Do you like Winter?

I’ve heard that before. Hah. Anything is better than this trash ice crap we have here.

North Texas. And I cannot wait to get the F outta here. I considered the Cameron MT area (well like way out in the sticks) but the wife wasn’t keen on it since the weather is (only marginally) colder than the areas we are looking in to moving to in ID and that we will have family in Coeur d’Alene ID when we move.

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If the business does well enough I plan on buying land and putting a vacation cabin on it.

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Get in soon, real estate around here is going way up because of the influx. I’m a transplant myself, but I only wish I would’ve gotten here sooner.

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Well unfortunately the fun vacation cabin is a while away so cross fingers it isn’t unobtainium.

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says it all in a nut shell

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Wow! Coldest I’ve ever felt was as a kid during the Blizzard of ‘78 at Wright Patterson AFB housing in Dayton, OH. I think the temp back then was -25F, not including the wind chill. All I remember was the needle-like pinprick feeling of extreme freezing cold on the teeny bit of exposed skin on my face when I stepped out for a minute. Can’t imagine what -41 feels like.

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I don’t want to know, that shits nuts

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It’s 67 here now, everything is sweating like crazy. might storm.

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Cloudy and in the low 70’s here in the Dallas, TX area.

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It’s 72 and humid here.
I do remember it being below 0 for several days in 80-81. That was the winter after it was 113 in the summer.

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6 degrees here at the moment, cold but not 40 below!

We usually see 30, 35 below once or twice a winter.

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Diary of a Snow Shoveler:

December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses, Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

December 9: We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I’ve ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life!

December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we’ll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we’ll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I’ll never want to see snow again. I don’t think that’s possible. Bob is such a nice man I’m glad he’s our neighbor.

December 14: Snow lovely snow! 8" last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway And sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. l didn’t realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I’ll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn’t huff and puff so.

December 15: 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife’s car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that’s silly. We aren’t in Alaska, after all.

December 16: Ice storm this morning. Fell on my rear end on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like you can’t believe. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.

December 17: Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should’ve bought a wood stove, but won’t admit it to her. God I hate it when she’s right. I can’t believe I’m freezing to death in my own living room.

December 20: Electricity’s back on, but had another 14" of the stuff last night. More shoveling. Took all day. That dumb snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they’re too busy playing hockey. I think they’re lying.

December 21: Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they’re out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they’re lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he’s lying.

December 22: Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white crud fell today, and it’s so cold it probably won’t melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to use the bathroom. By the time I got undressed, went, and dressed again, I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he says he’s too busy. I’m sure he is lying.

December 23: Only 2" of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she nuts?!! Why didn’t she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she’s lying.

December 24: 6". Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a gun who drives that snowplow, I’ll drag him through the snow by his ears. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I’ve just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was busy watching for that snowplow.

December 25: Merry Christmas. 20 more inches of the miserable slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she’s an idiot. If I have to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” one more time, I’m going to scream!

December 26: Still snowed in. Why did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She’s really getting on my nerves.

December 27: Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze.

December 28: Warmed up to above -20. Still snowed in. THE B***CH is driving me crazy!!!

December 29: 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That’s the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?

December 30: Roof caved in. The snow plow driver is suing me for a million dollars. The wife went home to her mother. Nine more inches of snow predicted.

December 31: Set fire to what’s left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8: I feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?

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I don’t like winter either. And the humidity comment doesn’t make much sense. I want warm and dry. Las Vegas works. So does Denver, Tuscon and Phoenix. I grew up cold and wet. I will pass on the humidity.

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I’m not a fan of hot and humid climates, but I can tolerate them ok. Those climates tend to have an overpopulation of bugs, especially biting, disease-carrying bugs, which bug me to no end. It’s my understanding, though, that the extremely cold climates are inhospitable to the Asian Tiger mosquito, which is prevalent here in Texas and the humid southeastern part of the US. That mosquito is responsible for transmitting dengue fever, chikungunya, West Nile virus and the zika virus. So far, Texas has been spared all of those so far except for the West Nile virus. But it’s just a matter of time til those diseases become as prevalent as West Nile is here in Texas.

Aside from the Asian Tiger mosquito, we’ve got an over abundance of other mosquito varieties, biting gnats, scorpions, black widows, brown recluse spiders, Africanized killer bees, fire ants, crazy ants, biting deer flies, ticks and my most hated nemesis - nests full of invisible chiggers. If you haven’t experienced the fun of scratching over 100 of the itchiest little chigger bites all over your body at one time for a week, then you’ve missed out on this particular little torture device that mother nature has in store for human kind.

So I guess there’s one advantage for those living in frigidly cold climates. Most of those biting bugs above can’t survive those super low temps.

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One of the things we like in NMI, not missing some of the southern :bug: & :snake:

though I did see a mosquito yesterday, about 25* and he was flying about, unless it was a new drone :rofl: :thinking: :grimacing:

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Honestly I hope my woman wants to move to Texas soon. I need to get my tan on and Oregon aint the place for that. Texas might not be great but it’s better than here. I dont think I would miss the winter, tbh.

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Snow blows.

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from north to south, than south to north, some times east to west but mostly west to east (up here at least)

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It’s definitely blowing today (though maybe not the way that was meant) and again this weekend. Winter has definitely arrived in Maine, but it held off long enough for me to heal so that I could deal with it.

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