I hate snow

[Jillian]

Here in the midwest we are having such a long winter. We set a record here in WI with a snowfall total of over 70 inches for the season. Today it is snowing again!!! Well before that we had freezing rain which always makes shoveling even more of a challenge. I'm so sick of looking out the window and seeing endless white.

I guess this year we'll really enjoy spring :)

[Reads with Scotch]

Come Pandora, Joint my world. It is a balmy -47 outside and the sun is just starting to return from its sabbatical. (Not sure if I spelled that right) The wind is a blow’n, the animals are still rutting through the snow looking for some piece of vegetation that hasn’t succumbed to the frozen wasteland…

I actually really like living in Alaska, the winters are hard to get used to, but eventually they kinda grow on you. At first glance everything looks dead and cold (Well it is dead and cold but that is beside the point). After some close observation you start to see the different shades of cold, the bite of the wind brings a whole plethora of new sensations, and it’s kinda peaceful… then again maybe my brain has been addled by 7 months of fridged weather.

[Jillian]

I know it's only for a few months. I'm just sick of the digging out of the snow. I do have a snowblower thankfully. But I still feel the need to complain :)

How long have you been living in Alaska? My husband wants to visit there someday. It does look beautiful in all the pictures I've seen. I'd personally just want to see all the animals especially the bears.

I do like some aspects of winter. I love hoarfrost. In the morning when the sun is coming up and it looks like there are diamonds on all the branches. It's so beautiful.

But then the snow plow comes along and fills up the end of my driveway with hard snow and ice and I start to cuss again :)

[Joshua]

Being from upstate new york I also hate snow.
The only good thing is snow days.
But I hate wearing layers, and slipping on ice, and cold ears.
The worst though, is cold hands, because whenever your hands are cold if you get in in the hand at all it just hurts so bad. Like once i was walking around town with a friend and my hands were freezing, and they whacked me with a newspaper, and it was nearly unbearable.

[Jillian]

Well the thing that sucks about snow as an adult is you have to dig out of it and attempt to get to work.

When it's snowing like today I miss being a kid. Snow days and hot cocoa. Playing in the snow for hours. Building forts and tunnels.

Have you ever noticed too that as you get older you tolerate the cold less and less? Shit I could be outside for hours when I was a kid. It would be below zero and it wouldn't bother me. Now walking to my mailbox when it's -20 has me complaining for at least 10 minutes. LOL

[Jillian]

Also is it just me or does anyone else notice you don't see kids playing out in the snow like we did when we were kids? I can drive around my town and not see ONE kid outside. I have yet to see a snowman in the front yard! Kids are so sheltered now and attached to their video games.

[Reads with Scotch]

Lived up here for three years now. Here you don't need to deal with snow plows, nobody does it... you just drive on the snow till it gets good and packed down... Being from Chicago this sent alarm bells ringing when I first moved here but you get use to it. And really when it is this cold the ice get's "sticky" so you have really good traction, after a heavy snow it is a pain in the ass for a day or two until it is all packed down again.


As for visiting, I suggest the Keni peninsula you will see a lot of wildlife, you will miss the bears there though, you would need to take a day trip to Kodiak. But usually the further north the more bears.

[Joshua]

duhh pandora,
didn't you get the memo?
Shooting people is WAY cooler then making friends.

[RandomAnthony]

I grew up in Chicago and now live in Wisconsin. I've always been one of these "I could never live somewhere that didn't have four seasons" people, but this winter has sucked. We've had double the amount of snow as last year...I'm just sick of it.

Still, I'd rather have the snow and cold then bleeping 100 degrees or more in the summer. I would die if I lived near the equator. Plus, our bugs are smaller.

I put my car in a snowdrift last week, though, and within five minutes a guy pulled over and pulled me out with truck, free of charge, didn't make a big deal out of it. So snow have given me some faith in the human race.

[Jillian]

I'd love to see Kodiak bears. They are so beautiful. Well someday we'll hopefully get up to Alaska.

