Arrgh the eastern US weather

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8. Reminds me of exactly 40 years ago.

My brother and I were getting married in a double wedding in northern Virginia. We figured it was acompromise location, since our wives were from Germany and Japan.

My father in law had not been on an airplane since being evacuated from a field hospital in the Ukraine after losing a leg at Stalingrad. My mother in law had never been on an airplane in her life, and was terrified. Our first stop was Boston, where my work was located (we moved to Dallas at the end of that year). They asked what the weather was like. I said in April, it would be very spring-like compared to the cold and sleet of northern Germany, where they were from. My wife-to-be and I went up there to make the trip with them. Bremen to London, and then London to Boston. My mom-in-law gripped her seat, white with fear, at take-off. Then we leveled out, smooth flight, and would you like something to drink ma'am? She asked, and that's it? That's it, we confirmed. She said, wow, I was terrified for all these years for nothing!

So, we got to Boston. A little cooler and windier that usual, but nothing out of the ordinary. Dinner, and to bed. The next morning, we woke up to a huge blizzard. About ten inches of snow on the ground.

"You were saying about that mild spring weather?" they reminded me.

But five days later, in Washington, it WAS mild spring weather. The only thing that is for sure about spring east coast weather is that nothing is for sure.