How long has your CB sat

[flynrider]

One of my best friends lives in Minnesota. Every winter he curses his ancestors for settling in that area. Of course due to job (since retired) kids and grandkids he is stuck living there. He does go to Mexico for 2 months every winter just to get away from the snow and cold.

I'm not sure , as a matter of fact I'm positive, that I could not live where winter may last for 8 months of the year. Our 2 months of winter is too much for me.

Due to yesterdays freak snow storm I am stuck in the house today and maybe tomorrow and it's driving me nuts. Shouldn't be a shut in the house in the month of March due to snow/ice.

Two months? I had the misfortune to spend 5 days up in Idaho back in December which coincided with their first winter snow storm. That was waaay too much for me. I don't know how you northern people do it.

Yes. The climate in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Minnesota is challenging. The current iteration of the off season is actually what I remember the winters of the late 60's and 70's to have been. The trick back then was to put a tennis ball on the car radio antenna so you could be seen by other traffic over the drifts and snow banks at intersections. It is like that again this year.

Much of the climate change noise probably rises from the series of warmer than normal winters we have had the past few years. as welcome as they were, it spawned complacency.

My bi...complaining rises out of having just returned from five weeks in the southern tropics. I'm suffering 'climate shock'. like the other snow birds, I find a way to take a break from winter. This winter it just wasn't over yet.

Jim

1986, when I still was a student, a German friend invited me to stay some weeks in his flat in Orlanda, FL. He had his first job as an engineer for a German company, who sent him for a one year project to Orlando.

That was February, March. When we took a bath in the Atlantic ocean at Daytona beach at that time, they asked us, if we were from Alaska, as only those guys would take a bath in the Atlantic during winter time.

Water temperature was 24°C btw.

I see this at my local airport in the winter. The locals are wearing jackets and hats, while Canadians are jumping out of their planes wearing shorts, T-shirts and sunglasses.