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I just love it when someone who has never shoveled snow, slid off the road into a ditch or played bumper cars on icy streets make snow sound so romantic. Seriously, I hate to sound negative but I delivered mail in the snow for thirty years. Yeah, it is beautiful to wake up and find a nice blanket of snow. It is especially nice when there is NO wind and the snow piles up on each individual tree branch. But then you have to shovel the driveway, try to get to the main street and risk your life to get anywhere.
Sorry to take the thread away from fall colors.
I have done all of those things (slid, but not off the street...) but in moderation. Snow is great in areas such as this (I grew up on Northern Virginia and we had similar winter weather). I know it can be a headache, but I still love it and get excited to see it.
Now if I were from Buffalo or Northern Michigan or something, I don't think I would think it was so special. Seasonal snow (3-4 accumulations per season) - YEA! Continual Snow - I think it would get old very fast.
We haven't had much snow around here in the past few years.
People also romanticize the weather of FL, where I've lived all my life. Yet nine months of heat and humidity is not my idea of ideal weather. It's late Oct and it still gets up to 90 most days and it's very muggy/sticky.
In WNC (where I'm moving) they get ice but snow doesn't stay on the ground long in the Asheville area. Most days it gets into the 40s in the heart of winter there, meaning the snow will of course melt. In summer their highs are in the low 80s usually with lows usually in the low 60s. This sounds as close to perfect as I can think of for me. I want full seasons without anything too extreme. It is very unlikey I will ever have to shovel snow in Asheville.
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