Snow????

Johnny · #1 Postby **Johnny** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:08 pm

I have been reading a few threads in here and I've been seeing most of y'all have been mentioning a very strange word called 'snow'? If you don't mind me asking, what is this 'snow' y'all speak of? Thanks.

Johnny from Southeast, Texas

#2 Postby **wx247** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:18 pm

LOL Johnny. Come to the Midwest in January and we'll show ya.

DelStormLover · #3 Postby **DelStormLover** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:47 pm

come to de in feb and ill show you you poor lost soul!

StormCrazyIowan · #4 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:35 pm

LMAO, that goes for here too! :lol:

bkhusky2 · #5 Postby **bkhusky2** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:13 pm

Come here and I can show you a cold rain, but that's about the best I can do.

StormCrazyIowan · #6 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:15 pm

LOL!!!

Colin · #7 Postby **Colin** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:11 pm

Come here in January, I heard somebody is calling for a major blizzard then...

opera ghost · #8 Postby **opera ghost** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:00 am

Welcome to my world *grins*

Check out the "never seen snow" thread and you'll see that it was SO unusual for this Houstonian to see snow that she actully took a picture of the event! (Of course I had to travel to Wyoming in the summer... but hey- who's quibbling!)

Johnny · #9 Postby **Johnny** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:24 pm

Main Entry: snow
Pronunciation: 'snO
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English snAw; akin to Old High German snEo snow, Latin niv-, nix, Greek nipha (accusative)
Date: before 12th century
1 a : precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than 32°F (0°C) b (1) : a descent or shower of snow crystals (2) : a mass of fallen snow crystals

Ok, I think I know what this thing y'all call 'SNOW' is now. :lol:

Operaghost.....I'm almost 28 years old and have lived my entire life here in Southeast, Texas. In my lifetime, I have seen only two measurable snows. One was while I was in kindergarten and the other was in 1989 I believe. It sure had been awhile. Maybe this is the year? I've been saying that for the past ten years!!!!lol
So instead of waiting here for it to snow I started taking January road trips up to Colorado to get my fill of snow and boy did I ever. I did that 4 years in a roll from 1995 to 1998. It's been awhile since I've been back up that way. Now I tell myself that if it snows within 150 to 200 miles of my house then I'm hitting the road and getting me a taste of it. Earliar this year Dallas had that sleet and ice storm and I wasn't getting out in that stuff. Yuck!! I'm still waiting!!!! lol

southerngale · #10 Postby **southerngale** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:46 pm

Johnny wrote:Main Entry: snow
Pronunciation: 'snO
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English snAw; akin to Old High German snEo snow, Latin niv-, nix, Greek nipha (accusative)
Date: before 12th century
1 a : precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than 32°F (0°C) b (1) : a descent or shower of snow crystals (2) : a mass of fallen snow crystals

Ok, I think I know what this thing y'all call 'SNOW' is now.

Operaghost.....I'm almost 28 years old and have lived my entire life here in Southeast, Texas. In my lifetime, I have seen only two measurable snows. One was while I was in kindergarten and the other was in 1989 I believe. It sure had been awhile. Maybe this is the year? I've been saying that for the past ten years!!!!lol
So instead of waiting here for it to snow I started taking January road trips up to Colorado to get my fill of snow and boy did I ever. I did that 4 years in a roll from 1995 to 1998. It's been awhile since I've been back up that way. Now I tell myself that if it snows within 150 to 200 miles of my house then I'm hitting the road and getting me a taste of it. Earliar this year Dallas had that sleet and ice storm and I wasn't getting out in that stuff. Yuck!! I'm still waiting!!!! lol

LOL at the definition. :lol:

That was a great idea about January road trips to see snow. I've thought about doing that many times but never have. I did get lucky a few times while visiting my grandparents in Brownwood, Tx. (near Abilene) and got some snow while there. And of course a few times way down here, but it's been a long time.

Anyway, if that snow hits within 150-200 miles of your house and you hit the road, take I-10 east to Beaumont first and pick me up...hehe :wink:

#11 Postby **wx247** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:12 pm

Yes... snow is much much better than ice. :o

DelStormLover · #12 Postby **DelStormLover** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:26 pm

But ill take ice over rain anyday!

#13 Postby **wx247** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:33 pm

DelStormLover wrote:But ill take ice over rain anyday!

Oh no... :o Not I! Rain and snow are far superior to ice. I will remember that, however, when we are getting an ice storm. I will try to wish it your way.

ColdFront77 · #14 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:10 pm

Absolutely right, ice storms are much worse than snowstorms. They cause so many more accidents.

Snow has (much) more traction than ice.

Johnny · #15 Postby **Johnny** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:26 pm

I'd have to agree with the ice thing. I was driving in snow the entire time I was in Colorado one January. I wasn't all that bad. I left Estes Park on the last morning to come back home and there was a major arctic front barreling down on me just coming through Canada. Well I beat it home by a day and when it came through Southeast, Texas it left the biggest mess I have ever seen down this way. It was the biggest ice storm to hit Southeast, Texas in a long time. I believe this was January of 1997.

Southerngale.....sure I'll pick ya up. How old are ya? :wink:

LOL

More than likely this will be the only way to have a shot of seeing snow. I sure hope I'm wrong though.

breeze · #16 Postby **breeze** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:37 pm

LOL, Johnny, flurries and ice tend to bug us, here!
I'm waiting for a good 1/2 foot snow to fall in
Tennessee...(*sigh)...

StormCrazyIowan · #17 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:09 pm

I am the snow fairie, I shall grant all your wishes! :lol:

Don't y'all wish there really was one?!

Ice+ My Car= Certain death!!! I slide in the rain, my car is so little!

And one more note, if anyone is going on snow expeditions, better swing up to IOWA and pick me up too! :lol:

Johnny · #18 Postby **Johnny** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:23 am

StormCrayIowan, that sure would be nice if there was a snow fairie. Wish some down my way when you get a chance will ya? :lol:

So you would like to go on a snow expedition also? Alright!!! I'll be there to pick you up the first week of January. Deal?

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