Weather where you are thread
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No. it's just I haven't lived somewhere cold since I was 14.
I was born in Tampa and my parents and I moved to my father's home town when I was 2. I lived in New York for about a year after college as well.
I hated the cold. I've always hated the cold.
This is where my father passed in the house he built in '73, the same one my brother and I inherited, and the estate sold.
Duchess County (Hyde Park) is where FDR had a mansion. Many old Dutch families and Gilded Age industrialists had mansions on the Eastern side of the Hudson.
The area was settled by the Dutch before the English. A lot of its place names and folklore are Dutch.
Its indigenous inhabitants were the Iroquois.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois
It's definitely cold there! There are four distinct seasons.
It gets much colder and there's a lot more snow if you travel north to Albany, Buffalo, etc.
I remember the last winter coat I had there. It was jacket length, down but too much, making it look like the robot in Lost in Space, with goofy late '70's style oversized wool collars.
My mother bought it for school clothes and I wore it for about four years.
Then when I left to live with my grandparents the summer before 10th grade, I left it there and used it whenever I was there during the winter.
It was a disaster. I don't know what happened to it. I assume it met a fate along the lines of getting thrown in a dumpster.