why are so many people complaining about the snow? I don't get it!

[Anonymous]

DC normally gets a few inches of snow. This blizzard stuff happens every 10-15 years. This winter does not represent the norm.

We are not the Midwest or Alaska where the snowfalls are blizzards every year. A midwestern woman I met said that their municipal budgets are 85-90% are dedicated to snow plow equipment and the plow drivers are trained. Around here, it's like 1-2% of the budget and anybody with a heartbeat and a pick-up truck can do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC normally gets a few inches of snow. This blizzard stuff happens every 10-15 years. This winter does not represent the norm.

We are not the Midwest or Alaska where the snowfalls are blizzards every year. A midwestern woman I met said that their municipal budgets are 85-90% are dedicated to snow plow equipment and the plow drivers are trained. Around here, it's like 1-2% of the budget and anybody with a heartbeat and a pick-up truck can do it.

This one sums it up. This type of winter happens once every, well, I can't remember the last time, '96, perhaps? Maybe every 7 years we get like 8 inches at once, and only once during the whole winter. In fact I think this has been the snowiest winter I can remember, record-breaking, like they've been saying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Car wrecks
No power
No heat
Wet clothes
Wet floors
Crazy pets
Crazy kids

I hate every minute of it.

Gee, if I had this type of outlook, I would hate life too.

I don't hate life at life you nitwit. Just pointing out some reasons why some of us out here aren't farting rainbows about all this snow with more on the way.

Do car wrecks affect you, too? You give ogres a bad name. You just sound like you're miserable even when the sun is out and the weather is 85 degrees, no humidity.

Not a miserable person. Love my life. Only thing missing is getting a huge snowball and throwing it in your smug, happy face.

[Anonymous]

People, this area does in fact, get snow.

[Anonymous]

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I'm laughing my ass off at the drama off anyone insinuating snow has anything to do with cancer? Are they completely off their rocker?

There are employers that don't have the option of NOT working or having life supporting medical appointments. To me, this is more important than your time in bed with your boyfriend. Don't tell me you want to work unless you actually show up. It's called responsibility. Grow up.

A Mom here - don't understand why you are so angry here. This Nanny post could very well be legitimate. Our neighborhood has not even been touched by a plow yet and we are hoping that it is before this new snowstorm comes. This IS NOT a normal storm or situation.

Please stop being so critical. Who are you to judge?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are complaining b/c it S-U-C-K-S!

Super Sucks! We live on a dead end street that has not been plowed, lost power Friday night (Feb. 5th) and it JUST came back at 3 a.m. today (Monday, Feb. 8th). It got as low as 44 degrees inside. We do not have a fire place, so we put on as many layers as we possibly could and huddled together in our bed. We put all of our food in containers outside (it's all still frozen solid). DH is 9 weeks post-op (MAJOR SURGERY). Now they're forecasting another 10-20"!!! That could potentially leave my family stranded on an unplowed street with 48" of snow. This SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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People, this area does in fact, get snow.

Add up the snow for the last four years and it is still ten inches less than what we have recieved this winter.

[Anonymous]

OP here.
I do not live in a condo
I do not have a household staff.
My street is barely passable, not to mention the sidewalks.
My house is freezing all of the time.
I am losing money cause I cant get to work
I live in a rowhouse, in NW....that I chose because of its close proximity to everything. I have children, and a wonderful husband....and I wouldn't trade these past few days for anything. Yes it is a hastle to get around, but geez....its fun! Have you ever thrown snowballs at night with your kids, and then come in and schnuggled and drank hot chocolate in bed cause it was the only way to warm everyone up?
I guess I am just one of those "glass half-full" people.
Boy am I glad about that.
8-16 more inches?
Wish it were 20 more!
Enjoy. It is all how you look at it.....and this is not for people who have lost power....really that WOULD suck!
Everyone else...try to enjoy the next storm....you just might.

