Rare Weather Pattern over US — Moving East to West

[IrishAyes]

20. I had a little horse ranch in the high desert outback

before retirement, but never learned to love the climate even though I learned a lot of desert survival skills.

If $ had allowed, I'd have retired to Calais, ME just a stone's throw across the border from Canada. In fact Calais at least used to be the only American municipality to get its water from a foreign country! Well, at least I made it far north enough to be in the same gardening zone as southern ME. It's RedNeckLand but they found out I bite back, so things have quieted down a bit. And we're about 850 feet above sea level, my part of town's a good hundred feet above the local river, so no flood worries. Things could be worse.

My dad used to start a winter's day by running around the outside of the house in his bare feet because it jump starts your immune system and makes the rest of the day feel easier by comparison. So you can understand my preference for colder climes.