Snowstorm Scavenger Hunt
Rules
- Points are awarded for any of the above that are spotted or experienced
- Repeat spotting or experiences count, and gaming the system is allowed
- The winner is decided by the team that accumulates the most points
- Ties will be broken by leg wrestling match between the smallest member of each team
1 Point Each
- Hot chocolate
- Check weather twice in 10 minutes
- Dog/Cat refuses to go outside
- Smell of woodsmoke
- Unusual silence
- Nighttime glow
- Someone asks if tomorrow is a snow day
- More hats are worn than are strictly necessary.
- Snowman
- Snowball fight
- Spiked Hot Chocolate
- Do something you have been putting off instead of going outside
- Sledding
- Snow angel
- Mom calls, not to see if your ok, but really to see if you're ok.
- Cute pet footprints in yard
- You're drunk
- Out of bread
- Out of milk
- Christmas carols after December, since it is finally white and snowing.
- Shovel snow
- Snow plow fills your driveway entrance just after you finish clearing it
- "Most fun day sledding ever."
- Identify footprints in snow of animals other than domestic
- Dude(tte) grilling outside
- Snowboot stays put, but the owner kept going
- You are both drunk
- Snow is deeper than the top of your boots
- Someone shoveling in shorts and a t-shirt
- The sound of a leaf blower
- Spend time with your kids since it's snowing (vs. time with your screen, otherwise)
- Throw out your back
- Car battery that was fine last week is dead now
- Yellow snow
- Get hurt sledding
- Out of beer already
- Snow storm has been given a name
- Someone slides/spins a car on purpose
- Snow down back of pants
- Footprints in snow lead to the perpetrator
- Run the snowblower/snow plow over the same spot more than twice in an hour
- Family photo in snow to commemorate the event
10 Points Each
- Legible, 4+ letter word written in yellow substance
- Snow plow refuses to plow your street, calls for backup
- Cannot make out object 100 ft/33 M from window due to low visibility from blowing snow
- Snowball with a rock in it
- Newspaper jammed in snowblower
- Snow sculpture resembling genitals
- Slip on ice and fall on your ass
- Some part of you is numb enough to operate on
- The roads are closed, yet the bar is full
- Interstate Highway is closed
- Sleep somewhere warmer than your bed
- Child's first snow experience
- It doesn't matter how deep it is, snow removal is the duty of only one spouse
- You find your headache isn't carbon monoxide poisoning: it's your family.
- Snow plow on a garbage truck
- Buses won't start due to cold
- Someone uses tire chains on their car
- Child decides to store as much snow as possible in the freezer
- Someone skis or snowshoes down the street
- All your cold weather gear is soaked, but you need to go out again
- Enjoy warmth form a heat source that does not have a thermostat
- Telecommunications utility outage
- Smores made or chestnuts roasted using fire
20 Points Each
- Geo Metro or Suzuki Swift, occupied by two or more teenagers, making good headway on unplowed/icey roads.
- Jeep or other off-road design vehicle in the ditch
- Marks in the snow from where your pets genitals are dragging
- Snow deeper than the top of pets head.
- At the time you finish clearing the driveway, you turn back and see that you can't tell that you did at the point where.
- Frost bite
- Someone rides a bike down an unplowed street
- Snow accumulates so quickly that kids are unable to return home and must stay at neighbors
- There's an igloo or quinzhee
- Pipe freezes
- Sled or person on skis towed by a car or truck
- Pay teenagers to shovel your property
- Governor declares state of emergency
- A second snowstorm of equal magnitude predicted within 24 hours of the first.
- Walk to the store to get supplies or more booze
- Unable to make it to a hospital and without a midwife, someone gives birth at home or in a car.
- Snow is so deep now you'll probably just wait until spring.
- Find supercooled liquid that turns to solid at the slightest touch
- Break any accumulation, accumulation rate, wind speed, wind chill, or temperature record.
- U.S. Postal Service does not deliver
- Order a snowblower online to avoid the agony of shoveling ever again
- You're running out of places to put the snow
- Plow hits a car or a mailbox
- Warm alcoholic drinks are consumed
- Snow accumulation exceeds maximum predictions by accepted authorities by more than 6"
- Basic utility outage (water, gas, electric)
50 Points Each
- Avalanche
- Announcement is made that storm was predicted by religious, spiritual, or mystic figure, or that it is the result of climate change.
- Cars cannot be moved from their parking spots
- Someone knocks on your door searching for bread and milk
- The door is blocked by snow
- Plow hits fire hydrant
- Forget to turn off the car after warming it up, find it melted off completely and out of gas.
- Harley Davidson goes by on unplowed road
- A tree or building collapses due to snow load
- Ticket for not shoveling sidewalk
- "Storm of the decade/century/millennium!"
- Snowplow driver compliments you on your shoveling job.
- Someone goes down the street on a snowmobile
- School or work cancelled for 2 or more days in advance
- President declares state of emergency
- Use of vacuum cleaner, or other device which was not designed or intended to move snow, to move snow
- The network news crew is spotted
- Spike in birthrate is noted by demographers 9 months after the end of the storm (teams must be prepared demand a recount to use this).
- HOA or Zoning Department letter saying your snow is not compliant and must be removed
- Snow being trucked out of the city and dumped elsewhere
- Someone decides to change career or life to avoid living in areas where it snows
- Snow accumulates on snow that is more than 8 months old
- Old person does not remember it ever being this bad
- Hospital, Police, or Fire organization announce they are unable to cope
- Snow disaster exceeds one week in duration
