Reply #6: As to your brother's comments - I told my kids nearly 15 years [View All]

[rurallib]

ago that something strange was happening, that the world was turning upside down, because winters were so warm. I love sledding and after 1995 or so we have had very little to sled on. I'd take my kids out at 5 in the morning before the little bit of snow would melt.
We had one winter where it would snow in the morning and be completely melted by sundown. Seldom gets below zero anymore. This in an area that used to get 100+ straight hours below zero.
Hard winters used to kill the fleas and bugs to make it more tolerable in the summer. This year the drought did them in.