Bad as Woodrow has it at times, I don't think even Dakota winters would equal what Sister Harb has to put up with in Finland. Would anyone believe that the kids here in southern Illinois only had 1 day of school all last week. Last Monday and Tuesday were cancelled because of the first snowfall of the winter -- a grand total of 2 inches. And early Thursday morning we had sleet and freezing rain leaving a sheet of glaze ice over all the roadways that still wasn't clear on Friday. That part I actually understood given that they couldn't get all the rural roads clear, but am still shocked to see how even a little bit of snow can shut everything down the farther south you get.