Comments on: Why I Love a Good Snowstorm

By: Della

Della — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:22:49 +0000

Living in CO for some years now, our family really looks forward to the first snow. For 24 years we lived in the mountains and the snow makes it the most glorious and beautiful sight you can even imagine. It generally comes softly and gives you a good feeling of warmth, coziness, and, no matter what happens, a cleansing of the earth and your spirit. It helps you put your life in perspective. Sometimes we get trees all covered where the mist has frozen to them, and the first falling of snow have covered the trees lightly. Now that I’m not living in the mountains I truly miss it. When it snows I think of all the days when we had snow and how beautiful it was. It’s fun when your kids get up in the morning and want to know right off “Is there any school today?” One Thanksgiving we were snowed in for five days. It turned out to be one of our favorite memories! We started digging a path uphill to the next house and then looked and saw that neighbor digging towards our house. We ended up having a wonderful time, putting our food together and having marvelous meals and playing Scrabble an awful lot. Of course, there were days of digging out, too. I sure miss those days and would like to move to the mountains again!

By: Michele P

Michele P — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:49:56 +0000

I love the idea of scented pinecones! I have some in the backyard of my beach house–I am so doing this. I also read that you can add one of the pinecones to the fire to scent the house, which sounds like a cool idea. Too bad I don’t have a fireplace…

By: Donna in Delaware

Donna in Delaware — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:23:19 +0000

Another case in point, my husband and I went driving Monday going from where we live outside of the city, into the city, and something struck me as weird while I drove. There was NO SNOW! We had left snow in our neighborhood and surrounding area and drove for about 10-20 minutes, and there was NO SNOW, not a trace. It’s not like we live in some huge metro area in a large state. This is tiny Delaware for pete’s sake!!

I do know that the middle and southern parts of Delaware are hard pressed to even know what snow looks like. So there you are! It’s weird.

By: Donna in Delaware

Donna in Delaware — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:02:59 +0000

I should have said that I can’t speak for Pa. as far as snow, but I was eluding to what Maria said about her area, just so we understand each other. I happen to know that certain parts of Pa. gets innundated with snow sometimes. It depends on weather patterns and maybe climate change over the last few years. I remember growing up in Richmond, Va.,and as a child, we would get plenty of snow in winter. The snow started disappearing when I got into my late teens and early 20′s, and the snow fall has diminished drastically over the years. I am in my 50′s now and I still have relatives there that I communicate with who are always, every year, wishing that it would snow and remain on the ground for some time. But if that happens, one would have to call out the National Guard to help people get to the grocery store. It’s sad.

By: Donna in Delaware

Donna in Delaware — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:50:36 +0000

Don’t get on Maria’s back too much about the snow issue. My husband and I lived in southern Ontario Canada, just outside of Toronto in a little horsey town called Stouffville (pronounced ‘sto vill’) for 4 years. We use to get snow from early to mid October up until early May of the following year sometimes. It could be blizzard-like conditions when we woke in the morning(a beautiful sight because we lived at the edge of a forest) and we could get in our car, drive down the road to go into Stouffville proper, and there will be ABSOLUTELY NO SNOW! NOT even a speck. Turns out, we lived in a snow band that always went directly across our house and ended at a street down the road from where our road connected to it. It was the strangest thing that I had ever seen.

Every so often when it snowed, the winds would blow snow into the town of Stouffville (proper) and they too would get snow. So yes, it could be a fact that Maria’s area don’t get a lot of snow. Since I live 30 to 40 minutes driving time from Philadelphia, we in northwest Delaware tend to get the same weather that Philly gets sometimes and we do not get much snow. As I said at the beginning of this post, we usually get dustings to nothing until February, then we may get 5 inches if that, if we are lucky. Pitiful, after coming from Canada and enjoying all the snowy days, albeit they were long winter days, my dog and I enjoyed them immensely.

By: june

june — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:38:43 +0000

We were supposed to get only a couple snow showers but ended up with nearly 2 inches. It mostly stuck to the trees, plants and ground, but not pavement. It looked especially pretty, even today, 2 days later since the weather hadn’t warmed up enough to melt the tree snow.
We love it when it’s falling and still pretty, but not what is expected tonight (Tuesday).We are supposed to get ice and snow by am. And it’s NOT a weekend where we can stay in and not need to get out for work. Oh well.

By: Carrie in Michigan

Carrie in Michigan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:27:47 +0000

I’m waiting for the storm to start here. I’m near Lake Michigan and hoping that the cold weather will bring lots of lake effect snow and we get buried in it. My fiance and I just love snow storms and have been waiting for a really good snowfall to put us in the mood to start decorating and we are hoping this is it.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:47:07 +0000

One more thing, not all snow is good for sledding and skiing, as you found out. What you got was “wet snow.” You need the dryer, more powdery king (“packed powder” in the ski industry lingo) for a good slide. See, now if you lived somewhere that truly got a real snow storm, you would recognze the difference immediately!

By: Melissa Camus

Melissa Camus — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:34:14 +0000

We got 14″ on Sunday, and are now up to 17″ of snow. In 4 days! Wow. We live in a town of 13000 people, and thankfully about a block away from WalMart. When I was too freaked out to take the car out in the crazy snow, but needed milk and bread, we packed into snow gear and walked over. I know, WalMart can be the devil, but ours has a great organic section. We got what we needed, and some organic hot chocolate, trekked home through the bush, and got home, tired, a bit sore, but with what we needed, and some hot chocolate. I LOVE the first month or so of snow… but we have it 6 months a year, which is a bit much for me, LOL. (Northern Ontario, Canada). The other day at a thrift shop, I bought my kids teeny snowshoes (ages 7 and 2, my kiddos). Now I need some, and we’re all set. We can snowshoe around! And leave the darn car in the garage! Yay! It’s too scary for me to drive anyways…
I have been baking like a fiend, cooking and freezing… watching the snow out my kitchen window. I do wish we lived out in the country, the snow here is already dirty beside the roads and shops from emmissions… maybe someday we will be able to be rural homesteaders, instead of urban ones! Happy winter, everyone!

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:49:35 +0000

Maria,

You need to specify “South East Pa.” Pennsylvannia is a big state, and those of us from Western PA get snow pretty often! Check out Erie, PA. 3-5″ of snow? That’s a light dusting, not a snow storm! If people there “just stayed put” for 3″ nothing would get done from November til April! Even in the hills of SW PA (Pittsburgh area) 3-5″ is a fairly common winter occurence.

Yep, the term “snow storm” is a very subjective label!