Snow
 

Got to Upstate NY right after the 24 inch storm on thursday. So sunday saw a little more. Nice, but I had enough. Miss my Florida sunshine.

That is why I stay here in the sun. Well most days in the sun. I really hate snow. ������

you poor kid-i feel for you with that snow. time for you to head back down here! :coolsmiley:

I love snow. Watching it on television and Facebook from Florida is one of my favorite parts of winter.

Could be 34 degrees Thursday night, pass the kool-aid. Can't wait for Ded 28th when I rent my home out to the snowbird and move to Costa Rica for three months. I will leave for the weather which is in the 80s every day, 12 hours of daylight, the beach almost every day, golf once a week. I Will return when the crowds leave and the tee time prices return.

Unfortunately, we're making that trek later this week, and not looking forward to it! We'll be trailing the new 'Christmas Week' storm by a day or so. Ugh!

I am one of the lucky ones to have it all, TV. and riding my snowmobile during the Holidays, then back to TV.
20 years of riding ( average 1500 miles per season) is hard to give up and for 99%
of people to understand! We see people come up from Alabama every winter.

Remember
 

Do you remember snow blowing the driveway only to have the plows go by and push the snow back in front. Or trying to open the garage doors and trying to plow through the driveway to get to the road. Hearing the roads are closed. Getting up on the roof and pushing the snow off. How about putting on the heavy coats and boots just to go to the store? When you were in high school going around and shoveling driveways? When you lived in the Country waiting for the school bus and freezing and then when you got home
walking the distance to get home and warm. When you were in college, applying to the Post Office for a Christmas route and part time job? And sitting by the radio to see if school had been cancelled? These are just some of the reasons to move to Florida and enjoy those retirement years pondering what it was and what it can be?:popcorn:

We had a good old fashion Noreaster that started last Wednesday night and went right through Thursday morning. I attached a some pictures taken once the storm stopped. If I was thirty years younger I would have spent last Wednesday night sleeping in the back of my Subaru wagon in the parking lot of Killington, Vt. so I could be on the first chairlift carving first tracks through the powder. Those days are over with old cranky knees.

I very much enjoyed this storm for several reasons. It was the light fluffy stuff, no ice or rain mix. We will have a white Christmas. It's easier to track deer in the snow. But most importantly, I enjoyed this storm because it will make me appreciate all the more packing up the sleigh right after the holidays and heading south to the Villages for the rest of the winter. Merry Christmas

Snow, what is snow?

Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere, usually within clouds, and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout its life cycle, starting when, under suitable conditions, the ice crystals form in the atmosphere, increase to millimeter size, precipitate and accumulate on surfaces, then metamorphose in place, and ultimately melt, slide or sublimate away.

So that is what I grew up with in NYC. Who knew?:a040:

Love watching the snow fall, going out at 3 am in the quiet of the night for walks. The freezing rain is pretty until you have to switch over the generator, or drive.
My fourth year in TV for winter, it’s just weird not seeing Holiday Decorations and white fluffy snow. Maybe next year I will convert.
My other half is here for the first winter, watching the snow fall from the outdoor cameras just isn’t the same. But going to Disney couple times a month without getting on a plane helps :a040:

Just had to have a white Christmas lol

When I was young in upstate NY, I would get so excited at the prospect of a beautiful white Christmas. Then many years later after moving to Georgia, and it was rare for a small snow fall at all during the year, there was still some excitement getting to see and feel the snow again...well I can officially say I’m over it, and very content at viewing Christmas decorations from our golf cart! It’s just as “cool” as seeing them in a foot of snow as a kid...

Because I'm from Canada so many people say when it's close to freezing here in TV, "You're used to this right?!" Used to it, perhaps, but NOT loving it! Snow is pretty to look at, but so happy not to be in it. Brrrrrrrrrrr

Wow 3 months in Costa Rica sounds wonderful!

Where exactly were you in New York? I grew up in Watertown.

I was very happy when I stopped being a 'snow bunny'...every time we flew back north in the winter we ran into a snow storm and I'd ask myself 'what the heck am I doing back up here?'

travel safe

Well, you have not missed much this winter. This - so far - is the cloudiest winter I have spent in Florida, not to mention that most of December has been below average for temperatures.

I will take this over Minnesota, but it so far has not been the winter I have become used to.

"it’s just weird not seeing Holiday Decorations "

You need to get out and around. There are neighborhoods in The Villages that are decorated every bit as much as northern cities.

We have opposite problem, we are stuck up in Rochester not willing to chance the transition to our place TV due to covid.
Two positives though:
1- only about 5 inches of snow
2- our place is rented for Jan

So we will sit tight.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!

I miss snowshoeing!

Just keep counting the days till I make TV my permanent home.(545) With this past storm , that's all I keep thinking. We don't even get a snow day in school because the whole school just goes virtual !

Snow in Florida in The Villages
Jan 19, 2019 · Forty-two years ago, however, Central Florida looked more like the American Midwest as snow fell all over the Sunshine State. It was the first time snow had fallen in South Florida in recorded ...

Danbury NH got record 48” snow.

I didn’t retire to Florida so I can go up north for the holidays!

Brrrrrr!

A four letter word?

Really miss the smell of new-fallen snow. Nothing like it. Just don’t forget the black ice hiding under “fluffy, new-fallen snow.” Newly broken bones LOL.

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it’s just weird not seeing Holiday Decorations and white fluffy snow.


One needs to read and quote the entire sentence,
you left out and White Fluffy Snow

So where in TV do I need to get out more to see Holiday Decorations and WHITE FLUFFY SNOW.

I must have missed the streets that trucked in SNOW, Fluffy and White

Clifton Park

We may get some snow flurries on Xmas day

Nothing worse than 30 degrees and no snow. Seems like a waste of cold weather :clap2:

We moved to NH to a condo to be closer to family in October. Last week we XC skied, snow shoed 3 x and alpine skied twice. Rain has now ruined the snow. We we would like more winter before we head to TV for the February closing on our new house. Wish we were closing end of Feb or March but can't change it. We have to be there for appliances delivery and movers. Also worried about covid exposure during our 3 days of travel to Florida and the weather can be bad for driving then as well. We lived in Geneva NY for 30 yrs.

Is that Florida snow I am seeing on the ground and roofs early this morning? :icon_wink:

I have been through a couple snow storms already this year. I hate the snow and the cold weather goes right through my bones. My wife will not let me out in the snow as she is afraid I will fall and break something (all my bones are compromised). So I sit inside as my daughter and wife try to clear after the driveway is plowed. Not fun, I use to love it but not anymore.

Sometimes snow can be a good thing. I managed to convince my wife that we need to start our drive to the Villages next Wednesday instead of Thursday so we can avoid forecasted snow. Just bought myself another day in paradise, too good : )

Ditto here! The only difference Sunday River Maine was our go to place to ski.

We are leaving Thursday to drive down. Tried to move it up but the wife is working.