No! He's missing out. The winters up here are very beautiful. They give you every excuse to get cozy by the fire and listen to music. The snow just gives me an reason to get on the old JD A and get he working hard producing a wonderful selection of the unique two cylinder 180 degree firing order sound. I'm glad to report I have now recovered enough to move snow with the old girl.
The one thing I don't like is the ice. I always say the only bad thing about our winters is when we get warm weather, that brings trouble. Cold is much better. I always say: - in the winter the only thing worse than cold weather is warm weather.
I do agree about northern winters being beautiful. A long time ago, I spent two years in Anchorage, Alaska. It was cold enough to keep snow on the ground without melting from November to May. Temperatures in the winter were mostly between -10° and +10° F. I knew someone there from Minneapolis who said Minnesota could be colder. The coldest I can remember was -35°. Outside, you had to learn to breathe while keeping your mouth shut.
I agree about ice. It leads to awful trouble on the roads. In Alaska, no salt was used on the roads. Driving on hard packed snow was surprisingly easy compared to driving on snow that thaws and refreezes.
The only ice I thought was beautiful was ice fog. In December, before Cook Inlet froze, a cold snap could create ice fog if there was little wind. It was similar to lake effect snow except that the water vapor from Cook Inlet froze into ice crystals. For about 2 or 3 days there was a crystalline fog that covered everything in Anchorage with glitter. It was treacherous getting around, but beautiful.
Oddly, because of the bizarre extremes of the Polar Vortex, Anchorage is now having warmer weather than we are in Maryland.
