WEATHER OR NOT
I knew a building manager who followed the weather reports relentlessly and thought the end of the world was coming every day via hurricanes, heat waves, or snowstorms. I don’t think she ever went outside.
Another manager was also fixated on the weather. He did a lot of indoor apartment painting and wanted every day to be 74 degrees, like Costa Rica, so he wouldn’t sweat.
A neighbor of mine once asked if I had a winter place in Florida.
I was surprised. I’m not there — retired in Florida.
However, I know a klezmer musician — a bushy-haired, ex-hippie clarinetist — who moved to Florida and took up golf. Anything is possible. I hope he plays a hora by the water fountain on the 16th hole. (Mickey Katz did that. His band surprised a golfer on his birthday.)
Arizona versus Florida. That is a question. Which place is too hot, or not too hot.
Alice and I went to a wedding in Florida, where a guest asked, “Are you still in Cleveland?” Meaning “Are you nuts? Do you like gray skies, slush and potholes?”
Another Clevelander at the wedding said, “The day I hit sixty-two I had to leave.” She spends her winters in Scottsdale, Arizona. A third Clevelander, originally from South Africa, prefers Florida over Arizona. “I like the ocean,” she said.
One time in Florida, at a Yiddishe Cup gig, I ran into a man who had lived in both Florida and Arizona. He said summer in Arizona is unbearable, and Florida is bearable.
What about Ohio? Is it bearable? I think so.
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That’s “funny” – I was just thinking about summers in Arizona vs. Florida within the past two days. Florida doesn’t do the 115 degrees F as is so common in Arizona but Florida gets the humidity. I’d try to skip either. When I was in Scottsdale I went in early Dec. and it was 60s down to 40s. That kinda means winter coat, heat in bldgs., etc. The one time we were in Florida, Miami area, it got down to the 40s as well. Might have been Feb. or March. Up to the 40s some of the time in Cleveland the same days.
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