He also likes to reminisce about the snow he had every year as a kid, and that when he was a teen, he and his brothers would drive their truck out on the frozen lake
The lake hasn’t frozen solid since I was a child, and they were always telling people not to try the ice for skating since it was so thin people kept dying by falling in.
The snow hasn’t stuck for more than a day since I was a teen, other than massive week-long snow/ice storms from changing weather.
It’s going to be in the 90s later this week when it should be cool enough to break out hoodies.
Of course, pointing any of this out when he brings up climate change results in complete dismissal.
Even reading your description of the situation was stressful, God damn. If I heard my Dad say that I would want to literally scream.
The situation you’re describing with drastically different winters without snow is why I moved out of the Midwest. I grew up in Wisconsin with glorious snowy winters. Now it mostly rains in the winter. The actual climate classification of Wisconsin has changed, it’s a different number now. The only way to continue to deny climate change is to be delusional. My condolences about your Dad, that must be frustrating as hell.
My dad continues to deny climate change.
He also likes to reminisce about the snow he had every year as a kid, and that when he was a teen, he and his brothers would drive their truck out on the frozen lake
The lake hasn’t frozen solid since I was a child, and they were always telling people not to try the ice for skating since it was so thin people kept dying by falling in.
The snow hasn’t stuck for more than a day since I was a teen, other than massive week-long snow/ice storms from changing weather.
It’s going to be in the 90s later this week when it should be cool enough to break out hoodies.
Of course, pointing any of this out when he brings up climate change results in complete dismissal.
Even reading your description of the situation was stressful, God damn. If I heard my Dad say that I would want to literally scream.
The situation you’re describing with drastically different winters without snow is why I moved out of the Midwest. I grew up in Wisconsin with glorious snowy winters. Now it mostly rains in the winter. The actual climate classification of Wisconsin has changed, it’s a different number now. The only way to continue to deny climate change is to be delusional. My condolences about your Dad, that must be frustrating as hell.