Let It Snow
Dear Snow,
Hello, you might not remember me, but when I was kid, you loved me. And I loved you. What changed?
Whenever you rolled into town, I gladly welcomed you. I would bundle up with my thick clothes, gloves, scarf, and all that good stuff. I’d run outside and play with you until I couldn’t feel my toes anymore.
Somewhere along the line, you changed. I guess we lost the passion, I dunno.
My first bad memory with you was January 3rd, 2002. Do you remember that day? Oh, I’m sure you do.
Rodney and I had rented a moving van, and drove from Illinois, through the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, all the way over to Raleigh.
That’s when you thought it would be cute to come along and dump 8 inches of snow on us, which was extreme for Raleigh weather! In fact, I don’t think they’d had snow like that in years, maybe decades.
You picked a grand time to show up. We had to move all our furniture up to the apartment in 8 inches of snow. And the fun part was that the 3 flights of stairs were outside. Yay.
Let’s fast forward to December 4, 2002. Same year, same city, same apartment.
You came again, this time mixed with extreme ice. The power lines snapped, and we didn’t have heat or electricity for 5 days! Our apartment was 40 degrees inside. All of the hotels were completely sold out. You have no idea how cold 40 degrees is until you live in it for almost a week.
Again, thanks for being a pal.
I’m not even going to bring up the time you showed up in 2005, causing the whole city of Raleigh to panic and leave work early. Everyone was on the road at the same time, causing a city wide traffic jam. It took me 10 hours to get home that day! I only lived 10 miles from work. That’s 1 mile per hour.
So now it’s 2007 and we live in Tennessee. Half the country is covered in snow. Meanwhile, it was 75 degrees and sunny in Nashville earlier this week. Snow was nowhere to be found.
The rumor is that you’ll be showing this weekend. If you do, please be gentle. I still love you, but don’t get all extreme on me.
Love,
Nathan
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Bring us a foot of snow.
Well, guess we’ll take what we get.
bring it. my shovel is dusted off. and im ready.
We were supposed to get 3-6″ of snow yesterday but what we got was 1/4″ of ice and rain. Whoop-de-fuckin-doo.
We’re supposed to get a Nor’easter tomorrow (probably the same one that’s coming to you), and I betcha we get 1/4″ of rain and ice again.
I want blankets and blankets of snow, damn it! (mainly because I don’t have to shovel).
*sigh*
I woke up to snow as well. The first thing I wanted to do was to run outside and play in it, only to realize that I had no gloves, snow boots or a cooat that was suitable. Damn…I am such a grown up.
We got 5 inches of snow 2 weeks ago, and are adding another 5 inches today. Yuck.
It rarely snows here. In fact the last time it snowed was on christmas day 2004. If only we’d have known what we were in for the next summer, I would have enjoyed it more. I live in New Orleans BTW.
It doesn’t snow a lot in Dallas…duh! But every once in a while we get a surprise.
Like this last Thanksgiving. Jake and I were watching the Cowboys and Packers on TV (they were playing here in Dallas).
During the 2nd quarter I did a double take at the screen and said WTF? Jake says “What?” I said, “Look! It’s snowing! They’re playing here, right?”
For minute I thought I had lost my mind and they were playing in Greenbay, lol. We went out on the patio and sure enough there were huge flakes falling.
It was almost 40 degrees so there was no accumulation and it didn’t last long but it was pretty