There are many dangers associated with snow, Daniel. This is by no means a complete list, but here are a few reasons why I DIS-appreciate blizzards (and bitterly cold weather):
1 ) Frostbite.
2 ) Scraping windows.
3 ) Shovelling.
4 ) Sweating under all those clothes while shovelling, yet still freezing my a## off and getting frostbite in my booted feet and gloved fingers.
6 ) Reading about people having heart attacks while shovelling.
7 ) Salt-covered roads, and the horrible damage they do to cars.
8 ) Heavy snow causing roof collapses
9 ) Those icy-waves that form from slush and snow and water re-freezing at night, making it treacherous for people to walk like any animal not resembling a penguin.
10) Driving in icy, sleeting, freezing-rain weather.
11) Getting in an accident in icy, sleeting, freezing-rain weather.
12) The snow that was so white and pretty when it fell becomes surprisingly icky, black, sooty, filthy, and ugly in just a day or two.
13) Walking through that icky black snow and just knowing that it's car-filth that is getting all over my pants and inside my boots.
14) Broken sewers
15) Broken water pipes
16) dangerously huge icicles
17) slippery bridges
18 ) black ice and freezing rain
19) constant clouds from October through May
20) people who tease me about not liking snow
That's a good start. I could go on and on, but I won't bore you. Suffice it to say, I somehow associate that bitter cold with something desolate and lonely. Even though much of my family lives up North.
And after that list, yes, I would maybe one day consider moving up North. But it would really have to be a beneficial move in many other ways, because it will take an awful lot to make up for that evil white frozen stuff. :roll:
