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19. Shades, thank you, forgot about the snowmen and the carrot for the nose. They didnt use salt for the

Tue Jan 10, 2023, 05:34 PM

Jan 2023

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roads. they would have slag from the steel mill on the back of a truck and a guy would shovel it out. Made sled riding sort of hard. But we never used the main streets--only the double dip hill near my house. It was the place to sled.

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What were your favorite activities when you had a snow day? As I walk Dolly, the last couple of [View all] debm55 Jan 2023 OP

We didn't get a lot of deep snow but when we did I remember building a fort one time Walleye Jan 2023 #1

Walleye, did it hold up? debm55 Jan 2023 #2

Not for long it was pretty cold and we had a tremendous snowball fight Walleye Jan 2023 #3

I live in Pittsburgh, lots of hills here. debm55 Jan 2023 #12

I enjoyed digging tunnels in the huge snowplow piles Shermann Jan 2023 #4

Shermann, did you have a type of room at the end , so other kids could come in and sit? debm55 Jan 2023 #22

Sledding happybird Jan 2023 #5

Those rubber boots that you wore over your shoe? We would put plastic bags over our shoes, then in debm55 Jan 2023 #23

We hardly ever got snow days because snow was such a frequent occurrence Ocelot II Jan 2023 #6

I went to college north of here happybird Jan 2023 #9

We got 15" last week on top of the 8" or so that was already there, Ocelot II Jan 2023 #10

That's what I don't get about DC happybird Jan 2023 #16

We lived in the DC area for 8 years, preceded by 4... 3catwoman3 Jan 2023 #24

Happy, same here. We had our large snows at home. But I went to Penn State and they never called off debm55 Jan 2023 #25

Good Ocelot II, I just returned from taking Dolly for her 4 o'clock walk and even though it has not debm55 Jan 2023 #14

When I was a kid in Northeast Iowa we would occasionally get a snow day. rsdsharp Jan 2023 #35

rsdharp, it must have been hard to shovel that amount and still go to school. The rule around here-- debm55 Jan 2023 #36

It happened all the time. The winters of 61-62 and be 64-65 were brutal. rsdsharp Jan 2023 #39

Very few snow days. If school was closed rurallib Jan 2023 #7

rurallib, did you get paid? debm55 Jan 2023 #15

At home, no. But the neighbors would pay rurallib Jan 2023 #18

Sledding, ice skating, just being outside, if it wasn't to cold, but we were always outside. a kennedy Jan 2023 #8

a kennedy, have to agree. they have these huge pools in their yards and never use them in the summer debm55 Jan 2023 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author Elessar Zappa Jan 2023 #32

Wow, you are lucky. Love to see kids playing in the snow--laughing, enjoying themselves and others. debm55 Jan 2023 #34

Probably staying inside and watching tv or reading, LOL! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2023 #11

Shades, thank you, forgot about the snowmen and the carrot for the nose. They didnt use salt for the debm55 Jan 2023 #19

We used the sidewalk in front our house, which was in a neighorhood on a hill. 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2023 #27

50 Shades, you were lucky, only the houses on the main street had sidewalks. I lived on a side debm55 Jan 2023 #33

The blizzard we had a few years ago happybird Jan 2023 #13

I think we had a blizzard around that time too. Husband was in Florida for a conference. My neighbor debm55 Jan 2023 #20

Downhill sledding Cartoonist Jan 2023 #17

Cartoonist, do you remember you had to have the right kind of snow to build anthing. Too soft snow, debm55 Jan 2023 #29

Staying inside mostly, playing Barbies with my sister Mad_Dem_X Jan 2023 #21

Mad, I hear you! Sometimes it was cold. Would take a break and then back out. It's old becasue now debm55 Jan 2023 #30

We mostly just got out and played in it if there was enough yellowdogintexas Jan 2023 #28

Wow, yellowdog, the hosing sounds great. Did you sit on the sled and have someone push you down or debm55 Jan 2023 #31

what sled? broken down cardboard box is more like it yellowdogintexas Jan 2023 #52

Yellowdog, you have county schools in Texas? We have school districts. Each city runs their own debm55 Jan 2023 #53

Kentucky. Counties decide on closings, but yellowdogintexas Jan 2023 #56

Our back yard was a hill. Archae Jan 2023 #37

Archae, wow lucky you.So you could go right out your door and play. Great. We had those truck inner debm55 Jan 2023 #38

Summer for floating on, winter for bouncing down Kiwanis hill. Archae Jan 2023 #40

I would always try to build an igloo. surrealAmerican Jan 2023 #41

surreal, you need a "hard" snow for an igloo. I tried once with "soft" snow and it just didn't make debm55 Jan 2023 #42

You have to wet the snow fort so the snow ices up and becomes solid. Ocelot II Jan 2023 #47

Ocelot II, I never knew you could wet the snow down. I just figured, with a soft snow, it was out of debm55 Jan 2023 #50

This message was self-deleted by its author Ocelot II Jan 2023 #48

Definitely snow forts and kacekwl Jan 2023 #43

Kacekwl, oh snowforts and snowball fights-fun times. debm55 Jan 2023 #44

Road hockey and building snow forts! Tripper11 Jan 2023 #45

Tripper, oh yes, the radiator. Had to careful with the rubber boots though. Since I'm from debm55 Jan 2023 #46

Quite familiar with Syd the kid Tripper11 Jan 2023 #49

Did you play in the Juniors or was it a pickup game? debm55 Jan 2023 #51

Oh no not junior, I wasn't big enough or good enough for that Tripper11 Jan 2023 #54

Thank you. Tripper debm55 Jan 2023 #55