The Two Places I Have Lived

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 The Two Places I Have Lived
Fort Huachuca Arizona, and Lilburn Georgia are very different places. There are differences in
the weather, the outdoors, and the people of these two places I have lived. Fort Huachuca is in
the Extreme south east corner of Arizona, close to New Mexico and the country of Mexico.
Lilburn is about 20 minutes north east of Atlanta Georgia.
For the most part, the Weather in Fort Huachuca Arizona was very hot, dry, and sunny
almost all year long. When it rained, it rained a lot but that only happened a few times a year. Do
you know that little dark red oval they show on the weather channel in the south east part of the
country when they are telling the national weather? That’s where Fort Huachuca Arizona is.
During the very long summer season, 110° was almost a daily occurrence. We thought it as a
relief when the temperature dropped below a hundred. Granted it was a dry heat, it was still quite
warm in that part of Arizona. As little kids, my brothers and I would crack eggs on dark colored
cars and they would cook in 20 minutes. Every once in a while, between two and four times a
year it rained. I liked when it rained cause it was so unusual. It always rained a good amount
when it did so flash floods were common.
The weather in Georgia was considerably different. Summer months offered some of the
same heat as Arizona but sacrificed a few degrees for some heavy humidity. The spring and fall
offered some cool temperatures along with some warm days, depending on the particular front at
that time. Georgia winters were bad. I went from 70 or 80 degree winters to 15 and 20 degrees.
It can get very cold in Lilburn Georgia. Every winter I spent there we received cumulatively at
least a foot of snow. Another great difference is that it always seemed to be raining in Lilburn. It
didn’t rain quite as much as it does in Pensacola, but far more than it ...