I hate snow

[Velobambina]

We got our first measurable snow yesterday.

I just checked weather.com. They are predicting rain tomorrow. I'm going to say some prayers that it RAINS like cats & dogs to clear the snow away so I can ride outside this weekend.

I don't mind "visiting" snow--for a day or so--but around here, it takes forever to go away, gets icy/solid, and turns ugly fast.

Let me go pop Have Mercy in the DVD player now and don some shorts (well, that's a positive, right---won't have to layer up and deal w/the cold!). Then I'm going to get my rosary and start praying for warm RAIN.

[OakLeaf]

6 inches here, the most in the state. Grrrrrr.

[songlady]

We've got around 8-10 inches here, which is fine with me because it's enough to go cross country skiing. What I HATE is when we just get a dusting (1-2 inches). It's not really enough to do any snow related activities and I can't ride outside either

[Tri Girl]

I only WISH it were going to snow here this weekend. They're predicting an ice storm Sun-Tuesday. C'mon sky- just snow. In snow you can still drive (until it melts and then re-freezes), but ice just sucks.

Sorry you got so much snow- just send the cold front down a little lower so we can have snow instead of ice... pretty please.

[IFjane]

Never fear! It is going to be better this weekend - you will be out on the road before you know it. Upper 40's for Saturday and low 50's for Sunday. Cloudy though. Log a few miles for me - I'm going to be out of commission for about a month. (hand surgery)

[sgtiger]

Velobambina, I'm with you. I'm not much of a fan of snow either. I like to visit it in the mountains occassionally to play; snowshoeing and I'd like to learn to Xcounty ski. But IMOSHO that is where it belongs. I don't mind too much when it's around for a day or two. The kids really seem to get a kick out of it. Anymore than that and it drives me nuts becuase it's so disruptive. Not many people here seem to know how to drive safely in it. Of course neither can I, so I stay home with a cup of hot chocolate and a book instead. Thank goodness it doesn't happen here too often.

Right after grad school, Dh got a job offer in Alaska. Yeah, right! Me in the cold and snow. I remember giving him the hairy eyeball and going right back to what I was doing. I wasn't even going to dignify that with an answer. I'm sure he was just messing with me becuase he had that mischeivious twinkle in his eyes and an evil grin. Bad Dh!

~Sg "snow whimp" tiger

[solobiker]

That is why I love where I live, for the most part the snow doesn't stay too long down in the foothills, so if I want snow I just have to head west for about 45 min and I can have all the snow I want, and if I don't want snow I can stay down out of the mountains and keep out of the snow.

[Kathi]

I skied in about 10" of powder today! It's still coming down. So many skiers out that it wasn't much of a powder day but it made for great conditions.

I loved the Denver blizzard last Christmas, no one from the front range could get to the mtns. We couldn't get home! The mtns didn't get much snow but we had the ski areas to ourselves.

I also loved 60+ days of snow on the ground. I'm formerly from Ohio and had not experienced so much snow for such a long time.

[Sheesh]

I'm job searching this year, and am so hoping that I'll get a great job offer in a warmer climate! I just can't seem to escape the snow...

[Tri Girl]

I hear you, Sheesh. My sister and her husband just got relocated to St. Croix for 3 years. I know- bummer, huh? Ha!! From all she's said, it sounds like living in a dream down there. This time of year makes me long for those warmer, gentler, wind-chill-less climates.

[teigyr]

Seattle doesn't get much snow but I sympathize. Actually it's funny when we DO get snow because everyone freaks out! Including me

When I started work at LAX in Southern California, I lived at 6,000 feet elevation and had a 200 mile a day commute. I was hired in October and due to the fact I was on probation, I couldn't be late. We'd get feet and feet of snow...and due to the fact our road was a dirt road and due to the fact it was steep going up and down the mountain, chains were required for about 10 miles or slightly less.

I remember digging out the car. I remember parking on the highway and carrying my bike over my head out to the car if the dirt road wasn't plowed. I remember wrapping a chain around an axle because I can't put on chains well. I remember falling asleep at night listening to rain and if I didn't hear rain in the middle of the night I'd panic because many times it had turned to snow.

I can relate. It is fatiguing due to shoveling, it's stressful due to driving, and it gives me hypochondriac ulcers Those feelings followed me up here so when we get our bits of snow, I overeact.

I don't know how you snow people do it!

[Aquila]

I hate being cold, too (Want some cheese with that?)

[Tuckervill]

I hear you, Sheesh. My sister and her husband just got relocated to St. Croix for 3 years. I know- bummer, huh? Ha!! From all she's said, it sounds like living in a dream down there. This time of year makes me long for those warmer, gentler, wind-chill-less climates.

Until the hurricane shows up.

Karen

[mtbdarby]

Cheer up girl! We got over 7" this past weekend and woke up to -22F without the windchill yesterday morning - smashing the record. It's WAYYY too early to be breaking cold weather temps here, but what do you do?

Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather - just bad gear

[OakLeaf]

Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather - just bad gear

We-e-e-e-ll, you gotta admit that certain weather is entirely inappropriate to certain sports, no matter how good the gear. Waterskiing with chunks of ice floating on the river, for example... downhill snow skiing with bare muddy patches... almost anything in a lightning storm... or road cycling with ice or salt on the road IMVHO.

But anyway, this seems like a good place to share my discovery a couple of weeks ago that sleet is actually beautiful weather!

I went outside in the sleet to pick some oregano for dinner before it got dark, and I looked at the plant and there was a perfect six-pointed star, maybe 7-8 mm across, made out of sleet. It must've started out life as a snowflake and gone through a few partial thawing/water accretion/freezing cycles on the way down. There it was, a perfect little life lesson, sitting on my oregano