๐Ÿ’€ ๐“•airchild ๐Ÿ’€

I was born in the US South. My parents still live there. I moved away as soon as I could. When asked where I'm from I usually said/say Oregon b/c that's where I spent most of my adult life (altho now maybe I'm 'from' here ๐Ÿคท).

Anyway, when I was a kid it would snow where we lived at least once a year, sometimes more. Often enough for a couple of days of sledding and school closures. Nowadays, as the climate has changed, it almost never snows there.

Seeing pics today from my mom showing snow at my childhood home is wild. Almost surreal. It's been decades since I saw it like this.

There was no point to this story. Sorry. ๐Ÿ˜„

Jan 31 at 10:19pmWeb
Show threadPeter CohenJan 31
@tankgrrl a cold day in hell
Show thread๐Ÿ’€ ๐“•airchild ๐Ÿ’€Jan 31
@flargh ๐Ÿ˜‚ Appropriate.
Show threadDigital Mark ฮป โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿš€ ๐ŸŒ—Jan 31

@tankgrrl Meanwhile I live not far from my yout', and we used to be BURIED in snow from mid-October to March, schools never closed because we're used to it but you'd go outside and could flop into the snow and be lost until Spring.

It's currently 51ยฐF, the grass (!) is green, sure my flowerbeds are dead but it could be early fall. We had some cold and a few inches of snow. All gone now.

So far past fucked I can't even see it from here.

Show thread๐Ÿ’€ ๐“•airchild ๐Ÿ’€Feb 1
@mdhughes 100% accurate, no notes.
Show threadAaron MahlerFeb 1

@tankgrrl You just summed up the reason I was whining about snow predictions and realities last week. We just donโ€™t get good, deep snow here in Va anymore like when I was kidโ€ฆ nothing, slop, or some snow and then ice. We got a frozen lunar hellscape out of what should have been a great snow a week ago. Everything is ice for a week now (and solar panels perfectly coated to yield zero as a bonus).

What we do now get far more than I recall as a kid is heavy wind just about any time of the year.

Show threadAaron MahlerFeb 1
@tankgrrl While on the topic, Elisabeth just shared a photo she found of PROPER snow at one of our favorite places to spend a week: Bald Head Island, NC. This is what we didn't get last week. Would love to see it at BHI, but exceedingly rare, I suspect.
Show thread๐Ÿ’€ ๐“•airchild ๐Ÿ’€Feb 1
@halfpress Wow. Pretty and also crazy.
Show threadMackajFeb 2

@tankgrrl

I'm from the UK. But have similar memories of different childhood weather.