I had come to North Carolina a few times during the 90s and 00s, and the weather had never been this cold. I guess that just like a marriage, once the honeymoon is over, then you'll hafta face the music.
This year, the winter came during the fall. The temperature at night sometimes dipped into the low twenty. A few night it went down to as low as fifteen degree Fahrenheit.
When I see the city trucks running around to spray a brine of salt and water onto roadways to help reduce ice forming, then I know it's going to be really cold.
Late December when the snowstorms were coming in abundant, during one night, it poured down more than a fifteen inches of snow. I woke up in the morning, looking out of the bedroom's window, the whole area were covered over by a thick white blanket.
When I was young, I could handle the cold very well. But nowadays, it's getting harder and harder. I am longing for the day I could move back to California. That's the reason why I always want to have a couple of month long vacations during the month of January and February.
Funny though, when it snows, you feel a little warmer then before.
It is the most beautiful scene at night, when all of the Christmas blinking lights are on under a lingering falls of snow. Nothing can describe its fully beauty.
This year we decided that we, only the four of us, were going to share the Christmas night together, with absolutely no guess.
We've had many plans to discuss about, and of course, no outsider would be allowed, period ... :).
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