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How on earth do you all deal with this weather? This is just misserable! For the most part I have spent my whole life below the Mason Dixon Line and now I know why. I mean for crying out loud what the heck is all of this white stuff and why is it only 27 degrees outside what did I do to deserve this sort of punishment? Just Kidding
I will say while the cold is a shock for this family of Californians it does allow us to do some things you cant do on the beaches of San Diego. It started snowing yesterday and off and all day for about 4" on the ground. The boys were really happy because they could use the sleds they got from Santa.
Evan the youngest
Logan the oldest
But Mom and dad weren't to be left out of the fun
My lovely wife
And me
And you cant have snow with out snow angels.
Not the same as surfing or making sand castles but still a fun day.
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Jeremy
GySgt USMC Ret
To err is human, To forgive is devine, Neither of which is Marine Corps policy Semper Fidelis
I shall politely omit my opinions on why Jarheads can't take it....... It looks like you had fun, though. (As my age goes up, my dislike of cold weather goes up right along with it)
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I grew up less than 2 hours south of where you are now Jeremy, and really loved it. You get all four seasons - and really get them too. If you don't like the weather you just need to wait a month because it will change. Winters were darn cold and snowy when I was growing up - just what kids like. Summers were plenty hot enough to swim. Spring was pretty, but fall was my favorite - it was perfect!
We get the occasional snow here and the kids love it. I wish we'd get one this year, but it is probably already too late. I was out in the yard pulling weeds already today!!!
While it is nice to have weather other then sunny or partly sunny and the boys are having fun with the snow. It will be nice to get back to SoCal in a few years. We are missing having the ocean nearby. I know it sounds crazy but I just dont have the hunting opportunities here in Indiana that I do in SoCal. Back home I know every chunk of BLM in SoCal for the most part and being on Camp Pendleton is like having your own private hunting preserve.
Jeremy
GySgt USMC Ret
To err is human, To forgive is devine, Neither of which is Marine Corps policy Semper Fidelis
Oh I remember those days....
Great pics
havent seen snow since 95
It was 26 degrees this morning at my hunt club in central Florida.....
5 hours later it was 75 degrees!
When we were kids, we used to make giant snow balls and build
a wall across the road....so the bus could not pass.....
The bus driver just plowed through them...
JReed wrote:While it is nice to have weather other then sunny or partly sunny and the boys are having fun with the snow. It will be nice to get back to SoCal in a few years. We are missing having the ocean nearby. I know it sounds crazy but I just dont have the hunting opportunities here in Indiana that I do in SoCal. Back home I know every chunk of BLM in SoCal for the most part and being on Camp Pendleton is like having your own private hunting preserve.
Check into the deer hunts that happen on Jefferson Proving Grounds or Camp Atterbery. Indiana is also a premier squill country and some super channel cat fishin'.....I was stationed twice at the old (and gone) Fort B. Harrison. The fort itself was a haven for squill, coons, possems, and a lake with monster catfish and bluegill....
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We've actually been really short on snow so far this winter. We haven't had enough snow to get a sled to slide yet. My daughter was in the room and saw your pictures, she said "oh man, they're so lucky!". She's been waiting for a long time to play in the snow again.
JReed wrote:While it is nice to have weather other then sunny or partly sunny and the boys are having fun with the snow. It will be nice to get back to SoCal in a few years. We are missing having the ocean nearby. I know it sounds crazy but I just dont have the hunting opportunities here in Indiana that I do in SoCal. Back home I know every chunk of BLM in SoCal for the most part and being on Camp Pendleton is like having your own private hunting preserve.
Check into the deer hunts that happen on Jefferson Proving Grounds or Camp Atterbery. Indiana is also a premier squill country and some super channel cat fishin'.....I was stationed twice at the old (and gone) Fort B. Harrison. The fort itself was a haven for squill, coons, possems, and a lake with monster catfish and bluegill....
Well Fort B Harrison is now part of Indianapolis so hunting there is a thing of the past. I will have to look into the others you mentioned. Not much on fish tree squirrels are fun to shoot but not as challenging as ground squirrels @ 100 yards. The main thing is on this duty I just dont have the time to hunt or research places to. There in lies the problem.
Jeremy
GySgt USMC Ret
To err is human, To forgive is devine, Neither of which is Marine Corps policy Semper Fidelis
We've actually been really short on snow so far this winter. We haven't had enough snow to get a sled to slide yet. My daughter was in the room and saw your pictures, she said "oh man, they're so lucky!". She's been waiting for a long time to play in the snow again.
I was at my folks by St Louis for Xmass they were complaining of the same thing. Before the hollidays we had 3" of ice on the ground so snow is rather nice.
Jeremy
GySgt USMC Ret
To err is human, To forgive is devine, Neither of which is Marine Corps policy Semper Fidelis
We carved many a cave in snow piles when I was a kid. Played outside much of the day just as we did during the summer. But I now understand the older people. The cold can HURT!
