Comment #5041

2026-02-03T09:41:18Z

You have a good point. Just how powerful a federal government must be in order to hold together a country of individual states has been a contentious issue from our very beginning.

It also brings to mind that the greatest divide in our country is not from state to state, but between rural and urban areas.

Comment #5040

2026-02-03T08:21:44Z

I wonder how far apart Florida and Minnesota actually are. Both seem to have a pretty strong “Don’t tread on me” mentality.

Comment #5039

2026-02-01T10:14:31Z

Clarification for those from other states: The term "Florida Ice" usually refers to that treacherous film that appears when a light rain hits roads that have been dry for some time and have accumulated oil and other nastiness from the passing traffic. I once laughed at "crazy Florida drivers" because of the spike in auto accidents during a gentle rain. But the problem is more the people from cold climes who haven't yet learned that this situation can be even more dangerous than ice, because there are no visual cues that the pavement might be slick.

This morning, having awakened to a temperature of 27 degrees and falling, we could have actual ice on the roads—caused not by precipitation, which isn't in the forecast, but by water runoff from sprinkler systems left on overnight to keep them from freezing.

When my family moved from Upstate New York to the Philadelphia area, my father would shake his head at the locals because they referred to temperatures in the 20's as "bitterly cold."

The other day, my New Hampshire granddaughter, who had been walking to school in conditions of single digit temperatures and wind, looked at the thermometer one morning and exclaimed, "Twenty-five! It's warm!"

Experience and perspective matter in all of life. Today, I'm going with "bitterly cold."

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