#i mean the house un-American actvities committee had to come here!

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Doc how are you at the store when it's snowing? Isn't everything shut down? Isn't everyone in a barely restrained state of panic like they would be here?

I know that the answer is that people aren't used to it, and lack some of the structure to handle it, whatever, whatever, but it still absolutely BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND that less than an inch of snow can bring places to a standstill, and during the polar vortex I was literally digging myself out of my spot AFTER work, and the Hi-line in Montana was LITERALLY colder than Antarctica, and we were like, "WELP."

It's just mind blowing to me! It's not like we get 'heat days' and we aren't really prepared to handle high temperatures.

Used to be that in Montana before a big storm, if you went to the store, the only thing that might be missing was beer, but we've had so many fucking out of staters move here that I have a bunch of fucking non-montanans lose their goddamn minds over eight inches of snow even as they're buying their ~Ford F150~ and I'm passing their butt sticking out of a ditch in my Toyota Corolla because four wheel drive doesn't magically confer the ability to drive in slick weather the way idiots with no experience in snow thinks it does. Buying a Subaru Forester does not free you from the obligation to learn how to defensively drive on the ice. And they don't even have the common decency to be embarrassed about their histrionics over a little bit of powder, when they MOVED HERE WILLINGLY AND OF THEIR OWN VOLITION. It's like me moving to Arizona and acting like 107 degrees is a fucking surprise. Can you not read? If you're going to fuck up my state's culture at least shut up about Montana having the same fucking weather it always has and leave the goddamn bread on the shelf.

SORRY WE JUST HAD ELECTIONS AND I HAVE MANY MANY MANY EMOTIONS I AM SO TIRED OF EVERYONE MOVING HERE I HATE THEM ALL.

ahem.

Anyway, yeah, actual ass Montanans who have lived here for generations and didn't move here in the last five years don't get super wild about shit, because we know how to deal with it, and much like British people watching me have a meltdown as I attempt to navigate the train system, I can only watch and scoff.