When I was younger I swore to God that I would never live in a weather conditions that included a hard Wintertide season ever again.
As a kid, I endured plenty of Midwest Winters that really seemed prefer a lot of fun when I was young.
Then, I got a bit older and I realized that the Wintertide weather was a much greater problem when you had to commute to a place of employment every day. It was my job to thaw and clear off my car every day when it was covered in snow and ice. It was my job to shovel the driveway in sub-zero temperatures. It was my job to make sure that there was extra clothing and blankets in the car, should I ever have a heating system or vehicle cut down. All of us put together made my yearly commute legitimately stressful and my yearly life legitimately cold and angry. I never wanted to live in a location where I had to worry about snow and horrible temperatures ever again; Unluckyly, life has a funny way of making you confront the things that you dread. I found myself living in the midwest again, enduring even colder Winters than I ever remembered. However, I wasn’t so angry looking through the icy cold temperatures and falling snow… As long as I didn’t have to commute to toil in the day, and staying at home with a forced air heating system and a full-blown fireplace is really not such a terrible way to spend the cold season. You just hunker down with your current heating devices and watch the snow fall outside the windows. Being detached from preparing a vehicle for traveling in an icy tundra makes a big difference. So do my heating devices.