My favorite part was how she kept talking up the cold. I expect it to be the weeks of highs in the -20's, but then she claims it's eight above. Today it was five degrees and i was thinking about busting out the shorts.
In a related topic, Rick Killion writes excellent editorials in the Prairie Business Magazine (prairiebizmag.com). In one of them, he gently reprimanded North Dakotans that they were shooting themselves in the foot when bragging or boasting about how cold it was to people from out of state.
It only hurt and falsified the state's image even more, he thought. Instead, when someone from, say, Georgia was talking to you on the phone during a business transaction, don't go along with the "Man, it's cold up there, isn't it?! I don't see how you can stand it!" conversation. Killion believed that each North Dakotan could be their own PR man for the state in a sense, and not fortify the belief that it's all ice and snow for 95 percent of the time