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re: Question for Those Up North
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:21 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:21 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Grew up on the Oneida Lake in upstate NY. I remember the winters being pretty active. Snowmobiles, ice fishing, car races on the lake. No snow days from school and kids always playing outside.
Of course we preferred summer but don’t remember people dreading the snow.
I was walking to my buddies house in 3-4’ of snow and you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Just a different world.
Of course we preferred summer but don’t remember people dreading the snow.
I was walking to my buddies house in 3-4’ of snow and you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Just a different world.
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Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:22 pm to Centinel
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I tell them I spent four months on a mountain top in turkey where we never saw temps above freezing, and it got down to -56 a couple nights. Not "wind chill of -56", actual temp of -56.
A couple layers along with Carharts and I was sweating doing shite outside at -30.
Your snot freezes though, which is not ideal.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:23 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Went to high school in Saratoga Springs, NY. Beautiful city and great place, but too cold for too long. Pick your poison. I picked Louisiana heat.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:24 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Grew up in Bossier City, family still lives there. I’ve moved every every couple of years with the military since I left. We don’t mind any of the northern states, even North Dakota wasn’t horrible in the winter time. There is zero humidity so the colds aren’t as cold as Louisiana. People laugh at me all the time but I swear 10 degrees in Alaska feels warmer than 30 degrees in Louisiana, because of the humidity.
The thing is in milder climates the summer weather is spectacular. In Louisiana you get maybe one week in spring and a couple weeks in the fall where the weather is cool and crisp with warm sun, and it’s over and either hot as hell or raining and damp cold.
The thing is in milder climates the summer weather is spectacular. In Louisiana you get maybe one week in spring and a couple weeks in the fall where the weather is cool and crisp with warm sun, and it’s over and either hot as hell or raining and damp cold.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:25 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Lived the first 24 years of my life up north and went back regularly for the first few years after. Been here in south Louisiana for 11 years and I wish I could have the cold back. Summer in Iowa/Nebraska is just about as hot and humid, but it's shorter. Also, there are spring and fall seasons to enjoy. Winter can be a bitch, but you can dress/prepare for it.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:26 pm to BuckyCheese
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Your snot freezes though, which is not ideal.
Neither is shitting in a port-a-potty in a blizzard so bad the snow was blowing in the top of the shitter door on to me.
Also got to experience what hoarfrost was. At the worst, I have pictures of my troops standing next to what you could barely tell was the very top of a concertina wire topped fence in the snow. That was twelve feet high.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I prefer a cold winter to a Louisiana summer
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It’s not that bad OP, frick winter
This post was edited on 7/12/22 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I would trade northern Ohio winters for hot temperatures. It's always cloudy, freezing, windy and depressing. Our winters last about 5 months. Trees and grass are ugly, and you want to sit inside all day
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Do you guys dread winter like we dread summer in Louisiana?
Not at all
Kind of like winter
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:28 pm to Centinel
My Western Pennsylvania cousins, including one in particular, wants to move down here and get out of the snow and cold winters. I think she might actually follow thru w/it once her youngest, who is a junior in HS, graduates. I've told her she has a place to stay.
But like VADawg said, Midwestern falls are spectacular, and Western PA.is no exception to that rule.
Saying all that, give me Wyoming. Or SW VA.
But like VADawg said, Midwestern falls are spectacular, and Western PA.is no exception to that rule.
Saying all that, give me Wyoming. Or SW VA.
This post was edited on 7/12/22 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:30 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Do you guys dread winter like we dread summer in Louisiana?
More than you can imagine. I start going into a mild depression when the days start getting short and the weather cools
In hot humid weather you can maybe still hit the pool at night, sit on the lanai, etc. In the city in the winter there’s really nothing you can do, at least when it comes to the kinds of things I like to do.
I will admit I’m passively planning a move to Charleston because I want to golf and fish year round, watch late season football on my deck, etc. so maybe I’m not the best person to ask.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:30 pm to Stevo
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Saratoga Springs, NY.
We stayed in Jefferson, NY in 2019. We visited the caves not far from Saratoga Springs when we were there.
Upstate NY is gorgeous.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:31 pm to VADawg
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I lived in Ohio for awhile. For the most part, the winters there weren't as bad as summers in the South. The Midwest in the fall is awesome.
I actually hated spring more than winter there
Pretty much this for me, except replace Ohio with Chicago.
Spent most of my life in South LA and I have vowed to never, ever live in a Southern state again during summer, as long as I live. Chicago winters can wear a person down, but I do not dread it nearly as bad as I did the summers in the south.
And agreed on fall - I honestly think the weather here between late September through the holidays is awesome. You get the fall coolness, leaves changing, the seasonal cold when it's supposed to be cold during the holidays...it's great.
January and February, are no picnic. Would still take them over July-September in the south.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:31 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I will admit I’m passively planning a move to Charleston because I want to golf and fish year round, watch late season football on my deck, etc. so maybe I’m not the best person to ask.
Enjoy living in Southern New York/New Jersey.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:32 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My dad left the mid-atlantic in '73 and said he was never going back. He said everyone gets doe-eyed over snow until it turns black and you are shoveling that shite.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:33 pm to BuckyCheese
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Winter is no big deal. Can always throw more clothes on. It's only bad if it's like -20 or colder but that isn't all that common. Maybe a few nights per year.
I hated winter with a passion. Freezing cold, barely any sun for 4 months. Miserable. I’ll take North Carolina summers over Wisconsin winters 1000 times out of 1000. This super short springs and falls sucked too
This post was edited on 7/12/22 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:34 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Replying to myself but also to say, if I’m craving playing in the winter I’ll jump a plane to park city and get my fix
This post was edited on 7/12/22 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:34 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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More than you can imagine. I start going into a mild depression when the days start getting short and the weather cools
I'm the opposite. Once May rolls around I start dreading it knowing it's going to be swamp arse until almost Halloween.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 6:35 pm to Centinel
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Centinel
I thought you lived in SC
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