I am 69 and I have seen much worse than this in the Carolinas. Back in 1970 I lived on the edge of Charlotte, NC and we had a period when running streams froze, I saw a small pond frozen so thickly that a horse stood on it and licked the ice to a depth of several inches in an attempt to get a drink. We had days when the HIGH was twelve above! In 1973 I lived where I am now and we had 17 inches of snow here along I-95 about seventy miles inland from Myrtle Beach, one area to the South reported just over two feet of snow. We also had other strange weather that year. In ‘69 I lived just South of the NC line and we had freezing rain that destroyed every single utility pole in a huge area and wrecked forests. Some homes were out of power until the spring.
One thing was different then, we didn’t have any idiots claiming it was all caused by global warming. No one then was crazy enough to even consider such a damned fool idea.
You are spot on. The climate goes through cycles short and long. When hurricanes are severe, the global wormers (spelling intentional) yell “global warming”. When we have unusually cold weather and we say “some global warming”, the scream “it is just a weather event”