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Old Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:51pm
Mark Padgett Mark Padgett is offline
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I grew up on the south side of Chicago. In all my years in school, I only had one day that my school was closed unscheduled. It was during winter of my sophomore year in HS and the HS was closed because the boiler broke and it was freezing in the building. I remember going to school many times with over two feet of snow on the ground.

Here in Portland, OR. it's a totally different matter. They close the schools if there's snow flurries predicted thirty miles away. I think about 80% of the adult population here have never driven in any snow, not even an inch high.

I've got a buddy here who grew up in NYC. He feels the same way about this area.
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