In article >, "zuuum"
> wrote:

> "notbob" > wrote in message
> ...
> >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.


And Buffalo, New York gets a lot more snow than MN does -- I don't know
the cold temps they have there, though.
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