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blue92

blue92

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I hate winter, it sucks. 1st off daylight savings time goes away and it starts geting dark at 5 in the evening, 2nd the holidays depress me, and all the Christmas advertising wears out the mute button on my tv, lastly it sucks because there's no car racing to watch.
 
With you. The holidays don't depress me really, but I hate winter. The only good thing about winter for me is the Chili Bowl, which 'll be hitting for the 8th time in just about 5 weeks. But once that's over, nothing. Blah.
 
... especially now that it's warm enough during the winters on the East Coast to have races. Seems we've spent much of our winters over the past few years in the 60s and 70s (and even 80s).
 
Have any of you who ever gone downhill skiing, snowboarding, ice skating outside, played pond hockey, had a snowball fight, built a snowman, experienced the natural high of hurtling down a snow covered hill on a toboggan?

A kid will spend 15 minutes traipsing up a steep hill for the sheer joy a 30 second thrill ride and the look on their face is priceless as they do this all day without reward, complaint or energy drinks. Cold hands in wet mittens isn't something they complain about but rather ignore.

When life gives you snow, make snowballs and toss a few at your neighbour as he's cleaning his cars windshield ;)
 
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#17D500winner said:
Have any of you who ever gone downhill skiing, snowboarding, ice skating outside, played pond hockey, had a snowball fight, built a snowman, experienced the natural high of hurtling down a snow covered hill on a toboggan?

A kid will spend 15 minutes traipsing up a steep hill for the sheer joy a 30 second thrill ride and the look on their face is priceless as they do this all day without reward, complaint or energy drinks. Cold hands in wet mittens isn't something they complain about but rather ignore.

When life gives you snow, make snowballs and toss a few at your neighbour as he's cleaning his cars windshield ;)
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I can only remember 1 time in my entire life that there was enough snow in Houston to really experience those things --- 1949, I think.
I moved to East Texas in 2003, only 1 time has there been enough snow to play in.
Edit -- hubby was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY, in 1968 --- we had an Easter snow.
 
My Granma's stove. It was this monstrous thing, originally a wood burner converted over to the new fangled high tech stuff, kerosine. Cast iron with porcelin trim. It was the main, rather the only source of heat in the house, a old, drafty 4 bedroom farm house.
Come in soaked from playing in the snow and plant my butt firmly against that mamby-jamby to warm up. Then go out and do it all over again!
FWIW It seems like we don't get the amounts of snow as we did before. We always had snow on the gound at Thanksgiving and it remained until the "January thaw", then snow on the ground until the middle to end of March.
 
It seems that Northerners discovered about thirty years ago that we have mild winters and beautiful white sand beaches so they immediately began to cover every inch of those same white sand beaches up with condos so they could escape winter up north. One would think that this is a boon to the local economy but its been proven that its not. My point is the only reason I dont care for winter anymore is the hoard of snowbirds that descend upon us and constantly bitch and complain that we dont do things like they do "up home" and I have to hold my tongue to keep from telling them to go the hell back up home then if they dont like it down here.
 
Johali said:
It seems that Northerners discovered about thirty years ago that we have mild winters and beautiful white sand beaches so they immediately began to cover every inch of those same white sand beaches up with condos so they could escape winter up north. One would think that this is a boon to the local economy but its been proven that its not. My point is the only reason I dont care for winter anymore is the hoard of snowbirds that descend upon us and constantly bitch and complain that we dont do things like they do "up home" and I have to hold my tongue to keep from telling them to go the hell back up home then if they dont like it down here.
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No one has to go to Florida to complain anymore...we have the internet for that;) Well, that and porn.
 
Via NWS FWD........After the strong cold front moves into North Texas, an upper level disturbance will move into North Texas. If there is enough moisture available, light snow would be possible. The question of the moisture will become more clear over the next several days. However, moisture is expected to be minimal and any accumulations would be little to none.

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We had our first snow storm of the year yesterday (12/10/12) - 14 inches, a pretty good one. The drive into work today only had 1 SUV in the ditch which is a pretty low number considering it was the first bad road day of the year. (90% of the cars to hit the ditch are SUVs because those drivers mistakenly think 4WD can overcome slippery conditions). I took the car out yesterday to get my winter wheels back (to remember how to deal with slippery conditions, test the anti-lock brakes, and do some donuts and drifting made easy in an empty parking lot). I'll be testing the heated seats this afternoon when it gets down to zero degrees.
 
Just to be clear, that window writing is a friend's doing. But it's still funny as hell.
 
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