For the folks with no snow...

[ToBeFree]

Just North of me they tried getting the National Guard to come help shovel but were not successful. Many cattle barns have gone down now. I have been clearing driveways for over a week. Folks have to yell to me from the house as they cannot walk out to the road to greet me. I was at one house and they told me all was clear so I backed into a snow bank and spun a car out of it. Not sure how they thought I was going to see that. Police report showed at the shallowest point there was 3' of snow on it.

Ouch! No worries it will probably buff out.
I guess that's why we carry insurance.

 

[Rustyiron]

It's funny to "watch" the friendly jabbing about the weather between the north and the south. I'm from a neutral weather area (the mid Atlantic region). Winters sucked, hardly any snow and when it got cold enough to snow it was a dry weather pattern. Then there's the humidity, it makes the cold colder and the hot hotter.
Personally I can deal with the cold easier than the heat and I've worked outside my whole life in the weather. In ME I've never been as cold at 15* as in MD at 35*. I've explained this to several people, one is my brother from MD and the other is the guy that drilled my well in ME and while he was here drilling asked me "why in the he!! did I move to this cold place". I explained the humidity thing to him and I don't think he believed me.
My well guy goes to FL in the winter, a well drilling rig is dependent on water (and air pressure) for drilling and it's impractical to drill in consistent below freezing temperatures.
I had an issue with the well and when he returned in the spring with the rising temperatures, he mentioned that I was right. They had a cold winter in FL and he was miserable at 45* and never felt so cold.
My brother (to his surprise) agreed with my observations once I pointed it out as he comes up regularly all year long.
Although I've been living in ME for 18 years, it's slowly come to my attention that the extreme storms (flooding rains, hurricanes and tornadoes, etc) seem to be many many times more common in the south than here. You can acclimate to cold and snow, but I can't see ever getting used to your home washing or blowing away! The weather is actually very boring here in comparison.
Sorry for this long "derailing" @screamin400 !

 

[ToBeFree]

65 years, mostly, in Maryland around DC. When visiting a friend in SW Montana one year it was around 100°F. We were walking around like it was nothing while locals were melting on the sidewalks! Phew - what is this 'heat' you are talking about? DC is built on a swamp and it feels like it at times. I'm down in the mountains of Va. now and have run the ac maybe a month over the last two years. Good times, good times.

 

[Rustyiron]

Montana was part of my "humidity learning". From being there in the close to 100* summer and hearing the temperature on the radio and observing the tiniest of glistening perspiration on my arm (lesson 1) to spending time snowmobileing in LoLo MT at new years and 5* temps that I estimated to be equal to the low 30's in MD, (lesson 2)!
Maine is not nearly as dry, but much more than the mid Atlantic region.
The older I get, the less patience I have to get thoroughly drenched just walking around after a shower and dinner and a long hot day!