All "Tings" Considered

Well we're havin' a heckuva winter out here in New England. Today it's rainin' like all get out in Boston, up in Vermont their gettin' snow-mageddon or somthing like a snowpocalypse or whatever the heck the latest portmanteau word is. (a portmanteau word is a word that is a blending of two non sequentially related words like spork.) Hey it's right out of Wikipedia {itself a portmanteau word} so it's gotta be correct okay? Anyways as I was sayin' I'm feeling a trifle cheated by not getting the snow. Why is it us Minnesotans always expound about the weather? Aren't there more important discussions like world peace, global warming and Kirstie Alley's weight gain?