Monday Madness - Spring is Springing

Update: Increased type size - the original was unreadable in Bloglines. Sorry about that.

Otto must be coming down with spring fever ... all the questions this week deal with our locales. Maybe she's thinking of moving...

The following questions all begin with Where you live...

1. ...did you have to turn your clocks forward one hour this weekend?
Yes we did... I'm still trying to get to them all.

2. ...what is the price of gasoline?
I noticed at Sam's Club this evening - Regular is$2.149 and Premium is$2.269 for members -- that's about .05/gallon less than full retail around here.

3. ...which natural disasters, if any, do you have to worry about?
Hurricanes, blizzards, floods, drought, pests and plagues ... the usual biblical shit.

4. ...do you have a local newspaper, and if so, do you subscribe to it?
Yes, and no.

5. ...do you subscribe to a local cable company for television viewing?
No - I have satelite.

6. ...what is the speed limit on your road/street?
45 MPH which is interpreted universally to mean 60 MPH.

7. ...how far do you have to drive to the nearest post office?
12 miles

8. ...what is the average temperature in April? 40°F

9. ...what is the average temperature in December? 26°F

10. ...are your four seasons drastically different from one another?
There's an old saying here, "Maine has nine months of winter ... and three months of hard sledding." Spring and Autumn do represent a change, but it isn't long duration like some places even only 300 miles to the south. We tend to go from 40's and 50's in April and early May into 80's in late May and June, with a lot of 30 degree nights sprinkled throughout. Summers are generally hot and muggy inland with the only true coolth at the coast.
Winters are horrid and rival those of the upper peninsula in Michigan, northern Minnesota and Wisconsin for nastiness, cold and snow. On the coast, while milder, you have to contend with the bone-chilling, heat-robbing cold of the Gulf of Maine. For us cold-blooded types, it'll do. The rest of the world finds it inhospitable in extremis.

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