Maryland's no picnic right now either, if you don't like cold or snow.
Well...MY part of MD, anyway. I live at 1600' elevation, and work around 500'. Work, it's cold (hovering around freezing), wet, gray, melting snow/slush/salt/crap mix, roads so caked with salt you can't see the stripes. Yesterday, it was 31 and raining. Cars outside, formed ice - but the salty roads were simply wet.
As I drive home I go up a mountain. Base of the mountain, we hit trees and there's snow under the trees with rocks showing through, grass showing through, little tiny mounds along the roadside from what little the plows had to move. I get to a certain stop sign further up the hill, and just past that...the rocks and grass are gone, it's ALL snow close to 8" deep, and the plow piles are much larger. I get home, at the ridge of the mountain, and I still have more than a foot on the ground. Yesterday, the rain came down...and froze on everything. My 1000' driveway was a downhill skating rink. Last night, it still had some pebble feel to it from the blacktop under the thin layer of glaze; this morning the ice was thick enough it was like a zamboni had polished it. And, it's always 4-6 degrees colder at my house, than at work. I was amazed this morning that it was as warm as it was - 30* in my yard, at 06:30. Ten degrees warmer than it's been at that hour, for more than 2 weeks.
And, we're in the "eighteen-inches-to-who-the-hell-knows" snowfall range for this Thursday.
Guess I'll get gas for the snowblower tomorrow, on the way home from work.
Good thing I LOVE snow! And, I have good clothes to bundle up in. And a stone house built like a vault. And, if things get really bad...a low point drain hooked to my home well / plumbing system, so I can drain pipes before they can freeze.
