From that CNN story...

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Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop.

For "brual backcountry" read "Suburbia, 10 miles from a city of 500,000 people and right next to an international airport." It's sort of marginally rural. There are some farms.

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Thank you for the morning giggle

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The by-line says "Ashley Fantz" ... she's a CNN reporter in Atlanta.


I think that probably says all we need to know about the brutality of your backcountry.