[Nomadicus]

Originally Posted by AliveandWell

Well, this is only my opinion but consider yourself lucky to be experiencing cold like you are now. When it is cold, it is much easier to prepare for it. You can prepare for it by dressing warmly and then you can be outside for 2 hours and not sweat, especially if it is in the 30s or 20s. The only thing we've been getting here in Los Angeles the last couple weeks is dry, sunny weather in the 70s or around 80F. And only once in the last 2 weeks has it rained. It is too dry here. Dry weather leads to dry skin, dry mouth, dried out eyes and your throat gets dry too. You are lucky. Maybe we should switch places? HAHA!!

One small or make that big problem. Dressing warmly will not bring back the millions just lost in crop damage or help pay the extra utility bills for seniors on fixed incomes. The elderly are the first to suffer either the extremes of heat or cold.

[Kathleen1971]

Originally Posted by tilli

Actually, you know what's really annoying? People who move here and complain constantly about perfectly normal seasonal weather, but then have a fit when people try to discuss an unusual weather pattern.

Standing ovation sister. Standing ovation.

[ChrisA70]

All I know is today is perfect, I am loving it outside at work today!!!! Tomorrow is going to suck, cold, damp, rainy...... Stuck inside tomorrow.

[Momma_bear]

Originally Posted by TANaples

in NAPLES, SOUTHwest Florida, have them. You can buy them for about $5 at a Thrift Store. You cannot afford $5 every year? You cannot pass them down from older kids? You don't pass SHORTS down to younger siblings?

If not this, you don't know how to LAYER? Put an undershirt, long sleeve shirt, sweatshirt, and a lightweight jacket on a kid? I am truly AMAZED how you object so much to cold weather, TRYING TO PROVE A POINT. The parents of these POOR kids manage it, but you TRANSPLANT parents CAN'T??????

Add ANOTHER reason why I so hate living here. Oh, it isn't just the weather, it is most of the PEOPLE here too, the exception being the natives and the immigrants. "I moved here for WARM WEATHER and I will be damned that I am GOING TO GET warm weather."

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Nobody is trying to prove a point by not buying heavy duty winter clothes. In many cases it has NOTHING to do with being able to afford it or not afford it. We don't buy heavy winter clothes because for the past 9 years we have not needed them. Quite simply, it doesn't usually get that cold in Weston, FL (one hour directly east of Naples).

I cannot get my arms around the concept that in the world according to you my kids should get winter clothes EVERY YEAR because once every tenth year it will get cold for a week. If it gets cold for a week they can stay inside for a week. They have jeans and sweatshirts and that's all they need most of the time.