I used to live in the desert southwest where the weather was uniformly nice. Get up and put on shorts and a T shirt and you were good to go. Sandals were optional depending on the day's activities. Before that I lived in the Northeast where we got 12 feet of snow in the winter and you kept a snow shovel in the house to dig your way out. A friend once asked about coming to visit in the summer and I replied, "That depends on what weekend summer is this year." Now I am in between and it rains or snows so often the average precipitation is in excess of 58" a year with the last three being in excess. There is no point trying to do any projects because by the time you get the materials and tools out, it's either raining, or snowing again. Any free time you might have is spent mowing grass after it has rained, or after the every day dew has evaporated.
Today is the aftermath of an ice storm that went through and shut everything down in anticipation of the storm. It doesn't matter if the storm ever happens, just a prediction of the possibility of a weather event shuts everything down. The schools have "it might happen" days in the school calendar. I looked at the clock and it's still on. Looked out the window and the propane tanks for backup heat are still on the front porch, along with the gas for the generator, which means nobody came by and stole them as was predicted along with the storm. We don't get the blizzards the lake zone gets, the tornados the midwest and south gets, the hurricanes the coast gets, or the forest fires the northwest gets, or the range fires the southwest gets, we just get rain or snow often enough to keep everything wet and rusty. The bright side is this a conservative state and no one is stepping on my rights just yet. With any luck that will hold up for awhile even if the weather doesn't.
