I love snow, but it never works in my favor (a.k.a.: no snow days gosh diddly-darnit!)

These kids down here do sound a bit spoiled. If you want some of our "warm" weather, would you like to take our hurricanes, palmetto bugs, and mosquitoes too?

For those of you who have not experienced a palmetto bug. It is sort of like a wingless cockroach. On steroids, after nuclear radiation, with an attitude. I stepped on one once and it tripped me.

Please, take all you want.

I don't think it's snowed in my area of California for over half a century, at least. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers.

Oh the joys of palmetto bugs...I can remember waking up and having one on my face and 5 on the wall beside me...needless to say, I hate those suckers.

Thank goodness I moved to the wonderful mountains of Virginia...right.

Warren forgot to mention the tornadoes and...oh ya, don't forget the flooding...my neighborhood floods every time we get a hurricane, which is like once or twice a year. We are also the only place in the world to have both alligators and crocodiles in the same place. (Everglades and Florida Bay) Do you know what it is like to be in your boat on the weekend and pull up alongside a brownish-colored, log-shaped gator that is just staring at you. I have a lake in my backyard and it is full of alligators. I don't understand why people like florida so much, especially the older crowd who always complain about the heat. These older people don't even care about their environment. They leave trash on the beach. It's like they think "Well, we lived our lives, paying taxes all these years. Now we are going to trash the place and make our succeeding generations clean up. We can't watch where we are going backing out of our driveway." It is my opinion that once you get to be a certain age, enough is enough. Stop driving! Ok...I am really of topic.

Come down to florida and enjoy our tourist traps. (Disney World,
etc.) I am done lecturing now.

It was 41 and raining and I was outside. That's the closest we've been to snow in forever. 10 degrees off. Usually it's so dry and clear when the freezes come. (lol...when the freezes come)

Last night I think it dropped to -8 with a windchill of -27. I'd be glad to have 20 degree weather... I'm not positive, but I think the snow that's on the ground is the leftover from Christmas. The only thing I don't like about snow is the extra time it takes to get places...10 minutes to warm up the car (not to mention the 20 mins while driving waiting for the engine to get warm enough to make heat), then taking 5-15mph off the speed limit so you don't die. Snow days aren't all they're cracked up to be, either...they actually suck. We lose one of our summer days...and delays graduation. Two hour delays are okay...but once you get to school, classes seem twice as long as they did on a normal day. Getting out of school early is nice...all morning classes, eat lunch, go home. The best one is: two hour delay...go to school...have 2 classes and lunch...then have school get shut down. Now THOSE are good days. They count as full days :P

I thought you got snow at 32 degrees (Farenheit [sp?])

41-10=31

Yes, I merely rounded due to the fact that it was probably more like 41 (and a fraction of a degree). That way if I said "9" degrees away, it would come to 32 and some change, and it wouldn't freeze. Hope that clears things up.

I just looked at the paper. Three record lows were broken in South Florida, plently of people thought that they saw snow, and sprinklers everywhere were forming ice.

Oh, ok...yea, it clears it up. Michigan is snow-state....I hate snow right now.

Snow is your friend... Here in RI, it hasn't gotten above freezing in a little over a week. No precipitation to go with that though.

Personally, I love the cold. I can't stand it in Arizona. When I was there in July, even at night raining, it was about 85. Thank god the airport was air-conditioned. And I never got my ice cream!

here we got about 2 inches of snow in about 8 hours...which doesn't sound like a lot to you northerners, but to us in this little town where the weather is always fairly decent...the snow practically shut down our town...we only have like 2 snowplows...we've had 3 days out of school, two of them back-to-back and only for 1 or 2 inches of snow...kinda sad, huh??

2 inches?!?!? It has to be least 4" for us to even have a delay.

Even 4" is nothing for us here. We've gone to school on days after 8" snows. It's all about timing. If the snow doesn't stop until morning, the plows don't come out in time for school. As long as it's still snowing hard, the trucks don't come out. Then, it freezes before they get to it, and school gets canceled for two days.

amazing.. how could 2'' of snow not melt in three days, especially in a place like tennessee? we could get 6'' overnight and the roads would be clear by the end of the day