Look! A snowflake! Close the schools!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Where do you live?

I've lived in various parts of the country, some of which have snowplows, some of which don't, places where residents can drive in snow and crappy weather, some where residents can blithely ignore bad weather.

I actually feel quite fortunate that I've lived in several parts of the country, and have experience with lots of different weather conditions.

Oh, and I originally grew up in northern NYS, north of Utica, NY, where the snowfall was just astonishing. When I was there in January, 1969, training to be a ticket agent for Mohawk Airlines, the other women in my class were from Syracuse, Rochester, Binghamton, and two from Long Island. I was recently from Tucson, AZ, but as already said, had grown up north of Utica. Anyway, the other women in my class were utterly astonished at the amount of snow they were seeing there. I more or less shrugged, as I was familiar with this kind of snow.

I'd been hired to work at DCA, Washington National Airport, and started there in January, 1969. In DC, most people there were from the south, had no experience with driving in snow or ice, and the city tended to shut down entirely in any kind of bad weather. Sigh. I will admit that I did not drive at the time, took the public bus to the airport, and honestly, want to live again somewhere that I can do all of my travel by public bus.