(July 4, 2021 at 5:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(July 4, 2021 at 5:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Right, but between a layperson, and state or federal government, please tell me why this past winter several middle American states such as Texas and Oklahoma froze their asses off? For the same reason California has a problem with wild fires. It isn't enough to dump survival up on the individual. There is no point in any government in the world, if it is all about the sake of power.
Even today, I have been shocked at the record highs in places like Montana and North Dakota.
Well, we (here in Texas) decided to try winter out to see if we liked it. I already knew the answer since I grew up in the midwest but apparently some people needed a taste of being snowed in for a week.
Being on the east coast of NC, I cannot say that I have suffered the same level as California or Texas or Oklahoma, hot or cold extremes. But as long as I have lived down here, I really hate feeling like a circus pet with hurricanes guessing if I should stay or go. And that is on the rise.
Growing up in far inland Northern Virginia just 12 miles south of Washington DC. I can tell you that our winters back in the 60s/70s and 80s were much longer. I can remember in late September and mid October, it got bone chilling cold even if it was just rain and not snow. At best early November was when the cold would really hit, and precipitation was either sleet or snow, on and off, until mid or late February.
Even today just a few years back, in the entire time I have lived in NC, on the coast, I have had only one memorable snowstorm since 2005.
