Just a couple weeks away from this here in my part of the upper midwest:

[Itchinjim]

[3catwoman3]

1. What part?

We spent 4 long winters in Michigan’s UP during my husband’s assignment at. KI Sawyer Air Force base.

When my parents would visit, my mom would alway remark on how pretty it was because of all. The trees. My usual response was, “It’s possible to get tired of trees when that’s all there is.”

[doc03]

4. Mitt Romney when campaigning in Michigan said "The trees are the right height".

[3catwoman3]

5. Oh, jeez, I had forgotten that...

…mysterious statement.

[2naSalit]

2. We're already there.

It's been snowing for several days, at least three, and rather cold - below +20F, and we ended up with a total of about 14". That's what's sitting on my car in one of the least windy parts of the parking area now that the sun is shining. We are supposed to actually get up above freezing sometime tomorrow, for about twenty minutes.

After this, though, we may have warmer than normal temps for a week or two.

[LakeArenal]

6. My sympathies...From Costa Rica. 80 degrees.

Don't hate me🙋🏼‍♀️

[2naSalit]

7. I don't.

I was tired of summer, it gets so old after a couple months. I'm okay with winter as long as I have shelter and clothing for warmth, which I do after over a decade at roughly 7,000ft above sea level.

I will, however, be ready for spring by the time it comes around again.

[LakeArenal]

8. We always thought it's not the temperature it's the wind.

That wind slices right through a body.

Edit: We always thought Wisconsin would be perfect if we could just eliminate February.

[2naSalit]

9. It's about the same here.

I lived in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois for about ten years in the 70s and 80s. I was deep in the snow during the blizzard of '78 or '79. I have stories about that winter.

But I seem to need the snow, I grew up in it.

[ShazzieB]

11. I was living in Northern Illinois during those years.

I remember that winter well. It was a doozy.

[2naSalit]

12. I was...

Enroute to Detroit from the NW and it wasn't a thing until southern MN where there were drifts across the Interstate and a ground blizzard, at night. But by the time I got to Portage, WI, it was a different story. After taking a short break there I got back on the road and everyone coming north was warning us not to try and exit the highway until the other side of the lakes or south around St. Louis. Well, I lived in Algonquin, IL and had to get to the house so I/we (I was with the spouse at the time) got off at Marengo. It was a mess beyond the truck stops. The snow was half way up the radiator on the truck. Made it to delivery two days later but Chicago was a disaster for weeks.

Going through southern WI, though, cops were trapped in their cars in the median turn arounds, all the entrance and exit ramps were full of bogged down vehicles trapped by deep snow... unbelievable.

I'll never forget that one either.

[in2herbs]

3. Lovely to look at but I prefer the heat. nt

[HAB911]

10. Beautiful, but you do it so I don't have too!