Who has never experienced snow?

[hardcore302]

The other post about winter got me thinking..

When I was in the academy, we had a recruit who came from way down south (forgot exactly where) and the first time it snowed, it was like watching a little kid. He was astonished. His hand was almost frostbite from the amount of snowballs.

Anyone never experience it?

 

[powayroger]

I'm a native san diegan. I got to see snow fall in Boy Scouts and with my job, I get to drive the county's snow plow. But my mother was in her late 40s (Grew up in the bay area of california) before she saw snow fall for the first time, and yes, she was very excited.

 

[bigmike]

Maybe twice? Been too long to remember.

 

[greenaccord02]

When it snowed here in '08 I went up to the gas station to get some beer and told the clerk (Pakistani guy about 30 yrs. old) that it was snowing outside. He got so excited he left the store just to go play in it. He'd never seen it before. Usually a very serious guy, he was like a kid in a candy shop.

 

[Boomer]

In 1975, I lived in Indiana and taught at a small college. We had two African students who had never seen snow or experienced cold weather. One day it was about 10 F and they drove about 35 miles with the windows down and their bare arms on the windowsills. Both got serious frostbite and one had to have some skin removed surgiaclly. After that, the school had a special session to tell students from warm climes the do's and don'ts about cold weather.

 

[Kaboomba]

Originally Posted By: Boomer
We had two African students who had never seen snow or experienced cold weather. One day it was about 10 F and they drove about 35 miles with the windows down and their bare arms on the windowsills.


Wow, that's a hard way to learn. To me that is an unfathomable mindset.

I grew up in Central Wisconsin, where 20-25F with a little sunshine is some of the most wonderful weather ever!

 

[Jim 5]

I wish.


I have experienced snow (at one time or another) in every month of the year.

 

[Jim 5]

Originally Posted By: Boomer
In 1975, I lived in Indiana and taught at a small college. We had two African students who had never seen snow or experienced cold weather. One day it was about 10 F and they drove about 35 miles with the windows down and their bare arms on the windowsills. Both got serious frostbite and one had to have some skin removed surgiaclly. After that, the school had a special session to tell students from warm climes the do's and don'ts about cold weather.


I went to university in Edmonton, Alberta. It is very far north and basically an arctic climate in the winter. I remember seeing the exchange students from nigeria during outdoor beer gardens in September (locals were wearing shorts and sweatshirts) and the exchange students were wearing collar to ankle down parkas. I remember wondering what they were going to wear when the -40C set in.

 

[AuthorEditor]

What's really bad is when unusual winter weather hits someplace that isn't used to it, and all the local yahoos hit the roads not knowing about how to deal with ice and snow. I was in North Carolina once in a big snow storm, but it wasn't really too bad so I kept going and going but I just didn't see any cars at all. I was beginning to wonder why so I turned on the radio and it turned out that the interstate was officially closed and only emergency traffic was supposed to be on the road.

 

[sciphi]

What folks in the Northeast call a light snow is a large event in the South. I lived in SC for 2 years going to school. Once they cancelled with the threat of snow. The funniest was getting 8 inches overnight once, and it melting away the next morning. Schools were in session, and I had to dig out my snow brush to get the slop off my car.

 

[Pesca]

Originally Posted By: Jim 5
I went to university in Edmonton, Alberta. It is very far north and basically an arctic climate in the winter. I remember seeing the exchange students from nigeria during outdoor beer gardens in September (locals were wearing shorts and sweatshirts) and the exchange students were wearing collar to ankle down parkas. I remember wondering what they were going to wear when the -40C set in.


I got the same situation: I worked in a warehouse in September when the weather starts to get cold at night (shift was from 6pm to 3 am), and one of my coworker form Nigeria I believe (not sure but he couldn't speak french) was wearing so many layers of clothes, I wondered how he would be in the middle of winter.
As a joke I asked him, and he told me that he was planning to use his sick days for the coldest days of the winter. I never knew if that was the case as I got a desk job at the beginning of December.

As for looking at someone after his first snow fall, my best would be my cat when I was in France, at my parents' house. It snows only once every few years, so our cat was already few years old when one morning was all white outside the house. He looked at me back looking like saying "Where is the grass gone?", smelled it, and then tried to put a paw on the snow but it was all wet with no end, so he removed fast and shacked it. He was so funny, but only lasted few minutes, after he never cares anymore and always went strait outside to check his domain.

 

[NHHEMI]

Originally Posted By: hardcore302
The other post about winter got me thinking..

When I was in the academy, we had a recruit who came from way down south (forgot exactly where) and the first time it snowed, it was like watching a little kid. He was astonished. His hand was almost frostbite from the amount of snowballs.

Anyone never experience it?


I am a life long, born and raised, NH native. December birthday. Snowed the day I was born( Mom had to get to hospital through blizzard ) so I came in this world seeing snow so to speak. I have had my fair share of it and would gladly give my remaining allotment to anyone who would like it.

 

[eljefino]

Was waiting in line outside best buy for black friday one overnight, and a 15 passenger van full of Somalis in jogging-type windbreaker suits showed up. It was about 12'F! They rotated amongst themselves in place in line, and jogged in place to stay warm.

I actually thought it was some sort of performance art piece.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted By: Pesca
. . . As for looking at someone after his first snow fall, my best would be my cat when I was in France, at my parents' house. It snows only once every few years, so our cat was already few years old when one morning was all white outside the house. He looked at me back looking like saying "Where is the grass gone?", smelled it, and then tried to put a paw on the snow but it was all wet with no end, so he removed fast and shacked it. He was so funny, but only lasted few minutes, after he never cares anymore and always went strait outside to check his domain.

I did something similar with my big orange Maine Coon, Arizona. When he was about 6 we had a pre-Christmas snowfall in the middle of the day. Because of the moron drivers here, it took me two hours instead of 30 minutes to get home. Well, it was still falling, and I told him, "C'mon, you can see what your ancestral home [Maine] would be like."

So I let him out on the little fenced-in area that served as a patio. He didn't mind it at all; he turned up his big muzzle to the flakes and padded around. I got cold before he did.

As for me, I'll take snow any time before floods. Snow doesn't come into your car and ruin the electronics like floodwaters do.

 

[crinkles]

never seen snow. coldest i've been is maybe -2 or -3 deg C. down here it's the summer that's annoying, not the winter...

 

[mechtech2]

Who has never experienced snow?

The entire population of Texas [and many other Southern States].

At least is seems so when 1/32" of snow falls and schools close, there are more cars spinning on the shoulder than on the road, and people go home and talk about the blizzard they just encountered!

 

[tom slick]

I was 20 before I lived somewhere that I had to function in snow. Before that snow was something you go visit then you go home.


On the other hand, how many people have experienced 120+*F heat?

 

[NHHEMI]

Originally Posted By: tom slick
I was 20 before I lived somewhere that I had to function in snow. Before that snow was something you go visit then you go home.


On the other hand, how many people have experienced 120+*F heat?


I can't recall it ever getting that high but we regularly have spells of 100+ here during the middle of summer. Average summer temps though are just mid 90's. Kind of an odd weather pattern for us. We get roasted in the summer here and burried in snow during the winter. One extreme to the other.

 

[Pop_Rivit]

I used to travel (business) to Central America, most often Panama. It was common to talk to people who had never seen snow. I was there in January (about 1991) and at home it was 20 below, with a wind chill of -70. They simply couldn't fathom the snow or the cold temperatures.

 

[Silk]

I have travelled to see snow,and walked around in it...but haven't ''experienced'' snow,as been in a snow storm,seen it snowing etc.We have snow in New Zealand,I just don't live there.