I remember so many Chicago (Evanston) winters when I was a kid. They would flood the tennis courts around town, and we'd have skating rinks! There was a lovely pond with an island in the middle right by the lakeshore, and there was a warming hut at one end, and skating there was fabulous! Walked to and from the bus for blocks through the snow.....back when girls had to wear skirts to school. brrrrrr. One year, the snow and ice was so bad that the High School closed for the first time in it's history due to weather.............and we went ice skating in the streets!! Fun!!
Here, we have rain. The Eskimos have twenty or thirty words for snow. Here, there's just one word for rain: CONSTANT.