A sucker for snow
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I’ve never really lived with it, never had to shovel drives wait-deep of the stuff, never had a roof collapse from too much of it, but, gee, I love snow. I can see how the novelty could wear off quickly in colder climes, but no matter what sort of day I’ve had, walking home in it never fails to literally put a smile on my face. It’s far and away my favourite form of precipitation.
After work tonight I got pelted on the way to the subway with a mean, sleety rain shot with ice prickles, but by the time I arrived at my station, the world had changed. It was warm, the light was somehow different, and surprisingly fat flakes drifted down like a snow tree losing its leaves in the spring.
You have to love the vaguely comical natural phenomena; snow always makes me think of chicks leaving a nest. Those little whirlpools that form in creeks are funny, too, in a dog-chasing-its-tail way, and the coriolis force always reminds me a great-aunt who rearranged the furniture in her living room and forever after would get up and walk towards the fireplace, intending to go into the kitchen.
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Posted to General Rants • 2005.02.25 (Fri) • 00:11
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Posted by Jeff 2005.02.25, 08:30
We were sent home early today because of a 3-6 inch snowfall. We get snow in Washington, DC but we're weather wussies.
That's fine with me. I grew up with warm weather and palm and eucalyptus trees. Snow was only in the mountains. And the distant beauty was just that: distant and beautiful.
Although, I must admit I loved looking out of the window today. Watching swirling flakes from the warmth of cozy cubicle is just the way I like it.
Posted by Steve Truett 2005.02.25, 12:12
Jeremy? Have you been watching American Beauty again? LOL Sorry its just hard for me to wax poetic about the white stuff after we've been buried in over 30 feet of the crap this season… God when will summer get here?
Posted by Mary Beth 2005.02.25, 13:18
We've had a few snowstorms this year (much hyped by the so-called weather guys) and it's snowing tonight. I figure the best way to live here is to appreciate the seasons and see the beauty in it.
I'm glad when fresh snow comes to clean up the roads. The last couple nights the fresh cold snow we had just shimmered in the bright moon. I have memories through my life of those big big flakes you saw as well as the tiny cold flakes that Mom always warned us meant "serious snow" and she was right. We've a ways to go with snow yet and then on to something new.
Posted by TheRich 2005.02.25, 14:09
Being Canadian, and having been dumped with the stuff year after year, I can honestly say I can't share your enthusiasm. Quite the opposite really. Which is why I've been enjoying living in southern China for the past couple of years. It's been a nice break.
Posted by Jesse Robinson 2005.02.26, 09:04
Agreed. I come from Wisconsin where we get alot of snow, and alot of cold weather. My goal when I finish college is to get a job somewhere warmer.
I am with you Jeremy. Perhaps it is because we didn't grow up with snow, that we find it such a novelty. I had a wonderful time walking in the snow on Thursday night. I thought it was like big lumps of fairy floss falling from the sky.
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