What made you move up there?

My husband doesn't like all the salt they use. He's originally from NY and upstate they would use sand. I think perhaps leaving it and not using salt which damages the environment is a better idea. People would just have to learn how to drive.


I personally don't like video games. I have a very short attention span and they bore me quickly. I grew up in the 80s and never had Atari. I'm glad now my parents never bought it for me. I spent my time reading or playing outside. Using my imagination which so many kids today don't.

[Jillian]

We do have some nice folks here in Wisconsin. :) I'm glad someone helped you.

Well this is the worst winter we've had since 85. So I think it's like a 20 year cycle or something.

I'm amazed NOBODY has driven past my house today. I keep thinking I'll turn on the news and there will be a huge pile-up or cars stranded on I90 again. :)

[Joshua]

I like video games occasionally, I do own and xbox 360, but i put an hour maximum a week into gaming, it just gets boring, i have better things to do usually. Sometimes there a nice escape though. Or like in winter, i can't skateboard like i like to do in summer, but there's a game called "skate" and its a pretty good game for winter when i can't skate because of snow. haha.

See isn't it nice how I brought us back to the topic?

[Jillian]

Very good...as I sit here and glare at the snow falling outside my window. Blasted white crap I say!!

[Reads with Scotch]

I moved up here because living in Chicago is bad for the head. It starts to get to you year after year. Seeing people as vile human waste is not healthy, the problem was there was always someone to prove that was exactly what they were every day. So we went to Alaska one summer and I loved it so much, I talked my wife into staying, we have been here ever since

[Jillian]

Well I am glad you found a place that makes you happy. You have to do what makes you happy in life or it just isn't worth living.

I know I couldn't personally live in or near a large city. I grew up out in the country and that is where I feel safe and happy. I went to NY a few years ago to met my in-laws. My husband took me into the city for the day and it was so bizarre to me. I felt like they could just tell by looking at me that I was an outsider.

[Reads with Scotch]

I'm sure there were a long line of scumbags lining up, getting ready to pounce, to take advantage of you. Your husband saved the day, go give him a hug.

[Jillian]

Well that is what a person's mind tells them. It's just when you are thrown into an environment you are not used to it can be scary. I went on the subway for the first time that day. I also saw homeless people for the first time in my life. We went to Tiffany's where I experienced snobby salespeople. We weren't dressed the best that day because it was so cold. It was in January and was I think -3 and really windy. Growing up in Chicago I'm sure you can understand the wind when it is whipping through those tall buildings. So we'd walk into Tiffany's and other fancy stores on 5th Ave and they'd just give you this look like "oh you can't afford nothing in here." It was quite humorous actually.

I also experienced my first NYC taxi cab ride. I refused to walk from Central Park to where we needed to go to get back to the train. I could no longer feel my legs.

I would like to go back to NYC but when it's not as cold.

[Reads with Scotch]

I wasn't implying you were weak or something because you were a women. It was more along the lines as scumbags have the tendency to be able to sniff out, outsiders, it's a percentage game, if your not from there then their chances of pulling one over on you grows exponentially.

[Jillian]

I didn't say you did Nick. :)

But I know those people can see someone who is easy from a mile away. We give off a scent or something. Well my husband says I tend to hang onto my purse tightly in certain places. I might as well put a big neon sign over my head rob me!

He did leave me alone for a few minutes in the subway which terrified me. Especially because a group of thugs came off the subway and were walking around me, yelling and threatening each other. I just stayed by my pole and kept walking around it so they couldn't see me. I was safe with my pole. LOL

[Reads with Scotch]

I'm trying to think up a new I hate thread...

[Jillian]

So much to hate.....so little time.

