I forgot to add....try driving in Winter sometime. You think it's bad here? Folks drive crazy then spin out on the ice. Ice-covered roads are THE worst. Sometimes we not only had snow BUT freezing sleet (rain) that stuck to everything. At times the power would go out. One year that I remember---all the southern third of the state of Wisconsin had NO power for days. Try that in frigid winter. Oh the snow is pretty and I used to like to watch it fall (from inside where it was warm). I used to love to snow-mobile and to down-hill ski---but I was young then too. Also to ice skate and slide down hills---even more young then. BUT to bundle up to just go out for the mail, to have those sets of clothing plus boots (which track in all the ice and crud). Do NOT miss any of it anymore. Year around shorts and sandals are the way to go these days.
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