reamsden

4 foot drifts - only took 4 hours to dig out. Yikes!
Bobby

pw2006

Wow! I'm not going to say anything about driving the 63 this morning. While I'm at it, I will keep mum about the low to mid 70s we are going to see Fri and Sat. Now if they could just do something about these ridiculously high tax rates in CA.

66jack

One thing for sure, gas will be cheaper when the snow melts...

capevettes

That looks bleak We looked very similar to that after our blizzard a couple of weeks ago. Most of it has melted now. It will start warming up in March even in your neck of the woods. Hang in there

BOB WINSKI

It looked like that a few weeks ago in Rhode Island.Hate the snow my wife and i would be in Florida wright now except we have a business hear and not a good time to sell.This state is still in the toilet.Love that warm weather and can drive the cars 12 months a year

RatDog

Moved from VA to FL after graduating from HS in 1964 and spent the next 40 years here. Moved to Minnesota in 2005, lived there for 7 years but back in FL now.

Sunny skies today and in the mid-70's. I'll be driving my '67 with the top down today and will never live up north again.

[BTW, as far as housing prices, we took a $100K loss on our MN house when we sold it last year BUT . . . we saved $100K on the price of our FL house so it was a wash and no reason to postpone a move if you can do it .]

Frankie the Fink

Weather never bothered me up until I was about 55 years old. After that, I still loved looking out the window at the snowy landscape in Maryland -- for about 20 minutes.

I still love looking at snowy landscapes, on my COMPUTER! -- down here in sunny Florida.
Oh - did I mention we have cheap real estate and NO state income tax!

markmywords

Florida has it's issues as well. That coupe of you's better have a/c if you are going live down here and don't let me get started about the hurricanes or better yet the cost of hurricane (wind) insurance

wmf62

no hurricanes of consequence in 40 years in my area of West central Florida...
Bill

corvetteed

I lived in Pa most of my life; moved to Fla., discovered they didn't tell me/ warn me, about the bugs. You can maybe control them, but, you never get rid of them. Too buggy, too hot. And, the summers are like the winters up North, you pretty much stay indoors where its air conditioned, like in the winter, you'll probably mostly stay indoors where its heated. The Mid-South is best (I winter in NC now).

wmf62

and that is why we have an influx of snowbirds every winter...
Bill

RatDog

I agree with the comparison of staying indoors in FL in the summer and in the winter up north. However, while you're holed up inside in the summer down here in FL, you're not thinking about anything out in your driveway you might have to go outside and shovel <LOL>.

sixtysixtom

I lived in South Florida for four years. You really have to get used to the humidity and all the mold that goes with it. Love Bugs!!! May and June you can't drive anywhere on the pike without an encounter, and they ain't pretty smashed allover the front of your car and windshield!
tom

wmf62

unless you lived in Florida in the early 70s you have no idea how bad the 'lovebugs' could be... they were so dense that there were tracks through the bodies on the road like you would see tire tracks in the dusting of a light snow...

and, ask Frank about the mayflies...
Bill

ifitgoesfast

Florida has it's goods and bads. But you should consider North Carolina... something in between.

I'd move to Arizona if (when) it had (will have) an ocean.

corvetteed

[QUOTE=wmf62;1583239547]unless you lived in Florida in the early 70s you have no idea how bad the 'lovebugs' could be... they were so dense that there were tracks through the bodies on the road like you would see tire tracks in the dusting of a light snow...


Yup, I agree w/that. I lived in Tampa in the mid 70's, and the lovebugs were really bad.

Avispa

How about Texas? There are decent places (Austin, Dallas, San Antonio) where the air is dry enough not to rot out your beautiful restoration in the garage. I don't think any place in Florida can make that claim, and I know we sure can't in suburban Houston.

Plasticman

I moved to FL to be closer to the inlaws.........300 miles is close enough.

Would rather contend with them and the bugs (and I am not putting them in the same category), than the cold & snow.

And have had no issues of "rot", since moving down in 2005.

Plasticman

wmf62

i spent over a year in Glen Rose, TX and i can tell you about dry.. (and HOT...)... 115+ every afternoon..

surprisingly, another HOT dry place; Fresno, CA and the San Joaquin Valley.. 115+ in the daytime, 70s at night...

and even more surprising, along the Columbia River in southeast Washington state... high desert and HOT and dry...
Bill

ifitgoesfast

San Antonio is awesome (Riverwalk), and you have the Hill Country to drive.

Austin is nice, lots of outdoor rec and great college football (I'm a UT TexEx). Driving (except I-35 and MoPac) is great there, with Loop 360 to West Austin (beautiful drive), towards the lake along RR2222 and RR620 is probably the best place to drive a Corvette. I grew up an hour north of Austin and went to college there, I miss it.

Excellent TexMex in both above towns.

I would never live in Dallas. Someone will crash into the rear of your vette. Horrible traffic, aggressive drivers. But, it is the city, night life, and you've got a fun lakes within driving distance for boating (Lewisville Lake, Joe Pool Lake, White Rock Lake).

If you want a nice peaceful retirement town, look into Marble Falls, TX just north west of Austin. Nice place.