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come on up here about the end of January and you will see what cool weather is!:surrender:
 
Missouri usually isn't too warm then either, but it has been in the 70's on New Year's Day when I went detecting and everyone was in short sleeve shirits and shorts, but I've also seen New Year's Day ice and snow covered and way below zero degrees.........so just depends what God using nature hands us! :angel: God Bless! Betty
 
No thanks! I LOVE winter but I wouldn't want it to be as cold as what yall experience! I'll stick to our 40's, 50's, 60's... with an occasional 30's or rare 20's for highs! Just wish there was something we could do about our summertime highs. :surrender:

Lisa
 
I can relate! I have seen many Thanksgivings, Christmas, and New Years, when people around here would have the air conditioner on! It might not be so hot, temperature wise (maybe around 80ish) but sometimes our high humidity will kick in with those warm spells in the winter and make it feel much hotter and causing us to reach for the controls on the air. I've also seen it be freezing COLD on those days! Around here, you just never know about the weather.

Lisa
 
An occasional 30s would be nice. Specially after last years FEET of snow. Yeah you folks from the great lakes areas suffer the snow but we had a ton in eastern WA.. Two feet in 1 day. was crazy. Hoping for a little global warming this year.

Glad you got a little relief from the rain.
Jeff
 
TreasureDigger said:
Hahahaha! Yeah, we are accustomed to the little afternoon showers in the summertime due to the high humidity. We're also used to the tornadoes and storms that plague us year round. What part of Alabama was/is your family from? I'm located in the northeastern section, in the foothills of the Appalachians Mountains. Just northeast of Birmingham (about an hour or less). I live in a very rural community called, Gallant. Some of the cities and towns around me are: Gadsden, Altoona, Walnut Grove, Boaz, Steel, Ashville, Oneonta, Rainbow City.... your family anywhere close to these places?

Lisa
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Hi Lisa,

We had/have lots of family in and around Monrovelle and Evergreen Alabama, down in the southwest quarter of the state. Not very big towns, lots of farming in and around there and most of our relatives lived out in the country on small farms. My grandmother on my moms side was born and raised in Evergreen, but moved her immediate family to Arizona back in the late 30s or early 40s. Her family goes way back in that area. She passed away a number of years ago at 92, and when she did she still owned her farm there in Evergreen which one of her cousins was living on. If I recall it was over 10,000 acres of land she still owned, much of it still covered in valuable timber. Unfortunately, she had huge medical bills here in Arizona when she passed, and my mother had to sell the farm back in Alabama to pay the bills. I tried everything I could to come up with enough money to buy the farm, but just could not do so. It really hurt to see it leave the family. Don't know what I would have done with it, don't know anything about farming, but I might just have moved my family back there and given it a go. I could have gotten used to the bugs and humidity. At least there would not have been any dust, ........nice and green. How often to you guys dust your house? We have to dust at least twice a week here in Arizona, ..... dust, ...... dust, .....dust! I'll trade dust for the bugs, even those little red ones, what are they called, ..... chiggers?.

I have to tell you, my first visit to Alabama was when I was about 14. I will never forget trying to understand my relatives when they were talking. I remember looking at them sometimes with a puzzled look and my mom would get on my case for not responding to them. I just couldn't seem to initially understand them due to their southern way of talking. I soon picked it up, but I felt like an idiot. I remember apologizing to my aunt; "I'm sorry," I said, "I just didn't quite understand what you were asking. You know you guys kind of talk funny down here. " "Oh it's OK hun," she said "but it ain't us. You folks from Arizona are the ones that talk funny." We both laughed.

My greatest memories of the folks in Alabama? Some of the nicest, most respectful, and cordial people I have ever meet. Sadly, you won't find much of that here in Arizona, not anymore at least.
 
No thank you, we've had PLENTY!!!

Lisa
 
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