Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2314497)

Be careful what you wish for. The Gulf water temperatures are at record levels and could spawn hurricanes.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2314576)

If you have a dark painted vehicle, you can BURN your hand touching the body in the summer. Also there is this little thing called HURRICANES.

Originally Posted by DebMil (Post 2314674)

I left Michigan with my parents at age 15. 1969.

In a bikini on the beach or pool as a kid, I was ecstatic! We had Thanksgiving around a BBQ grill.

Many people don't believe in climate change, but, I have lived thru it here in FL.

It is horribly hot for about 4 months even reaching 100 many days with heat index at108.
It is muggy, stormy, and tons of mosquitos. In Central Florida, the lightning reminds me of Michigan storms. It's serious. Unlike S.Florida.
Many plan their day very early so they can be done by 1 ish.
The summer storms do keep you indoors.
The Winters are colder in Central Florida than we expected. 50 or60 in the day with many very windy days. Our 60 is colder because of humidity. And, here, we do have 2 or 3 days in a row with gloom.
We are subtropical. South of Lake Okeechobee is tropical.

Many folks are pretty happy in North Carolina as a suggestion.

Also, we have allergies that are quite bad 9 months of the year as everything blooms.

Keep a watch on Pollen.com

The main zip code is 32162 and 32163.

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314695)

Power is back on already. But the generator living on a ski mountain was a great investment. We usually lose power for only a few hours. But it’s nice not worrying about it.

Originally Posted by Dusty_Star (Post 2314773)

Great to hear. Where I am, just got a lot of rain. (Coastal).

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314774)

Apple weather said I was getting 7 inches. Local weather channel said a dusting to 1". We got about 2" of nasty icy crap.

I was finally able to use the snow blower to push the slush off the driveway. It's gonna be cold tonight and I didn't want an ice sheet so we are now good. All rain now.

But again, I'll take the swamp ass over this. As a younger man I could deal with this but I'm over it.

Originally Posted by Karmanng (Post 2314059)

IF florida is that bad then you all need to try ARizona in the dead heat of 118 plus for days on end! Oh ya its a dry heat sure HOT IS HOT I have been here for 122........degrees that is......not days ! It truly is living in hell.........

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314774)

Apple weather said I was getting 7 inches. Local weather channel said a dusting to 1". We got about 2" of nasty icy crap.

I was finally able to use the snow blower to push the slush off the driveway. It's gonna be cold tonight and I didn't want an ice sheet so we are now good. All rain now.

But again, I'll take the swamp ass over this. As a younger man I could deal with this but I'm over it.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2314698)

Which tend to dissipate when they travel 70 miles inland...

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314690)

Yeah they do a good job making snow but definitely not a great season for them.

And we just lost power. Luckily I have a whole house generator.

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314654)

This is ice. It is impossible to use the snow blower as it won't pick it up. Shovel won't get through it. Luckily we both have good 4 wheel drive vehicles and can drive over this in the driveway. I've dropped 50 lb of salt on it already. It is just now getting above freezing so hopefully this won't be too bad for too long. But in the argument about northern winter over southern summer: I can go out in both. I can do things in both. I will be uncomfortable in both, perhaps. But in Florida I put on my shorts and go out. Here I snowblow for an hour, shovel, spread 50-100 lb of salt, drive 3 mph and risk lots of accidents to go out. I can't wait to move south for good.

We are on Wachusett Mountain and this isn't helping their skiing. People prefer powder to ice sheets.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2314331)

Why does it have to be either-or? Both realities have their attractions.

I admit to being nervous about moving here because of the "horrible heat" mantra I heard from so many others. But after nearly four years here now, full-time, I've come to the happy realization that I LOVE the heat of a Florida summer. More than a Florida winter, as a matter of fact. Summers are greener and thus far more attractive to the eye than winter here. I walk 5-6 miles a day and that doesn't stop when summer comes: I just walk a bit more slowly and try to remember my water bottle, but even if I forget I can count on people in golf carts stopping to offer me a ride or even (as has happened many times) a bottle of water! Besides the halfway point of my walk happens to be a Publix store: Spend a couple of bucks more or less on an ice-cold 20-ounce bottle of unsweetened iced tea and I'm all primed and ready for the stretch run. And golf--who doesn't like knowing that you can pretty much go to the course of your choice at any time after 12:00 noon and get on? Sure, it's hot--but fewer people and overall prettier courses are big advantages.

