Lol! When I was in college one of the young women I knew was from Brazil. She had never seen snow in her life. That year, like all years, it started snowing. She came running out on to the balcony at the college and dancing around. I asked her why she was so excited and she explained it was because it was so beautiful and she had never seen snow before.

I grinned, "Oh, you'll be sick of it pretty soon."

The next day the college was closed down due to 4-foot tall drifts in the driveways. It took them almost a week to clear enough snow that classes could resume again and it was still melting off a month later.

When I ran into her again I had to ask how she still liked the snow ...

"It sucks! How can you people live here!?"



Ah Kansas, land of extreme weather ...