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Post by Condor on Nov 24, 2007 11:17:07 GMT -5
We don't get much snow out here (in my best Marty Robbins voice....) " in the West Texas Town of El Paso." The weather called for snow last night. I stayed up for a while then went to bed with just a few clouds out. I woke up at 3:00 A.M., I looked outside and it was just starting to snow. Got my camping recliner, bundled up, and stayed outside in the backyard enjoying the snow for about three hours. It still snowing and I'm in and out just having a blast. I guess I'm just an overgrown kid.
Condor
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 24, 2007 12:00:16 GMT -5
OK it's official, you are very strange *LOL*. I was in the army in the snow. Marched in it, slept in it, had to melt vehicles free of ice. Was very skinny at the time and froze my ass every day I was out in the crap. If I never see another snowflake it'll be dang fine wid me!.....mel
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Post by akansan on Nov 24, 2007 12:03:59 GMT -5
Condor - we had enough snow in New Mexico to make a snow man. Yup. My sister (27) and I made a snow man and had a snow ball fight.
One of the reasons I was glad to move to Kansas was an increase in snow. So here I am, Thanksgiving weekend in New Mexico, playing in the snow at the home I just left while my home in Kansas is snow free. Kinda ironic, huh.
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Post by raqy on Nov 24, 2007 12:22:17 GMT -5
Aw I'm jealous. How fun! Enjoy!
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Post by Lady B on Nov 24, 2007 12:57:57 GMT -5
It snowed once here in Florida after we had been down here about 2 years. I was so excited to see it, feel it, hear it. I scraped every last flake I could find on my car and made a beautiful little snowball about the size of a healthy lemon. It melted away to nothing in about a minute but while it lasted...it was more magical than Disney World.
I'm with you, Condor. There are some things you just have to experience. Of course I have had my fill of blizzards, ice storms, sleet, shovelling snow, and falling down hard on slippery sidewalks, but every winter I think about the beauty of falling snow.
It's kind of cool here today--just 79 degrees and partly cloudy. No snow in sight, though. Sigh...
Lady B
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Post by 181lizard on Nov 24, 2007 13:29:52 GMT -5
I LOVE SNOW! I get all excited too & start runnin round the house screaming.
Funny...husband likes to roll his eyes about THAT too!
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Post by stoner on Nov 24, 2007 14:29:39 GMT -5
I have absolutely NO USE FOR SNOW! I guess that's why I live in sunny Calif! And yes, I do think you're weird Gil, but not because you're sitting out in the snow!
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Post by ladyt on Nov 24, 2007 17:09:47 GMT -5
I've never seen snow. Only the taste of it LadyB eludded to. I want to go to N. Ga should it snow there. I love N. Ga. I keep watching the news, but no snow yet......I would love to see it, feel, make a snow angel in it, hmmm, I want to experience snow.
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Post by huffstuff on Nov 25, 2007 0:16:01 GMT -5
Nope, you're not weird. My husband grew up here in Texas, near the Gulf coast. It snowed one day while he was in school. His mom stayed outside and "guarded" their lawn so no one else would mess it up before he came home!
If it were snowing here, I'd probably wake up my 5-yr-old to show her (it's almost midnight now). I'm out there with you, man. (I grew up in the Northeast).
Amy
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Post by Condor on Nov 25, 2007 1:23:03 GMT -5
Well, it's close to 11:30 P.M. and it's pretty much been snowing all day, and most of it I've spent outside. Don't want to go to sleep. Been up for almost twenty four hours. I don't want to miss any part of it. Right now it's still snowing. Just came in for a little break. (Hey Amy, cool to see someone here from my neck of the woods.)
Condor
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 25, 2007 18:56:06 GMT -5
yep. Condor, you are a freaking nutball. spend one freaking winter in Upstate NY (are you with me, Stefan?) and you would have had enough snow to last a lifetime.
KD
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Post by karenfh on Nov 25, 2007 19:19:14 GMT -5
Condor, my dad grew up in El Paso. He finished high school in the Denver area, under the thumb of the Jesuit school for boys. After college in Ft. Collins, he married Mom, and began a life as a forest ranger. We lived in Republic, WA, when I was about 4-7 (I remember, because we moved to N. Dakota on my 7th birthday). He had 4 kids by then. There was so much snow we could walk over our fence, and a very large hill with a street that they blocked off for us to go sledding. Dad had never been sledding! He had a blast! He had Mom take the 'ol station wagon to the bottom of the hill (w/chains on the tires), and he took all of us (and the neighbor kids, and whoever else) down the hill, then we were driven back to the top on the street a block over, with our sleds. Then down again. All day. Dad was like a kid in a candy store! So, don't feel bad at all that you have enjoyed the snow! Go find some kids to throw snowballs at!
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Post by Cher on Nov 26, 2007 22:51:20 GMT -5
Gil if I could I'd be more than happy to give you every bit I get up here. It's snowing outside right now .... BLECH!!!
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Post by docone31 on Nov 26, 2007 23:06:41 GMT -5
Condor, I also, miss the snow. Almost 20yrs ago I lived outdoors for four years between Barrow AK, and Ellesmere Island. I would winter in Barrow, and hike to Ellesmere in the summer to stay in the "temperate" weather. I got so acclimated I couldn't go inside anywhere for any length of time. Down here in Floriduh, where I never wanted to go, I spend most of my time in a semi state of collapse from the heat. The few days it gets to almost freezing, few indeed, I allow myself to wear a long sleeve shirt. Everyone else is wrapped up shivering. Summer I sweat and Alaskans do not really like to sweat. At least not from heat. I do not at all think you are wierd. I wish for snow down here. An ice flow, glacier, anything. Twenty below, here I am.
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Post by stefan on Nov 27, 2007 9:40:38 GMT -5
All the Way KD!!! Around here we measure the snow in FEET (No people that is not a typo- I said FEET!) It starts in October Kinda snows- then melts- then snow then melts- then long about mid to late December it starts to snow for real- and does not stop until March- then Usually in early April we get a nice storm just to remind us that Winter is not over!!!!
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