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In principle snow is good. It is better than rain as it will not flow quickly away. Melting snow lets more water to sink into ground and build up water table.

throw0101a 6y ago
As someone who lives in Canada: you don't have to shovel rain.
- serf 6y ago
  as a former citizen of Huntington Beach CA during the 1997 El Nino storms, i'd take the snow. I have the newspaper clipping of my grandmother being rescued from her home via dinghy by city rescue workers. Everyone I knew had their house ruined in hours after weeks of shoveling sandbags fruitlessly in front of the neighborhoods and homes. And that was just the flood damage and personal effect , itself. Untold amounts of environmental and biological damage occurred when sea-levels were temporarily higher than any of the sanitation and oil-recollection facilities that were in town. That said , snow sucks, but i'd rather sweep it off my roof and winterize my plumbing than attempting to figure out the physics behind flood-proofing acres of land (almost always fruitlessly) and having to surf in sewage for years past the event.
  - stickfigure 6y ago
    Oh you sweet summer child... (take the summer part literally) > i'd rather sweep it off my roof Any significant amount of snow in LA would crush every single one of those beautiful flat modernist roofs. Snow load is no joke.
    - tpmx 6y ago
      That's both very correct and very unfair, at the same time. Bravo! /Spent an hour shoveling snow today
  - tharkun__ 6y ago
    Snow is awesome! Except when it all melts in spring all at once and the river(s) flood their surroundings. The ones that stupid (or corrupt or both) city planners and developers have been building on for years now. Flood plains? What's that? Oh you mean all that nice river front property that would sell for really great prices? The bridge I used to take to work (before covid) is also affected by this. Both in the sense that the only other bridge to take from here was getting closed due to the rivers water level, meaning traffic doubled overnight and in the sense that we were mere inches away from that bridge also having to close.
    - cafard 6y ago
      Yep. One spring in Colorado the high water in a creek normally about ankle-deep took out a couple of bridges in our suburban neighborhood. They were never rebuilt--a long story. That is one of the curious things about Colorado--creeks that are about shin deep 11 months of the year, bank full for a few days, and then subside back to shin deep. But guess what? It isn't just in snow country that people love to build in flood plains. Have a look at Houston.
  - throw0101a 6y ago
    Oh, in Canada we have snow and flooding: * https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opg-flood-review-1.5376942 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opg-flood-review-1.537... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North#Floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North#Floods The Maritimes especially gets all sort of weather.
- dsego 6y ago
  There is a funny joke about a Bosnian in Canada, you may appreciate it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3dcn76/the_diary_of_bosnian_refugee_in_canada_full/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3dcn76/the_diary_of_...
  - selimthegrim 6y ago
    They have plenty of snow in Bosnia last I checked
    - BerislavLopac 6y ago
      A few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sarajevo#/media/File:Sarajevo_Tram-206_Stuck-in-snow_2012-02-05.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sarajevo#/media/File:...
    - dsego 6y ago
      You must be fun at parties.
      - selimthegrim 6y ago
        It is a funny joke, I'm just saying it works better with another nationality

throw0101a 6y ago

As someone who lives in Canada: you don't have to shovel rain.

serf 6y ago
as a former citizen of Huntington Beach CA during the 1997 El Nino storms, i'd take the snow. I have the newspaper clipping of my grandmother being rescued from her home via dinghy by city rescue workers. Everyone I knew had their house ruined in hours after weeks of shoveling sandbags fruitlessly in front of the neighborhoods and homes. And that was just the flood damage and personal effect , itself. Untold amounts of environmental and biological damage occurred when sea-levels were temporarily higher than any of the sanitation and oil-recollection facilities that were in town. That said , snow sucks, but i'd rather sweep it off my roof and winterize my plumbing than attempting to figure out the physics behind flood-proofing acres of land (almost always fruitlessly) and having to surf in sewage for years past the event.
- stickfigure 6y ago
  Oh you sweet summer child... (take the summer part literally) > i'd rather sweep it off my roof Any significant amount of snow in LA would crush every single one of those beautiful flat modernist roofs. Snow load is no joke.
  - tpmx 6y ago
    That's both very correct and very unfair, at the same time. Bravo! /Spent an hour shoveling snow today
- tharkun__ 6y ago
  Snow is awesome! Except when it all melts in spring all at once and the river(s) flood their surroundings. The ones that stupid (or corrupt or both) city planners and developers have been building on for years now. Flood plains? What's that? Oh you mean all that nice river front property that would sell for really great prices? The bridge I used to take to work (before covid) is also affected by this. Both in the sense that the only other bridge to take from here was getting closed due to the rivers water level, meaning traffic doubled overnight and in the sense that we were mere inches away from that bridge also having to close.
  - cafard 6y ago
    Yep. One spring in Colorado the high water in a creek normally about ankle-deep took out a couple of bridges in our suburban neighborhood. They were never rebuilt--a long story. That is one of the curious things about Colorado--creeks that are about shin deep 11 months of the year, bank full for a few days, and then subside back to shin deep. But guess what? It isn't just in snow country that people love to build in flood plains. Have a look at Houston.
- throw0101a 6y ago
  Oh, in Canada we have snow and flooding: * https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opg-flood-review-1.5376942 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opg-flood-review-1.537... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North#Floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North#Floods The Maritimes especially gets all sort of weather.
dsego 6y ago
There is a funny joke about a Bosnian in Canada, you may appreciate it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3dcn76/the_diary_of_bosnian_refugee_in_canada_full/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3dcn76/the_diary_of_...
- selimthegrim 6y ago
  They have plenty of snow in Bosnia last I checked
  - BerislavLopac 6y ago
    A few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sarajevo#/media/File:Sarajevo_Tram-206_Stuck-in-snow_2012-02-05.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Sarajevo#/media/File:...
  - dsego 6y ago
    You must be fun at parties.
    - selimthegrim 6y ago
      It is a funny joke, I'm just saying it works better with another nationality