I hate snow.
We got four inches of it last night.
Grrrrr. 
I leave for work before any of the snowplows hit the streets, and true to form, after the first snowstorm of the year everyone forgets how to drive.
At quarter after four this morning I counted three accidents along the five miles between home and work.
I’m glad NC isn’t the only place with that problem…
We didn’t have snow at all last year, so we’ve been pretty lucky
driving-wise. But a couple years ago we had less than an inch of
ice/snow that crippled parts of the city. Major arteries became
jammed with cars. Some people couldn’t make it home and slept
in WalMarts and grocery stores. It made national news. 
So, yeah, it could be worse.
I find the Irish word for “snow” (sneachta) to be quite useful. Said with force, it sounds very much like a curse word, which perfectly expresses how I feel about snow. Try it…it’s very cathartic. All together now:
SHNYAKH-tuh!
Redwolf
OOoo, that feels kinda good! 
We got a little more than that, Tyler (at least around my work near the University of Utah), and every idiot in Utah was driving (3 mph) in front of me when I drove in at 6:30. Even the main roads in North Salt Lake hadn’t been plowed (they knew this storm was coming!). Tyler and other northern Utahns will understand this: One of our research coordinators who lives in Draper just phoned to say that she left home at 7:00 a.m. and at 8:00 a.m. was only at 7200 South and it will probably be another hour before she gets to work–don’t know the distance in miles but it’s a trip that normally would take her about 30-45 minutes.
Susan
Bless You!
I love snow, it means it’s not raining…
We’re just barely getting plows out here where I work in Draper…urghh!
This week last year, my wife got stranded overnight near Bodmin, 30 miles from home, by a sudden snowstorm. It was the first time in 20 years in Cornwall that I’d seen snow covering the ground at home. Don’t much care for the stuff meself, unless it’s on distant mountain tops where it belongs.
We had 3.5 inches of snow Sunday, then it warmed up just enough to rain, so there’s about 1 inch of snow left. But it turned cold - 8:20 am and it is 3F. At least the wind has died down or the wind chill would be murder! It’s supposed to snow again tomorrow.
One family from Portland, Oregon, drove up to Seattle on Monday to see the football game, then started back home after the game. It normally takes about 3 hours to drive from Seattle to Portland. It took them 15 hours to get home.
Our dog is part Husky and he loves this weather! We have a heated water dish for him and that is really nice - no more going out and knocking a chunk of ice out of the dish. Of course, the birds like it too, so I still have to empty it and clean it out because the birds make a mess in the water.
This is why I tried not to complain when it was 95 this summer - I figured we would be really cold this winter. But I didn’t think it would be so early in the season. Usually this kind of cold settles in about January.
Global warming, anyone?
(I know, somebody’s going to say that temperature extremes are all part of global warming.)
edited to change the date of the football game - I have Sunday and Monday off, so Monday seems like Sunday to me!
Temperature extremes are all part of global warming.
Here in my part of Minne_snow_ta, it’s been unseasonably pleasant for practically all of autumn until today. From the balmy upper 40s/lower 50s (F) of the last few weeks to the low 20s in one fell swoop. Supposed to get down to 7F tonite. Yow. Adjustment will be like a slap in the face.
As for snow, it’s iffyish for now.
4-6" snowfalls are common here–in fact, I don’t usually start to pay attention until they hit 8-10" or more. But the first snowfall of the season is always memorable because everyone forgets how to drive in it! They drive too fast or too slow, stop too soon or not soon enough, drive down the center of two lanes instead of one or the other…
If they’d all just driving perfectly for the conditions like Tyler and I do .
Susan
Heh. I love snow; I just hate city traffic on snow.
We got 6 inches of snow on Monday evening, and the roads in the area are still solid ice. On her commute from work Monday evening, it took my wife 4 hours to drive 15 miles, at which point her 2-wheel-drive Honda couldn’t make it up the hill for the last 5 miles home. So, she parked it at a grocery store (where it remains today) and called me to come get her with my AWD Subaru. It then took me 3 hours to make the 10 mile round trip. (My Subaru had no problems, but I kept getting stuck behind folks in 2WD cars who were just spinning their tires on the ice.)
