Three funny things that happen with winter:

I still get a kick out of snow blowing in high winds and then when you're all done, you realize you're abominable.

Decades ago, it snowed an inch in Miami. They cancelled schools and there were scenes of cars sliding into intersections.

Your car disappears!

Looks like a Volkswagen.

Savage Voyageur: "Looks like a Volkswagen. "

It does, but it's an SUV!

A scary thing happened two winters ago. There was about four feet of snow on the ground and I fell. I was immediately enveloped in dark and cold. I was claustrophobic and panicked. You push off to stand up again and the snow under you compresses. It happened to my neighbor too and she also freaked. One sec, you're in the brilliance of a sunny, snowy day, which compares to bonefish flats in Florida for lumens, and then you're in a tight, wet, cold cave where the floor and walls give way as you try to climb out.

Here's another funny thing: We had a blizzard a few days ago. A Nor'easter. And they called it a bomb cyclone. Let's just call a storm a storm. What's next? A nuclear bomb cyclone with multiple independently targetable reentry headwinds?

missmolly: "A scary thing happened two winters ago. There was about four feet of snow on the ground and I fell. I was immediately enveloped in dark and cold. I was claustrophobic and panicked. You push off to stand up again and the snow under you compresses. It happened to my neighbor too and she also freaked. One sec, you're in the brilliance of a sunny, snowy day, which compares to bonefish flats in Florida for lumens, and then you're in a tight, wet, cold cave where the floor and walls give way as you try to climb out. "

I've never been in snow that deep, but I can only imagine how freaky it would be to be enveloped like that. No wonder you panicked.

1. Water freezes into "black ice". You're just driving blithely along one moment and in an instant it's out of control funny.

2. Your story about falling into deep snow reminded me of a winter hike on Dolly Sods. It was cold and the wind was whipping across "the Sods" as usual (that's why the spruce trees are "flagged"). We were walking along in ankle deep snow when I suddenly plunged into waist-deep snow in a gully. It was filled with wind-blown snow and just leveled off with the rest of the land.

Thanks, awbrown. I was afraid you might consider me a big baby. It's not that I haven't been in tight spaces. When I was young, I did a lot of caving and that's a dark, cold, wet world. It's the shock of going from a world of big, bright skies and shining snow to a netherworld in a fraction of a second.

Boonie, that's quicksnow, ala quicksand!

I ventured a little too far from a ski trail and sank rapidly...scared big time.
Ice dropping from branches in the winter is often shaped by passing water and wind forming unusual shapes. Wine glasses are common.

missmolly: "Boonie, that's quicksnow, ala quicksand!"

:)

In the winter the Stillwater Lift Bridge doesn’t rise for boats.

You can tell the weather by looking at the direction and characteristics of the Power Plant smokestack exhaust.

There are no fisherman and few lovers strolling along the Riverwalk.

The Ice Palace grows icicle by icicle over lights placed in November.

Abstract art forms on the ice.

My feet get cold, my fingers and lips crack and I want to be where the Saguaro cactus grow.

missmolly: "Here's another funny thing: We had a blizzard a few days ago. A Nor'easter. And they called it a bomb cyclone. Let's just call a storm a storm. What's next? A nuclear bomb cyclone with multiple independently targetable reentry headwinds? "

Its a term that has been around for forty years. Just recently its been popularized.
The storm had the structure of a cyclone with an eye and the bomb is defined as a pressure drop of 24 mb in 24 hours. The most recent Noreaster had a center low pressure equal to Hurricane Sandy.

We were lucky in that the hurricane force winds were centered very narrowly. That combined with the king tides did do a fair amount of damage due to the high tides being the third highest in history in our area.

Yes its just a storm.. And for most of us not a big deal at all.

It is interesting following the meteorologists on Mt Washington when they do their twice daily forecasts on Facebook

Now for funny winter things.
Snow rollers , which I have seen in the White Mountains snow roller

and snow beach balls which I would like to see snow balls

Paradise Washington in Mt Rainer national park once had the distinction of having the world record snowfall with over 30 ft on the ground at one time. I will never forget the employee van rides from Longmire to Paradise midwinter. They kept the road open via some very impressive plow trucks (huge) and the walls of snow on either side of the winding road lent a surreal effect to the drive.

The other neat thing is to snowshoe in the high country amongst the huge fir trees with all the underbrush covered in deep snow. I'm not sure it qualifies as "funny" but it does cause one to have a perpetual grin on your face.

Ice!

^^^ This old video always amazes me

One funny thing about winter right now is that it feels balmy at 25 because last week was almost -25