[Jillian]

Let me see....

when people spit gum out in front of a store and you step in it.

loud talkers

soft talkers

people who double dip

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before I say this let me preface it with, i lived in Maine for over 40 years
So. California is the perfect climate-about 67 right now, always sunny and an hour drive to the mountains for occaisional snow
however, when i walk out my door i see houses, and buildings and people everywhere i look-nicely landscaped yes, beach, yes, view of pacific yes, but millions of people covering every square foot of it
I miss seeing moose in my yard at dawn or twilight, waking up at three in the morning and hearing absolutely nothing except small nocturnal animals slipping through paths in the woods and the faint breeze rustling in the trees and seeing a sky swept with stars so luminous as to look unreal and smelling the sweet piney scent of spruce trees exhaling into crisp night air

[Jillian]

Maine is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

[Reads with Scotch]

I always get a childish thrill when I encounter animals (happends offten in Alaska)
The big Moose, wolves, bears (grizzlies, black and the big whities), great horn owls, spruce hens, ptarmagans, wolverines, minks, links, beavers, otters, tundra pigs, musk ox, caribu, deer, and so much more. Just thismorning I saw a wolf playing, yes playing not eating, with an otter. its funny, I guess you would have to be there.

[Jillian]

I have never seen wolves or moose in the wild. Actually I've never seen a moose any where. You are so blessed that you can see those things. I'd love that. I'd be in heaven.

If we want to see animals here in WI you really need to go up north. You'll see more deer, beavers, foxes up there in a few hours then you will in a month where I live.

The last time we went up to Hayward we had the windows of our motel room open at night. We could hear the coyotes howling. That was the first time in my life I have ever heard that! It was so beautiful. My parrots thought otherwise of course. My one bird Morgan would freak out because on the lake behind the motel eagles would be hunting in the morning.

So my parrots probably wouldn't enjoy the nature Alaska has to offer. :)

[Reads with Scotch]

Well, I can promise to know what your first thought will be the first time you see a moose....

Oh, My GOD! It’s so big!... then you find out it is just a sow and the momma runs out of the brush and you’re just floored. They are huge.

Then there are the Bull Moose with racks that can span up to 5 feet across, impressive. Last summer on a camping trip me and my wife caught a grizzly and Bull Moose fighting in a river. It was vary graphic; you won't see that on discovery.

[Jillian]

I knew they are huge but I can only imagine how big they are in person. I think I would just stand there in awe.

I watched a show a few years ago about moose vs car accidents. The damage they can do to a car.

Well I hope before I leave this earth I can see a moose. I shall put that on my list of things I must see before I die. Because they sound amazing. They are such beautiful and magnificent creatures.

[Jillian]

Well amazing enough it is snowing here again today. But thankfully no more freezing rain.

Happy Happy

Joy Joy

I shall now go outside and attempt to clean out my driveway. The lovely plow driver has already been by and filled the end with ice chunks from the road.

[Reads with Scotch]

solar powered drive defrosters.. I hear they work great.

[Jillian]

That would be lovely to have right now. I have about an inch of ice on my driveway. Only downside I can't remember the last time I saw the sun.

We have radiant heating in our house and we love it. I keep telling the husband wouldn't it be great to have that installed under the driveway. Just flip a switch and the ice is gone.

[Reads with Scotch]

Yeah, my wife keeps trying to talk me into SolDrive ( A company that produces the self clearing driveway) The thing is it is exspensive, and well, I'm in ALASKA! there is no sun when its winter. Duh!

[Jillian]

I'm sure they cost a pretty penny. Why I just left my ice in the driveway. I figure when the sun does decide to come out again it will just melt.

[Joshua]

I know this thread is about snow,
but I'm generalizing it with winter just real quick to vent.
I hate winter, for alot of reasons, including snow. But my main reason for hating winter is bloody noses, the cold and dry air makes my nostrils crack something horrible and i usually bleed at least once a day. It's a horrible curse.

[Trina]

arghhh, i hate the snow too! i just want to have spring already! <3 <3 <3

[shellyindallas]

i wish it snowed where i live.
but here is something for all you snow haters:

http://www.wetherobots.com/

[Jillian]

I think I'm actually starting to hate ice more then snow.