SNOW!

Yesterday I started in Fresno, CA and worked in a school there. I was finished at 10 in the morning and had nothing to do until 8am the next morning in Modesto, CA. I went over to the school district to talk to someone there and then I really had nothing to do. I had been to Summerville High a few months ago and told a teacher I would try to get them a National Guard camouflaged backpack so I thought I would drive out there and drop it off since I had it in my car. It was a 3 hour drive round trip and then I would end up in Modesto where I was staying in a motel.

Fresno is east of Yosemite and Summerville High is north, so I sort of drove around the north west of that National Park. I drove through a lot of farm land and small towns. After driving about an hour I started seeing snow on the side of the road so I got out and took pictures. More and more snow was on the side of the road and when I finally got to Summerville High there was about 6 inches on the ground. As I was walking to the office I passed a student and made a comment about the snow. He said this wasn't bad and last weekend was a lot worse.

After I got finished at the office I drove to Modesto.
Where I started and ended was cold, but no snow. Where the snow was it was not too cold, only 40 degrees. I have always liked snow. I like seeing it out the window as I am in  warm house drinking hot cocoa and have a warm fire going. I don't like having to go out and shovel it off the car and drive way. I don't like driving in it and losing control as I drive. I don't like how cold my hands get as I try to scrape it off the windshield.

I have friends that live in Montana and have to go to their roof and shovel the snow off their house so it doesn't get so heavy the roof caves in, I wouldn't like that either. I thought yesterday was the perfect balance, visit snow and then leave it behind!
I have lived in snow before. I have lived in Germany where the snow got so high you shoveled out the front door and up to the snow level. I have lived in Alabama where it doesn't snow very often, but they have freezing rain which is worse, 6 inches of ice on my car which I take off with a hammer. I have lived in parts of California where it snows every 10 years and people go crazy when it snows. I have also lived in

Korea where it is so cold that people wear long underwear for 6 months of the year, the other months they are sweating like dogs :).
Living in snow isn't so bad ... it is slush I don't like. When it first falls it is pretty, but after it starts to thaw and turn to water, then it gets dirty and muddy. I don't like slush!! I will say it one more time, I DON'T LIKE SLUSH!!