They sure are good at hurting Americans where it hurts most! How is that acceptable from an American president?? Isn't the whole job about making life better for all citizens?? And, of course, keeping us out of war?? 
And Jamestown (Lucille Ball's home town 
) is on the other side of the state, though their winters aren't any better. I'm in the Northeast, Adirondack foothills, not too far from Vermont, just south of Lake George if you know where that is. 
But just a year ago we had a severe weather event, it was the last Thursday last October. I was supposed to show up at an event for a couple of friends of mine and it was my job to pick up the cake. It appeared to be snowing when I started out, unheard of in fall in the North Country. But I started out anyway, I live on a street off of a street off the main road, so it's tough to tell what's going on closer to town. But the main road was even worse, big wads of snow falling and the trees along the road were already covered. Fortunately, traffic was creeping along, nobody was going over 20. I got scared so I pulled into a side road (where I got stuck) to call another friend to ask if we were still doing this. She said "I'm the only one here." 
So I persevered, the 10 minute drive to the store took me a half hour and the girl at the check out told me about how scared she had been driving. The two honorees showed up, but that only made seven of us. One of the women left to check on things at home and never came back, trees were down and she couldn't get out of her driveway. I followed one of the others out and noticed things looked awfully dark. Turns out the traffic lights were out, the main road had lost power.
Because it was fall, there were still leaves on the trees and the ground was still warm, not frozen, trees came down all over the area, lots of buildings were damaged, too, and power lines were down, there were outages all over. We seem to be having more severe weather every year, lots of rain and wind storms, too. But that one was definitely one for the record books! 
And congrats on the job! But you know what "we" say, real life comes first! And I do miss the friendliest place on the board!
And how did you find such a flattering photo of the "first family??" 
Have a good week, too - it's great to see you on the board... 
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