I spent 5 years in lake effect hell and I think I'm the only person I graduated with who still gets excited for snow. I'll shovel your driveway just to spend more time in that sweet winter wonderland.
shovelling is good, it's an excuse for a workout.
i honestly love the snow and can handle the cold well enough, but the thing that makes me still angry at winter is the dark, short, grey days
Back in college I did the legwork to find a house to rent, so I yoinked the one car garage. But there were 4 other cars in the driveway so every morning I'd wake up, clear off all the cars, move them, shovel the driveway, and finally be able to escape. It was better than coffee tbh. Once it stopped snowing I went back to biking to class.
Fucking same! Up by Erie, and literally the only person on campus who was okay with my winter wonderland :)
Unless you have to drive in it to get to work/groceries, hating snow is reactionary and will be dealt with accordingly.
Snow looks good on paper, but doesn't work in the real world.
You claim to welcome nuclear winter, yet you dislike snow. Curious. :posadas:
alright this is the last fucking straw, how do we turn downbears back on :angery:
I like snow because it makes the whole world quiet, like it's still snuggled under the covers and slumbering. There's no more mess and chaos and noise - just a soft white stillness.
I love what a snow blanket does to the sound. How everything is a bit muffled, and then there's all the ambient noise of people walking on snow, or the neighbors shoveling, and you can hear how all the cars are going slower. It feels so good how the snow gives way and compresses under my feet, too. How the flakes get shoved into each other and lock into a grid, loose powder transforming into a solid block. The joy that brings with every step! And the albedo is beautiful, how the crystaline expanse around me scatters the light in all directions to give that soft glow. The halos around the streetlights. The clean, fresh smell of the air. Oh, it's beautiful.
It has become a rarity around these parts, sadly. When i was a teen, i spent countless winter nights outside exploring, just drifting across town in awe, a half-smoked spliff hidden in a casette case, tip of my nose cold but everything else cozy under my parka, just marveling at the sight and sound as the shiny flakes drifted all around me in the icy air. I could only do that once this winter, and i had another day of throwing snowballs off my balcony while giggling like a child, and that was it. Nothing but cold rain from that point onwards.
I really your prose, that was extremely vivid :comfy: reads a bit like the beginning of a short story or novel
I have lived in the snowy part of Liberal Mountain, Idaho (I think it's the east facing side of the mountain) and I wish that existed. You have to walk out into the cold from your warm bed, de ice your car, drive slowly on slippery roads, deal with the death wish drivers who get right up on your bumper, and do it again on your way home. Then you're all wet and frigid and you never got to enjoy the snow.
Though maybe I just hate capitalism now that I type it out.
I hate it a lot less this year now that I work 15 minutes from home instead of 50, and my new employer will actually shut the plant down if there's more than like 5 or 6 inches forecasted. The old place is supposed to get like 20 inches today and they stayed open, really hoping I can use this as further ammunition to convince my former coworkers to jump ship.
Basically I hated snow because of capitalism, other than that, shoveling is the worst part.
People who like snow live in places where it snows once or twice a year. I live in central Canada, and we have snow for 6-7 months of the year. When the first snow hits, my heart sinks because I know that I've just seen grass for the last time until next year. It is a nightmare. It makes walking difficult, driving dangerous, and bicycling impossible. Also the air gets cold enough here to make it hurt to breathe. Fuck the winter and fuck snow.
But when it snows I get to work with my neighbors to clear the snow together so we're all done faster. Seems pretty cool to me
