snow- words

[Doug Harris]

1]      "typical winter day" (applicable anytime from late November through early April
        in Upstate NY)
2]      "snow days rock!" (actually heard in the wild, via IM, from a first-year school teacher)
3]      "where'm I gonna put it?" (usually not heard until at least mid January, same area)
--
And slightly OT, an observation:
In the process of hand-shoveling our driveway clear of maybe six inches of
snow [yesterday], it occurred to me that the depth of snow is, to some degree,
dependent on how one has to remove it. If the task is to be done by hand
shovel, as I was doing, the depth might be, say, 10 inches. If a snow-blower
is employed, it's perhaps 7, maybe 8, inches.
If one is to pay a modest sum to a neighbor child to clear it, you'll accept
that it was -- depending on the quality of the job and the rate charged --
anywhere from 5 to 12 inches. If you need to hire someone with a snow
plow, you may say, to anyone foolish enough to listen, that it's only a dusting
and should be left to melt on its own.
dh

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arnold asked:


>my little family (daughter Elizabeth, son-in-law Paul, granddaughter
>Opal) got back recently from a vacation trip to the east (upstate New
>York, NYC, Boston), escaping just ahead of the heavy snow, with
>reports of terms used to describe the snow storms: snowtastrophe,
>snowmageddon, snowpocalypse.  any others?

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