My parents used to go to Florida for a couple of weeks in January each year. Not a place to live. But it was better than fighting mega-snow in PA. They got a lot of golf in.
I have lived in Florida for over 50 years – anything is better than cold and snow. Plus I live in an area that people tend to flee to. I believe our strongest local hurricane has been a ‘Cat 1’ – usually just a TS instead in our area, if we get hit at all. Mostly just the rain/feeder bands that extend across the state as the storm moves.
So we get a lot of snow up North. We hunker down, then get out and shovel it to one side and continue on with our business. At least we don’t need to evacuate our homes for several days, and worry if our homes will still be livable when we return. Oh. And don’t get me started on earthquakes…….
While bike riding in Florida a senior couple’s Cadillac drove up over the side-walk to try to get me. The door to the driver’s reticular activating system was shut, locked, and bolted.
I swore I would never again live where you have to shovel the precipitation instead of it just running off. Now retired in AZ; yes it gets hot but people have been living in this area for 2500 years, and I survived 4 years in Saudi Arabia (hotter than AZ).
dcdete. over 2 years ago
I wonder what currently active snowbirds refer to?
rshive over 2 years ago
My parents used to go to Florida for a couple of weeks in January each year. Not a place to live. But it was better than fighting mega-snow in PA. They got a lot of golf in.
adunano367 over 2 years ago
Well, it is!
gokarDun over 2 years ago
You keep meat in the freezer so it lasts…winter cold keeps you preserved.
cmerb over 2 years ago
WARM , WARM , please : )
sandpiper over 2 years ago
That’s what we like about the Chesapeake Bay area, There are milder forms of what Weather Underground calls major storms elsewhere.
jagedlo over 2 years ago
Instead of a read, it looks like he’s bowing to the book in the first panel…
mr , b over 2 years ago
gotta get da F out of illinois … afraid to go out anywhere
Droptma Styx over 2 years ago
Most snowbirds are in their northern nests during tropical storm season anyway. June 1 – Nov 1.
flemmingo over 2 years ago
We had a saying in south Alabama where the beaches are on the Gulf. We said snowbirds brought $20 and two shirts and didn’t change either.
gammaguy over 2 years ago
‘still better than a blizzard!’
Not if the “tropical storm” blows your house down/away.
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
Quick, now look up “snowbird”.
Rose Madder Premium Member over 2 years ago
I have lived in Florida for over 50 years – anything is better than cold and snow. Plus I live in an area that people tend to flee to. I believe our strongest local hurricane has been a ‘Cat 1’ – usually just a TS instead in our area, if we get hit at all. Mostly just the rain/feeder bands that extend across the state as the storm moves.
J. R. M. over 2 years ago
So we get a lot of snow up North. We hunker down, then get out and shovel it to one side and continue on with our business. At least we don’t need to evacuate our homes for several days, and worry if our homes will still be livable when we return. Oh. And don’t get me started on earthquakes…….
KEA over 2 years ago
I appreciate snowbirds… at least they’re not hanging around here complaining about the weather.
zeexenon over 2 years ago
While bike riding in Florida a senior couple’s Cadillac drove up over the side-walk to try to get me. The door to the driver’s reticular activating system was shut, locked, and bolted.
ComicsBinger Premium Member over 2 years ago
Blizzards usually don’t take the roof off.
rwballca over 2 years ago
I swore I would never again live where you have to shovel the precipitation instead of it just running off. Now retired in AZ; yes it gets hot but people have been living in this area for 2500 years, and I survived 4 years in Saudi Arabia (hotter than AZ).
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 2 years ago
You got that right!!
(And I was born in Florida, back in the previous millennium.)