just goes about their
business. I've shoveled more snow than I care to remember. I'm happy with
not doing that now, but I occasionally I do miss the snow. It makes
everything so bright. There's just not the same effect with rain.

I lived in Louisiana and one time we had snow. Not a lot, but enough to make
everything white and fluffy. The entire city closed down. No one knew what
to do, and they weren't equipped. So we, the hardy northerners, went out,
drove around the deserted town, and played.

Monique
Snowless south of Vancouver BC

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Laura <wolfljsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I live in the Bluegrass.  It's in the temperate zone, on the line between
> humid subtropical
> and humid continental in terms of climate.  This means generally, in
> winter, we'll have two
> or three mild snowfalls a couple of inches deep, which melt off within a
> day or two. The rest
> of the time the temperatures stay between 30 and 45 (fairyheight), and we
> occasionally get
> some rain or ice.
>
> We revel in our few snows.  We make news out of them.  We predict murder,
> mayhem, and
> apparently, starvation.  Whenever there is a "significant snow event"
> predicted, the entire
> population hits the grocery stores.  We interview people who are brave
> enough to venture
> out into the inch of frozen fluff.  We watch video of the brave and daring
> plow/salt truck
> drivers.  We call off school, and businesses close, and we get out and play
> in it.  Two days
> later, normality is restored and we all go about our daily routine.
>
> Occasionally, every 10 or 12 years, we'll get a "SUPERstorm".  Very cold
> temperatures, 10
> inches of snow, or God forbid, and inch of ice, and it will last a whole
> week.  One year after
> a big snow, about a foot, the temperature dropped below zero (fairyheight)
> and stayed there
> for a whole week.  I had an inch of ice on the *inside* of my sliding glass
> doors.  Another
> time we got 29 inches.  That was fun!  It was gone within a week.
>
> This year has been very strange for us.  We had snowfall back in January.
>  Something like 4
> inches.  It hung around for a week or so, but the roads cleared after just
> a day.  Before that
> snow melted off the lawns completely, we had another snowfall of about 4
> inches.  Again,
> the roads cleared after just a day or so, but the lawns were completely
> covered.  Before that
> could melt off, we had yet another snowfall.  This time we had about 3
> inches.  We got our
> drive and walk cleared, confindent in the knowledge that the snow was done.
>  This morning,
> I woke to another inch and a half or two inches covering what we had
> cleared.  <sigh>
>
> Normally, I like the snow.  But I gotta tell you, I'm getting pretty sick
> and tired of it this year. I
> don't like this never melting off thing.  There are piles of snow higher
> than my van in the
> parking lots.  Even the newscasters seem to have tired of it, and are
> trying to find something
> else to whine about.
>
> Vancouver?  You can come get your snow now, we're finished with it!
>
> --
> Laura
> wolfljsh at gmail.com
> http://wolfsinger.wordpress.com
>
>


-- 
Monique Colver