First Snow of the Year

[Highbars]

Well the first snow of the year has fallen covering the ground with a pure blanket of white... Isn't it beautiful! is what they say....

Well I work outside most of the time with 24/7 service so if working in subzero temps,not to mention the wind chill, and busting thru drifts to get to the call, with snow asshole deep to an elephant and usually in the middle of the night with no one on the roads so if you do get stranded, Your truly stranded till daylight...Yep, It's Beautiful....

Fuckin' Iowa,, Deer hunting in light clothes on Monday and a foot of snow and -5 F on Wednesday night...Yes I am blessed by God I'm sure... OK done whining now...

[travlinman]

Most People I know that say They love the cold never go outside.

[Morella]

Our truck was stuck in Flagstaff for a day because of snow. We get plenty of snow in Arizona, but it's usually in the mountains. We actually have skiing here, although you have to go to Phoenix or Flagstaff, because the one near Tucson is really fucked. Every time they get snow, they close the road.

[hotroddwayne]

Fuckin' Iowa

I agree Highbars... was flown out there for 2 weeks to travel around to the various ConAgra facilities throughout Iowa. It was the most god-foresaken place i've ever been in life. Heaven help ya if you venture off the freeway without a full tank of gas! In a way it was cool to see such a wide open space with hardly a house in sight at times, I can only imagine what it would be like in winter with nothing to break the winter wind & snow

[Morella]

I spent a winter in Ft. Wayne, IN, on the ramp at the airport. I was wearing insulated coveralls and a parka, and I still froze my ass off. I had to use my own car on the ramp, and the heater couldn't even keep up with the cold. I stood in two feet of snow to replace a boost pump on a Convair, soaked with jet fuel, and the wind was blowing about 40 knots. Fortunately, on a cold flight line, anyone will let you go into a warm office, no matter how dirty you get or how bad you smell. I even had another mechanic offer to close up a panel for me at OKC, because I had flown there from Dallas to fix an emergency. Who would have known that it could be so much colder just a couple of hundred miles away? All I say is, fuck the Midwest. It's cold in the winter, muggy in the summer, and, in Illinois and Indiana, nobody cares about anything but basketball, probably because you can play it indoors. I fucking hate basketball.

If you live in the Pacific Nothwest, or in the South, you can set up a wood-burning stove with your own wood, put a box of rocks on top of it, and pour snow on the top, making your house into a sauna. It feels pretty damned good in the house, at least.

-denise

[Psychoholic]

I used to drive a flatbed tow truck - and after a few days of pulling people out of ditches and laying in snow to get them hooked up I developed a healthy appreciation for the phrase 'fuck the snow, fuck the cold'.