# Pull down the space heaters and yank out the parkas! (Florida's winter has arrived) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656 "2006-10-24T00:58:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/21 "2006-10-24T17:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] They’ll go well with the hot chocolate I’ve been needing lately to keep the shivers away. Lucky bastards in sunshine land. Grrr. Well, brrr, anyway. [/QUOTE] The weather is one thing I don’t miss about Montreal. Of course, winter is the time of year when all Canadians envy Vancouver-ites. We’ll just pretend that points south don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/22 "2006-10-24T17:40:31Z")
:: decides to phone cousin in Tampa, just because :: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/23 "2006-10-24T17:51:54Z")
[QUOTE=Cerowyn] The weather is one thing I don’t miss about Montreal. Of course, winter is the time of year when all Canadians envy Vancouver-ites. We’ll just pretend that points south don’t exist. [/QUOTE] Why do they envy the Vancouverites? It’s probably nicer in their condos down here on the Gulf Coast. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/24 "2006-10-24T18:54:32Z")
To Floridans: kindly rot in hell while I freeze in my underheated uni. flat. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/25 "2006-10-24T18:58:30Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Clam] To Floridans: kindly rot in hell while I freeze in my underheated uni. flat. [/QUOTE] They do that during July and August if that’s any help. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/26 "2006-10-24T19:11:04Z")
Well, I must be acclimated to Texas now. It is about 70 and I am wearing a sweatshirt. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/27 "2006-10-24T19:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] They do that during July and August if that’s any help. [/QUOTE] Yeah, wait until next July, when all us Southerners are broiling alive in 100 degree heat. Well, at least the beach is still nice then. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/28 "2006-10-24T19:21:01Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Yeah, wait until next July, when all us Southerners are broiling alive in 100 degree heat. Well, at least the beach is still nice then. [/QUOTE] So’s the pool in my backyard. And the beer in my floating cooler. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/29 "2006-10-24T20:59:59Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Woohoo! I love it! This is the type of weather that always makes the pets run around like nutters and I don’t blame them because it makes me want to move around, too. [/QUOTE] Yeah, preach it! Our little’uns kept us awake for a good portion of the night by Gallivanting Wildly® 'round and 'round the apartment. Good sleeping weather – if you can get to sleep! ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/30 "2006-10-24T21:11:14Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Why do they envy the Vancouverites? It’s probably nicer in their condos down here on the Gulf Coast. [/QUOTE] Okay, the _vast majority_ of Canadians envy Vancouver-ites. The rest of us bask in the sun coming through our Gulf Coast condo windows. Better? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/31 "2006-10-24T21:32:20Z")
It’s 50 here in the Mid-Atlantic, but very windy and brisk. Lots of dark puffy clouds and peeks of bright blue sky. Everyone says it’s cold, but I love it. Days like this are just perfect - glorious fall days. I just started a fire in the woodstove, just to take the chill off. I’ll crack a window when I go to bed. This is perfect sleeping weather. I love winter. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/32 "2006-10-24T23:38:09Z")
It was nice! I walk around between my downtown job sites, and today I didn’t actually soak through my dress shirt before lunchtime. I love it when it finally gets cool (liveable) in Florida in the fall, and I fully intend to enjoy the next few months. Plus I look really badass in my gray double-breasted trench coat. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/33 "2006-10-25T00:16:13Z")
ok fine go ahead and gloat about your cold snap, but just you try to make candied apples in the sub tropics, can’t be done HAH! (many a batch of apples I remember sitting in a sticky pool of red candy and nuts, my poor mom was so low after those attempts at cool weather candy attempts in N Miami. Caramels?, forggetaboutit) ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/34 "2006-10-25T00:21:58Z")
OMG it was 66 this morning in Key Largo and I thought I’d stepped through my doors and onto a different planet. So NICE. It’s cooling off now and we’re about to go sit with a neighbor and have a drink. WITH SWEATSHIRTS ON! WHEEE! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/35 "2006-10-25T00:38:04Z")
Pussies. I’m looking forward to the first real blizzard (that is, bad enough for Mr. S to stay home from work) . . . snow howling around outside, a pot of soup on the stove, a roaring fire in the woodstove, and me nestled on the couch under one of my mom’s handmade afghans with a puppydog at my feet, watching old movies. The same for Mr. S, only add lattes as needed. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/36 "2006-10-25T02:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Clam] To Floridans: kindly rot in hell while I freeze in my underheated uni. flat. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=swampbear] They do that during July and August if that’s any help. [/QUOTE] Swampy beat me to it! Except it’s actually more like May through late October (If we’re lucky enough to get a late October cold snap. And don’t forget Hurricane season runs to November. Don’t begrudge us our few and far between weatherly joys. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/37 "2006-10-25T02:19:25Z")
I’ve been staying in NC last night and tonight-in the 30’s. Peninsula ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/38 "2006-10-25T02:28:52Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] I’ve been staying in NC last night and tonight-in the 30’s. Peninsula ensues. [/QUOTE] _applauds_ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/39 "2006-10-25T06:42:23Z")
It’s a mite chilly out. I might think about putting on a jacket tomorrow. While continuing to wear shorts and flip-flops, natch. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656/40 "2006-10-25T13:12:42Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67] Pussies. I’m looking forward to the first real blizzard (that is, bad enough for Mr. S to stay home from work) . . . snow howling around outside, a pot of soup on the stove, a roaring fire in the woodstove, and me nestled on the couch under one of my mom’s handmade afghans with a puppydog at my feet, watching old movies. The same for Mr. S, only add lattes as needed. [/QUOTE] Heh. My Wife has been measureing the snow we’ve received so far this year. 60 inches. 😃 Another storm is on the way tonight [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-down-the-space-heaters-and-yank-out-the-parkas-floridas-winter-has-arrived/377656.md?page=3)