Winter? What winter? First day of Spring, and we had a high today of 90°F. We had to CLOSE the doors and windows to keep COOL. And we’re not even anywhere near either coast – as far from the Atlantic as you can get and still be in the State (less than 10 miles from the western border), and more than halfway up from the Gulf. Bizarre!
And I’m with WB. I did enough Detroit and especially Buffalo winters to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the Alaskan interior couldn’t lure me at ANY price. 
GS
"Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land."