I do love living in Vermont, but...

[SirPeale]

So I wake up and look out the window.  We've got about a foot of snow that's fallen during the night.

*shrug* no big deal.  They'll plow right?

...right?...

Crap, they haven't plowed our driveway yet, and the wife has to get to work.  And it's "snowman snow" where it's wet enough to be sticky.  Can't just blow thru it.  Especially since we drive a Kia Rio.

*sigh* Guess I have to shovel.  Been a long time since I've shoveled this much.  Driveway's about 200 feet long, by eight feet wide.

I'm going to sleep well tonight.

[tommy]

I'd love to have that much snow around my house right about now.

[polaris]

i dont envy the 200ft of shovelling, but it looks a lovely place to live.

[SirPeale]

Don't get me wrong, it's damn pretty. But damn I didn't want to shovel that much.

[J_K_M_A_N]

I am sick of snow. The wife hates it too. We are going to move to AZ as soon as junior moves out. He is 17 and a half so we may only have a few months left. As long as he graduates and moves out, we will be gone! (I live in Minnesota now) We were in AZ in October. It was VERY nice. 80°-88° and sunny every day. Two years ago we were there in June. It was 121° but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I can't wait!

J_K_M_A_N

[Jdurg]

I was so happy to wake up and see nothing!  The weathermen were wrong about where I live.  They said 5" or so of snow, but instead it was nothing but rain.  In fact, it cleared off all the remaining snow that was sitting on my property.     

[DaOld Man]

I live in Kentucky, and as a kid I can remember some pretty good snows. But it seems like the last several years have been hardly any snow at all.
Anyway, I loved the snow as a kid, not only was it fun to play in but we were pretty well guaranteed to get a couple more weeks out of school after the Christmas break.
Of course the roads and vehicles are a lot better now, but it seems like the kids now only get a couple of snow days a year, and thats usually just messy ice, no snow to build a fort or a snowman.
But now that I have "grown up", I really dont miss the snow. Just feel sorry for the kids, cause it was fun at one time.

[ChadTower]

A couple weeks?

They never cancelled school for us... we'd get two feet and they would still hem and haw about delaying it an hour or two.  No one would go but they didn't cancel it.

[Hockeyboy]

How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

[HaRuMaN]

I am sick of snow. The wife hates it too. We are going to move to AZ as soon as junior moves out. He is 17 and a half so we may only have a few months left. As long as he graduates and moves out, we will be gone! (I live in Minnesota now) We were in AZ in October. It was VERY nice. 80°-88° and sunny every day. Two years ago we were there in June. It was 121° but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I can't wait!

J_K_M_A_N

I am in AZ now and I love it...  no more snow (unless you travel up North), nice temperatures during the fall and winter, and lots of sun.   

[DaOld Man]

A couple weeks?

They never cancelled school for us... we'd get two feet and they would still hem and haw about delaying it an hour or two.  No one would go but they didn't cancel it.

Yep. Of course your buses probably didnt have to travel 10-15 miles of narrow country roads to pick up all the kids..

[ChadTower]

In Canada?  Hell yeah they did.     The busses just didn't run those days.  If they cancelled school every time we got near a foot of snow we'd have been there until July.

[shardian]

In Canada?  Hell yeah they did.     The busses just didn't run those days.  If they cancelled school every time we got near a foot of snow we'd have been there until July.

Up North, school systems and towns budget for there being snow on the ground all winter. Down here in WV and KY, there just isn't enough money to budget for salt, overtime, etc that is needed to prepare the roads for school buses. One year when I was a kid, our county actually ran out of salt for the salt trucks.

So instead, they just design the school year to include 2 weeks of anticipated snow days.

[SirPeale]

How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

Because it's not my house, it's an apartment.  Usually they plow long before they did, but for whatever reason they didn't come until like ten.  Then I'm guessing they saw that it *looked* clear, and took off. 

I called the landlord twice about it.  First time they said likely they just went away and would be back.  Since they also plow the property next door (and had) I doubted it, but waited anyway.  Called again around three pm  because it was bright and sunny by then, and I hadn't seen another plow on the road in a couple hours.  He showed up ten minutes later.

Believe me, when I buy a house, that's on the must-have list of purchases.

[ChadTower]

In Canada?  Hell yeah they did.     The busses just didn't run those days.  If they cancelled school every time we got near a foot of snow we'd have been there until July.

Up North, school systems and towns budget for there being snow on the ground all winter. Down here in WV and KY, there just isn't enough money to budget for salt, overtime, etc that is needed to prepare the roads for school buses. One year when I was a kid, our county actually ran out of salt for the salt trucks.

So instead, they just design the school year to include 2 weeks of anticipated snow days.

They don't budget much, though.  Towns like mine tend to run out of cash by about the third storm.  Last year they weren't plowing or salting or anything the last 6 weeks or so of winter.

