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[Ya-ta Boy]

It's snowing outside again here in SE Seoul. It's pretty enough and the snow is sticking, so I suppose I should be thankful for that. But I miss blizzards. Real snowstorms. High winds, snow driving into your face and piling up in up-to-your-knees drifts. Real snow.

That's all.

[SeoulShakin]

I hear ya!
I love me a good snowstorm!

Though I must admit, when I read your thread title, I thought you were talking about the ice cream treat from Dairy Queen.

[VanIslander]

When I initially read the thread title I agreed wholeheartedly:

[Ya-ta Boy]

Personally, I'm an any-kind-of-cheesecake-ice cream (and cookie dough ice cream, too) from Baskin-Robbins kind of guy.

But I want a real snow storm. It's already stopped snowing here. We only get teased with snow here. In all my time in Korea I've never seen 'real' snow. 2" max is not real snow. (Although that snow with lightning and thunder a couple of weeks back was nice.)

[RACETRAITOR]

I've seen a couple intense snowfalls here, with large snowflakes coming down like the end of the world. All snowfalls this year have been tiny sprinkles. Of course, no matter how intense the snow, it lets up quickly and then everything melts in a couple of days.

[karma police]

i can't stand goddam blizzards and i hate that fucking frozen white shit every goddam where...

i don't miss it at all!

[Stoakley]

Here's my typical winter from back home...I miss it too!

[karma police]

[Newbie]

One of my biggest problems with Korea: no "real" winter.

Did you see all that crap eastern North America got! Beautiful.

[Faunaki]

I've been feeling strange lately and I think the reason is that I am not freezing to death and holed up in my house with my buddies drinking everything in sight. There's something nice about it all. Although if I were there right now I'd be bitching about it.

[peppermint]

[Gatsby]

Then you should move to Cordova, Alaska.

It's the blizzard capital of the world.

It can snow a foot or two a day while blowing steady at 60 mph or more for two or three days at a time.

Then it will stop, the snow plows will clean up the mess, the temperature might rise above freezing for a day, the sun might come out for two hours, and it will start the cycle all over again.

Heck, 120 mph winds down by the harbor are commonplace.

Or so they say. The anemometer blew away years ago.

http://www.alaskatravel.com/alaska/cordova.html

[Newbie]

[sojourner1]

Karma Police Where is that place in your pictures? I have never seen anything like it; that is crazy.


I grew up in Missouri, USA and remember getting 1 to 2 foot snows up to about 20 years ago that would stay for 3 months out of the year, but today, snow is rare and it does not stay cold enough for 3 months. Snow storms are much rarer today than 20 or more years ago. The old timers talk about heavy cold Winters, but today, it's mostly coolish and sometimes gets up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit with 50 degrees not uncommon. Freezing rain is now common in November or 1st part of December and then it always melts off within 2 days. Almost anything is possible with Missouri weather so it is hard to predict what an upcoming season will bring. The climate is changing.

Korean Winter in southern parts is nothing remarkable to me, just coolish with no snow and not hugely different than my home Winter, but Korean Spring, Summer, and Fall are shorter with Summer being rainy instead of sunny. I just miss my relatives and friends in old familiar places.

[karma police]