Now despite the thoroughness of my mother's planning, which begins in August, someone receives a gift they didn't want, someone refuses to venture out into the subzero cold to hear a sermon and someone infects the entire family with a cold virus.

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Visitors often hear whispers and voices and feel icy cold fingers pressing on their necks and running down their spines.

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If this thing gets ugly, with severe damage, lots of wires down, and people freezing in the cold and the dark, we can expect to hear the refrain for change to grow louder.

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Although I was on the road with the family, I was able to check in with the markets on a regular basis and was a little disturbed to hear the talking heads jawing about things suddenly looking not-too-hot and not-too-cold.

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