[Jdurg]

How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

Because it's not my house, it's an apartment.  Usually they plow long before they did, but for whatever reason they didn't come until like ten.  Then I'm guessing they saw that it *looked* clear, and took off. 

I called the landlord twice about it.  First time they said likely they just went away and would be back.  Since they also plow the property next door (and had) I doubted it, but waited anyway.  Called again around three pm  because it was bright and sunny by then, and I hadn't seen another plow on the road in a couple hours.  He showed up ten minutes later.

Believe me, when I buy a house, that's on the must-have list of purchases.

When I bought my house, much to my surprise there was a brand new, never been used snowblower in the shed that the previous owners left behind.  Apparently they were Navy folk who were moved to Pearl Harbor, so they had no need for a snowblower out in Hawaii.   

[ChadTower]

Been out in the yard and garage all day cleaning up my latest EM purchase.  Barefoot and in a t-shirt.

Hooray Texas. 

Call us in August when people are falling dead from heat stroke. 

[ChadTower]

The heat doesn't bother me... but you're not going to convince the people in Texas that actually do die from the heat in the summer that it wasn't a problem for them.

Just like here, when the averages say it should be 10 degrees... and the thermometer outside your window says it is -10... 95 degrees down there isn't the issue.

[tk_42_1]

How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

Because it's not my house, it's an apartment.  Usually they plow long before they did, but for whatever reason they didn't come until like ten.  Then I'm guessing they saw that it *looked* clear, and took off. 

I called the landlord twice about it.  First time they said likely they just went away and would be back.  Since they also plow the property next door (and had) I doubted it, but waited anyway.  Called again around three pm  because it was bright and sunny by then, and I hadn't seen another plow on the road in a couple hours.  He showed up ten minutes later.

We had the same problem when I used to live in Vermont.  Three years of living there is all we could take and we moved our butts back to Florida.

The worst in our Condo we rented was having my wife go and shovel the parking space I always park in out in front of our Condo about 10 minutes before I'd get home and the -- smurfing -- neighbor's boyfriend would park in it.

[ChadTower]

The worst in our Condo we rented was having my wife go and shovel the parking space I always park in out in front of our Condo about 10 minutes before I'd get home and the -- smurfing -- neighbor's boyfriend would park in it.

That's a good way to get your tires slashed up here.... and that's just a first warning.  In urban Boston, if someone shovels a spot and you take it, some people will total your car.  I used to see it somewhat regularly when I was at Northeastern.  You'd walk down the street after a storm and there would be lots of shoveled spaces with placeholders like garbage cans and the like in them... and a couple of shoveled spaces with newly disabled cars in them.  Parking in those places is very heated.

My mother lives in a suburban apt complex.  Last winter someone in a black truck was stuck in a spot they couldn't be bothered to shovel.  They gunned the gas, caught traction, and backed into my mother's front end hard enough to shatter the radiator, unseat the engine, and eff the front end to hell.  They didn't stop and she never did figure out whose guest it was.

[Jdurg]

On my way into work today it was 9 degrees Fahrenheit out there.  That's cold.  Last winter was so nice and warm all the time.     Hell, last Christmas Eve I was out golfing in 70 degree whether with my friends!  Not this past year.

[SirPeale]

It was 3 degrees F here this AM.  It's 15 now.

[ChadTower]

It was about the same here.  Winter is definitely hitting its stride now.

[JimmyU]

It's 17 here in Chicago, but it's supposed to hit 50 on the weekend.  That should melt the snow we got on New Year's.  That's the thing about Chicago: we got a good amount of snow, but it seems to melt a week or two later.

[shardian]

We have about 3 inches of snow here, currently about 25 degrees. last night was about 10 degrees. By monday, we will be in the mid 60's, with a low of mid 40's. That kind of shift is when I tend to get sick.

[ChadTower]

We have about 3 inches of snow here, currently about 25 degrees. last night was about 10 degrees. By monday, we will be in the mid 60's, with a low of mid 40's. That kind of shift is when I tend to get sick.

I already have a weird cold.  My wife works in daycare, though, so she brings home every germ on the spectrum.

Jim makes good use of fuel.

[tommy]

It's been really cold here in Florida the past two days, it's been 30-40 degrees at night and is a nice change for the few days it lasts. This is not normal around here.

[tk_42_1]

It's been really cold here in Florida the past two days, it's been 30-40 degrees at night and is a nice change for the few days it lasts. This is not normal around here.

It actually got in the 20's were I am in Florida two nights ago (hour north of Tampa) but no actual frost on the ground.  Thursday morning was the fastest I seen my dog go out and do her business. 

[ChadTower]

How long before we start seeing news reports that the whole economy is going to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- the bed because the oranges froze again?

[shardian]

It was 7 degrees here when I left for work. My boss said his old Golden Lab refused to go outside this morning, even when he threw her dog biscuits out the door. Smart dog!