Yesterday's blizzard blew all the new snow off my driveway and walkway, leaving only a small drift area near the door that needed to be shoveled. Today, it's in the low teens, but no snow. I had expected to have some shoveling to do this morning, but no - or, at least, not much. Also, some good person plowed the front of the driveway for me, removing the crap the town usually piles up there.
I have lived in Southern California for 12 years, the Rio Grande Valley of Texas for more than 20 years, and North Carolina for a couple of years. While I would be open to moving back to Texas, I am not interested in returning to California. While seasons are uncomfortable at times, I like them.
Well, the way we figure it is, we've kept all of our winter clothes from Colorado, so I guess we knew, somehow/someway, that we'd be moving back into seasons. Actually, after buying them in Colorado the first time we lived there, we kept our winter parkas, that weren't cheap, during the entire 10 1/2 years we lived in Florida. Guess that tells us something also. We don't like minus 15 degrees and 35 inches of snow, like we had in Loveland, CO early last year, but we also don't like 110 to 115 degrees here! And, Lake Mead isn't as enticing to us, as we thought it would be.
If I were young an just starting out, this is where I'd want to live, this woman is from Northern Sweden. If I could take my kids and their families with us. Plenty of snow but also beautiful forest and waters. I like snow but maybe because I didn't see it that often.
There are upsides and downsides to pretty much anywhere you might live, so it's a matter of balancing likes and dislikes, I suppose.
That reminds me a lot of living here, @Marie Mallery. The winters are tougher as we age, but the cold and dark keeps the riff-raff out.
We got about 5 inches today here in central lower Michigan, spotty varying from 3 to 7 depending on where you are. Warming though and some misty rain off and on now. I cleared it because I don't want to awake tomorrow to glaciers and glaze from overnight lows.
It is 25 F. this morning and snowing lightly. Yesterday it got up to 43 and I was working outside in a T-shirt, as it felt so good to be warm!
Don, Jonna ,the girl in the video was born in artic type weather. She would probably need AC in 43 F.
The predictions are normal, but the reality is not so much, although it's not unheard of. The biggest storms of the winter are often in March.
Not at 43 F. @Marie Mallery. She had a garden there. You cannot get much of a garden at 43 degrees. She is Nordic and is tall and slim. The natives who overheat at 70 degrees are short and squat.