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I hate Winter and the Snow!!

Scott Asheville

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I used to have a love-hate relationship with winter and snow. A walk on a CT trail in an in-progress snowstorm can be a magical life event. Going up an icy hill with my old RWD Ranger with summer tires, standard transmission - not so great (I specialized in not taking my own advice to get snow tires).

Here in the WNC mountains it is perfect. A few days of pretty snow each winter, gone in a day or two. Just hibernate till it's gone, and admire the pretty snow-capped mountains.
 

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I used to have a love-hate relationship with winter and snow. A walk on a CT trail in an in-progress snowstorm can be a magical life event. Going up an icy hill with my old RWD Ranger with summer tires, standard transmission - not so great (I specialized in not taking my own advice to get snow tires).

Here in the WNC mountains it is perfect. A few days of pretty snow each winter, gone in a day or two. Just hibernate till it's gone, and admire the pretty snow-capped mountains.
That sounds just about right. Considering eastern Missouri myself.
 

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Dude, you picked the wrong state to hate snow! :)
 

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I used to have a love-hate relationship with winter and snow. A walk on a CT trail in an in-progress snowstorm can be a magical life event. Going up an icy hill with my old RWD Ranger with summer tires, standard transmission - not so great (I specialized in not taking my own advice to get snow tires).

Here in the WNC mountains it is perfect. A few days of pretty snow each winter, gone in a day or two. Just hibernate till it's gone, and admire the pretty snow-capped mountains.
Yeah I love my Appalachian Mountains.
 

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I like the right snow. The fun to drive on, a little loose on top firm underneath kinda stuff. Though my semi-rural quiet snaky road "handling course" got gentrified last year with houses built along it, so I gotta find somewhere else.
 

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For those of you old enough to remember the Mary Tyler Moore show, the following is a quote from Lou who shares my feelings about snow:
"I hate snow. I don't like its color. I don't like its shape. I don't like its temperature. I don't like how it feels or what it does. I don't like it in snowballs. Or on hills. I don't like anything about it. It's a soft, wet, white, mushy melting freezing mess! I hate snow as much as I hate anything in the entire world!"
 

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I like the snow, closed my business yesterday & spent the day snowmobiling.❄!
 

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I love snow.

Just this week I was driving down the state road when a monster plow truck approached, its massive plow slightly over the double yellow line. Of course I slowed down and steered onto the shoulder of the road. Nevertheless, alarms went off and the instrument panel lit up bright red with the message "Collision alert! OMG we're all going to die!" or words to that effect.

I love snow. Good snow tires make all the difference.
Glad you had room to move over. That would have been a nice dash cam video for all of us to see!
 

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I'm weird in the sense that I hate the snow but I don't hate the snow. And what I mean by that is when it is snowing and it's piling up I don't like that at all. But once the snow is done, and everything is snowblown, the streets are plowed, it's actually really pretty seeing the snow and I don't mind it. It's only when it is snowing that I hate it.
 
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I used to think heated steering wheels were a waste of money but as I get older and some arthritis sets in....not as much
 

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Thank you. But no way!! Left NY for AZ 30 years ago, not looking back.
I'm not a fan of winter, but at least if you wear appropriate clothing you can be comfortable outside. Is there any way to dress properly so you can be comfortable outside in 125 degree Arizona heat?
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