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I am now curious (re:snow) How many of you
have never experienced a "white Christmas?"
I'm originally from upstate NY and it's not uncommon for it to start snowing in late October there. I live downstate now, mostly because of the proximity to NYC but I also like the milder weather.
That said, a foot of snow on Christams morning is VERY special IMO.
Have you ever experienced a snowy Christmas morning or are most of you down south or out west?
Re: I am now curious (re:snow) How many of you
Yeah, me? Never, never, never.
Nine times out of 10, Christmas is warm and breezy. It has its advantages and disadvantages.
When my cousins and I were little, we used to sing, "I'm dreaming of a green Christmas," and changed a lot of the lyrics to our own little SoFla version.
One day though, I'd like to experience a white Christmas, but it'll be hard. All of my family lives here, all of H's family lives here. I can't imagine the holidays away from them.
Until I was 23, I'd had 2 white Christmases. ?Both were on ski vacations with family. ?I still insist on counting car frost on Christmas morning as a Christmas miracle. ?But, then, I grew up in Ft. Laud.
Don't knock the palm trees and (most of the time) warmth. ?The southern hemisphere still thinks it's Christmas when it's warm. ?You're all just jealous! ?Really, if it's where you grow up, it still feels like Christmas. ?It's colder than normal, and everything is decorated. ?The snow isn't the only thing that tells you the season. ?When you live there, you can tell a big difference. ?It's just too subtle for snowbirds to pick up on
I was born in upstate NY and lived in CO, so yes, I've had very white Christmases.
BTW, where in upstate NY were you previously?
What's that song from one of the stop motion claymation Christmas movies? "I'm Mr. Green Christmas, I'm Mr. Sun!"
I've had a few white Christmases. It's awesome. It at least MUST be cold. In the 30s or below--no warmth!
Downstate, eh? I was born in Rockland County and lived for a few years in Orange Co.
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I'm from the burbs of Rochester.
My immediate family is all still up there. My brother lives in Syracuse.
We're out on Long Island now but we go apple picking in the fall up in Rockland county TefLep!
There are many nice orchards in that area.
It's a small world. My mother's family is from Rochester, my father's from Lak Placid. I was born in Binghamton and left NY when I was 6, but returned for college. The rest of my family left for warmer climates, LOL.
The closest thing I've had to a White Christmas was a major ice storm that knocked the power out starting Christmas night and lasted for over a week. Yeah, not so dreamy.
Well, now that I think about it I think there was might have been light snow on the ground like 2 years ago, but snow hardly ever sticks here and is usually gone by afternoon.?
I have not. I have spent every christmas in FL. Next year will be my first with the inlaws in PA.
I have zero desire to experience a white christmas. Christmas =/= cold to me. I wouldn't be christmas without sitting outside and having momosas that morning.
Well from the age of 11 months till 5 I lived in Syracuse sooooo....
And yes. CT for all the rest of my Christmases... plenty have been green (last year it was really really warm actually) but lots of frigid weather and snow too.
IMO it was always preferable to get the snow before xmas though - snow ON Christmas has screwed up family travel plans before and made it so we couldnt see our cousins etc.
We sip mimosa's christmas morning too! Not generally while sitting outside though
I've spent nearly every Christmas in Florida with my family, so no. Although one year it actually snowed right around Christmas (the day before I think) -- in south Florida! It didn't stick, but still, exciting for us.?
It never snows on Christmas here in Georgia, either, though. ?
I haven't lived in Texas since I was 18. I've lived in central New York, northern Indiana, and now Milwaukee. But I've always gone back to my parents' place in Texas for Christmas. Last year, we went to the ILs in IL because our wedding was 10 days later, but they had no snow on the ground either. As a kid, I remember more than one occasion when it snowed on Dec. 23, but it had all melted by the afternoon of Christmas Eve.
I feel like I deserve a white Christmas at this point. I've shoveled, I've cleaned off cars, I've gotten windburned from the subzero windchills, and last year, I even endured the snowiest winter in the history of the 'burb we were living in at the time, and still, no white Christmas!
I grew up in Southern California (but in the High Desert) so never a white Christmas, but there was 1 year where it snowed on the 23rd and there was still snow on the ground on Christmas.
Usually Christmas - growing up - was fairly nice and clear so it would warm up into the 50s during the day but it'd be in the 10-25 range in the morning and at night.
i grew up in NYC and i can remember ONE white Xmas as a kid. it was insanely awesome.
it was a light snow, but it stuck. and it stayed fresh and clean for all of a few hours before the dog piss on the corner turned it yellow. ah, winter in the city.
Ah yes pgh, but do you sip them while watch the boats sail by (which are decorated for christmas) and watch for dolphins and egrets? Cause thats christmas to me
I'm spoiled. I can't wait to head to FL next friday!
Bleh...having lived in AK for 5 years as a kid, I think white christmases are overrated.
But here in Seattle, we can always count on a Wet Christmas. It always rains at the end of December. Always.
I havent, and I am A OK with that
I have lived in Southern CA my whole life.
I go visit the snow, do a little sledding, try not to kill myself snowboarding, throw a snowball or 5 then get in my car and head home and leave all that snow for someone else to live in
Never. But ditto Sibil, it's no skin off my nose.
Actually it's usually really nice and sunny Christmas day, I can't remember the last time it even rained.
growing up in Massachusetts, probably half our christmasses were white.
in Seattle, not so much... I think last year there was about an hour of snow, which was really nice.
I am the 99%.