Why we weren’t sad to leave “the Sunny South”

CNN.com – Ice storm shuts down Georgia roads – Jan 29, 2005:
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Ice was a quarter-inch thick on downtown Atlanta streets as a storm system spread snow, freezing rain and sleet from the Midwest into Georgia and the Carolinas.

That’s CNN Center in the background, where I worked for the last 5 years we lived in the Empire State of the South.

It was about 5 years ago I visited Seattle for a job interview: upon my return, we had an ice storm so severe we lost power for 5 days, making our house unlivable. We spent that time at my sister-in-law’s townhouse — she has since moved here as well — and factored these regular occurrences into our decision.

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