Sincerely,
Hobie
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There was plenty of that white stuff around where I was born but since I moved to Australia in 1966 I've developed a liking for warmth and sunshine. Its been between 95 - 105 deg around here for the past week and I aint complaining. If it drops below about 65 my teeth start to chatter. I guess if I ever decide to move to America I'll need to head for somewhere south, like Panama or Hawaii
Bob
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you will get used to it, but I prefer to call myself a displaced southerner
I have lived in New London CT, Charleston SC, Newport news and Damneck VA, Orlando and Panama City Florida, Monterey and San diego Ca, Baltimore and Annapolis Md, and York Pa. (and Holy Loch Scotland) CT had lots of snow but I was at sea and didn't see any of it
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Mike Johnson,
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Great pix of you and Dee and the boys. So you traded in your surfboards for snowboards... Oh well, there could be worse crosses to bear.
Here in Maine, it was a brisk 4 degrees out this morning when I was hunting. The only good thing about that is, I had the woods to myself. That was the bad thing too -- no foxes or coyotes showed up, so I "had the woods to myself"...
But as the Kid said, you do get to enjoy all 4 Seasons. Here in Maine that would be...
Wintah...
Mud Season...
Mosquito Season...
...and September!
If you're looking for hunting opportunities AND the ocean close by, you don't need to "head west young man" -- come EAST over to Maine and we'll put you on the track of a BIG Maine buck. (But you better pack an extra pair of long johns...)
Just remember: "If you can't stand the wintah, you don't get to enjoy the summah!"
As my age goes up, my dislike of cold weather goes up right along with it
Odd, I seem to notice it less and less as I get older. It's never really bothered me. The cold is only a problem when it gets below 0 F. I don't care for slush, though. I lived in Melbourne, Australia (a climate roughly similar to southern CA) for a while, and while pleasant, it was boring in comparison.
Right balmy weather, I'd say, 'ol son! When I got up yesterday morning and peeked at the thermometer in my mirror it read "6"... AND that was with two big diesels idlin' away within 3 feet! Apparently I missed Green Bay's two weeks of summer by a few months! That 2-hundred yard hike up to the restaraunt had to be repeated for the opposite direction... Almost made me wish I'd of skipped breakfast! Now that I'm in sourthern OK an' the same thermometer reads 29, I have the window rolled down!
All a matter of perspective!
Griff,
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No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
Tried getting out of hot tub at Mammoth and falling backward into a snow bank - OK a little wine was involved. 1000 pins and needles - don't need to do that again.
In the High Desert of Southern Calif. ..."on the cutting edge of going back in time"...
Indiana is a wee bit too chilly for this CA native. I love it hear in Ukiah, Ca though. The weather changes every week! Been getting into the mid 20's at night only two weeks ago. I even got snowed on while driving home from a cold front from way up north. This week, things have been warming up to low 30's at night and highs in the seventies. Went out today and busted out the pellet rifle and handgun. Sure was a nice warm winter day! Felt nice to warm up just for bit. I'm sure more cold weather and rain is pending, but its the unpredictability of it all that is refreshing. Did I say I love it up here???
-Tutt
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We're not too far south (just south of Indy) and we only had a light dusting of snow - you get alot of "lake effect" stuff up there.
I'll bet many settlers died coming in from the New York coast, finding pretty little valleys in western New York to settle in, and getting their first hint of lake Erie when they had fifteen feet of snow.
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SHUCKS, Jeremy ! That's only a dusting....................Wait 'til ya get 2"/hour for a day or two, every-other-week.
Then you'll know what the small mammals feel like - running around through snow tunnels.
Reminds me of when I took my two southern California girls to Minnesota to join grandma and grandpa for Christmas. We drove across I-80 in the wake of a major blizzard. Crossing Wyoming, 80 was a parking lot for diesels with gelled fuel. Wind chills hovered around -100. Highs in Minnesota were -20 and lows were -40. We took the girls sledding and ice skating so they got to experience the real deal. Now my little girls were "freezing" in California when temps got into the 30's. After Minnesota, we visited my brother in New Mexico. It was 27 degrees there and my little California babies were running around in T-shirts and loving it.
Right balmy weather, I'd say, 'ol son! When I got up yesterday morning and peeked at the thermometer in my mirror it read "6"... AND that was with two big diesels idlin' away within 3 feet! Apparently I missed Green Bay's two weeks of summer by a few months! That 2-hundred yard hike up to the restaraunt had to be repeated for the opposite direction... Almost made me wish I'd of skipped breakfast! Now that I'm in sourthern OK an' the same thermometer reads 29, I have the window rolled down!
All a matter of perspective!
Griff, you must've hit Green Bay during a warm spell!
Jeremy, you being in the Military and all, you can hunt all the BLM and DNR managed land you want in Wisconsin during the proper hunting and fishing seasons...you get free licenses.