This much snow and ice is rare around here at the lower elevations, especially in November. People don’t know how to drive in these conditions, and the cities and counties aren’t equipped to deal with it. There were a lot of folks whose Monday evening commute home didn’t end until Tuesday morning.
We’re now on our 2nd day of unplanned vacation, and the roads are still solid ice. Here’s a pic I just took of the street in front of our house:
Here’s the scene in our back yard. All this snow fell on Monday, but it hasn’t warmed up enough to melt since then.
The birds are all puffed up to stay warm, too.
Hey! I’ve heard of that place. They have a big moor there, right? Sure, I’ve seen references to escaping prisoners and Bodmin’s Moor.
I just can’t imagine snow on him, for some reason.
I watched one of the tv shows from there. I didn’t understand a word they were saying. I couldn’t make out if the guy was trying to be a celebrity or a fish …
djm
we’re supposed to get that weather Friday. I do NOT look forward to driving home from work - but I just made an appointment at another site and will only have 5 miles to drive vs. the usual 20!
I suppose every store is just about out of bread and milk. Every year before the first “white death” they always sell out of bread and milk.
I grew up driving country roads, with chains and strategically placed bags of Sakrete in the trunk. I absolutely HATE driving in city traffic in “snow”.
We luvs the white stuff, yes we does. 
Sleigh-bells ring. Are ya list’ning?
In the lane, SNOW is glist’ning.
A beautiful sight, we’re covered in … um … no, that’s not it …
djm
It’s so sad that snow causes problems because I think it is one of the most beautiful things in the world. We don’t really get much where I am, I’m not sure why. It is grey and brown most of the time and the bright snow makes life seem so much better in the winter. I love how quiet it is when it is snowing. I much prefer cold to humid heat. I don’t have to worry about driving in it----when I did, I was a nervous wreck. So I can understand the problem. I don’t mind the shoveling, unless it gets beyond what I can do. We do have a snowblower that my husband uses. I hate the noise.
We are having freezing rain predicted for this afternoon. I just canceled an appointment in Des Moines. It’s pretty much a certainty that you’ll get nowhere but in the ditch in that stuff. It’s pretty, though, when the ice forms a coating around every single thing—when the sun shines on it a certain way it looks like mercury has dripped down from the sky. Of course, if it’s too much then the boughs of the trees start breaking off from the weight, lines go down, and there are terrible problems.
Good luck everyone!
Yver, Vous N’estes Qu’un Vilain
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un vilain;
Esté est plaisant et gentil
En témoing de may et d’avril
Qui l’accompaignent soir et main.
Esté revet champs, bois et fleurs
De sa livrée de verdure
Et de maintes autres couleurs
Par l’ordonnance de nature.
Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plein
De nège, vent, pluye et grézil.
On vous deust banir en éxil.
Sans point flater je parle plein,
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un vilain.
[Winter, you’re naught but a rogue.
Summer is pleasant and kind,
as we see from May and April,
which accompany it evening and morn.
Summer, by nature’s order, clothes fields, woods and flowers
with its livery of green
and many other hues.
But you, Winter, are too full
of snow, wind, rain and sleet.
We must send you into exile.
I’m no flatterer and I speak my mind.
Winter, you’re naught but a rogue.]
Author: Charles, Duc d’Orléans (1394-1465)
Translation from French to English copyright © 2001 by Faith J. Cormier
We sang Claude Debussy’s a cappella Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans in my college chorus and Yver, Vous N’estes Qu’un Vilain is the last song:
Variation XXI Just Yver.
Canto Armonico Best, but takes forever to download (well, now it doesn’t seem to take a long time, I don’t know what the deal is). All three songs are sung, Yver is the last.
I guess I got a little carried away here, but one thing sort of led to another and once I finally found what I was looking for I just couldn’t not post it 
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Everything OK, djm?
It’s official. We’ve had the warmest autumn quarter (Sept-Nov) ever recorded. The Central England Temperature series goes back to 1659. It is the longest continuous temperature record in the world. The previous warmest autumn was in 1730. This year’s exceeded that one by a whopping 0.7°C or about 1.25°F.
Funky spelling…this was before they went and got all particular about the language?