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Growing up in suburban Syracuse, we knew that if it started snowing before, say, 8 pm that road crews would have things cleared by morning and off to school we'd go.

When I moved to Oregon about 5 years ago I marveled at how rust free the cars were, while my loyal buggy wore its rust badges of courage earned through many battles with Central NY road salt.

Maybe an anthropologist can study how over the generations Portlanders have gone from brave pioneers in covered wagons to scaredy cats in slippy-slidy Subarus.

Like John from Salem, I've had enough of non-event, on location news crews. But luckily BBC is on OPB at 6 pm so, thanks to the alarmist local news, I'm much more aware of world events. Or at least former British colonial news events.

Stay warm.

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