Subject: Re: Hurricane Milton, Paradise Lost
I'm not sure I would go for Michigan again. I was small, but I do remember snow that stung my face. It wasn't the light, fluffy stuff drifting gently downward. It hurt. Yeah, I was only 5. It was beyond cold, too. I went to high school in Denver (so not allergic to snow), but Kingston was a whole 'nuther thing.

My wife, who moved to Michigan ten years before I did, swears that the winters here were colder back then (1993) than they are now. Dunno. Anecdotal evidence and all that- but it does seem the temps here don’t get down to zero as much as they used to, and those storms that drive ice crystals in your face seem rarer than wheen I arrived in late 2003.

The snows still can get deep up north where Mike used to snowmobile, but not quite as often and for not quite as long.

At our cabin up north, a few dirty snow drifts usually remained in the deep woods till the second week of May or so. Now they are gone by the end of April, or at least such has been the case for the last three years. Could be an anomaly, but the contrast between now and just a few years ago is pretty stark.