DETROIT — A new winter misery index confirms what many Americans in the Midwest and East know in their all-too-chilled bones: This has been one of the harshest winters of our lifetimes.
And nowhere has been hit harder, relatively, than Detroit.
Sure Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and Moline, Ill., are in the midst of their third most extreme winters in more than 60 years.
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