A few images from Buffalo, New York...

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39. Those -50 wind chills as a regular feature

of winter would make me move away or avoid living there.

It's all in what you are used to as normal. If I'd grown up there, I probably would have learned to tolerate it. But temps like that here would cause schools to close and be a major event because people here would not know how to survive it.

This blizzard was so terrible because of the combination of unusual cold temps for here with destructive winds that knocked out power (and therefore heat) and toppled trees, power lines, and damaged buildings, plus dumping 4 feet of snow in 3 days that caused gigantic drifts that were impassable and could not be removed or plowed through.

And all of this happened in a densely populated urban area, not in open countryside.