It's not how much snow we get. It's how we handle it. Our city never closes. We clean up and get going where others can't,'' says Philip Wiggle. Of course, problem-solving is second nature here in the birthplace of ''brainstorming,'' a creative thinking process developed by a local advertising executive, Alex Osborn, that soon spread worldwide.
Buffalo nurtures the idea with an annual creativity conference.
Most people would be calling the moving vans if they spent seven hours of a snowstorm trapped in a subway station like Monica Huxley. MacGregor was among 200 who huddled in the Christmas wonderland of the tree-decorated Hyatt hotel lobby. They then kept the tree lights on and turned the hall lights off.