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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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This highlights one of those “holy shit” moments in my life. I grew up in South Ga., like on salt water south. I used to hear all the time from old folks, who had never been anywhere else, that mild winters made for more mosquitoes in spring. Then one day I found myself near the Mississippi River between MN and WI, and no those aren’t hummingbirds. It was at that moment that I had personal experience that said those old folks were wrong…. That or the upper Midwest would be uninhabitable if there was a warm-ish winter.

Whereabouts in South Ga, if I may ask? My maternal family is from St. Marys.

Funny you mention Minnesota. IIRC, the one product that has kept me away from there is "Lutefisk," no? :ROFLMAO:
 
Same, same for the tundra of Alaska.
I truly believe an unprotected human could die from blood loss.
I recall an occasion where I was literally wiping my hands down my arms and they would roll up by the hundreds.
Of course, many would say and I might have trouble disagreeing that the tundra IS uninhabitable if not frozen...and even then.
I remember running into something called the white (or black?) fly in the Yukon.

I’m from Minnesota and that white/black fly thing is 100x worse than mosquitoes. Stepped out of the car, took a few pictures, noticed some gnat-thing flying around my face, waved it off and thought nothing of it.

Minutes later in the car, I had multiple itchy swollen bumps erupting like Krakatoa all over my forehead! Wtf!

I read that the white/black fly basically drove the US Army soldiers mad when they were building the Alcan highway.