I much prefer GA to "Massive two sh***".... especially since they decided to dig up Boston a few years ago 8O
Evenings and morings here are nice and mild lately - just the heat of the day that can be a bit much, but my fish room is about 77-78... the wonder of air conditioning is standard issue here.
Sally, I missed the ice storms and blizzards you referred to - even the ice storm this past winter, I was in Mexico when that happened. I did sustain major damage from a hail storm in February - $1,600 worth to my truck and $5,000 to my roof and house - but insurance takes care of that. I do find it rather amusing though, that if there is a threat of 3 flakes of snow making contact with the ground within a 200-mile radius, the entire state seems to shut down, and milk, bread and bottled water fly off the store shelves faster than they did for Y2K.
When I was growing up, our school bus often got stuck in the snow - there were very few school cancellations, and never for a "maybe"... It MIGHT snow, so we'll cancel school!! Absurd! Love it when they keep the kids in at recess because it's 'too cold' too... heck we played outside no matter what the temperature - bundled like Nanook of the North... but as kids we never seemed to feel the cold the way we do as "old farts" now
Haven't heard a tornado siren yet this year, but that's coming! We also had a visit from Hurricane Ivan last year too, although he'd lost most of his punch by the time he got here, but he was troublesome enough to knock out our power for a few hours, and a few trees in our neighbourhood.
Still, I'd prefer the steamy heat of summer, over a -52 with wind-chill morning any day. And for what it's worth, we got hot steamy weather up in Canada too - my mother called me last week complaining of the heat - she has no AC and has been 'forced' to spend most of her days at the lake 8) where she can cool off (yep tough life!). The dog days of summer are of shorter duration there, yes, but without AC it's miserable - and most folks there do not have AC, so they end up on the beaches and in the shopping malls for relief.
I'm content here in Georgia!
Jenn
