One southern California girl's opinion of snow

[Nevada]

I love this clip. She grew up in the L.A. area and says she could never live where it snows. Her June Lake retreat snow story is hilarious.

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Snow is just SO WRONG! LOL

Evidently she's not the homesteading type.

[Farmerwilly2]

I once heard directions to L A. Head due west till you hit arrogance, turn left at reality.

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by Farmerwilly2

I once heard directions to L A. Head due west till you hit arrogance, turn left at reality.

Actually, her attitude is not that uncommon in the L.A. area. That's what makes it so humerus.

[Farmerwilly2]

Hence my response. I worked for a company in Orange Co. for years. From my experience even the bums in the street sported an attitude of superiority. Oh well. It's Christmas. Bless their hearts.

[big rockpile]

I was setting eating in L.A. one time looking at some Palm Trees,next thing I know its snowing.All I could think was

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[7.62mmFMJ]

When they have the next earthquake she will probably be sitting in the rubble waiting for help.

[tailwagging]

LOLOLOL!!! I was born and raised in San Diego. and I HATE snow!!!!!! That is why I moved from the mountains of NC to SC. aaahh warmth.

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by big rockpile

I was setting eating in L.A. one time looking at some Palm Trees,next thing I know its snowing.All I could think was

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That's a fact. I saw it snow in Huntington Beach, CA one time. It didn't stick or stay around, but the snow did fall.

[Jena]

I lived in Southern California and it snowed every year.

Jena

[mtc]

You gotta remember, it snows in Southern California (below the foothills) on average of about once every 25 years. It'll rain ash more often than snow in Los Angeles County. So, for most people it's both an "Wow" and a "Oh Carp!" moment at the same time since they (for the most part) don't have the coping skills. Of course most people who are used to snow would melt down at the first sign of an earthquake so it all evens out.

[MariaAZ]

I watched the video twice and, as someone who lives where it doesn't snow, I don't see any arrogance. She is obviously a person who was born and raised in a warm climate and doesn't like cold weather. Walking around with wet hair isn't at all uncommon around here, so I can see the humor in her story about her hair freezing from the vantage of someone who that same thing might have happened to.

I've heard almost the same thing but on the flip side when we get new neighbors who move in from colder climates. They absolutely WILT that first summer, rarely leaving the comfort of their air-conditioned homes when the thermometers read above 100. One neighbor was saying she couldn't understand how anyone in their right mind would voluntarily live in an oven (her husband was relocated to the area for his job.)

[Farmerwilly2]

Snow has nothing to do with south-west coast arrogance. It's an attitude that oozes out. Can't speak for a Phoenix summer, only time I've been there was in Oct.--it was pleasant then. Good walk around nekkid weather if it weren't for stinging-biting things and the cholla. I guess there really is no place like home.

[tailwagging]

Originally Posted by Farmerwilly2

Snow has nothing to do with south-west coast arrogance. It's an attitude that oozes out.

Gheeee Thanks.

[big rockpile]

Well in '84 the Winter got so Bad I decided to head South.Went to Louisiana.Had same thing down there Pipes freezing and busting,People freezing to death. Said heck if I'm going to be cold might as well be cold.So went to the mountains of Colorado,had 160 inches of snow Then moved back to Missouri in June,I about burned up that Summer.

In the early '70's mowed my grass in San Diego couple days before Christmas.Flew back to Missouri Christmas Eve and was Chopping ice the next day for the Cows.

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[FeralFemale]

I moved to NE Minnesota last year.

I previously lived in a place that regularly got snow in the winter, but it always melted. I snowed and it melted, it snowed and it melted.

Now it snows and it just accumulates till the spring thaw.

It also gets to -50 sometimes.

Funny thing is, it's not that bad. You know how people in AZ say 'Yeah, but it's a *dry* heat"? Well, here, it's a dry cold. So, back home, it could be 40 and I would be freezing my tuckus off, but here 40 is sort of balmy. It gets above 0 and it's a nice day. It's a *dry* cold. So it doesn't seem as bone chilling as it would back home where it would be a wet cold.

