<p>touche, marite!</p>
<p>Yeah, but Marite, it is 86F on Christmas, too, so you never get to wear sweaters & scarves & coats & all those fun stylish accessories you get with four seasons. I think four seasons weather is much more fun than warm year round …ducking while all the SoCal (or san joaquin valley) folks throw frozen rotted citrus at me for my defection and implied criticism ;)</p>
<p>somemom:</p>
<p>And that’s why it’s a problem!<br>
I get to wear my fleece-lined boots, my hat, gloves, one of my many many scarves, my quilted coat that goes down to my ankles whle H wonders how he’s going to get ice off the car…</p>
<p>somemom–that’s the way I feel about southern California too. Northern is different. There are “seasons”, just mild, gentle ones. Leaves turn color, some drop off, lots of rain, cold, frost on the windshield in the morning for a month or two, then all of sudden you can smell spring in the air in early February and, despite still having rain, flowers are in bloom again. I still think of it as heaven.</p>
<p>What is NOT heaven is that our flight is now scheduled to take off at 2:20 AM!! :eek: We’ll miss our Tufts information session and maybe the tour too. Sad. But until they cancel that flight entirely, I think that we are still game for this.</p>
<p>Hardy folks, those northern Californians :).</p>
<p>D who went to college in LA complained about the weather. She said all that sunshine was “boring.”</p>
<p>Safe flying, Patient, and dress warm.</p>
<p>Yup, patient, I left SoCal for Norcal 20+ years ago and I discovered seasons and real animals just like on TV! But the oranges are not as good as the ones were in my backyard growing up ;)</p>
<p>Good luck with the travel issues, sounds like crazy-making time for you.</p>
<p>Cancelled…patient is so sad…I guess we’'ll try to see if southern California colleges have tours available on short notice. :(. I had so carefully arranged everything too! A whole binder with all the colleges, maps, hotel reservations, car, etc. </p>
<p>Ah well, maybe April will still be cold but not stormy and we can actually get out there. Now I have to go do battle with JetBlue, who has shut down their phone system and is not allowing me to see online what is going on with my flight cancellation!</p>
<p>Oh, Patient! So sorry to hear this!<br>
Well, get a good night sleep before heading off to SoCal. Still hoping to see you and your Ds some time this semester, though…</p>
<p>Another report from Vermont – we got 30 inches here, state government shut down, UVM and other schools shut down mid-day yesterday.</p>
<p>But this storm does not compare to 1978 – I was in Rhode Island, which (rumor is) had just one snowplow for the entire state. The state shut down for a week; cars were stranded on I95 for days, many people couldn’t get to supermarkets. It was a mess.</p>
<p>And Calmom-- I’m from NYC originally, and people there don’t dress for the cold. Skirts, nylons, etc. – no wonder they are cold. Long underwear, layers, gloves, hats, etc., help in surviving the cold. Although I have seen teenagers wearing shorts, mini-skirts and flip flops in the dead of winter.</p>
<p>Update from the warm front. Had a perfectly lovely conversation with a nice jetblue guy who I think was completely relieved when I made a joke about “Could you please do something about the weather?” because he’s probably had furious people to deal with all day, and it turns out he is Mormon so maybe he CAN do something about the weather! All our money is completely refunded and all the hotels too. I’ll think about Plan B tomorrow. </p>
<p>It’s a good thing that food consumed as a result of a disappointment has no calories.</p>
<p>Wait. That IS true, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Sly_vt–I don’t know when I learned to dress for the weather, but it was sometime AFTER my 4 (well 3 because of year abroad) years in Cambridge Mass. But now when I go back East in winter, I have all of those things you mentioned and I actually do enjoy it–but of course that is because there is always a quick end in sight and I don’t have to deal with it for months. Funny that although my mom was from Holland, she never bought me anything that was sensible for the cold so I had to try to figure stuff out on my own, so I was always buying what my friends had in terms of boots, coats, etc., and none of them ever worked. I think it was when I started hiking out here that I learned about long underwear, layers, etc.</p>
<p>Like Sly…we got 30 inches at least (I think it is more like three feet as we are in the mountains) and are snowed in. I also was in Boston during the Blizzard of '78 and that really shut things down in the city. Well, I was to fly to CA yesterday. No go. No go for today…let’s see about tomorrow. Goodbye now, hello palm trees! (however this is like heaven here for my ski fanatic hubby and my ski racing daughter)</p>
<p>Well, my son’s not from CA but he swears he’s not going to spend another winter in Boston/Cambridge ever again. The weather may have wimped out (according to marite), but he sure doesn’t think so. </p>
<p>Of course, he whines every single winter, and he also said his scuba-diving instructor is “gorgeous.”</p>
<p>Well, it’s wimped out in terms of snow inches, but the freezing and thawing and re-freezing have left a slick sheet of ice. We’ve run out of salt, and apparently so have local stores. I should have learned how to ice skate. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, my thinking in starting this thread is that a lot of us are getting less of the fun part of winter (snow!) and more of the ugly parts (ice, wind, and bone-chilling cold). It’s really hard to recommend this to anyone!</p>
<p>I am a transplant from the south and I think winter is just a trade off for our wonderful fall season. Just think - it is already February 16th and we have seen the first sign of spring - Bob Lobel at Fort Meyers.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t trust first signs of spring anymore–all our cherry trees bloomed in January! :)</p>
<p>That’s right - I forgot - We had some things blooming in January, as well. Now, when it snows in July, I’ll be worried:)</p>