I hate snow, for several reasons this year:

1. takes time away from poser - due to have to shovel
2. my back aches after shoveling my drive way
3. cannot sit at the computer desk due to my back hurts
4. It is too friggin cold!

I can't say the same I love the snow! There is skiing, 2 stage snow thrower, sledding, 2 stage snow thrower, snowboarding, 2 stage snow thrower, building snowmen although the stuff falling today is the light powder stuff not good for snowmen, 2 stage snow thrower, making snow angels, 2 stage snow thrower,watching the cat go nuts at the windows trying to catch snow flakes and with a 2 stage snow thrower cleaning the driveway is a snap LOL!

Please I take no pleasure in your situation shoveling blows!

Total accumulation is 5 feet, all from the last two weeks ... which didn't give
time for plowing, shoveling and melting, even with the best equipment.

I've been using a roof rake to keep the worst load from my own little roof.
It's not much fun, but safer than walking around on the roof with a shovel.

Our guy that usually plows moved 2 weeks ago to Florida for a year round job (don't blame him with our high taxes). So I have not yet found a new person to plow.

I know Spokane is not used to the snow amounts you got, I used to live right out side of Seattle and rarely did you get more than an inch or 2 of snow at any one time unless you where closer to the hills

Quote - Here in Spokane it's more than backaches.  A dozen buildings collapsed
yesterday from snowload, and more will come today.  Two people have been
killed directly by snow falling *from *roofs.

Total accumulation is 5 feet, all from the last two weeks ... which didn't give
time for plowing, shoveling and melting, even with the best equipment.

I've been using a roof rake to keep the worst load from my own little roof.
It's not much fun, but safer than walking around on the roof with a shovel.

We have that almost every year here in NH and the roof rakes have been working overtime here. Last year was the worst for roof collapses but there has been many already this winter. The huge ice storm didn't help either and some roofs have caved in around here. NH has been having some strange weather like the tornado this past summer. Kansas size twister are not something that happens in New England it did a lot of damage and killed a few people.

Most of the deaths so far this winter have been people doing stupid things like when the ice storm hit it knocked out power for thousands and some people ran generators indoors and died from the carbon monoxide or added kerosene to kerosene stoves before turning off the flame.

Why not move to the south, texas, or the west coast?   No snow there.  However Texas and the gulf states get hurricanes and California gets bad firestorms and earthquakes.

I'm definitely thinking about returning to Oklahoma.  Snow and icestorms
do occur there, but many winter days are in the 50's or 60's, so the frozen
stuff doesn't stick around long.

Wow!  It's a hydra-headed Snowzilla larva!

Seriously, doesn't that one in the middle kind of look like a baby bird?

-Rªnce

the pic is looking out my living room window to some pine trees we put lights on...this is about a week or so before Christmas. We've had more snow since.

we,ve lost most of our smow here due to rains. One warm day and most of it's gone. Now we have flooding. The river now looks more like a long lake. I saw a street sign that one had about a foot above the water. Any snow left is all iced over. I'd rather have snow. It at least covers up the mud and dead grass.

I'm so tempted to go somewhere tropical after the holidays are finally over.  My problem with the snow isn't the shoveling, it's the idiots whom I have to deal with.  If I have to yell at one more person for playing in my front yard I swear I'm going to do it in a way that gets me on the 5 o'clock news.  Honestly, they visit winter up here and think any surface covered in snow is a public resource for their own personal use.  Never mind the fact that it's someone else's front yard.  One of these day's I'm going to head to the sunny part of the state and park my family on one of their front lawns, have a picknick and leave my trash.... it's the same thing I have to deal with in winter. 

I used to live in Saskatchewan, Canada... Snow and ice was just what happened for 6 months.

Then I moved to and worked in California for 4 years....

Well, when my work Visa expired I moved back to Canada, but I figured I didn't want to go where is snowed... in Canada the only option is Vancouver... Well, this year that is all different.

We've broken the record for snowfall... heck, it's snowing right now.  I just bought a new sports car and now I'm regretting it.  It handles like a cat in a skating rink!!!  I've left it parked about a block away for over a week now because I can't get it up the slope into my parking lot!

It's snowed in so deep I can't drive anywhere.  Come Monday i will have to have it dug out and I think i will have to get snow chains!!!  Just so I can get to work.

I hate this whte crap...

Oh well, it could be worse... I could be in Regina again!

