Mayor Phillip Bennet Discusses a White Christmas in Caribou, Maine
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, if you are dreaming a white Christmas, you can quit dreaming, and head to Caribou, Maine. That is probably the most likely spot in the country to find some quality snow for some frolicking this holiday.</s>DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Joining us by phone right now to talk about the city and its wintry holiday reputation, Phillip Bennet, the mayor of Caribou. Mr. Mayor, good morning. Happy holidays.</s>MAYOR PHILLIP BENNET, CARIBOU, MAINE: Thank you. Good morning, Daryn and Leon. It's great to talk with you folks.</s>HARRIS: I am glad you are joining us this morning because we haven't had a chance to check in with our Caribou bureau yet, so you give us the low down right now. How do things look up there this morning?</s>BENNET: They look, much as your viewers are watching right now, it is a gorgeous, gorgeous winter day up here.</s>KAGAN: I guess we are going off of a study done recently that found that your town percentagewise is most likely to have a white Christmas. How long have you lived in Caribou and how many White Christmases have you seen?</s>BENNET: It's fun that you talk about that. I just became acquainted with that the other day, and I certainly agree with its conclusions. I am 56 years old, and I have been a lifelong resident of Caribou, and I cannot recall a Christmas that was now white.</s>HARRIS: No kidding. That's great. Well, good for you. How do things look this year? Did you guys get more snow than usual, or about normal or what?</s>BENNET: It's about normal. We probably got 10-12 inches of snow on the ground now. We had more snowfall than that, but we had a balmy period of time that it went away. But now it is back. And I can assure you we are going to have a white Christmas.</s>KAGAN: And we are looking at plenty of video of snow mobilers. Is this snow mobile country, a snow mobile haven?</s>BENNET: Well, I would like to say this is the crown of snowmobile country.</s>KAGAN: Why is it so good?</s>BENNET: Because we have hundreds and hundreds of miles of very well-groomed trails, as your viewers are seeing right now. And we have people that come far, far away to Northern Maine to enjoy the scenery and the trails.</s>HARRIS: I have never heard about snow mobiling up there. I have just heard about mouse.</s>BENNET: Yeah, it is mouse, and there is a lot of those folks too.</s>KAGAN: Those folks as well. They get due respect in Caribou, Maine.</s>BENNET: They do.</s>KAGAN: Mayor, thanks for joining us, have a happy holiday, and a white Christmas to you.</s>BENNET: Merry Christmas to all of you folks.