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I LIKE having a somewhat warm Christmas day actually. The kids can get out and ride the bike that Santa brought them. New skateboards, roller blades, scooters, etc. they all get to be used on Christmas Day in the nice weather. No snow and ice covering the ground and preventing them from doing so.
Mom2dfw? I am reminded a bit of those two axioms of wisdom which appear on that old list "Tips for Northerners moving to the South/Texas"
That is:
1. If there is a slightest hint of snow/ice in the forecast, then your presence is required at the local grocery store to stock up (as a former produce manager, I can attest to THAT fact! )
2. Just because YOU can drive on snow and ice, don't assume WE can!
Anyway, my summation on the whole topic is that, yeah, because a White Christmas is so rare in most parts of the South (certainly in mine), I would like to experience it more than once every 20 years. LOL
If nothing else to fulfil the image of those lines in that classic Christmas song by Alabama: Christmas in Dixie...it's snowing in the pines.."
I can't imagine/visualize anything much more beautiful and magic...
With that said though? The yankees can keep their White Christmases if the price to be paid is ice and snow which starts in October and doesn't melt until March!
I am native Minnesotan and was wondering how it is for southern people to have Christmas without snow? I just cant imagine it. To me the two go hand in hand. Any comments?
The same way they manage Christmas without snow in Bethlehem...
Why not name the thread, "How do people in California deal with no snow at Christmas?" Anywhere in the South is more likely to get some snow than MOST of California.
We go to our local mountains if we want to see snow. I don't know why people forget that we have mountains that get some of the heaviest annual snowfalls in the entire nation; many of the heaviest snowfall records are set in CA and we have hosted a Winter Olympics unlike most states. Mountains from the Mexican border all the way to Oregon receive snow fall, there is pretty much not a place in CA where you are more than 3 hours drive from snow during winter. I've spent plenty of time in Tahoe or the other mountain area when there has been 5-10+ feet of snow on the ground, after a week of that stuff I am ready and glad to be back down in warmer weather. After a few days in the mountains I always ask myself how do people live with this stuff for months at a time, snow is nice for a vacation but for living I don't see what is so great about it.
Snow sucks. Besides, I live in southern California so if I want snow for Christmas, I can just rent a cabin in the mountains.
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