I vividly remember those bitter winters and blizzards in the Black Hills of South Dakota. but we also got “Banana Belt” weather as well. there were a lot of days I’d go to work in February in a short sleeve shirt but the parka was never very far away. we’d see those blue/black clouds headed towards us from Montana and we knew it was gonna blow up a bad snow.
but it was low humidity and it was deceptive because it was low humidity. you didn’t feel the cold or the heat as much and it was easy to get frostbit or have some heat exhaustion.
the freezing, the shivering, how your face hurts when the wind blows, how the cold makes your nose run … then freeze. ugh!
but then again …
we would be outside in it for as long as possible when I was a kid. we’d be sledding, walking thru the snow, playing in the snow drifts and then come in barking like seals with wind burned red faces.
Amen! I love the snow!
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I’m pretty much done with it right now but I’ll be putting up with it until after St. Patrick’s Day.
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I lived in Colorado for 24 years in Montana for 13 years. But I still love it!
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I vividly remember those bitter winters and blizzards in the Black Hills of South Dakota. but we also got “Banana Belt” weather as well. there were a lot of days I’d go to work in February in a short sleeve shirt but the parka was never very far away. we’d see those blue/black clouds headed towards us from Montana and we knew it was gonna blow up a bad snow.
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You are right! One day that I remember in Colorado the temperature swung 70 degrees! In Montana we had -40 in the winter and 100 in the summer!
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but it was low humidity and it was deceptive because it was low humidity. you didn’t feel the cold or the heat as much and it was easy to get frostbit or have some heat exhaustion.
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Very, very true!
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If I were a kid I would love to play in it. As an adult I have to shovel it….not as much fun.
Leslie
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that’s why we buy snowblowers.
VROOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
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and we have husbands too.
Leslie
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hey wait. I don’t have one of those things. dunno what I’d do with one if I had one cuz I have no use for guys but that’s not the point.
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They come in very handy, Jim.
Leslie
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I’ll take your word for it.
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😉
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So true…but only if you don’t think about the shoveling, snow blowing, driving, slipping on ice, etc. ☺
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the freezing, the shivering, how your face hurts when the wind blows, how the cold makes your nose run … then freeze. ugh!
but then again …
we would be outside in it for as long as possible when I was a kid. we’d be sledding, walking thru the snow, playing in the snow drifts and then come in barking like seals with wind burned red faces.
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Ah…memories !!
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LOL. yeh.
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Provokes is the exact right word for the childhood and childish thoughts snow brings me. ~~dru~~
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yeh, I kinda like despite how much I dread seeing it and having to drive in it.
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Oh so true!!!
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