Quote - I'm so tempted to go somewhere tropical after the holidays are finally over.  My problem with the snow isn't the shoveling, it's the idiots whom I have to deal with.  If I have to yell at one more person for playing in my front yard I swear I'm going to do it in a way that gets me on the 5 o'clock news.  Honestly, they visit winter up here and think any surface covered in snow is a public resource for their own personal use.  Never mind the fact that it's someone else's front yard.  One of these day's I'm going to head to the sunny part of the state and park my family on one of their front lawns, have a picknick and leave my trash.... it's the same thing I have to deal with in winter. 

I grew up in Florida along the gulf beaches (St.Petersburg/Clearwater) Kendra and it was the same there any place there was a beach access, even the private ones, people felt free to use them or to use the term "camp" out until someone asked them to leave. OF course whatever trash they didn't feel like taking stayed behind.

After I got out of the service I tried living back in my home town but couldn't the area exploded with people and 20 story condos and all the things that made my little beach town charming were gone it went totally commercial as a matter of fact the whole county, which at one time was very beautiful, is now nothing but blacktop and concrete. I don't know if there is really a trade off
running the AC 8-9 months 24/7 in Florida a year or the heat  6 months a year up here in NH.

I guess if a person loves oppressive heat Florida sure has it. In the summer everything is so hot you can't touch it if it's been left outside. Your car gets so hot and you can't crack the windows in the summer because of the violent late afternoon thunderstorms that dump rain like a monsoon. Even the sand on the beach is so hot you can't walk through without shoes on then you jump into body of water that is 88 degrees...LOL!  Nope I like the 4 seasons I don't think I could ever live in the land of eternal summer again.

I spent a July and August in Florida...it was way too hot for this northern boy. Also lived in Puerto Rico for 3 years. It wasn't as hot as Florida, but very humid all the time. ...always green.
We were going to paint the grass white for Christmas one year, we missed the look of the snow so much, especially a white Christmas.

I would say beach front property gets a lot more of the insanity from my experience in a coastal town. 
Our previous home on the river saw a lot of people hanging out on the shore right behind the house and making use of our stuff.  Technically, the shore of the river is legally open to anyone (regardless of the fact that my property line ended in the river)  and if someone asked first I'd even let them cross my property to get there provided they leave our chairs and such alone and pick up their trash and fish hooks.  But I can't wrap my mind around the mentality too many have when they make use of private property as if they have the right.    You can't leave your kids sleds visible or they will steal them.   They will climb fences and gates and one built a snowman in my neighbors driveway.  Right in his way.    He enjoyed running it over as he was making them leave. 

At least the majority of the insanity will be over after this weekend.

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Quote - Here in Spokane it's more than backaches.  A dozen buildings collapsed
yesterday from snowload, and more will come today.  Two people have been
killed directly by snow falling *from *roofs.

Total accumulation is 5 feet, all from the last two weeks ... which didn't give
time for plowing, shoveling and melting, even with the best equipment.

I've been using a roof rake to keep the worst load from my own little roof.
It's not much fun, but safer than walking around on the roof with a shovel.

Hope you patented that. That sounds like a nifty and handy gadget for your area and also my area too. Could use it on the roof of my car... You could see me... Little ol' me trying to get the snow off the roof of a SUV, while standing on the ground. Not a pretty sight...

Get yourself a broom, Thunder.  I used to have an old Pontiac Catalina.  She was huge.  Gas wasn't too bad cause I was half way across town no matter where I was.  Once spent days walking about the thing looking for my keys.  Found them downstairs by the jacuzzi (sp?).

Seriously though, used to keep a broom in the trunk for brushing the thing off.  No way I could reach all the way across the hood.  I could lay down, flat, corner to corner in that car's trunk.

Winter's aren't as bad here as they used to be and it doesn't seem to last like it used to.  Our original snow is gone - rained away - and we've only a bit more since then.  The ice down by the lake has changed too.  A massive thing I was standing on the other day was gone yesterday.  Fallen into the sea and swept away without a trace.

Took some more pictures of the hydra yesterday but the Sun wasn't out and they didn't turn out as well as the photos I took back on Dec. 30th.  All well,

-Rªnce

Yes the broom thing works great for our Toyota Highlander.

Quote - Two people have been
killed directly by snow falling *from *roofs.

Just the other day we had to explain gravity and ice to someone who thought it was a good idea to climb up on the snow piled up under the roof to pull on a huge icicle which was attached to even more snow and ice in the valley of the very steep roof on our building.  (caution tape is always ignored)

we stay away from any overhanging roof stuff. It can slide off at any time...and getting one of those big icicles through your head isn't exacty fun.

