Couple of years ago when we were still living in the Freestate it snowed heavily one winter. It was quite nice, we lived outside town. The first evening of snow, we drove to town and when we were about 5 km outside town we saw that it had snowe heavily, we didnt get any snow, what a disappointment, but during the night it snowed everywhere.
We were without wate asn power for a couple of days, luckily we had two little gas stoves, so we could get water, our car was also stucked in the snow, so we couldn't go anywhere, luckily we had enough food.
We got some beautiful photos, but none came out It was a really fun time, unf it happened in the middle of our holidays, so we couldn't get off from school becus of the snow

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As I read the papers, it snowed recently in Mexico...imagine that...(what if the olympics were in Mexico? all full of snow...)

I once went somewhere where it snowed (forget where exactly) near canberra with my school. Anyways someone stuffed so much snow down my clothes that it seemed there was more snow inside my coat than outside. I was like a walking snowball. Then I got cold

I've been to the snow twice (possibly thrice) in twenty years. I don't mind it, but I hate having to drive several hours to see it.

I just wait till it drops from the sky. I love europe

We get a dusting at least once a year. The amount can depend on which side of Atlanta you live on. (50 mile range) The most I have seen is 10" in 1993. Was fantastic. Brought atlanta to a grinding halt. They can't drive in it.

Edited by - Finalday on 8/15/2004 9:09:52 AM

At my school the snow was always a big excuse for the younger year groups to take on the 6th form.
So during our free study periods we would go out onto the field. Build a huge, somewhat phallic tower and then if we had time we'd add protective walls and stock pile snowballs. Once the bell went for the end of school the hordes would spill out to come for us. This was a snowball fight of about 600 vs 200. If we caught one of them, we'd knock him over and then drag him by his hands through the snow. We called this "snow-pantsing" since you could fill a kids trousers with snow in about 3 seconds!
At all costs the tower had to be protected, we took to lining the snow walls with sticks to make it harder to run them down and serial trouble makers had shoes removed and placed in snowmen! One particular fight lasted well over an hour before one kid eventually broke through and knocked down the 10 foot tower!

cool, I wish I could do it

I live in an igloo.

i've seen pictures of my aunt and gran in the victorian Alps it's quite nice from what my aunt told me

Edited by - Gowserpaul on 8/15/2004 2:50:27 PM

@CODE, that could only have come from a sarcastic Canadian.
Good show, canada is COOL! (infact, i just got back on friday)

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...canada is COOL!

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Damn right it is!

Actually CODE, when i was in vancouver airport, some american
arrivals (who had never been to canada before) asked me if canadians
lived in Igloos...

They never studied thier history and geography. Igloos mainly were survival dwellings and hunting/fishing logings for eskimoes(sp) . Ice/snow blocks to cut. one in progress

History 101 - The word igloo actually means any type of house, not just a snow house. The snow-block house that we usually think of when we hear igloo was not used by all Inuits. There were no snow-block houses in Alaska. The Alaskan Inuits lived cabins made from driftwood and covered with soil.

To make an igloo, hard-packed snow was cut into blocks with a long knife made of bone, ivory, or metal. A man could build an igloo in an hour. In the igloo, Inuit slept on a low snow platform covered with twigs and caribou furs. Each igloo had a skylight made of freshwater ice. When summer arrived the igloo melted, and the family had to move into tents made of animal skins.


Edited by - Finalday on 8/15/2004 6:20:03 PM