My experience with winter happens to be Minnesota where I lived year-round for 70-odd years, many of those years in or north of Duluth, and as Mark Twain once observed, the worst winter he ever spent was a summer in Duluth. Yeah, it's cold--I remember walking for a mile the morning the cold temp. record of -60 (not windchill, but actual temperature) was recorded. And you can count on snow on the ground usually for six months out of the year in the more northern reaches of the North Star State. (Not this year, but they deserved a break from Mama Nature). But Minnesotans have a pretty unique way of dealing with winter. Snowshoe baseball, for example. XC skiing. Ice fishing. Hockey. Water skips...for those unknowing, water skips are organized events held on frozen lakes where a long rectangular hole about 100 yards or so long is cut in the ice, and people try to ride a snowmobile on the open water from one end to the other. It can be done; the key being enough speed when you hit the water so that the machine planes out and doesn't sink. A fun part of such entertainment is usually at the end, when people try to set the record of "most people on a snowmobile driving over open water" (or some such). At one event I saw eleven people, admittedly pretty well oiled up on peppermint schnapps, try it. Unfortunately they sank about 10 yards short of the goal. But after the eleven plus their machine were fished out, festivities continued on as usual.

Overall I'll take summers here over winters there, mainly because my arthritis slackens dramatically in the heat of a Florida summer. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy both.

Originally Posted by Rzepecki (Post 2313839)

The summers here are hot and humid, but I prefer that weather to no sun and the endless gray days of Michigan. I was here through Irma and was not trapped in my house. I chose not to go out, but I wasn’t forced to stay in.

Originally Posted by Aces4 (Post 2314792)

And turn into tropical storms or tornadoes. Stay alert when one is forecast.

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314887)

Okay it is pretty up here in spring. But I've been listening to ice crashing down all night. Had to go out and move my car from under a tree. I'm pretty sure I would rather Florida year round.

And to think last week my wife was suggesting I open the pool early.

https://i.imgur.com/CIO8mu5l.jpg

Originally Posted by frayedends (Post 2314887)

Okay it is pretty up here in spring. But I've been listening to ice crashing down all night. Had to go out and move my car from under a tree. I'm pretty sure I would rather Florida year round.

And to think last week my wife was suggesting I open the pool early.

https://i.imgur.com/CIO8mu5l.jpg

Originally Posted by Aces4 (Post 2313618)

But the value is corrupted.:22yikes: We have friends who live full-time in Florida and they all say the summer heat in murder. At least when it is cold, people can go out during the daytime and don't have to stay housebound. I'm only suggesting the OP consider the downside of full-time Florida living when he could alter his schedule to have it all.

Originally Posted by PoolBrews (Post 2315230)

originally from Michigan

Originally Posted by LuvNH (Post 2314662)

I know I should not, but I am going to ask .... why are you going out? Can you really not manage for a day to wait for this to melt?, or do you have a death wish :laugh:

Originally Posted by asianthree (Post 2315285)

Because if you have live most of your life in the north, going out even In sketchy weather has been a norm your whole life.

When our kids went to college in the south, the first snow (1” using snow term loosely) jumped in their 4x4 to go shopping, cause that’s what you do when school is closed, no ski lodge available.

I still remember their first phone call “Every thing is closed what is wrong with people is just Snow”

Bonus for our son, he would pick up all the employees in his Jeep, drive to their restaurant, only place open. Made a killing because it snowed an inch, making everyone happy there was hot food.

Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 2315287)

Ye Gods! If England had an inch of snow, the country would grind to a total halt.
Half an inch is enough to close schools, non-essential services and all public transport.
Successive generations have no idea how to live with, or handle the stuff.
Not so bad in Scotland as they still get plenty of the white stuff.

Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston (Post 2315298)

Forget about England...if it snowed an inch in TV, most not all would be in a total panic. Everybody knows how to operate in the heat of summer. Not so much if you encounter snow/ice unless you're from the north

Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 2315312)

I was under the impression that TV population were all from the North!
None seem to find anything local as good as it was "up North!"