On Aug 13, 1:41*pm, Smitty Two wrote:
In article
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*Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On Aug 13, 8:23*am, Smitty Two wrote:
In article NLKdnblCBdZe7 nRnZ2dnUVZ ,

*aemeijers wrote:
trying to find a
happy climate medium.

readily done.

http://members.cox.net/prestwich/ahrsb.jpg

Not nearly cold enough in the winter for me. *The summer temps
look good, but I want real winter.

Cindy Hamilton

I remember real winter. Snow on the ground non-stop from Nov. 1 thru
April 15. Temps often reaching -40. Stretches of two-three weeks where
daytime highs never got above 0F. Wearing so many clothes that the only
thing exposed were eyeballs and nostrils, the moisture on which would
freeze immediately. Then going into a store where the temp is 75
degrees, and no place to shed your coat, hat, sweater, scarf, and
"insulated air force pants."

Spending an hour shoveling plow-packed snow from the end of the driveway
so I could get my car out. Going inside to change and warm up for half
hour, then watching the plow go by again. Leaving the car in the alley
behind the bar while I go in for a few beers and a game of pool, and
finding it buried to the roofline by a plow within an hour.

Slipping on ice and falling on my ass several times every single winter.
Driving 15 mph on the ice-covered 9 mile long two lane highway that led
from the freeway to my hometown. Coming to a complete stop on that
highway because a gust of wind-driven snow reduced visibility to a
distance shorter than my hood, and having the wind shove my 4000 pound
car into the snow-filled ditch after I'd stopped.

Living where it is illegal to not stop and offer aid to a stranded
motorist, because it is quite easy to die of exposure in an hour or so.
Chipping ice off the windshield before every trip, and then sticking
your head out the window to drive anyway, because the defroster hasn't
had 20 minutes to carve a peephole on the inside of the glass.

Spending $300/month for heating oil to keep the house at 62. Oh, wait,
that was the price 20 years ago.

I prefer my masochism in the form of a dominatrix with a leather paddle.

Apparently your winter was realer. I live in Michigan, and while
winters
are not as bad as when I was young (nothing is the same as when I
was young), it rarely gets below 0 here. It costs about $50-75 a
month for natural gas to keep my house at 70. It hardly ever snows
more than 10 inches in a single snowstorm, usually around 6.

That's real enough for me.

Cindy Hamilton
But we did have to walk uphill both ways to get to and from school.