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Originally Posted by Spuds
As a real on topic post, I was chatting with my neighbor (~60 y/o?) who has lived in the area his whole life. He was telling me it used to get actually cold here in the winter with full-on snowstorms and everything, and summers were tolerable. Last 4 years I've been here it's snowed just enough to accumulate like 3 times the first 2 years with quite hot summers. In case anyone needed anecdotal climate change accounts. Maybe I should move back north...
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One thing that's interesting is that yes...in the mid-atlantic our winters are noticeably warmer...but we still have plenty of ice/slush/crap days plus more development and roads so we're still putting down plenty of road salt. Salt also tends to stick around for a long time...it doesn't really breakdown.
Road salt. Bad for cars, infrastructure (including drinking water), and teh fishes and critters.
- Andrew