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When I was a little girl growing up in Oklahoma, I would look out the window first thing every winter morning, hoping it had snowed during the night. Usually it hadn't.  For the past 25 years I lived in Indiana, and seeing snow was not an issue. During the winter it snowed overnight or during the day more often than not.  Last winter after it got down to minus 18 for over 24 hours, and snowed/and or iced every day for 2 months solid from December to February. I decided I had seen enough snow and decided to return to my home state of Oklahoma last spring. I enjoyed the warm weather extending late into the fall, and being out in just a sweatshirt on the Monday of Christmas week. On Christmas Eve, though, I think maybe I made a wrong turn and ended up back in Indiana.  The morning started with high winds, blowing in a blizzard starting about noon. This was pretty much every day stuff in Indiana, so I headed in to work, as normal, to my second shift job.  We were given permission to leave due to the weather if we wanted to, but I stayed. Late in the afternoon I went out on my supper break for a last minute Christmas errand. I came back 45 minutes later, and my workplace was a ghost town.  Where there had been about a parking lot full of cars earler, it practically empty with only 3 cars left. They had shut down while I was out to lunch. The place must have emptied out faster than a fire drill.  Wish I had been there to see it. I headed home dodging the snow drifting over the highway, and I had to climb though a snowdrift as high as my front porch to get in the front door.  It was fun to have a taste of winter again, and a snow white Christmas, but it's also good to know that this is, after all, Oklahoma, and the snow will be gone in a few days.