It seems like to me that it's only in deep winter and deep summer [January and August] that weather across the nation typically makes the top story on the news.
Michael and I had to run to Kroger today and pick up a few things, and after I got in the car, I thought to myself, I am not going out again for anything. Of course, I took Lola out to wee wee a couple of times, but there were no long sojourns outside.
Michael did the longer walks, and even HE wore a heavy coat, hat, and glove.
I wore a heavy coat and gloves, and even SOCKS - yes it was THAT cold - and I still froze. Kroger was cold inside the store.
Now, I totally understand why women wear those incrediby ugly Uggs boots. They are pretty silly to buy for around here, since we only have about 5-10 really cold days a year.
I purchased boots for my last international journey, the one to Kazakhstan to adopt Michael in 2007. I quickly found that the Crocs boots were too hot. In Russia and Kaz, it may be 35 below zero outside, but inside, it's 75 degrees, and you have to peel off layers or sweat a lot.
When I was in the process of adopting Michael I checked Weather Underground every day, and studied the information on Petropavlovsk. It was typically about 20-40 degrees colder than Atlanta.
Of course, when you are in country it's hard to understand what the weather is like, or what's predicted, unless you speak a lot more Russian than I do, or you watch TV with a translator. All I knew was that most of the time it was freezing cold, and a lot of times it snowed.
I never want to live in that kind of climate again. Three weeks was quite enough...
top photo - street scene
bottom photo - the back of Mike's orphanage the day I first met him, March 13, 2007 the building on the far right was the pig barn
of course, it was all worth it to bring this cute little guy home..
