[quote=@HachiRoku]
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We get a solid week of snow per year where I live...
in Canada.
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We get ours in chunks because our weather can never decide on what it wants to do. I remember earlier in the year it was snowing in April (when normally we'd be drowning under the torrential downpour causing the nearby river to overflow), and for most of the summer it was a constant back and forth between extremely hot and heavy rain.