Snowstorm Scavenger Hunt

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.

2 Points Each

• 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

3 Points Each

• 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 

5 Points Each

• 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