Snow time

[Ubu]

Stories about sledding, snow skiing, ice skating, snowball fights, building forts or snowmen. You get the idea. Any thing involving snow. When was the last time you ever did any of these things?

[larry kremis]

When I was around 8, I loved throwing snowballs at cars, snowballs packed real tight, we called them iceballs. I pitched in little league and had a pretty good arm even though little league didn't start for me until I was 9. We lived in a small town, one time I stupidly stood on the sidewalk in plain view and threw at a car. He slammed on the brakes, I ran behind my house to escape into the back door, stupid me, I took the long way around my house but the driver took the short way and met me at the back door. The first thing I saw was his cigarette, as a kid I thought all guys who smoked were tough. He accused me of breaking his windshield, I know I hit his windshield and maybe it broke with the velocity of the snowball combined with the speed he was travelling. I was really really scared. He chewed me out and left, I went inside and my Mom was standing there and asked what I was doing. I said I was doing nothing (I was probably pale as a ghost). Years later I figured she heard this guy yelling at me and kind of stood watch.

[Red One]

In 1996 when I was a traveling salesman I got caught in a Blizzard and was stranded at a convenience store for two days. There were about thirty people stranded and we made the best of it. The owner lets us buy beer and play poker. We stayed up all night, It was almost enjoyable and quite an adventure. It was the worst storm I have ever been in over 30 years of traveling for my job.

[Ubu]

Here's one, Brine.

While in college one of my Colorado buddies, Keith, invited two of us to his folks house for the weekend. We went snow skiing. And the other buddy had never been snow skiing so every time he would fall down here would come Keith doing a quick stop which involved spraying my buddy with snow. Uh, he was getting real tired of that. Then back at the house he got out three snowmobiles and went out on his own and started making a course, so to speak, for the snowmobiles to run in. The snow was about three feet deep. That was a lot of fun.
Red's story reminded me of the trip back across Kansas. Somehow we had gotten onto the highway that was shut down. My buddy was driving my car at the time and ran us out of gas. Fortunately we noticed a farmhouse a ways back and the farmer gave us a gas can with enough gas to get us to the next town. He was the one that told us the highway was closed. We put the gas in and (per the farmers suggestion) tossed the can over the next bridge we got to.

[Stir Young]

One time, I think I was 18, we got a guy to buy us some half pints of favored vodka, and he hid them in a snow bank next to a fire hydrant in my buddy's subdivision. Then we popped by and fished them out, and went and drank like we were some kind of bigshots.

Hey! We were city kids, our snow time stories took a little different slant!

LMAO!

[Pixiegirl]

Um...whats snow?

[Pixiegirl]

Hey Pru...yeah snow is predicted for tomorrow afternoon. (ain't gonna happen) But if we get one flurry we get all freaked out and shut down the schools. Snow has not accumulated in my part of Houston since 1989. One year I think my sister got a dusting on her car. But you know what...I think you are right! I vaguely remember running outside last year, opening my mouth and actually catching a snowflake on my tongue!
So..snow in Houston 2yrs in a row? Will miracles never cease?

[Red One]

Is that the Global Warming happening down in Houston with snow coming?

[Ubu]

No, no. They don't call it that anymore. It's called "climate change" now. :-)

[Aggie]

Heading to the the farm for three days to avoid the snow in Houston.

[darroll]

Myself and four buddies were going to a HS dance in another town and had to go over a high mountain pass to get there.
We got to the bottom of the pass and there was about a foot of snow on the road and the road was closed with a barricade.
I was driving and just went around the barricade and kept my speed at about 40 so we wouldn’t have to chain up.
We reached the top and I just tapped my brakes to slow down a little.
We spun around and around for about two miles with about a 500 feet drop off on one side.
I finally got the car stopped and this weak sound came out of the backseat.
"I’ll put chains on". We sat in the car while he put chains on my car.

[stillgoing]

Growing up on Long Island there was a hill just off a main road on a golf course that was everyone's go to spot to go sledding. On a winter weekend there could be 100 or so people there. If you went far enough and it was not that cold, say over 20 or so, you would find the creek. LOL

A number of years later I found out the guys at the gas station across the street would go over and cut the chain link fence so people could get in. They even bought some heavy duty shears so they could cut it easier and faster.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

As with most things, I have a hundred stories about snow. Thats why I'm headed for Florida.
When I was in grade school in the West Virginia Mountains(ok, Hills) we lived at the mouth of a hollow that had about one mile of modertly steep road. When we would get 6 inches or more of snow the neighborhood would block off the road at the bottom and everybody, from 6 to 60, would build big fires in oil drums and we would ride sleds until the wee hours. Probably 9 or 10. But hey, to a 5th grader that was the wee hours. It really was great. All the kids and parents out there together, having fun. During the day the boys would sleghride in a hill side grave yard. For some reason some of the graves were built up like two or three feet high. They made great jumps. The downside to sleghriding in a grave yard is; it really hurts when you misjudge and hit a tombstone.