I just read that out loud to my husband and daughter. You made our day! Now they want to know for which international newspaper you write as columnist.
Dude, it's different worlds. I visited Minnesota in August and had to grab a jacket--we were north of Lake Superior--to go riding and it wasn't cold, but I'd left Texas at ninety-eight and it was like deeply confusing to my body.
A few years ago, my husband (upstate NY native) attended a wedding in your neck of the woods. It snowed the day before the wedding - maybe 1/2" of white stuff on the ground. This is something we don't even NOTICE where we live.
The groom begged my husband to ferry everyone to the church (several round trips) in his crappy little rental car, because no one else COULD DRIVE IN 1/2" OF SNOW.
Yeah, I get it - for you, it's the Apocalypse. ;-)
We have a very uncomfortable relationship with snow. It's pretty! We get off work! We're fairly sure if we get in our car, it like, wants to kill us for crushing it or something. *hands*
Oh, man, this was a great read, and I can totally relate to your weather bafflement, but kind of from the opposite side of things? We moved down to Corpus Christi when I was six, for my father's career (unofficial National Park Service motto: to move up, you have to move on). It was kind of a shock, coming from Mt Rainier National Park, WA, a place where my sister and I were used to playing in snow forts during the winter months - and we did not have to build these up, there was enough snow pack by Christmas that we could just take our shovels and dig downI can still vividly remember getting out of the car when we pulled up in front of the apartment complex that would be our home in Corpus and feeling a hot blast of wind. I was very, very confused, because prior to to this, my experience with wind ranged from "cooling breeze" to "bone-chilling gusts" and it had not occurred to me that wind could be any kind of warm at all
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Hilariously, I tend to be happy I have no extended family in the country (or close to none) every time the togetherness holidays happen. Because I don't drink, and that is really not good, when you have to spend a long while trying not to murder your family. ;P
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The groom begged my husband to ferry everyone to the church (several round trips) in his crappy little rental car, because no one else COULD DRIVE IN 1/2" OF SNOW.
Yeah, I get it - for you, it's the Apocalypse. ;-)
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