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Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com on 12/26/2006

I've taken this whole blizzard pretty much in stride, letting the beauty of the white stuff covering everything outweigh the inconveniences it brought with it.

When my flight home for Christmas was canceled, I said, "well, that's the breaks," and spent two hours on the phone with United trying to reschedule it.

I've been walking to the grocery store every couple of days, picking up a few things, instead of driving and filling up my car for the entire week. My fridge is full, even if the grocery store is out of milk, eggs, bread, potato chips and everything else I need.

I haven't had my bike out since last Tuesday, and I've been wearing waterproof boots for six days now -- that's fine.

I've shoveled my car out twice -- once when all the snow fell, and once when the plow finally went by and buried it in wet slush again. That's okay, I said, I can't drive if the street's not clear.

On Friday, after work, I pushed out my first car, a Nissan Pathfinder that was stuck in the middle of 12th Avenue between Downing and Marion streets. On the way to the grocery store later, I helped three other cars get going. That night, looking down onto the street from our sixth-floor apartment, I saw another guy get stuck, so I got dressed again and helped him out.

I've helped nine or ten people now get their cars unstuck. I don't mind -- it's kind of nice to do something so simple that helps people who would otherwise be in a pretty bad situation.

But, when I saw the forecast for this week, calling for a bunch of snow right before my RE-scheduled flight home for New Year's, I decided I was pretty much over this White Christmas/White New Year's thing. Bing Crosby can cram it.

I, apparently, am not alone. Well, I'm in the minority of YourHub.com posters, who, up to this point, have been pretty cheery about the snowstorm. But there are others. Join us if you want. Post a story if you're sick of the snow, or the shoveling, or getting your car stuck, or kicking it off your shoes every time you go in the house.

Erin Di Paolo, of Green Valley Ranch, is perhaps the most opposed to snow of anyone who lives outside of the Sun Belt. Quote: "Snow is nothing but a big, fat, pain in my a**. And not just mine, but everyone else's as well. Wednesday, the first day of the blizzard from hell, wasn't all that bad."

Karin Malchow, of Lone Tree, in her blog entry " Snow blows," says, " That 'pure as the driven' stuff is illusory, too. Soon the beautiful blanket of white becomes solid oily blocks dropping out of your car's wheel wells."

And Jim Syring's Siberian husky, Miss Rapid City South Dakota, hates snow. Jim details this in " Our shameful secret revealed."

Like my girlfriend says, "Complaining about the weather is like complaining about traffic -- it won't change anything." But like I say to her when she says this to me, "Yeah, but it sure feels good."

Join us. Let it out.
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