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eric on Feb 7th 2010 Random Life Stuff

Wow! So much snow!

But none here. None at all this winter! This is awesome!

Everybody in West Virginia, Maryland and parts of Pennsylvania is still digging themselves out of 12 – 24″ of snow that fell Friday and Saturday. The National Guard was called in for Ohio and folks at the farm in WV have lost power. And with temps in the low 20s, that’s not exactly the most comfortable situation.

As the white, snowy hell was unleashed in the east, it was 60 and sunny in Seattle!

This is why I moved here. Last year, Seattle was completely shut down by a mere 6″s of snow. But this year, there was barely a flurry. A bit of the parking lot of a little icy a morning or two in January, but that’s it. I rode pretty much every day.

I couldn’t deal with Pennsylvania’s fairly relentless winters. While we’re looking ahead to spring with buds starting on the trees and flowers popping up here and there, Pennsylvania is suffering sub and near-freezing temps without a definite reprieve until late March. It could even snow in April. It probably started snowing in October. That’s six months of winter.

Some folks like winter and, well, good for them. But most folks complain about it and with the threat of even an inch or two all the bread and milk disappear from supermarket shelves. Even factoring in how much people like to complain about the weather, I can’t understand why so many folks choose to live there. Even more puzzling is why our ancestors settled there.

Hopefully everybody digs themselves out, schools reopen and WNEP goes back to reporting on sink holes opening up in Coal Township. Meanwhile, I’ll enjoy a mild day of mostly sunny blue skies and temps in the 50s.

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