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Originally Posted by christiangirl
At 18, I saw my first flakes. I asked a guy passing by if there were any volcanoes around. It was a fairly warm winter day so my brain didn't comprehend "snow." I thought it was ash.  |
LOL! I'd seen tiny amounts of snow before I went to college, but I didn't see real snow--the kind that sticks around for a while--until the January of my freshman year. The novelty still hasn't worn off, almost 12 years later.
I've noticed a lot of West Coasters criticizing New Yorkers and Washingtonians for going outside. When I spoke to a friend who has lived here longer than I have, he pointed out that, after 9/11, people try to get OUT of a building until the cause of the problem is pinpointed. In light of the fact that the 10-year anniversary is close, people were a little bit more worried than usual.