"notbob" > wrote in message
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>I swear, I don't know how you ppl do it. This CA wimp is driven back
>indoors by
> by a windy 43 deg F morning. I can't even imagine cold that can do this:
>
> http://newscenter.ninn.org/modules.p...ticle&sid=8114
>
> Sure, we get a lot of snow in the Sierra's and we have our share of
> incidents (Donner party), but this is just plain scary.
>

Yeh, my brother went to school in Mankato and fled after the first winter.
I'll take Hawaii any day, but surprisingly, my second choice would be
Alaska... in the panhandle. Winter in the Great Lakes region is actually
colder than much of Alaska.