You’re pretty deep behind enemy lines yourself, grey_whiskers. Minnesota might be the one place more pinko than Hollywood...
Remember Gen. Creighton W. Abrams at the Battle of the Bulge?
"They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards."
Besides, if global warming is true, that would just cut a month off of the cross-country skiing season...6 below zero as I write this, heading for -15 overnight.
Cheers!