BUTTE - It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... wait a minute, it’s not even Halloween yet. But this is Butte, Montana, and yes, it can snow even in early October, but most folks are used to it and they don’t mind the snow that much.

“I absolutely hate the snow,” Chase Garland said while shoveling snow in front of the Mother Lode Theater Monday morning.

Okay, maybe they do a little bit.

"I jinxed us last night, I said we were going to get snow, and we got it. So, my boss told me it’s my turn ... had to do it,” Garland said.

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Chase, like many people in Butte, had to shovel the snow off the sidewalk in front of his place

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