I used to live in Edmonton and yes the snow can get bad there too. The thing about the prairies is though it gets cold, it is a dry cold, so once you are indoors you can heat up really quick.
I still remember when I was in my teens at a camp here in BC there were these two girls who came up from Texas. They commented to me on how this must have been our two weeks for summer and how they would be leaving before the snow came. They wanted to know where the Eskimos were.
They were serious. We had some fun with them but we set them straight.
