The Crowes have very interesting luck when it comes to winter weather. When we moved to UNI, we kept telling everyone that we were excited to see snow, complaining that we never got enough where we were living. Everyone gave us funny looks, but we shrugged them off. Then the first winter came and people politely said "oh, we haven't had winter THIS bad in years!" Then the second winter came and people said "wow, we're just having really rough winters!" And then the third winter came and as people tried to make excuses we just said "we know, we know. Unusually bad winters. Yea right."
So then we take jobs in Terre Haute and start in January (winter). We're telling everyone we know that we're excited to move south and that we are tired of terrible winters. And then people at work start talking about a storm that's coming. That was Monday afternoon. Tuesday and Wednesday I didn't see anyone at work, because I wasn't at work, because a massive ice storm came through on Monday evening and the university closed for the first time in something like 20 years. It was the worst winter weather I had ever seen. At one point 90% of Terre Haute was without power and by the end of the storm the local news stations were saying that Vigo County (where we live) was the worst county in the state affected by the storm! Luckily we only lost power for a little while in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, in an effort to avoid having to chip two days worth of ice off our cars should we have to work on Wednesday, we started up the vehicles. They ran for over 30 minutes before we could begin scraping. The parking lots literally look like ice skating rinks.
Moral of the story: stop talking about how we're just going to LOVE this new area's winter weather to your family, friends, new colleagues, etc. Just keep quiet and hope for the best.
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