CarrionCrow: Hopefully you can forgive the seemingly glib commentary, but better you than me. -laughs-
Did the ice thing, the snow thing (think it got to about 15 or 16 feet where I was one year), the blizzard thing, the nearly breaking my back falling on ice thing, the fifty below zero thing and once I even did the onset of frostbite thing due to care-free consumption of cold beverages while walking down the street without gloves in fifteen below zero weather. Was a bit touch and go on that one, took a few months for the hands to recover.
Had my fill of that kind of weather and then some.
tinyE: It rarely gets below 20 this close to the lake. If it was below freezing all the time I couldn't take it.
Understandable. It all gets very old, very fast, and the novelty goes out the window in a hurry.
Needless to say, I don't get all starry-eyed seeing snow fall anymore. More like a tendency to start cursing.
Funny thing, though? At least where I was, the wind made all the difference.
Go for a walk on a still night, zero degrees, wearing shorts and flip-flops? Totally doable.
Wind kicks in during? Eventually it starts feeling like the weather's trying to kill you. -laughs-