Many, in fact, shared my disappointment that the snowstorm paid so fleeting a visit. We can take it. We're hardy patriots. And we're hearty patriots. We love it.
Hunters love it, love the added challenge.
Moreover, our love is true. I have proof. At any season the Maine coast, so tiresomely described as rugged, is. The lobsterman loves the threatening ledge for its very certainty. Even our sometimes-disdained marshy places might, during this season, rouse a patriotic shiver as deepfelt in the developer who curses them as in their naturalist custodian.