“Understood. I grew up in Indiana in the days of hard winters. Lived in Michigan and Ohio, too.”
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Yup - the Plains, Upper Midwest and Industrial northland can get some mighty nasty winters..
The other seasons usually are beautiful, though, almost makes up for the permafrosted season.
I suppose pretty much everyone in those parts of the country has their own version of the joke about having “two seasons”; winter and road repair.
:D
Minesota’s Theater of Seasons: One act of mosquitoes between two acts of snow.
In my day the four seasons were: “winter”, “more winter”, “it’s still winter”, and “road repair.”