By the way, yesterday we were blessed with another 11.4" inches of snow and by tomorrow we will be seeing -10/-20 F w/o any of that pansy wind chill stuff. 'Course with the wind only blowing 20 to 30 MPH, it wouldn't amount to much anyways. In the last month we have gotten only a tad over 50" of snow, s'ppose it'll be here until the thaw in June.
I have gotten used to the cold much better then my wife has. They are saying it is supposed to be a high of 6 later in the week she is just so thrilled with that.
I must say I much prefer snow to rain growing up in a Semi Arid area I am not a big fan of getting wet and rained on. So if the trade off is wearing more cloths I am more then happy to break out the long johns.
Jeremy
GySgt USMC Ret
To err is human, To forgive is devine, Neither of which is Marine Corps policy Semper Fidelis
it's a character-builder. All the first world/industrial societies developed around that kind of weather. When you have a real winter coming you don't mess around.
Areas like the south didn't develop before air conditioning and refrigeration were invented. The only way to have ice in the summer was to tow a glacier down from the Arctic and cut it up. There were a lot of drawbacks living down there as opposed to up north. Insects, for one.
Rainfall is another. San Diego never got to be more than a cow town because it was too dry.
"I'll tell you what living is. You get up when you feel like it. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is."
The real question is how do you southern guys stand the heat? I'll take a frosty day over bugs, humidity, mosquitoes, sweating, bees, pollen, flies, lawn cutting, ants, sunburn, etc etc ANYDAY.
"...for there is a cloud on my horizon...and its name is progress." E. Abbey, 1958
Jeremy,
Sounds like they should have sent you to MCMWTC (close to my neck o' the woods) before sending you to your new duty station!
Tom
(last year photo)
Tom
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I moved away from Canada when I was four... to the Lake Placid area of New York. Eventually the family migrated to Charleston, South Carolina... then on to Oklahoma. Four years ago I married a gal from Sudbury, Ontario, Great WHITE North. My first day up there was with her asking me to shovel the driveway. Seems about a foot of wet snow fell overnight. At least it was only 32°F and not really too cold. That would come later.
It is our hope that by August of this year my wife will have sold her house, gotten her daughter sent off to college and I will drag her down to Oklahoma for good. I told her we could go to her parents place for Christmas... but that is the only time I will intentionally put myself where it snows. I hate the cold and snow. Canada got screwed when they split North America from east to west.
coyote nose wrote:The real question is how do you southern guys stand the heat? I'll take a frosty day over bugs, humidity, mosquitoes, sweating, bees, pollen, flies, lawn cutting, ants, sunburn, etc etc ANYDAY.
Pacing, it's all in how you pace yourself; anything worth doin' well, is worth takin' your time, enjoyin' the task!
Griff,
SASS/CMSA #93
NRA Patron
GUSA #93
There is a fine line between hobby & obsession! AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
For Europe as a whole, about 200,000 people die from excess heat each year. However, about 1.5 million Europeans die annually from excess cold. That is more than seven times the total number of heat deaths. Just in the past decade, Europe has lost about 15 million people to the cold, more than 400 times the iconic heat deaths from 2003. That we so easily neglect these deaths and so easily embrace those caused by global warming tells us of a breakdown in our sense of proportion.
Ed, that's nice. But I really prefer the view out my backdoor in winter. And the beach is real close too.
Sonw, is something you visit, then go home where you don't have to dig out you car.
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don Tomás wrote:Jeremy,
Sounds like they should have sent you to MCMWTC (close to my neck o' the woods) before sending you to your new duty station!
Tom
(last year photo)
They did but that was back in Feb of 2000. Where are you at I spent a lot of time growing up around there. Bishop was a regular destination for us lots of ghost towns around there to poke around.
Jeremy
GySgt USMC Ret
To err is human, To forgive is devine, Neither of which is Marine Corps policy Semper Fidelis
Coming home from the range today - 70 degrees, report to follow - last song that played on the oldies station was "Indiana Want Me, Lord I can't go back there"
In the High Desert of Southern Calif. ..."on the cutting edge of going back in time"...
14" of fresh new snow 2 nights ago...2" more added yesterday...I LOVE IT! Took out a second model 1873 in 44 WCF to try out and to walk through my woods..shooting at targets of oppurtunity (ie: snow clumps on the trunks of distant trees). Found some crow tracks, some deer tracks, and some turkey tracks... Watched (and heard!) a large pileated woodpecker rip bark off a tree, everything else was quiet, white, beautiful. I will take this weather any day. You can have your heat. The older I get, the cooler I like it.
"...for there is a cloud on my horizon...and its name is progress." E. Abbey, 1958
cold is do-able, you just have to be prepared. Coat, hat, gloves, boots, scarf, etc. Gets to be a pain. In California, you don't have to "suit up" just to step outside.
"I'll tell you what living is. You get up when you feel like it. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is."
I mean for crying out loud what the heck is all of this white stuff and why is it only 27 degrees outside what did I do to deserve this sort of punishment? Just Kidding 
