Let's see... Ernest_at_the_KC Stock Yards. Yea, I guess it has a nice ring to it...
The 4 of us are too old to move back to some snowy/icy non global warming state.
My wife is from Illinois and her brothers still live there. They were calling her around Thanksgiving and bragging about how warm it was back there.
The recent snow and ice storms smacked them very hard. One brother was without power for 4 days. His small semi farm is reached by his private 1/3 mile long road and his light tractor couldn't budge the snow and ice. No electrical power meant his heating system didn't work and neither did their all electric kitchen. He put in a wood burning stove in their combo kitchen, living/family/dining room a few years ago. Without that stove, they would have been in real trouble.
Other relatives in that area got caught at work and had to spend a couple of unplanned nights at work. Others couldn't get to work.
One of our sons, who moans about the cost of living in California was back in up state NY, NH and Conn last week, freezing his California butt off. His mother, my trophy wife, asked him when he would be selling his California home to move back where he was. He actually swore at his dear Mother.
Another son, this summer, returned from Oregon after 16 years of rotten rainy weather with frozen rain during a large part of the winter.
Most of us probably have conservative friends and family members to spend most of our free time with, and we avoid most contact with the Hate America/Christians form of rat. We still have several friends who fall into the category of the old democrat. We can kid these people and likewise, and have good times with them.
The illegal alien problem is in every state in the lower 48. Every state has too many of the new rats and many are controlled by them. Arnold ain't perfect, but he isn't Gray Davis and vetoed about 200 bad bills last year.
We can avoid going to and into LA and Gay Frisco. Hell, I don't go to Marin county and parts of Sonoma County to avoid the radical lefties. We don't watch the local tv news and stopped taking the Frisco Gay Rhonical in 1992.