re: I can’t fathom receiving this much snow.

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Growing up in the North East, we lived for these days.

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As a kid, we were so excited for the first major snowfall. We would go out into the field and play football for hours on end. 30-40 kids from different neighborhoods would be out there just playing FB

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Exact same scene in Birmingham, which got 13" or so in drifts. Only time I've ever seen thunder snow

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On this website, we see reminders all the time of people along the Gulf who have to evacuate and/or rebuild due to hurricanes, but as a kid I remember it was unfathomable to me that my grandmother had to be rescued by the military and live in a hotel for a month because power crews couldn't reach the dirt road she lived off.

Almost 30 years later, people in Sevier County still use it as a daily barometer for snowfall and as a valid reason to disaster prep.

I grew up further north in Upstate NY. Snowfalls like that were normal occurences.

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Lol, I love that picture. That's Glenwood right at Brier Creek. I left work early and drove past that spot maybe twenty minutes before that picture was taken. I remember thinking "this is gonna get messy."

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Someones gonna have to shovel all that

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You could sweep it with a broom. Powder is extremely light and easy to move.

Valdez, AK gets over 30' a year. Flying over PWS in the winter is incredible. Everything is buried.

Nothing better than being the first car on the road in 6" of fresh powder.

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There was a lot of snow in Alabama then, but I don’t think anywhere in Alabama got close to 43 inches (other than drifts).

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I lived in Blount County at that time. My yard, which was virtually flat, had snow almost to my waist. So no, not quite 43”, but not too far from it either.

Grew up in Lake George, NY. 90% of the time, it sucks. Then there is the other 10%, we call “fun”. Skiing, snowmobiles, sledding, winter carnivals on frozen over lakes, etc.

At 41 years old, if I go home between November and April, someone has died. I still like the “fun” part of that constant pain in the arse weather, but I go elsewhere, on vacation, if I want to do have sorta fun. Skiing the same 9-10 mountains, even with the fact that they’re all great and worthy places to do so, gets old after some many years.

Skiing out west is pretty damn awesome, these days. That being said, for folks that like to ski and haven’t been to the New York or the NE, places like Whiteface, Gore, Bristol (GO! You won’t be disappointed), Windham (awesome if you wanna snowboard) , Stowe, Okemo, Killington, and Mad River (another gem) should definitely be on a downhill skiers/snowboarders “ski bucket list”.

I have had the pleasure to cross a few off of my personal list, thanks to work trips (fricking WIN). I’ve now had the opportunity to ski Breckenridge, Telluride, Silverton, Crested Butte, Copper Mountain, Aspen (skip this one, imo. Go to Aspen, ski elsewhere) , and my favorite place I’ve ever skied, Beaver Creek in Anon, CO. A Masterpiece. The old Dusty Boot Roadhouse does the trick after a long day, as well.

Sorry, this is too long of a post. You frick, now you’ve made me want to take vacation and head west!


TL/dr: frick NY and the winters they go through. Skiing is still fun. For me, I must go west to have that fun due to being able to ski at all the greats so many times growing up.