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Tue Dec-07-04 05:07 PM
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Poll question: Winter Hells. Worst US winter cities. |
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Here are a few choices. I grew up in the Boston area so thats what I have to compare to.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:08 PM
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:08 PM
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Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 05:08 PM by Champ
But it has been :scared: the last few days.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:09 PM
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6. I was going to put San Diego on my list but not enough spaces. |
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:17 PM
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:08 PM
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3. Farmington, Maine.. Not a city.. but bitterly cold |
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:09 PM
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they measure the snow in feet
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:50 PM
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36. My dad lived there as a kid and spoke of massive amounts of snow |
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:09 PM
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5. I live in Minneapolis, but |
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although it is probably colder with more snow, Chicago has that WIND and the lake which makes it pretty ridiculous. I still vote for Mpls.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:14 PM
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MPLS does have the skyways, but then it doesn't have the Winter Carnival. MPLS does take too long to remove snow.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:18 PM
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milwaukee gets MORE wind than chicago does!
as in, a higher average wind speed, all year round...we have the lake too!
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:22 PM
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22. Duluth has it much worse |
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But, then again, that's practically Canada and full if inuit people.
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:11 PM
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45. Yeah I hear duluth is pretty much eskimos and igloos, they are used to it. |
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:32 PM
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49. My dad told me stories about Minneapolis |
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He was stationed there for several BAD winters(record snow fall, weeks below zero)
But what about the Donner Summit or San Fran?
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:39 PM
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50. I live in Minneapolis, too, |
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and it gets damn cold here, but the area is pretty well equipped to deal with the weather. The streets get plowed (though not always as fast as we'd like) and the airport hardly ever closes. I think Chicago seems worse because the dampness makes it feel colder. Actually, the coldest place I've ever personally experienced is Grand Forks, ND, which is really, really cold and really, really windy. Horrible wind chills.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:10 PM
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Marquette, MI
All these big cities? C'mon.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:16 PM
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.... now there's some winter for ya ....
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:25 PM
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:10 PM
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7. It's not a city but the worse place to be would be... |
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Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 05:11 PM by Cobalt Violet
On Mount Washington, NH. The worse weather in the world.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:12 PM
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12. Highest wind ever recorded on Mt. Washington. |
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A beautiful part of the country.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:10 PM
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:11 PM
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10. Rochester has you beat... |
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:23 PM
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Rochester does hold the snow cup and the early lead this year.
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:42 PM
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60. The lighter side of Dave Berg loves ya |
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:11 PM
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9. Chicago has simultaneously the worst and best weather of all. |
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It's the only place where the summers are regularly in the 100s and the winters are easily 30 below. Everything can change at an instant.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:19 PM
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But I voted for Bismarck.
In a Minneapolis summer its not the heat - its the humidity. 98 degrees with 98% humidity = my own personal hell.
Same can be said for cold and wind chill factor LOL
But at least we no longer measure the snow in feet...like the border of MN and ND.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:52 PM
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38. okay so when do we have the best weather |
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I live in Detroit and it seems at least a couple times a winter, we're on track to get hit by a huge winter storm. But for some reason (the "Lake Effect"?) it goes south of here and Cleveland or sometimes Buffalo get socked.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:12 PM
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13. I don't see Cleveland on this list |
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But then, I don't live in Cleveland.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:14 PM
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14. Buffalo is so bad tha Indians won't even live there |
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:14 PM
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15. Sr. year of college: wind chill -74. Thank you Green Bay. |
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:scared: :scared: :scared:
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:15 PM
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16. The whole states of Oklahoma and Texas |
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I'm in Iowa and winters really suck here. It's cold as anything -- the snow sticks around for months. The difference is that Iowans are prepared. We've got snowplows, chains for tires, snow shovels and, most importantly, we've got people who actually know how to go about their business in the snow and ice.
Winters may last a lot longer here, however, any amount of snow and ice was hellish in Oklahoma and Texas. They simply have no flippin' clue.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:18 PM
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20. Fargo. Devil's Lake. Places like that. |
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Not that I don't like Fargo on a good day, but it's very windy there, and when the winter blizzards hit, it's horrible.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:22 PM
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23. I have a friend from Duluth and she told me thats the worst. |
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And she lived in Alaska too.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:26 PM
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29. Duluth is pretty awful in the winter - |
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Many of the streets are extremely steep and hard to navigate in snow and ice. It's also windy off of Lake Superior.
Duluth has some mighty fine redeeming qualities, though. :)
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:22 PM
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24. I'm voting for Buffalo |
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and having it count as Rochester and Syracuse too because it's all awful....and yet I miss it horribly down here
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Tue Dec-07-04 10:13 PM
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52. I've have heard that the Syracuse, NY area is way worse |
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than Maine in the winter. My husband when to Syracuse University and is from Maine, so he can compare the too. I also voted for Buffalo. That area got ten feet of snow in sight of one week a few years ago, I remember.
