<h2>“I just turned to my H and asked, if you saw a report on the news about horrible, snowy weather, where do you imagine they’d be reporting from?”</h2>
<p>And I would think of New England, with the crippling nor’easters and ice storms that knock out power for days. I went from Miami to Chicago to attend Northwestern–back in the 80s, when the winters WERE brutally cold (a -80F windchill off Lake Michigan was not unusual). And that was before Uggs and Smartwool and NorthFace. Yes, the winters can be cold but they haven’t been that bad in a long time and at least Chicago and the upper Midwest know how to deal with the snow, when we get it.</p>