When Robby went to Ohio to visit our extended family in December several years ago, he arrived in a Midwestern wonderland of ice and snow. The way Robby told the story, my uncle, Mike Severance, picked him up at the airport and took him to his house in Westerville. When Robby stepped out of my uncle's SUV he promptly slipped on the ice, landing on his ass. My uncle looked down at him and said: "Welcome to Ohio."