kids in my town feel nearly the same way....it snows a few inches maybe once or twice in the year and melts directly away. Such a TEASE when you're little and all you want is a snowday off from school.
Snow men here weigh about 600 pounds and are lumpy and covered with sod and mud, the snow is so wet and sticky and heavy (for the five minutes that it lasts).
Course THIS year we were stranded in our home for a couple of weeks which was cool.
And you really get
stranded here with any accumulation at all, since we have few plows and the hardware store sells its 3 snowshovels to the first 3 customers and then the rest of us just use cardboard or brooms or what have you for a few days till it's gone. And we drive like complete mental losers the second there's 1/2 a centimetre on the roads cause most people only get to practice snow driving a couple of times a year and so they're terrified and they suck. And everyone here's old too. We have more old people than anywhere else in the damn country. (Gay people too, for some reason, which is odd.) They say it's the land of the newly-wed and the nearly-dead.
And we all have bald summer tires for the same "it-rarely-snows" reason, so there are sliding cars and abandoned cars everywhere and there's only 3 inches of white stuff on the ground. It's actually quite hilarious. It happens a couple of days a year without fail. Total societal shutdown over less than 6 inches of snow. You'd think we'd figure it out. But we don't.
My area's the balmiest spot in Canada and all the other Canadians laugh at us for our snow-feebleness. Cause the rest of the country gets lots of snow.
But we laugh louder and longer. Cause they are freezing and we are at the beach.
Canada likes to act smug about it's place in the world, but southwestern canadians like to act smug about their place in Canada. So I was raised to be doubly smug. The smugcloud over my area is really palpably noxious and thick.
I recognize that we're quite an insufferable crew.
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