I HATE WINTER!!!!!

I think I need to go on sabbatical from my job every December and not come back till April. And go to Costa Roca or somewhere warm and nice. Every year I fantasize about it being my last winter in Minneapolis and every summer I fall back in love and forget I ever considered leaving.

Sure, I love the change of seasons. And once in a while when you don't have to go anywhere, it's positively gorgeous to watch the snow fall down while you're bundled up inside drinking cocoa and listening to the radiator hiss.

But when you have to drive in it EVERY SINGLE DAY and it takes you an hour and 40 minutes to drive what usually takes 25 and you think you're going to DIE or worse - be stuck in a ditch for 3 hours waiting for a tow truck - it starts to lose something.

It's gonna be a long, yucky winter, folks.

Come to Amsterdam, we have long yucky, but just wet winters.

And weed, of course.

CarrieMpls said:

they should just close businesses that day until roads are safe and clear.

I feel for you, Carrie... sometimes I think, weatherwise, I have the best of it in St. Louis. We're pretty much in the middle of the country. Not far enough south to avoid the change of seasons (which I love, autumn being my favorite), but not too far north to have to deal with awful, bitter-cold winters...

Here it is December and I think the coldest it's gotten here so far this season is the low 40's and just a couple of days ago it was 62. We've had no snow at all.

CarrieMpls said:

U could always move 2 North East Pennslyvannia,we don't get that much snow or cold ! LOL

I love winter! I prefer summer, but I still love winter. The beautiful white snow is amazing.
I always say, take advantage of the situation instead of letting it get you down. I take advantage of the snow, by learning how to snowboard and enjoy it. by building snow men, by accepting the clearing of the snow from my path as an excercise, etc.

CarrieMpls said:

U could always move 2 North East Pennslyvannia,we don't get that much snow or cold ! LOL

I'm totally spoiled, & grateful to have been raised in California. & I have the nerve to let a little rain annoy me Sorry Carrie I could never live in a place w/ REAL winter conditions

HamsterHuey said:

Find me a work visa, and I'm there!

horatio said:

That would be swell, but the work I do supports Tech Support for Target and if something goes wrong with, say, all the registers in the country, we can't exactly say, sorry, it's a snow day.

I DO plan to bring my laptop home every night now, though, and take advantage of my ability to work from home from time to time.

violator said:

That sounds nice.

IrrisistableRich said:

I'm not sure I know anything about Pennsylvania. What are the Pennsylvania Dutch like?

ArielB said:

Yeah, that kind of BS is not gonna work on me.
But thanks for trying.

CalhounSq said:

That's ok.
I could never live in California.

OK, I could live in San Francisco, but that's it!

I know how u feel, what usually takes me 15 minutes to walk home it took me 20 yesterday!!

I love winter. Even though I'm in New York where it still gets cold and snows, it's not the same as where I grew up (Iowa). Here the snow hardly stays on the ground--it melts or gets trucked off to Staten Island. And if it's on the ground for more than a day it turns all gray and dirty and the dogs piss all over it. I wish it snowed more here!

CalhounSq said:

I can't even imagine having to deal with shoveling and driving in snow

CarrieMpls said:

Come live inside me. It'll be a tad stinky and sticky but at least you'll be warm.

It's 75 degrees and sunny here in Houston. Gonna hit 80 by the weekend.

CarrieMpls said:

Why not ?

Put a little sunshine in your life Carrie.

Oh Carrie, I know what you're hinting at

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Tis the reason I moved to San Francisco.

Seiously, it was NYD 1999 and we were driving home from Milwaukee and it was snowing really hard. We get home and park the cars in the lot go in and crash/napped while it continued to storm outside. We awoke to find the entire lot buried under the snow. People were using a cardboard box to dig themselves out.

It had snowed so much that the plows inadvertantly pushed the El (subway) off of it's tracks by an inch, but it broke the train system that went int he direction going to the airport, where I worked. To get to work, I had to walk to the bus in the crappy snow, take bus to the EL station, take the EL to the broken point in the system and then take a shuttle to the airport. This was for almost a month. I called my buddy here in San Fran (who had been asking when I was moving out there) and told him, I was D-O-N-E!

I swear, I am the only person in MN who loves winter! I don't like driving in snow, mind you, but I love snowy days and - especially - snowy nights! Being cold isn't so fun but that's why I stay inside so much in the winter.

Get ready...more snow tomorrow and this weekend! I snapped these yesterday evening, just as the snow was beginning to taper off.

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KoolEaze said:

Because I don't like it. It's nice to visit now and again, but it's not for me.
I do love San Francisco, though.

JDInteractive said:

If you send it my way I will.

One of the first viral internet phenomena I recall from back in the 90s was this cyber "snowball" created out of text that we used to email around to each other when winter came.

Hope that helps!