Living here in San Diego, we are not dealing with the extreme cold winter weather that an estimated 100 million other people are right now from the Midwest to Texas and the South Central and the Great Lakes and the Northwest parts of the U.S.
And if you didn’t come from a place where it gets very cold in the winter, it’s hard to even relate to extreme cold and lots of ice and snow is even like to live through.
Having grown up in Chicago, it’s easy to remember the feelings of biting cold on your face, the tingling of almost frostbit fingers, the trudging through the snow, the shoveling of the snow and trying to drive on snow packed or ice packed roads.
But even here in San Diego where we have to tolerate highs only in the mid 60’s, we are still feeling the impacts of the extreme winter weather far away from us.
Among the thousands of flights cancelled or delayed over the last couple of days are dozens and dozens affecting flights to and from San Diego International.
Some travelers can’t get to where they want to go and some can’t get back to San Diego from where they went.
The grounding of the Boeing Max 9 planes due to the blow out of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines plane earlier this month has made things even worse.
But when it comes to living through winter this year, it’s better to be here in San Diego than living through it somewhere in this winter’s deep freeze.
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