The "worst snow in a decade" apparently.

What is it about this country that has a fascination for snow. A few flakes and the place is in meltdown (excuse the pun). I remember snow used to last for weeks when I was young. People just got on with their lives. I think this country has become a snowflake nation! (pun intended)

I think you are in/from Scotland? 

You get real snow there.

I am a southern snowflake.

I actually love it but then I have never been inconvenienced for more than a few days.

It is very beautiful and I particularly love the silence after.

You are correct about Scotland. Even here it has now become panic mode when any snow is forecast or starts. I can remember camping in a campervan at the edge of a loch when the temperature was below minus 12 and you could here the ice cracking on the loch. It was blissful but as long as the heating was on.

You are correct about Scotland. Even here it has now become panic mode when any snow is forecast or starts. I can remember camping in a campervan at the edge of a loch when the temperature was below minus 12 and you could here the ice cracking on the loch. It was blissful but as long as the heating was on.

That name, again, is Mr Plow!

I was a baby in 1963, so I don't remember that winter, I know my Mum and me stayed with my grandparents, I think my parents sort of got stuck their after xmas or something.

I think snow is probably a lot more fun when you're a child and don't have to worry about the practicalities?

TheCatWoman said:

When I was a child I remember going to school in snow and ice

i remember doing that during the 1963 snow storms. I lived miles further away than other pupils who did not go in. I loved walking thigh deep in the snow through the cemetery - perhaps that was an early manifestation of autism as others were complaining!

Where I lived as a child we didn't get a lot of snow. If we did I think a lot of the teachers lived in our town so could walk. These days I think more live further away. Our secondary school was closed for a while once, but that was because the heating broke down.

When I was a child we got snow every winter, but now snow winters are rare. Everytime we get heavy snow or more than a couple of flakes people start panicking and asking why we don't have the sort of snow ploughs they do in other countries? I ask them if they be happy ofr thier council tax to be spent on these expensive machines, only to sit there for another 5 or 10 years unused?

Why are so many schools closed? When I was a child I remember going to school in snow and ice, as did my parents when classrooms were heated by coal and wood stoves.

Certain parts of the States get HEAVY snow (Midwest, where I live, included), but others go on complete shutdown when there is a flake of snow (ex. Georgia, Florida, etc). One interesting thing is that we often have snow plowers from our region volunteer to plow down south when they get any sort of significant snow.