shadyjay
02-22-2008, 10:43 PM
It is truly amazing how news agencies and the Weather Channel hype up a 6" snowfall in southern New England and the NYC metro area. Not much on TV tonight, so I watched some TWC and they have "live team coverage" of closed-down airports, highway headaches, etc etc "way down south" in CT, RI, MA, and the NYC area. Now I lived down there until 2005 when I got fed up with the traffic,people,the drive to get to the mtns taking 2-4hours,etc and moved to VT. I'm not a ski bum - I work and go riding on the weekends. But when they hype up a storm so much when it dumps a whopping 6", closes airports, and mass panic, its amazing. After all, a 6" snowfall in VT is looked upon in the same atmosphere as a day of rain. Yes, it slows down traffic, and the plows/sanders come out, but it doesn't throw in the "mass chaos" that down south has. Heck, a 1-2 foot snowfall here doesn't even get a mention on TWC, unless Jim Cantore is on and talking about the NE Kingdom, Lyndon, and WR Jct.
So while I may not be a "native" Vermonter, I no longer consider myself a flatlander (though some will disagree). I work. I currently rent and am trying to work towards buying my first house. I support the local economy. And I have fun on the weekends at my favorite mountain (the Bush, of course). No 6" snowstorm will get me down. Though what really bugs me is the "natives" who hate winter, yet continue to bear with it and count down the days to mud season. Personally, when the mountain closes, my countdown to the next season begins. My co-workers hate winter as they have no wintertime activity/sport to engage in. Perhaps if they liked the mtns as much as we all do, they wouldn't mind the winter. Driving on frozen dirt roads is better for me than driving on 2' deep mud ruts on the same roads come April. As long as the work truck doesn't go off the road, I'm happy.
And now with heat working in my personal rig once again for the first time in 3 weeks, let us continue to have another 2 1/2 (or so) months of winter left.
So while I may not be a "native" Vermonter, I no longer consider myself a flatlander (though some will disagree). I work. I currently rent and am trying to work towards buying my first house. I support the local economy. And I have fun on the weekends at my favorite mountain (the Bush, of course). No 6" snowstorm will get me down. Though what really bugs me is the "natives" who hate winter, yet continue to bear with it and count down the days to mud season. Personally, when the mountain closes, my countdown to the next season begins. My co-workers hate winter as they have no wintertime activity/sport to engage in. Perhaps if they liked the mtns as much as we all do, they wouldn't mind the winter. Driving on frozen dirt roads is better for me than driving on 2' deep mud ruts on the same roads come April. As long as the work truck doesn't go off the road, I'm happy.
And now with heat working in my personal rig once again for the first time in 3 weeks, let us continue to have another 2 1/2 (or so) months of winter left.