[DangeloInspections]

Growing up and spending my whole career outside of Rochester NY, I personally do not miss snow. Folks who have not lived there think snow is like a Hallmark card, pretty snowflakes lazily drifting down to earth, so magical.

Yes, it can be. However, most of the time it accumulates, turns dirty, icy and gray. Gray everywhere. For weeks. No sun. Every car coated with salt so bad that if you get real quiet, you can HEAR your car rusting.

Old people having to decide if they will "Heat or Eat".

Walk across the carpeted living room and kiss your wife, you get such a big shock your lips blow off. This is from the air being so dry folks get nosebleeds. And you go through a box of kleenex every few days by the constant sickness.

Starting your car 30 minutes before you leave just so you can see through a 6' circle on your windshield to drive. Getting up an hour earlier than you have to just to shovel or snowblow the driveway, praying you can leave before the snowplow buries you again. Brushing off your car and scraping ice off the windshield.

Wrecking tires, hubs etc, from all the hidden potholes. Getting your studded snow tires on and off. Having your door locks freeze.

Going outside when it was so cold it hurt even to breathe.

Pushing shopping carts through ruts, potholes, etc.

Ice damming causing roof leaks, etc.

Keeping the hydrant in front of your house shoveled out, so if your house had a fire the fire department could FIND your hydrant.

Having an icestorm knock your power out so your basement floods from your dead sump pump, your pipes freeze because of no heat, and you need emergency shelter.

So...yes, I do miss the snow every so often, but not that much. I do miss that it can look pretty sometimes, and I miss cutting my own Christmas tree and dragging it through the snow. Some folks love snowmobiling, skiing, etc, etc. Some love the change of seasons....I miss the fall...the color of the leaves, the smell of them, the crisp apples, etc.

Florida is not for everyone, but I now like living here more than I miss some of the great things about the north.

Up north, it was cold all day, all night for months with NO break. At least here, with A/C in our houses, our cars and our stores, etc, , the summer months are bearable. Everyplace has it's good and bad points, and no place is perfect for everyone.

I like up north, and I love it here. Great we live in such a great country that we can even make that choice freely.

Frank