"The most wonderful time of the year".....Balderdash!

[yella71]

18 inches of snow coming tonight and tomorrow.......all the snow lovers are more than welcome to help clean my driveway....If all I ever had to do was play in the snow I might have a different out look on it,but 35 years of snow plowing and shoveling and wet cold feet and hands and arrggg slip and fall on my *** has colored my feeling towards it. anyone that tells me "I love the change of seasons" I think is someone who has NEVER had to work in it.

 

[alfaitalia]

18 inches!!!!

 

[yella71]

thats what the,re telling us

 

[alfaitalia]

I would go as far as saying there has never been 18 inches of snow where i live....at least not since the last ice age!!!

 

[yella71]

further north and west is calling for up to 24 in. Ive done this before its not fun but it is what it is. needless to say i wont be driving my ragtop for a while

 

[Speedbird]

To each his own.
I just looked up your weather.
It does't go below freezing all week and highs in the 50s.
Doesn't seem bad to me.
All I can tell you is I hate summer down south here.
Hot and muggy. So, I'll gladly take winters here.
I actually prefer cloudy days.
It's funny but as I've gotten older I don't feel cold as much.
Regarding The Season, I do have a problem with that.
Children wanting things they don't need and having to buy presents with that in mind.
Give me Thanksgiving and forget Christmas.
It's overblown.

 

[alfaitalia]

It's funny but as I've gotten older I don't feel cold as much.

Must be just me then....i definitely feel it MORE as i get older. Gone the days of working on the car in a tee shirt on sunny winter days!!

 

[Speedbird]

Must be just me then....i definitely feel it MORE as i get older. Gone the days of working on the car in a tee shirt on sunny winter days!!

IDK.
Isn't it that old people die more in the summer due to not being able to cool?
Let me look that up.
Yep.
https://dripdrop.com/blogs/news/sen...MIkIC5k8_S7QIVw8DACh24HAq2EAAYASAAEgItGvD_BwE
Why Are Seniors More Prone to Heat Illnesses?
When we age, our bodies become less efficient at regulating temperature for a couple of reasons. Seniors over 65 don’t sweat as much as younger adults, which unfortunately is one of the body’s most important heat-regulation mechanisms. Also, seniors store fat differently, which complicates heat-regulation in the body further.

I can put on more cloths. I know it may be odd.
Now I can't take real cold.
But these temps are fine.
51 today on your south coast and rain.
Would not want that everyday of my life, but I'll take that over suffering humidity in the summer here.
The sun is so intense here.
It's 40 and raining this morning. But will warm up, dry out and another cold front will come.
I would love to live where you do with the moderating ocean.

 

[Bb70charger500]

Ah come on !
I live in fl but it gets down to 30's at night some times me I want 30-40 during day I loved it when we were in n.y. it was 27 during day I didn't sweat my *** off !

 

[moparmarks]

I don't how you guys on the other side of the country live in all that humidity. I live in a high desert valley that gets into the 90's all summer but is around 10% or less humidity. I can also drive 20 minuets up the mountain and be in 20-30* cooler weather. The elevation my in county is 4200' to 10800'. I've be in 117* heat out here in the desert but the worst heat that I've been in was in Carlisle PA years ago. Was a record 102* but the humidity was around 80%. He to change my shirt 3 times that day and must have drank 4 gals of water. That night was standing in a cold shower and was sweating my *** off. In the shower? Really? Plus there is a morning dew covering everything every morning. Everything is always wet and your metal is always rusty. Ohio at the Nats in August is always hot and humid as hell too. I'm just not use to that and sweat my *** off. The only way to stay cool is to stand under the a/c. A lot different out here.

 

[Cranky]

Should try living on the ESE side of Houston and just a few miles from Galveston Bay where the humidity is usually always close to 90% or more during the night. The only time the humidity is low is when the breezed is out of anywhere but the south lol. I live near all this water and only owned one boat (jet) and didn't keep that hole in the water where the money goes for very long at all.

 

[moparmarks]

I've been to Houston and Galveston. Way too humid for me.

 

[yella71]

Ah come on !
I live in fl but it gets down to 30's at night some times me I want 30-40 during day I loved it when we were in n.y. it was 27 during day I didn't sweat my *** off !

Its not the cold per say (cold sucks dont get me wrong) its the snow and ice....I love my place in Fla. where the only ice i see is in my drink

 

[moparedtn]

Dude you have way too much crap going on in your life for anyone to be barking at you. We agree on a lot of things and you are an inspiration to me with your great attitude.

You, of all people here, NEVER has to apologize to me for anything. Much like me you put yourself, your life, and your opinions out there to be seen and discussed. That takes balls and
I respect that. The people that give nothing but are quick to join the torch bearing mob can eat me.

Holy cow guys, I am just so grateful to so many here. Seriously, I am....
but I know I ain't nobody, too. If this year has done anything to me, it has humbled the living hell out of me (which ain't a bad thing, if it needed doing).

All the same, I know there won't be much remembering going on once I kick for good - no kids of my own to fight over my possessions with the wife over and they won't have to rent out the high school gym for my funeral
(if there even is one at all).
All I can do at this point is live what I got left without doing any damage and try to make everyone I run across smile or even chuckle a little (and of course, not leave a mess for the wife to clean up).

My wife's grandkids and daughter are coming in Friday. I'll do my usual "stay out of the way unless my cage is rattled" routine....
you know, like back in school days, when you kept quiet unless called upon by
the teacher.

 

[Kern Dog]

I've been to Houston and Galveston. Way too humid for me.

I'd have to feel that to be able to sympathize. I've never been in humidity greater than in Hawaii or Florida in the Spring.

 

[moparedtn]

I'd have to feel that to be able to sympathize. I've never been in humidity greater than in Hawaii or Florida in the Spring.

Oh dude, you've never experienced the deep south in the summer?
They don't sell many saunas in that neck of the woods.

 

[Kern Dog]

That is one factor in deciding whether I'll settle in Tennessee. I meant to make it out there this Summer but masks and travel restrictions made it a no-go.

 

[moparedtn]

That is one factor in deciding whether I'll settle in Tennessee. I meant to make it out there this Summer but masks and travel restrictions made it a no-go.

Well, the state has a wide variety of weather to go along with the wide variety of terrain, really.
Up on the lumpy end here, we don't get quite as bad in the swamp-*** weather as they do in the lowlands
(where it does quite resemble places further south weather-wise).
Elevation makes all the difference.

 

[myk r sanchez]

That is one factor in deciding whether I'll settle in Tennessee. I meant to make it out there this Summer but masks and travel restrictions made it a no-go.

I thought Texas/arizona/new Mexico was the destination for all of us fed up california people? Not you?

 

[moparmarks]

I thought Texas/arizona/new Mexico was the destination for all of us fed up california people? Not you?

A lot of Californians and Texans here. A lot.
What do you a Texan that moves to Colorado?........................................... A Cotex.
Kansas has the most unique scenery in the world. You see for a hundred miles and still not see a damm thing.

Okay I'm done