A lot of snow?!

[ACurlyWurlyTail]

I live in the UK where any extreme of weather seems to throw most (not all) of the country into chaos. We just havent got the infrastructure for rare extreme heat and when the snow falls some parts grind to a halt, even though its not 'that bad' (my family in the highlands proving there are exceptions to every rule).

Do you live in an area or a country with SNOW snow. The kind that lasts for months. Tell me about the best parts of living with this snow and the worst parts. And if you moved away do you miss it?

Or are you from a place with no snow at all?

I am currently in a grey industrial estate with grey slush on the streets but if I squint out of the window I can almost imagine the winter cabin in the mountains surrounded by snow and silence and my radiator is a huge roaring open fire.

Last night it was winter wonderlanf and now its sleet.......
couple more hours it will be rain and then it will be all gone.

It's much easier to cope with heavy snow when you know you're going to have it every year.

Many years ago (1980s) I had a friend who moved to New Hampshire. At the beginning of each winter they changed their car tyres to snow ones. They arranged for their post to be delivered to the post office and collected it from there, so that they didn't have to keep digging out the mailbox at the end of their drive.

They also used to have to go up on the roof to clear snow off - because the weight of it could have broken the roof.

The roads were regularly snowploughed, obviously.

I went to stay one year in February/March and it was the first time I had ever come across the concept of it being too cold to snow!

Yes snow tyres are those things we see in films and I always wonder about. The concept of changing your tyres before winter is so alien to us

Hadnt considered the weight of the snow on the roof!