Anyhoo, I guess I am saying it is al relative -- although the woman in this vid did seem kinda prima donna-ish.

[MariaAZ]

I still don't see the attitude; I see an animated speaker relating a story. I've spent plenty of time in SoCal and outside of the "'Zonie" jokes they're good people.(Here in the Sunbelt you'll often hear winter visitors being called "Snowbirds". Well, in summer it seems most of Arizona migrates to the beaches of SoCal and they call us 'Zonies.)

I'm not saying this particular woman has or doesn't have an attitude, as this is the only piece I've seen of her. I just don't see where she's "oozing" with attitude. But then again, since I've spent most of my life in close proximity to California, maybe I'm blind to it

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by MariaAZ

I still don't see the attitude; I see an animated speaker relating a story. I've spent plenty of time in SoCal and outside of the "'Zonie" jokes they're good people.(Here in the Sunbelt you'll often hear winter visitors being called "Snowbirds". Well, in summer it seems most of Arizona migrates to the beaches of SoCal and they call us 'Zonies.)

I'm not saying this particular woman has or doesn't have an attitude, as this is the only piece I've seen of her. I just don't see where she's "oozing" with attitude. But then again, since I've spent most of my life in close proximity to California, maybe I'm blind to it

Well, I spent most of my oil career in southern California, over 18 years. There are some interesting attitudes there. For example, it's unthinkable to toy with the idea of moving away from that area out loud. If you suggest leaving California they think there's something fundamentally wrong with you.

At one point I was talking to a California native that I worked with, and I brought up the hardships of living in Anaheim with all the congestion in Orange County. I suggested that moving to a different place would make life a lot easier in a lot of respects. He said, "I guess you could move to Fullerton or Garden Grove, but it wouldn't be any different than Anaheim." I told him that I was thinking about moving to Arizona or Nevada, to which he replied "Neither of those places are in California!"



But the opposite is also true. I grew-up in Ohio. When I was in college my hope was to work for one of the big rubber companies in Akron after I graduated. But all through college I watched the rubber plants close, as Akron became a virtual ghost town. I wasn't really sure what a chem major would be useful for in Ohio by the time I graduated.

As luck would have it, a major oil company from California was on campus recruiting at a job fair one spring. They offered me a job in California, making even more than I had hoped for, which I quickly accepted.

When I told my typical mid-western mother about my plan to relocate to California she was horrified, saying "You mean you're going to just give everything up and move to California?" I explained that the chemical industry in Ohio had completely collapsed, and that working for a major oil company in California was far from a disgrace. I can tell you that to this day she can't understand someone moving to California, and that was over 30 years ago.

[MariaAZ]

So true! People who like where they live often think there is no better place in the world to be. Of course that makes for some mighty lively conversation when people from different places get together and start talking about where the best place to live is Also makes for some mighty hard feelings sometimes too...

Before Arizona, we lived in Texas. When we moved here, it was a bit of culture shock. Our Texas hometown was rather conservative, everyone in the neighborhood knew everyone else and everyone knew everyone else's business. Here, things were a lot different. The "yes ma'am, no ma'am" attitude demanded in my Texas school won over teachers but made my fellow students think I was trying to curry the teacher's favor because no one else acted this way. It took a long time to get to know who our neighbors were, and I don't think we ever actually got to know a large number of them personally.

It took awhile to realize that the people here were a lot more guarded about newcomers, and they valued their privacy a lot more. This was totally different than what I was used to and for awhile I thought it was because the neighbors were unfriendly. Wasn't the case at all, it was just a bit of "culture clash."

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by MariaAZ

So true! People who like where they live often think there is no better place in the world to be. Of course that makes for some mighty lively conversation when people from different places get together and start talking about where the best place to live is Also makes for some mighty hard feelings sometimes too...

Hey, I won't EVEN go in to what she thought of me moving to Las Vegas! LOL

Let me put it this way, I can guarantee that she never told the neighbors that she had a son who lived in Las Vegas.

[MariaAZ]

I can guess perhaps... they don't call it Sin City for nothing?