Yes I'm sure the skiers and ski slopes want it but do people really WANT snow?

Snow acts as mulch and a blanket. Without it the ground will deep freeze, destroying the root systems of many plants and trees. Further, when the ground is hard frozen it takes longer for it to unfreeze and rain water/what snow melt there is can't be absorbed and it winds up in the basement.

The fauna and flora upcheer are adapted to snowy winters. Without it they don't do well.

They call snow "poor man's fertilizer."

Also helps compost the dead leaves and plants, returning nutrients to the soil.

Better fill up the bathtub and the water bucket. They're talking freezing rain which usually means power outage. O joy.

FRONTIER Communications-- the worst F*****G utility company in the country.

freezing rain from 8 pm or so..

Something ALWAYS goes down.. even in a heavy rain.
I'll crank up the heat (all electric) and get the place roasting !!

Thanks for the reminder..

I can't complain about our utility company. The linemen are heroic.

Our linemen are also great. It's the rest of it...

Terrible internet speeds 1.8 download speeds.. .. poor landline reception... wi-fi often drops....

Every time the wind picks up something falls over or explodes.... :&gt )))

When you hear a CRACK!, look outside and there's a shower of sparks and a tongue of blue flame dancing around the light pole right in the middle of a pine stand. "Oh crap!!" Either a branch came down or a squirrel decided to end it all with a gaudy suicide. Country life -- it really isn't boring.

In the winter !!

Why is that??

I live here because I like seasons. I hate this winter.

We live in a heavily wooded area and boy am I glad we had our trees trimmed early last year. Feeling pretty confident that none of my branches will take out the powerline in the backyard.

But if you live in NH and have to heat a home you've been laughing your ass off. I know I have...

we need snow for drinking water and irrigation and refilling aquifers.

I'm not complaining about the delayed snowfall this year. Yeah, there's issues with it, but it's been cyclical as well. We had a winter like this back in '06 where we had an addition built on and the roofers were working in t-shirts in January it was so "warm." Warm being about 45 degrees. Just now snow.

The year after that we had snow on Halloween I believe - like three feet of it.

New England; wait a few minutes, it'll change.

Don't forget. Move over a mile or so and it will change.

I'm on the east side of 495 and have family just over the west side - like a mile or so past it either way. If it snows, we all have different realities in a big way. It's hilarious.

"That was some crazy snow! We got a foot!" "Snow? It's been quiet all day!"

precipitation we need, thank you very much.

Skiers bring revenue to mountains, bars, shopping, employees, hotels, ski shops, and many, many other things.

Having spent many years in the ski industry, I can attest to the scope of a bad winter, but also there are really only a couple of "good" weeks - one is the Thanksgiving week, if you can get it with decent snow - but the absolute drop-dead is Christmas/New Years vacation. If you fail that (if only because of lack of snow) it'll be a rough season. The second chance is February vacation but unfortunately that's inconsistent across school districts as to when it occurs, so it's hard for a ski mountain to introduce holiday rates when it's spread across weeks.

There are secondary economies, including highway (snowplow) workers who can put in long hours and overtime during major storms, individuals who do plowing services, heating revenue, and more.