Recent comments in /f/newhampshire

New-Vegetable-1274 t1_j5kcjwz wrote

Anyone that laments the loss of New England winter's didn't live through never ending snow from October to April. A snowblower then was an expensive luxury and the worst part was all passenger vehicles were rear wheel drive. Even with studded snow tires or chains driving sucked. A normal twenty minute commute turned into an hour long white knuckled drive. Yeah, it's nice to wake up to a winter wonderland now and then but also nice that it's gone the next day.

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snowswolfxiii t1_j5k9ryp wrote

I didn't want to out Leno's, but because it already was, hard agree. I don't know if Sr. is still operating it, but friendliest guy in the world, you absolutely get what you pay for in fill and quality, and the atmosphere feels like a timewarp to simpler and better times. To this day, I've never found a place as good as Leno's.

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sheila9165milo t1_j5k4ws4 wrote

Notice how warm the ocean is right now compared to a few decades ago? The temp off Hampton Beach is 42 degrees. That's insane. It used to be 33 degrees when I was growing up in the 1970s, right on through the 1990s. Then pond hockey tournaments started getting canceled because the ice wasn't thick enough, the ice races on Milton Three Ponds got canceled year after year and can't happen now because they don't freeze enough to have them, no rime ice at the shores now. In about 20 more years or so, we'll be experiencing Southern winters of 50s-60s through the winter and zero snow at all at this rate.

People who complain about the cold and snow and talk about moving South and I tell them hang in there, it's coming this way. So, enjoy beautiful scenes like this while we still can because they aren't going to be around forever. Global warming is accelerating at a rapid clip.

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