Snow or Thunderstorm? (season, North, winter, rain)
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Thunderstorm means a light show and a good nights sleep. Snow means I have to wake up at the crack of dawn to shovel snow. And then again when the plow shoves more snow on my driveway.
This.
I don't mind a light dusting of snow - that makes everything look really pretty, and it will usually melt away during the day (even if it stays cold, with a dusting of snow you can use ice-melt to get it off your driveway and walkways). But a heavy snow - or even just a few inches - means that you have to shovel, and possibly shovel again. It also means compacted snow and/or ice can easily develop.
A thunderstorm is over more quickly, and there's not much you have to do but wait it out. I also really like the sound of rain.
I personally find thunderstorms incredibly obnoxious. Constant, loud thunder and lightning are extremely irritating, and the rain creates a wet, sloppy mess if you have to go outside to do anything.
I prefer thunderstorms because snow is accompanied by very cold weather and the need for lots of shoveling.
Plus, as a former New Yorker, I can tell you that snow sure doesn't stay pretty for long like on TV. It gets dirty and filthy-looking quick after people, cars, litter, and dogs go through it.
I picked snow. I live in the south and a good snowstorm always meant time off from work, walks in the quiet white cold and it would be gone in a few days. Now that we live in a rural area, we don't have to worry about shoveling and the dogs have a blast playing in it.
Thunderstorms are nice and the power is amazing, but three of my dogs are scared of them, so I can't really enjoy them. Another reason snow wins out.
But that must not happen very often. Once in a while in Atlantic Canada there's thunderstorms to, but not like the Midwest and especially Florida. There at certain times there's thunderstorms constantly.
I'd say an average of three thunderstorms per year. I think it's always been at least one in every year I can remember (around 20).
That's a hard one. I love both. But that's because I live in an area where both are rare.
I like the snow, but I think I would get tired of driving in it. And then, once it falls and starts looking dirty, it loses its charm. I like thunderstorms because I love the lightning and hearing the thunder, but I'm scared to go outside when there's lightning and I always associate thunderstorms with tornadoes, which I don't like.
Thunderstorms. Nothing is more exciting than the cloud structure and the lightshow of a good storm.
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