Ah yes, snow - one of the reasons I moved from Utah to South Carolina 20 years ago. Snow is good for skiing (which I enjoy) - and not much else. I remember one particularly cold morning in college when I had a 7:30am class, so got up at 6:30am, and after a quick breakfast found my car (old, rear wheel drive, cheap tires) in sub-zero sleet behind a 4 foot wall of snow piled up by the road clearing crew, and when I shoveled it out, I still had to scrap the windshield and heat up my key enough to unfreeze the door lock - then I had to go back into the apartment to change my iced up clothes - and when I came back out a minute or 2 later - the car door lock had re-frozen, and another snow plow had just gone by. Yup, great times. Be thinking of your Northerners this winter ---