I don't mind snow. It happens so seldom here that it is always a novelty. In fact we just had our first white Christmas since 1963. Last time it happened, I was 8 years old and had gotten my first bicycle for Christmas. With several inches of hard frozen sleet on the ground, I didn't get to try it out for days.
What I do hate is the fairly frequent freezing rain . The last big one took out a large tree, causing about $32,000.00 in damage to my house. . Electrical service was down for about 5 days. The sunny south has its own winter headaches.
Several years back, be had an 18 inch (huge by our standards) snow fall. Since we so seldom have to deal with more than a few inches, the county owed no snow plows and no more than a couple of sand trucks. The call went out to any and all who owned motor graders, front end loaders and backhoes that the county wanted to hire them to clear snow. Turned out all of them had already been hired by Walmart, Kmart and the local grocery stores to clear parking lots. When they finally got around the clearing roads, you guessed it, the only places you could get to were Walmart, K-mart and the local grocery stores. That spring, the county voted to purchase snow control equipment and now start using it with great gusto, at the mere mention of impending snow.
Steve
