And I'm glad - glad that it's been an extreme winter. Any Chicago winter would have seemed cold to me, yet if it had have been a mild winter I would have said it was cold, and the locals would have brushed it off. If it was going to be minus 10 degrees all the time, well hey, it might as well be minus 20. What's few degrees between friends? Most of Jan and Feb it has struggled to get above freezing point. And its actually worse when it does, because the snow starts to melt, but then freezes again into slick ice, which is much harder to walk on than a couple of inches of snow.
Pictured is Julio (from Brazil) and I standing by Lake Michigan, which is too large to freeze solid (it's the size of Tasmania), but would frequently have the surface freezing over. When it begins to melt it looks like Antarctica.
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