I used to live in Spokane, the weather was fabulous in the summer, bone dry, no humidity and no rain for six months of the year. Other than the first winter I live there, winter tended to be relatively mild, much more so than here in Maryland. That first winter was brutal, with more than 100 inches of snow on the lawn. I remember having to shovel off the roof of my house three times that winter, and the third time I slipped and fell. No problem--only fell about a foot or two.
The main reason I moved back here was to go to medical school at Johns Hopkins. Unfortunately, I was rejected because I did not fit into any of the minority categories or age, which at the time took precidence over old farts like me who at the time had just celebrated my 30th birthday.
BC was nice, but black files, never-ending rain, and snow just was not what I was looking for. Hence, we moved back to the People's Republic of Maryland. Ironically, they call it the Free State, but since I've lived here I've never found the freebees and the legislature seems to never have found a tax they didn't like. Gotta' find a big sailboat and get the hell out of here!
NAH--She'll never go for this one either.
Gary
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