💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jan 31

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 🤷).

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. 😄

Show threadAaron Mahler

@tankgrrl You just summed up the reason I was whining about snow predictions and realities last week. We just don’t get good, deep snow here in Va anymore like when I was kid… 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.

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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 thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Feb 1
@halfpress Wow. Pretty and also crazy.