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:27 PM
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58. Yep insofar as I can tell it is |
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that 10 footer in Buffalo dropped 9 on Rochester. I have pictures of myself standing next to snowbanks three times my height. It snowed a foot+ a day for a week
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:23 PM
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It was 45 degrees this morning!
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:28 PM
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31. I had to scrape ice off my truck the other day in El Cajon. |
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It actually got down to 22 degs in Santee saturday night. Thats insane for SoCal.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:29 PM
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32. It did NOT get down to 22 freaking degrees for Santee. |
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No way, no how.
Send me the link. This I gotta see.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:31 PM
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34. It was on Channel 8 news sunday. |
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The thermometer sign on the sign in Santee Sq. registered 22. Unless it was so cold that the sign malfunctioned. I'll look for a link.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:24 PM
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ICE, ICE, ICE, then SNOW!
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:25 PM
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28. St Louis - they dont know how to plow |
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Seriously, we dont get a ton of snow here but we get a couple good storms. And I grew up in Wisconsin, so I know a little about winter weather. But what makes it bad is the MO Dept of Trans. They have NO idea how to prepare for the weather. They dont know how to plow or salt. We had a little ice storm last year and schools were closed for 3 days because the roads were still impassable.
And the drivers! They think they can still drive on this stuff! How many cars do you have to see in the ditch before you wonder whether you should really slow down?
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:55 PM
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39. I always get a kick out of watching footage of drivers in warmer |
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states drive when they get a bit of snow. N. Carolina is the same way...they will get a few ice storms a year and I don't think they know what to do.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:26 PM
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30. Dirty pool, maveric.... |
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Especially since you as well as I reside here in Shangri La.
Though this cloudy coolness crap better stop soon or I'm going to the equator!
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:29 PM
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33. This is too cold for me. I came here in 1980 after growing up in Boston. |
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22 degrees in Santee saturday night.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:36 PM
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35. I love winter - thank goddess - because our bad winters can be |
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REALLY REALLY REALLY bad...............
Not horrible today, though. About 8 below, 4' of snow, 2 1/2 hours of daylight.
Glad for you folks in the Lower 48 to come up and try it out............ :P Or, better still, let's take a drive up the Elliott Highway to Prudhoe Bay in January..................
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Tue Dec-07-04 10:24 PM
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I couldn't convince my husband to move to Alaska. I loooooove cold weather, though, and hatehatehate warm weather. Northofdenali, your current conditions sound fantastic to me! I also prefer the dark to daylight. :)
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Wed Dec-08-04 12:07 AM
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61. so how often do you see the aurora borealis |
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I have been there twice, in summer and of course it was light at 3am
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:50 PM
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Cold enough to suffer, not cold enough to snow. Just rain, merciless rain.
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:57 PM
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40. Chicago, because it is so congested and when there is a heavy |
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snow there is no place to move the cars to clear the streets and alleys. And the sidewalks are so small there is no place to put the snow
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Not because of the amount of snow, or even the cold temperatures. Washington, DC has a horrible winter because people in this area freak out when the first flake of snow falls. There do not seem to be many people here who know how to drive in a winter storm, and those same people do not have sense enough to stay home when it's too dangerous for them to drive.
The Washington, DC metropolitan area has some of the worst traffic in the entire U.S.A. when the weather is good. When the weather is snowy, or we have sleet or freezing rain, forget about going anywhere. People here in their big honking SUVs don't realize that 4-wheel drive doesn't mean they can stop faster.
:grr:
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I was in Washington for a January years ago and there was and inch or so of snow. I was so shocked, the city actually closed down. This Minnesota girl cast a scornful look in all diretions.
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it's been in the 40s here lately!! :evilgrin:
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:59 PM
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Coldest place in the lower 48.
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You gotta see it to believe it.
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:16 PM
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47. I grew up on Lake Erie between Erie and Buffalo, and I can safely |
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say that that whole area sucks in the winter :)
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:15 PM
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46. My wife grew up in Watertown, N.Y. |
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She describes it as Buffalo, only smaller and with some SERIOUS snow (not those pussy Buffalo flurries).
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Tue Dec-07-04 10:14 PM
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53. Buffalo is also a summer hellhole, imho. n/t |
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Tue Dec-07-04 10:20 PM
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55. I've lived in Boston and Denver. Boston is cold cold cold!!!! |
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It's freakin' freezing here. And the snow is nothing to sneeze at.
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Tue Dec-07-04 10:24 PM
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56. I think Indianapolis is incredibly boring/dreary |
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because it's cold but NOT snowy enough.
Seems you might as well get a bunch of snow or be warmer.
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:41 PM
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59. Im sorry Buffalo has the best Summers and Falls... winter lasts |
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to long but at least we have four seasons!
Poor Buffalo... you peeps just gotta come out for summer and fall that'll change your minds.. unless your from here and think that... then you're just bitter!
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