[Anonymous]

We had a good time sledding, having snowball fights, watching movies, playing board games and drinking hot chocolate. We haven't enjoyed being inside most of the time and I certainly haven't enjoyed listening to the children whine, cry and fight. I had pretty major surgery a week and a half ago and I am still in pain and no where near where I need to be to keep up with the kids and the house. DH cleaned off his car but he hasn't dug mine out yet because he hasn't had time since he has to work. I have a child who has been coughing and I don't want DC to be outside for that long.

We lost power and heat as well. Luckily I purchased firewood the night before the storm. I saw the man I purchased the wood from, on the news the next day, and he had sold out of wood by mid morning. I never would have made it to him that early in the day. I am almost out of wood at this point and am praying that we don't lose power this go around.

There have been some good times during the storm but I really don't know how much more of this I can take.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP here. Are the non-fans of snow people who did not grow up with snow?

21:44 here. Grew up with snow in the midwest. Went to college in the snowbelt. Hated it then. Still hate it now. It's beautiful if I'm sitting inside watching it and have nowhere else to be. But, I really just don't like dealing with cold weather, snow, ice and all of it.

I too grew up in the midwest and went to college in the snowbelt. Snow was fun as child but now it's more of nuisance, especially because we lost power. I'll take hot summer days anyday over this crap!

[Anonymous]

OP, what I found so annoying about your post was the subject line. Yes, I have to agree "you just don't get it". While DH and I have flexible jobs and have been enjoying our time together, I can certainly understand that others may be in a different situation in terms of finances, job flexibility, access to health care, no heat, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:that's wonderful you are loving your life, it really is.

but don't go judging others who are miserably stuck in their homes, without power, without husbands or help to shovel, with kids going stir crazy, without a way to get to work, and no hope of ever seeing a plow come down the street before getting hit with another half foot of snow.

don't be so smug. one day you will find yourself on the other side.

Very right. I am knocking on wood as I type this but we were one of the lucky ones that did not lose power while several friends in Bethesda did. That said, we have lost power lots of times, I remember calling friends in the summer asking if we could store some food in their freezer because we lost power yet again. I remember the showering at work. I would try to remember - what was it they did on Little House on the Prairie - should we be reading the family bible around the fire. I would listen and think yeah PEPCO is down from 100,000 to 20,000 without power hopefully we are next on the list. I also remember being on the verge of either having to go to a hotel, drive to family in NJ (we have no family in the area) or take one of my friends generous offer to stay at her house because our house was something like 90 degrees with two young kids, and the temperature was going to be 100 and we were on day two of not having any power in middle of the heat wave. I've also had to shovel - though nothing like this - with my husband on a work trip in a tropical local - with two young kids at home. I remember thinking, the only thing that could make this even better is if I had an infant so I had three kids under the age of five AND a dog to walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, what I found so annoying about your post was the subject line. Yes, I have to agree "you just don't get it". While DH and I have flexible jobs and have been enjoying our time together, I can certainly understand that others may be in a different situation in terms of finances, job flexibility, access to health care, no heat, etc.

Exactly OP. It is great that you are enjoying it. Why presume that others should as well? That they don't have the proper outlook (like yours) if they don't? You don't know people's circumstances!

You are really, really annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I live in a single family him in NW DC. My husband and I shoveled everything, while my son played on the mounds.
No condo, no garage.
And while I realize that losing heat is awful, that is not what I was referring to. it just seems that people sometimes complain before embracing new situations.

I am also guessing that at least one of you do not have a job and that your child is probably not enrolled in elementary school. The snow is great until you have to get on with the rest of your life in a city that does not plow the streets and where public transport is not readily available to everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:spend time with your family
stay under the blankets all day.
make snow angels
have a snowball fight
bake
go sledding
go on 'nightwalks' where only walking on the snow mounds is allowed

I love every minute of it.

good for you, a-hole

I guess your home isn't 35 degrees and your street's been plowed.