No More, Please!

By Lea Tyrrell

I don't like winter.  Specifically, I don't like snow.  And I really don't like a lot of snow.  I did when I was a kid.  What kid doesn't love snow?  But as a grown up, unless you're skiing, it's not fun.  It's just the way I see it.  I know everyone doesn't agree.

So as you can imagine, I was not happy when I first got wind of the forecast that was predicting about a foot of snow Monday.  I was even less happy about it when the snow started falling Sunday night, just as predicted.  And even less happy when I woke up this morning and couldn't open my back door because there was that much snow drifting in my backyard.

What adds insult to injury with this storm is that it's late in the season.  Just as we're holding on to the hope that spring is just a few weeks away, we get walloped with the worst storm of the winter.  That's cruel, Mother Nature!  

As one of our viewers said during our snow coverage, "Hey, that's just the way it is!"  He's right.  That is the way it is in winter.  But the dead of winter.  Not as we're just turning that corner.  Those late season snowfalls are easier when a) they're just a few inches or b) the very next day it's in the 40's or 50's and the snow quickly disappears.  Neither of those apply to this storm.  It made me really grumpy.

However, all that grumpiness disappeared when my young daughter burst into my room this morning, full of excitement, exclaiming, "Mommy, there's a lot of snow outside!"  Okay, what I really wanted to do was roll my eyes and say, "Uhhggggggggggg!"  But what I said instead was, "Really??  How much??"  And she stretched out her arms as wide as they could go and said happily, "This much!"  And we both ran to the window so she could show me. 

I still don't love snow.  But I like it a lot better when I see it through the eyes of my daughter!!!!!!! 

Comments

[hilda pietrucha]

hey i had the best time of my life in a long tome i havent liked the snow since i got older and stayed in doors but with not much snow in jersey shore i was tickled pink to see the foot of snow we got i actually made my frist snow man in years and its the only one in my neoghtboor its for seinors lauralton mobile park on rout 88 in brick ny i sent picks to news 12 ima grandma 55 hilda in brick nj

[larry cj]

HI LEA
I don't mind a little cold weather in the winter but NO snow please,It's just a big pain in the well you know.it's time for some spring weather,maybe Bill Korbel can take care of that,hay Lea you don't seem like someone who would get grumpy about any thing.
keep up the great work TAKE CARE.

[Robert Gudger]

I was on a beach in Jamaica just last week....and now 12 inchesof snow to shovel!!!! I too loved snow as a kid and as I get older I am getting used to 85 degrees on my face in February.

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