I grew up in Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota....My dad was an oilfield mechanic. I got my fill of snow! We moved to CA my senior year in high school, and my dad was head mechanic for the Cudahy Bar S truck fleet. Then I went into the Army and we spent a winter in upstate NY at West Point where my husband was a librarian at the military academy. When we got out of the service we moved to Phoenix and I've been here ever since...so I haven't lived in snow since I was 20. Don't miss it a bit!