Btw, and speaking of the "Great White North", but in THIS case just south of the 49th Parallel, namely Minnesota...
While working for many years at LAX for the old Northwest Airlines(and now of course merged with Delta A/L), the management would send this "Ground Security Coordinator"(that means I was the local NWA "liason" with the TSAs) each year for a three day recurrent training and updated security measures seminar to Minneapolis(the old NWA headquarters) every year, and wouldn't you know it, that damn class was ALWAYS scheduled in JANUARY!!!
And, this old L.A. boy remembers each and every year after I deplaned and left the MSP terminal to catch the shuttle bus to my motel, well, I remember thinkin' to myself somethin' like, "HOW in the HELL do you people around here PUT UP with this freakin' cold as hell weather for 4 to 5 freakin' months EVERY freakin' YEAR?!". NO thank you. Hell, if it RAINED more than 4 or 5 DAYS in a row in L.A., I'd start gettin' "cabin fever"!!!
(...just also wanna add here that I always did find the local Minnesotans very nice people on the whole.."doncha know".."yeah, you betcha"!)
