Snow

[HammerNoMore]

I've become pretty jaded against snow since I moved to St. Louis from Atlanta. I generally hate the stuff. I turns gray with exaust fumes and leaves a nasty mess in the yard when it melts (I have 2 labs...if you do too you know what I'm talking about.)

That being said tonights snow is the prettiest I've seen since I spent a season working at Araphoe Basin in Colorado.

We had 2 days of bitter cold so it doesn't melt when it hits the ground, however the temp when up today and is barly below freezing so it seems pleasant out. It's been snowing for about 4 hours at a nice, light, steady pace so it's sticking to the trees well. (Snow never looks good unless it's coating the trees.)

This is one of those dry snows that is perfect for snowballs. You collect it up in your hand and your body heat melts/solidifies the outside. When you throw it you get a nice little sting followed by a big explosion from all the dry inside snow.

Too bad my 3 month old daughter is too appreciate a good snowball fight .

Just thought I'd share...

James

 

[crpntr133]

Woke up this morning to about a foot of snow...ugh. We were to get a little accumulation. We had one a couple of days before Christmas that was rather pretty. Drove to my Dad's in Northern Indiana on Christmas day and all the trees were covered but the roads were clear. Really pretty and nice to travel with the roads clear.
Being only January you know we will get more.

So James, tell me. Are cows not allowed to scuba? Well, I guess that would be utterly ridiculous.

 

[HammerNoMore]

Actually the best thing about this snow is......

It will be gone by noon .

 

[crpntr133]

It looks like I won't have that advantage. It is only to be 35 and cloudy today. I guess I had better get my butt off here and go shovel snow. Maybe if I wear my MMD shirt I will feel better. Flatty always makes me feel better.

 

[Rick Inman]

I love snow diving. The quiet surface swim with big flakes floating down all around you... the solitude, the peace... Changes the quality of the whole dive.

 

[Afraid_of_Fish]

Snow.. hate the stuff. We had like a foot of it a few days ago but (Thank God) a lot of it's melted. They only good thing about it is it means skiing/boarding time :-D. & I think snowballs are probably the worst thing about the winter .

cheers,
Jess

 

[CBulla]

I saw snow once.. its pretty.. like cold sand.

 

[baltimoron]

hmmm.... I love snow. I love it. Didn't see snow until I was about 10 in switzerland, had a blast. Snow is different there.... Moving to Baltimore was huge for me, we moved in the middle of November, so it was really hard to go from 98˚ to 30˚. To my reccolection, 1999 was a big snow year for Baltimore, it was HUGE. So there's me, in four of the new sweaters we had just bought for me, and my little hat thinking, "So this is home now. . . Pretty cool." Snow has a very sentimental value for me, it kind of symbolizes my childish excitement of what will come.

Then comes the salt, and the slush, and the car accidents, and the complaining. That can symbolize the..... ESL classes.

 

[DeepBlueResort]

OK you guys

You need to help me what i have heard so far SNOW, it turns gray, it sticks to trees, you can throw it, its pretty, it goes quickly,you sometimes have to shovel it,its like cold sand,and it causes car accidents.

NO SORRY STILL DO NOT GET IT, DOES ANYONE HAVE A BETTER EXPLANATION.

Its mid winter here 90f water 82f

 

[Spectre]

From today. 4" on the dock when we got back. 6" on my driveway when I got home.

http://spectre.thedecostophosting.com/photos/PugWreck/

It was low tide when we got back, so the ramp to land was quite steep. I should have given my camera to someone to take video of us boot-skiing down the ramp.