I hear you, Jack – the Pacific Coast has been getting pounded. You got snow and SoCal has rain in buckets.

They don’t even carry snow tires in much of Britain and Europe outside of Scandinavia, but it looks like they are going to have to start.

As for vacation property, you should be able to find something cheap at the moment, but I wouldn’t buy anything that was less than 100 feet above current sea level, or that lacked a reliable water supply. While we have a lot of property available, and it is reduced from its peak, I think most of it is still too expensive near the coast, but there are decent deals further inland if you don’t mind hurricanes.

On the other hand, the daylight hours will start to grow longer, so it feels like I’ve turned a corner. I am currently looking for retirement property anyplace where the local tire retailers don’t have studded tires in their inventory…