OK, I voted for Duluth.  But, the thing is, I'd take Duluth over ice storms and, in particular, 90+ heat waves!

This doesn't seem like a fair fight -- we like our weather, don't we?

If this is a race to the bottom, I think the floods are far worse than the snow and cold.  Far, far worse.

Where is Lindquist when we really need him?  We need to talk about handicapping and odds, not just weather.  That said, I'm going to have to agree with David.  In addition to cold, wind and the fact that they live in Fargo, people there have to pile up a million or so sandbags every year just to keep the smelly, brown Red River from flooding their living rooms every year.  We'll take Des Moines easy (once I drove through their in April and I would've sworn it was June, people walking around in shorts and t-shirts). 

Unless Fargo gets upset by Marquette on the whole snow belt thing, we will never make it past Fargo in the quarter finals, and that is if (and it's a big if) we make it past International Falls in our next round.  I-Falls will be a tough competitor.  

My money's on Fargo all the way here; in fact I think they'll take the national title.

I want nothing to do with the heat. And although I generally don't take or participate in polls, I voted for Des Moines. I love our weather. All of it. 

As for Fargo, its weather sucks unless it blows. In reality it both sucks and blows.

I prefer Dubque, but I'll take Duluth any day.

It seems to me the only way we can possibly beat the Falls is if you consider the wretched spring that lasts from March until Grandma's Marathon. Miserable 43 degree days when it's balmy everywhere else in the state. We've had to have the furnace on in June many years. Winter's fantastic here, summer's a joy, and fall is beautiful, but Duluth has the worst spring I've ever lived through, year after year.

Fargo didn't have a problem till Grand Forks raised its dikes.

I just don't get how people who actually live here (and live inside) could claim winters in Duluth are really rough.  For me, winter in North Carolina (38 degrees and raining all the time) was a million times more miserable than a crisp, snowy Duluth winter.  

But even if you're totally cold-phobic, it really isn't that cold here.  Just enough so that we tend to have snow instead of constant nasty slush.

Gimme the heat,
but not in Des Moines or Dull-uth. 
I mean, Des Moines. Srsly? FFS. 
Pick a real location.

I pick tropical heat.
FOR LIFE!

DEATH TO SNOW!
INFIDELS!