I got out yesterday with the 4 wheeler and plowed the drive.  Yeeeeeeha!  Now that's some winter fun!  Have to get some heated hand grips, though ... nearly froze my fingers off.  Its snowing again now, but with the air temp up to 34, I don't think it'll accumulate.  Nice rendering weather.

Oops, just looked again, 33F and dropping.  Maybe we'll catch some more white today.

When I was 17 I wrote a short story about an abused woman who murdered her husband with a 2 ft. long 1.5 inch diameter icicle then melted the icicle in the fireplace to get rid of the evidence. Unfortunately for her forensics found trace blood evidence of her husband in the cooled coals and burned pieces of wood in the fireplace and was arrested and tried for his murder. Hey I was only 17 my writing teacher said I had a vivid imagination LOL!

The other day I found a 3 ft long, 2 inch diameter icicle hanging of the side of the house and yeah it's a good idea to stay away from falling stuff from the roof! My neighbor had some hanging from his roof on his back deck that looked longer!

I love shoveling snow! When I was younger and my muscles still allowed me to do so, I would shovel snow for other people and made a nice extra from doing so. Unfortunally those times have gone, I only do around my own house (and for an eldery neighbour at times at no charge) now, but I still enjoy doing it. We only had a little snow (enough to shovel), but the lakes and ponds are frozen, I spent some time with my kids on the ice yesterday and I really enjoyed it. Cold fresh air, a sense of adventure crossing a frozen lake with the family and having fun plying some games on the ice and watching the dog slide after a stick on the ice trying to catch it.

I really do think it sad to see how some people are so addicted to a dumb machine that they can't enjoy the beauty nature has to offer (in every season) anymore. A lot of us have lost touch with life by being addicted to lifeless machines, it's a shame.

I hate snow.  I hate Winter.  I hate these 5 months of sterile suspended animation, this living death, that nature inflicts each year.  I hate weather that can so readily destroy my life and property if I'm not careful. 

Birds don't sing in Winter, and why would they?  For them, each day is an excruciating  struggle against  a frozen, starving death. 

I love the changing landscape from May to September as things grow and live from day to day.  I love sitting on my porch on a hot July afternoon and seeing God's extraordinary idea-- life--resplendent around me.  I love growing vegetables.   I love being able to go outside without having to wrap myself in protection against the horrible crap that awaits me.   I love the idea that the only proper place for ice is in my gin and tonic.

And my cat agrees.

My favorite thing about winter is that I get to wear all my favorite clothes... at once!

Quote - I hate snow.  I hate Winter.  I hate these 5 months of sterile suspended animation, this living death, that nature inflicts each year.  I hate weather that can so readily destroy my life and property if I'm not careful. 

Birds don't sing in Winter, and why would they?  For them, each day is an excruciating  struggle against  a frozen, starving death. 

I love the changing landscape from May to September as things grow and live from day to day.  I love sitting on my porch on a hot July afternoon and seeing God's extraordinary idea-- life--resplendent around me.  I love growing vegetables.   I love being able to go outside without having to wrap myself in protection against the horrible crap that awaits me.   I love the idea that the only proper place for ice is in my gin and tonic.

And my cat agrees.

I don't know where you live but here where I do there are many birds and animals out. My yard sees a lot of different winter visitors birds such as Blue jays, Cardinals, chick-a-dees, sparrows. I also see red and gray squirrels and deer so winter is far from dead. It's just one time in the cycle of life where the earth mother rests and then awakens again to do her work.
There is always beauty to be found in things less obvious.

PaganArtist:

I live in New England, just like you.  In fact, probably < 100 miles from you.  And I see a lot of birds and other animals at my feeder in winter.  They eat and fight, but they don't sing.  They're too busy fighting for survival.  A lot of the cute beasties you see today won't be alive in four months.  That's because winter is also the season for the "dirt mama" to rid herself of the old, sick, and young.

I know I probably sound like the worlds biggest sourpuss right now, but I could really do without the season of white death.

Common LBT,

Natural selection has to have some tools to work with.  The weak and infirm make way for the straping youts, that's right I said youts.  The survivors get to pass along their genes (jeans?).  I had a friend and some girl stole his jeans.  As it turned out he died a couple of winters ago ...

Best Wishes All,
Rªnce

Living in Idaho, not much snow except in the mountains, but still I hate the cold