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For those of you thinking of moving here from California, be warned. That stuff that comes out of your lawn sprinklers actually falls from the sky here. Really! It also doesn’t shut off after 30 minutes which can be a real bummer.
Here’s another brutal discover. Check out the photo of my windshield. Looks like someone sneezed then tried to wipe it off with their hairy forearm. That stuff is called ice. Go to your kitchen and open your freezer. See that stuff you make frozen margaritas with? Imagine that on your windshield. Strange, I know. Here’s the really scary part. That’s just from a light overnight frost.
In a related story, our Prius got a scrape on the right side of the front bumper. I took it to a body shop and the guy told me to come back in the spring. Why? He took one look at my California plates and predicted that this winter I was bound to hit a deer or slide into something hidden under a snowbank. I might as well wait and get it all fixed in March. What a nice guy.