Well, I'm not giving you my hometown, but my cousin lives in Edgerton, Wisconsin. It snows like crazy in the winter and it's near the capital. It's also near a big-ish town called Janesville. So, yeah; good luck on your story.
To be a master of metaphor is the greatest thing by far. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius. — Aristotle, Poetics