It is the old question of living intensely in one spot or gathering experiences from a bigger world. Both ways have their pluses and minuses.
I always enjoy learning more about where I am, but I never want to forget what I have learned in other spots.
While you have seen it cold on the Crystal Coast, I have worked outside in -40 temperatures with forty miles per hour winds in New Brunswick, Canada. That is so cold that your car seat is as hard as rock, and insulation on many wires just crumbles in your hands. Our first year there we had twenty three feet of snow. The kids would use barn roofs as sledding hills because the snow was up to the eaves.
In eleven years we lived there I saw one storm drop over four feet of snow in a day. We saw school canceled once because the snow banks were so high they were afraid kids playing on them would brush against power lines.
Then there were the years on the Bay of Fundy where we fished for herring with nets sixteen feet in the air, and tied between telephone poles. There our property had
a set of cliffs that were probably 75 ft high. One nor'easter the waves broke near the top of them and foam from the waves blew a mile inland only to freeze like insulation on power lines. We also got 12 inches of snow one September. The power was out for a week.
While living in Halifax, we got a visit from the pack ice one May. It filled Halifax Harbor. It was like living inside a glass of iced tea. Then there were the days in July when a down jacket would feel good while watching the girls play soccer. I once saw snow in Newfoundland in August.
In Roanoke, Virginia we have seen plenty of flooding as errant hurricanes wander up and do battle with the mountains. Hurricane Floyd even sent a tree into our screen porch. About six or seven inches of rain in a short period of time will stress the Roanoke River. More than that and you can see some major road closed. We also got over three feet of snow in 1996 as temperatures dropped to minus 12. It was so much snow they had to clear our road up the mountain with a bulldozer.
Ida appears to have caused
more flooding damage to areas of Southwest Virginia than it did to Emerald Isle. Figure that one out.
Roanoke has also shown us a lot of beauty as
the sun rises over the mountains.
As far as climates go, the Crystal Coast has a pretty good one in my mind
Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone.
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A lot of flooding on Emerald Isle
