Quoth Jay 2K Winger
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(Past tense because now I work 3rd shift, when the store is closed to customers, but I used to be a daywalker.)
Anyway, I'm now in SC, like it says in the location thingy, but I was born and raised in northern Illinois (the "raised" part being about a 30min drive south of Chicago), so snow isn't a big thing for me (well, okay, I still like to play in it

I moved down here with my family in the fall of 1989... a few months before that big snowstorm that pretty much shut down the entire east coast. I was like "damn, they're trying to make me feel at home here, aren't they...".

(Also moved just in time for Hurricane Hugo. I'm far enough inland, though, that it just meant a lot of rain.)
It was really amusing when I joined the Navy, in February a few years later. Me and the dozen or so other people coming from SC were dressed in what's about mid-fall wear up north. We get to O'Hare at like 2am, and the temp is somewhere just below 32F/0C while we're waiting for the van to take our group to Great

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