What a Real Winter is Like

I have had brief experiences with winter, driving with chains, skidding on ice, etc. No thanks! Now my only experience with winter is a rare occasion when the bird bath freezes over. I’ll settle for that.
 

hollydolly said:
lol..we do that most years have done all of my life...☃️🌨️ I look forward to it every year. Don't like driving in it because we don't have snow plows, so we have to drive on ice and packed snow.. but other than that I love winter..

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I like looking at snow from inside a warm building. Preferably with a hot beverage in hand and a fire in the fireplace.

Even as a child I didn't like being cold, particularly cold and wet.
 
There is a lot of fun to be had in winter. We used to take our daughter downtown to City Hall skating rink, and other skating rinks around the city (Ryerson, before it became a University). There are some really good
tobogganing hills around, and then, there is cross-country and downhill skiing.

Nothing like hot chocolate, or hot mulled-wine after being in the cold :)
 
During the 5 years we lived in New Joisey only good thing about winter was coming in after shoveling snow and having a big cup of hot tea with a shot of rum in it.

Once I went on a business trip to Minneapolis in January and it went down to -29, I was never so cold in my life.

I now regard a place as unacceptable if you can't look out and see palm trees.
 
I like winter if I don't have to travel anywhere when the snow and ice are on roads heavily. I still make snowmen outside, and flap around doing snow angels because.....I still can!
Here is the view in Dec. 2020 from my former apt. driveway. Those dots are the car sideview mirrors.....it was awesome and beautiful out that day.can't see cars 12-2020 (2).jpg
 
LOL I just remembered that while we rarely got a sNOw day when I was a kid, we did usually get a few days off in winter if the temp dropped to -35F or more because the school buildings couldn't be kept heated enough to hold classes.
 
Georgiagranny said:
LOL I just remembered that while we rarely got a sNOw day when I was a kid, we did usually get a few days off in winter if the temp dropped to -35F or more because the school buildings couldn't be kept heated enough to hold classes.
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In Florida school closed when it was forecast to go below freezing, below 40F and the girls could wear pants...
 
I have no use for winter. But being Canadian, what can you do?

I moved to Northern BC, where temps regularly drop to -40°. I wasn't looking forward to it, as it's colder here than any other place I'd lived.

But surprisingly, it's comfortable. No bundling up or shivering. I go all winter in a little jacket. Why? Because there's no wind.
 
I liked winter in the UP when it was over and we could shed the extra 10 lbs of clothes, including the overhsoes, we had to don to go outdoors. Garrison Keilor on PBS' Prairie Home Companion one year on the first day of spring said "Unhunch your shoulders, it's spring!"
 
NorthernLight said:
I moved to Northern BC, where temps regularly drop to -40°. I wasn't looking forward to it, as it's colder here than any other place I'd lived.

But surprisingly, it's comfortable. No bundling up or shivering. I go all winter in a little jacket. Why? Because there's no wind.
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Yup

Up at the cabin we had temps around -37°F for a few days

No wind
no prob

slight breeze?
It'll rip yer face off
 
I grew up in the Midwest and also lived in upstate New York. Winter was long in both places. I love the mild winters in northern Nevada. If we get snow it usually melts when the sun comes out and if I want snow it’s a quick drive to the mountains.
 
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