Snow was like 6-12 feet high or something.
I was 8 years old.
I never seen snow ever before in my life.
Guangzhou did not have snow, like ever, at least not when I lived there.
I remember leaving the (rented) house that day, well I’m reconstructing it from the neurons in my head, not sure if its still the same thing, but its the closest thing to a “video” I have.
I remember snow was just piling on the stairs in front of the house.
It was early, maybe the snow just stopped. Maybe it was still lightly snowing. I forgot.
Nobody shoveled the snow yet.
I went out and touched the snow.
Idk how to describe it. Can’t convert neurons into words.
Like omg this this is new
I like walked in the snow.
The entire street is filled with snow, like not just the sidewalk, but where the cars drive.
It was a small street, not a main road. Not much traffic.
I walked around a bit, I think my mother was just behind me.
Not sure where dad was, he wasn’t involved with my life that much my brain hardly registered him. Maybe he was still in the house.
I just lay in the snow, like its a bed.
I grab the snow.
Throw it in a random direction.
I didn’t dare to throw it at my older brother, he’d beat me to death.
I think I kinda threw it at mom for funz lol
I remember like a bunch of white kids, the neighbors eventually also came outside to play around. For them, it was probably just a yearly thing, for me, its a new thing. It was more special to me.
Unfortunately, due to race and language barriers, they felt sort of like strangers, didn’t wanna get near them because I didn’t wanna cause trouble.
Then I think it got cold so like after less than 15 minutes, I went back inside and had breakfast. Then later went back outside, I think like by 11 or something (or maybe was late afternoon or the next day, don’t remember), the city sent those truck things to remove the snow from the main road.
I remember I think I was happy.
Can I get a time machine? I wanna go back.
Adulthood is depressing.
What was your childhood like? Remember the snow? How did it feel? Wanna go back to childhood? Anyone just have an urge to make a time machine? Like a Travelers type time machine where you do conciousness transfer. I wanna hijack my younger self and live that life again.
Really, fuck all the gifts, I want a time machine for x-mas
(Time travel fans anyone? Anyone watched Travelers?)
I can’t let myself into that mindset of a time machine. That leads to thinking of what I have lost too much.
Many of us around 40 will recall the weather around 1992-1993. There was a late blizzard in the USA in 1993. We had over 3 feet of snow in south eastern Tennessee. That was the only time I experienced deep snow from home. Now I live in the Los Angeles area where it never freezes. However this place is surrounded by mountains and I used to visit them often. The seasons here are a vacation destination. Like this evening I rode my usual physical therapy bike routine and am still riding a summer cycling kit with short sleeve jersey and light bibs, even after dark.
On the weather of 92-93, few likely realize it was the result of the Pinatubo eruption of 91. That cooled the entire planet by 0.5 °C.
Man, I remember that storm I think, we were stuck at home for a week plus (I was 7 or so). Waaaay out in the sticks in Humphreys County. I remember my mom & sister breaking icicles off the trees for water once the well pump froze up.
I was 9 and remember cooking on a portable kerosene heater, going around the neighborhood to check on the neighbors, shoveling a few driveways of older people, and after nearly two weeks, going to the local reservoir that had an earthen dam. It was the compacted earthworks kind of dam, with grass down the face opposite the water and a long runout into an open field like park… iirc. That was one hell of a snow sled hill. People had built all kinds of ramps and makeshift banked turns like a waterslide, because going straight down the whole slope was way too fast.