^Same.
I think we are just going to get the snow from the clipper. It just started snow showering a bit ago. I’m dreading the frigid temperatures more. I did my marketing today so I don’t have to go out tomorrow in the bitter cold and do it.
Snow is coming down here (SW coastal CT) pretty hard. They are predicting 1 to 3 inches for us. If that’s all there is, I’ll be happy, but DH is away visiting S1, so I’m the only one who can shovel. And I need to be able to drive to the airport to get him, so I will be shoveling, no matter what the temperature. 
Bet you 95 north of Portland is good. I think someone told me it’s handled year round by a private contractor…
I have no idea how much snow is predicted here, S of Boston. Keeps changing. But the roads are a mess. A group of us cancelled eve plans. Unfortunately, D2 needs the Red Line to get into Boston.
I saw that the city of Boston is altering the roads in South Boston so that they’re all one-ways to help with the snow removal. What a pain.
The roads in Boston are difficult to navigate as it is.
But if it will help,them with snow removal…Woohoo.
My boys are both in Boston in college…although they’ve had more snow days than actual classes it seems. They said the “T” will be shut down tomorrow again, great. Thumper: we both talked about heading south and escaping some of this ‘crap’. I’m planning in 2-3 years from now, how 'bout you?? 
Back to back snow plows keep driving by our house every ten minutes. Wish our son hadn’t gone out earlier.
Chocchip…I can’t picture myself living year round in the south…but I can definitely picture myself living south in the winter…or southwest. The snow removal is what is the annoying part. I think even my husband is sick of it. But we have a huge honking snowblower, and until it dies, I won’t be getting a plow guy or gal.
This storm…only two or three inches. But it’s so cold it is really slick.
^^i I too can not picture myself living year round in the south. I actulally have and did not like it. I love the four seasons. My ideal retirement plan is to live where there are four seasons and leave to a warm location for a month or two in the winter. Where I live, winter is longer than 3 months. So leaving for two months equalizes the seasons more.
I don’t get it as I have lived in a warmer climate all my life (e.g., Texas and California.) What is the appeal of having to live in a cold/snowy area just to have 4 seasons?
I genuinely want to know the appeal of living in a 4-season area because in all likelihood, my S may live in such an area in the future and it seems he is not unhappy about it.
In such a poor weather now in the north east (say, in southern CT), do people still go out to, say, a restaurant, to celebrate the Valentine Day?! Can they drive safely in such a weather? Are most business like restaurants closed tonight?
Mcat…folks adapt. We go out in the winter. It’s only a problem when there is a blizzard…and that doesn’t happen that often (notable exception this year).
Let your son make up his own mind. He may enjoy seeing the leaves change colors, am
No fall off the trees. He might learn to ski in the snow. He might like the early spring when the flowers bloom. And summers here are lovely, but not sweltering hot.
I also am one who likes having four seasons. I don’t truly mind snow or even cold. This year it is extreme in the Northeast, particularly in terms of snow the past month (but actually wasn’t even very wintry before this). I admit to having only lived in Philadelphia, Vermont, and Boston, and so only know from four seasons (well, in VT, there are five if you include Mud Season!). I think it makes life more interesting to experience this variety and things you may do in different seasons. In VT, the summers are also typically not unbearably hot.
I am in Boston right now, and I will also admit that these four huge snowstorms within a few weeks are really too much. A week some place sunny and warm and beachy right about now would help.
I think about a month in a condo in San Diego, near the water.
What I found is that groups in cold climates (at least where I’ve lived in the northeast) interact with each other more in winter. You have to. You’re stuck inside with each other. Then again, I think New Englanders are much friendlier than their reps.
But btw, I don’t it’s fall that turns people on. It’s spring. First chance they get, light clothes, tops down on cars. A celebration. Though I do see guys in shorts (and hiking boots) when it gets around 34 or so.
I never minded the great weather in S. CA.
This is an interesting point. So, if the family members get along with each other, I would imagine they may be close to each other.
Actually, when we lived in Texas, we stayed inside a lot also - in an air-conditioned room of course. Basically, we stayed at an air-conditioned place, occasionally drive in an air-condtioned car to another place, and stayed at that air-conditioned place, and so on.
We would be quite “panic” if the air conditioner at home stops working any time in a year (except when during the “winter” – I think most time in winter there is actually a nicer time of the year as long as there is no cold front coming in - which mostly lasts, say, 4 or 5 days for each cold front, mostly 2-3 times a year only, I think. So the climate during most time in winter is quite nice, as compared to its summer’s climate.)
I spent 20+ years in Texas, and 25+ years in the midwest. Yes, they both have their extreme seasons where it’s miserably uncomfortable to do things outside unless you limit yourselves to winter sports, or beach/pool-related activities. So unless you participate in those, you basically spend about three months relatively confined to indoor activities (which there are plenty of). The difference to me is, and why I could never go back to Texas, is, when the kids are out of school, and you have the most daylight hours, that’s when it’s most miserable outside. In the cold climates, the best outdoor weather is when the kids are typically out of school and the day light hours are their longest, so you can enjoy it more.
Nearly three years in Florida now. Spent enough winters in Wisconsin to have likely seen it all. I find winter here like a typical WI summer- including the cold front days occurring now. One nice thing about floor level vents up north is for warm air that rises- crazy to have warm air from the ceiling that just doesn’t spread everywhere. Cool air in summer at floor level up north works better than heat in winter here. Still prefer too hot to too cold (eg teens and below) and too much snow.
I do miss the plants and animals that don’t live here. I don’t miss them in winter when they are dormant/leafless or hibernating. I have so many memories (and pictures) of fall, spring and winter. It is easier to deal with rain and heat and humidity than ice and snow. I like the humidity more than the desert. Enough northerners have migrated here to make the culture more familiar. Have discovered some plants do okay in zones 4-9. It could be nice somewhere in a middle zone but they all get freezing weather, sigh. Darn- no place is perfect.
S got too cold and bought a $150 R/T ticket to somewhere to warm up thus weekend, we think. He didn’t come here but we are looking forward to him sharing about his adventure.
A lifelong four-season gal here. I’m not crazy about winter but it can be refreshing and beautiful. Right now the winds are really acting up outside, but yesterday I had a beautiful walk in the woods with my dogs. The Scandinavians say, “There is no bad weather; there are only bad clothes.” In other words, if you dress appropriately, winter can be nice.
Not on the east coast, but this weekend brought us a few inches of snow, monsoon winds yesterday - it was awful, awful - white outs were common all day. Today is the bitter cold - currently feels like -30 outside. But the sun is shining!!!
Only -9 with the windchill here right now. Practically balmy. 