snowbirds

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Okay, Now I'm Totally Jealous

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 15 Jan 19

What gives with the weather? I just read they are having snow flurries in Florida. What? Florida? Hey, Mr. Snow, I live in Wisconsin. Do you know where Wisconsin is? It's in the northern US just south of the Canadian border....

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Need Ideas

Mary Guice @Elizaby (6902) • Pensacola, Florida 23 Sep 18

We all hear about people living up North coming down for the winter and we call them snowbirds and I got to thinking what do we call people who go North for the summer months to get away from high humility and heat. Any Ideas or...

southerners going north for the summer

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The Tourists are Arriving in Masses

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128837) • Gainesville, Florida 30 Oct 16

This afternoon, as my daughter and I were leaving Disney World, memories of Hurricane Andrew flashed before my eyes. Was it because of an impending landfall of a Cat-5 hurricane, or due to the destruction of the landscape around...

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Snowbirds - The British Version.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 2 Mar 16

In Florida they have their annual influx of 'snowbirds' - people escaping from the cold winters in the northern states. Spain is to the Brits what Florida is to the Americans. My husband and I are currently enjoying the delights...

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Snowbirds

marcyaz @Marcyaz (35316) • United States 8 Nov 15

When I lived in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona in the winter months there were always snowbirds who came to the city to spend the winter months golfing, and shopping. A lot of these people were older and retired and the traffic...

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Oh how hard it is for us to get into the States

suspenseful @suspenseful (40192) • Canada 14 Apr 08

As I want to be Snow Bird, I cannot understand how hard it is to visit or stay for an extended period in the States. The forms you have to fill out, not to mention the passport (have it already), but with my husband's minor stroke...

getting into the states

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Prayers Going Out!

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 19 May 07

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - The Canadian Forces pilot killed in a Snowbirds jet crash during rehearsal for weekend performances at Malmstrom Air Force Base was to be married next month in Montreal, the unit's commanding officer said...

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Why are "snowbirds" so rude?

bama_bug @bama_bug (81) • United States 15 Jan 07

I live in the far south of the US,every winter we get people down here fron the northern states because our average temp thru the winter is 65 degrees.But my complaint it that when these people come down here they are rude,poor...

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Winter hide-a-way

lonewolfnan @lonewolfnan (4366) • Canada 30 Nov 06

Winter is hitting much of the US and Canada.If you could,where would you like to spend the winter months?

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