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Old Posted Feb 19, 2023, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV View Post
[A] lot of people... are irrationally scared of winter, despite never having experienced it.
My sister finished college in Austin, married her boyfriend, and moved to Chigago so he could attend the School of the Art Institute. That was in 1977. Just in time for a couple of REALLY bad winters, including the Bilandic fiasco. For a whole winter, they only saw the roof of their Chevy Vega peaking out above the snow and ice. Our family had lived in Toronto just five years earlier. Chicago's winter was much worse.

I never forgave my sister for moving back to Texas and depriving me of a free place to stay in that wonderful city.