James Wheeler
03-02-2006, 09:06 AM
90 degrees, I can't wait to see how hot it gets there in the summer. I'll take the cold and a normal summer that I can enjoy over 90 in the winter. There are usually only one or two weeks in the winter that are unbearable, the rest is not bad. I love skating on Lake St. Clair with my kids. The only other people out there usually are a few ice fishermen and they are in their shanties. Every year our city has the insane Polar Bear Club festival and they cut a big hole in the ice and jump in. We were skating when they were doing that and this guy keep landing his open air plane on the ice next to us. It had a small engine not much bigger than the one on my lawn mower. There was a beer tent out there and it was party time. Don't get me wrong, I love the warm weather, but when it starts to hit 100 over an extended period of time then it's time to move. I was in Gela Bend, Arizona and it was 119 degrees. When I got gas it was too hot to wear shoes and my feet would've burned to cinders if I walked on the black top barefoot. I had to manuver my van so that I could reach out and get a bag of ice out of the ice machine. It was an older van so I couldn't run the air for fear of over heating. I will never move from Michigan. The Great Lake state! I'll be driving home tonight in the snow and when I get there I'm gonna hit one of my neighbors with a snowball. I can't wait!