I've never experienced a white Christmas :(

[KFC911]

Probably never will either .... I do remember sledding on thin ice at my grandfathers a couple of days prior to the day back in the 60s....

[azasadny]

White Christmases are overrated IMHO. It's the people you're with that make the holidays special...

[GH85Carrera]

White Christmases suck big time. Snow sucks big time, and should only be up in the mountains where it belongs. There should be a law against it! If I want to see snow I will go find it in the mountains where it belongs. I hope to never see another white Christmas around here.

We have had just a handful of them in Oklahoma City area my lifetime. I grew up in Hawaii, Texas and Alabama for the most part, so no white Christmas for me until I moved to the OKC area.

At work long ago I mentioned at the time I had never experienced a white Christmas. One of my co-workers looked at me like I said I had never seen a Christmas tree. He grew up in Buffalo, NY.

This Christmas we are supposed to be back into the 70s! I like that way way way way better than any white Christmas. Snow sucks.

[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by azasadny

White Christmases are overrated IMHO. It's the people you're with that make the holidays special...

Totally true. Ive seen too many, way overrated.

[Sooner or later]

weather has been really mild around here.

I sent this text to my sister. She got pissed!

This year's top Christmas songs!

Rudolph the Sunburned Raindeer

Defrosty the Snowman

It's the Most Hottest Time of the Year

Hark! The Sweaty Angels Sing

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Summer

[livi]

Overrated big time. Sure I´ll take snow on Christmas eve just as long as its gone when ever I have to pull out the car.

[recycled sixtie]

To the OP. We have snow and ice until April. It is fortunate you are not my recipient in the PPOT gift exchange. In my next life I am migrating to Oz.

[vash]

Few years ago my brother and I elk hunted Christmas. We both drew NM elk tags probably since most hunters didn’t get permission to disappear during the holidays. Last hunt day was the eve.

We woke up to a white out. We high fives each other for the White Christmas. (Oh we rented a cabin AirBNB.). How lucky!

Then we realized his truck was to heavy to climb up the steep road. We were stuck. We did rally. I pulled his ATV off the trailer and used the buggy to drag the trailer to the top. Then we used the buggy to assist the big diesel up the hill.

Snow sucks! Around here if it miraculously snowed, everyone would crash their cars

[rfuerst911sc]

Ah yes the joy of a white Christmas . There is nothing like waking up to a fresh foot of snow or more . Then put on all the gear you need to go shovel the crap 😡. The joy of shoveling a 80' or longer driveway can not be done justice by mere words .

Sweating like a pig yet freezing your butt off at the same time is also a joy . But there is something special about completing the task . You lean on your shovel and bask in the glory of a job well done . It is a fleeting moment because as you stand there you hear in the distance the snow plow a comin !!!

Yes in mere seconds the snow plow zips by your driveway and fills in what you just spent hours clearing . It is truly a joyous moment ..........

[KFC911]

So Bing lied ? Hope it's not raining then ... like today ...

"I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas...."

[tabs]

I once went to a Christmas party down by the beach where there was a blizzard of snow and everybody got frosty noses..that party went on until the new year.

[fintstone]

I guess it never really occurred to me that folks growing up in the same state as I did would not have experienced a white Christmas as we often had snow at Christmas in the mountains...of course, nothing like what we had when stationed in Minot ND and in Denver. Even had some now and then when in Albuquerque and sometimes in VA. We had a few flakes of snow when my daughter-in-law visited...and she had never seen snow before (grew up and spent her life in FL). I got a kick out of that.

It was so cold in Minot that when you went out to shop, there was often a massive pile of snow at one end of the parking lot as once it started snowing (usually quite early in the year), it all did not all melt until spring. Most people just left their cars running in the parking lot while they shopped to ensure it would start afterwards. The first good snows often started in October...and by Christmas, it was often quite cold.

Why not Minot?

Freezin's the reason.

This is Minot (Main Street) at Christmas (2018). We often had deeper snow in Colorado, but it melted quickly. Personally, I would prefer Christmas in Miami or Las Vegas:

[vash]

Originally Posted by KC911

Probably never will either .... I do remember sledding on thin ice at my grandfathers a couple of days prior to the day back in the 60s....

bottomline: i wish you a MERRY Christmas, whatever color it ends up being.

mine is gonna be very green. i'm friggen weeding my yard right in a few minutes.

[Scott Douglas]

Luckily for me the white Christmases that I've experienced I was too young to really remember. I found an old slide picture of our house in Conn with snow all around, about 3 ft deep. No wonder Mom would dress us up with hats that had little red balls on top in case we fell into a drift. Make it easier to find us that way.

[KFC911]

LOL ... didn't realize this thread would evoke the snow demons of Christmases past for you guys. Snow .... so pretty, so white, and oh so EVIL!

Here's to a green, happy Christmas for y'all then !

[Eric Hahl]

Went here for Christmas one year. What a blast! Around 7 or 8pm the 1000s of people meandering downtown start singing carols. Smiles, snow, joy. It was beautiful. Oh, did I mention it’s a Bavarian town.

https://youtu.be/FTyVydTNRqI

[Superman]

Originally Posted by JackDidley

Totally true. Ive seen too many, way overrated.

Au contraire. I once took the GF, who had had little experience with snow, to visit my sister in the high mountains and trees for a week approaching and including Christmas. Standing snow was about 4'. It snowed between 8" and 12" every single night. The trees were heavy with snow, and as beautiful as postcards. The snow was sparkly, like diamonds. There was a fireplace in the house and a wood stove in the shop. The girls cooked and baked all week while Billy and I did projects. The whole experience was magical. I have a couple of funny stories to tell which I won't recount now but here is a hint: Billy plowed the driveway and county road each day with me riding shotgun, in his chained-up 4WD truck filled with a propane tank, various things and piled high with snow. I'd guess that thing weighed 7000 lbs. Billy is blind. Can't see a thing. I was his navigator. The truck had no brakes whatsoever. The stories involve the truck sliding down off the road, a tractor and a small dozer. And beverages.

[Superman]

Leavenworth is adorable.

[varmint]

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by azasadny

White Christmases are overrated IMHO. It's the people you're with that make the holidays special...

Snow falling from the sky on Christmas is a beautiful thing.

Snow accumulating to the point where it requires shoveling? Well that pretty much sucks anytime.

My hope, once retired on Lake Norman in NC, is that I never have to shovel it again.

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