I see where you are located, beautiful sunsets but also lake effect snows.
I grew up in Michigan around the Detroit area and suburbs.
Years of cold weather finally did me in, and people had a different attitude back then about the cold.
Nowadays, if it gets below the 20's they delay or cancel schools, can't have the little ones walk or stand in the line for a bus too long in temps like that.
In the 60's we often got down to negative numbers on school days, that was just the temp, not the wind chill which was more like the negative teens or 20's.
I had a mile to walk to my Jr. High school and I don't remember one day when any school was ever closed because of even that kind of cold.
Snow sure, but never cold weather.
I don't recall anyone making a big stink about it either, I am sure if some parent complained they were told to just dress their kid warmer.
In the the late 70's I remember one February where the temp didn't rise above 5 degrees at any time all month.
That was it for me, I plotted and planned and waited for my shot to get out and a few years later I made my escape to the Tampa Bay area.
Also the potholes.
Pothole season is 12 months a year in that state.
Now I live in Birmingham Al. where it is sometimes way to hot and hard to dig in the summer, we go into the water or just wait for fall and winter because it never really gets to cold to hunt and the ground never freezes.
I'm going hunting now, you can live vicariously though us southerners until your weather warms up and the snow melts.
Hopefully by the end of March but you never know.
I remember we got a 12" blizzard once in the third week of April, so...
