On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:42:31 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 09/02/2013 4:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>
>> Then you should be very familiar with snow. I don't call what just
>> occured a memorable snow event... actually it was a nothing... the
>> news media can't resist over hyping everything, even the weather.
>> And now that I have my new ventless propane heater (needs no electric)
>> I no longer concern myself with power outages... it's 20º outside and
>> just that tiny heater on it's lowest setting is keeping my house at
>> 72º... only time my boiler comes on is when it calls for hot water,
>> and soon I will have a new on-demand hot water heater.
>>
>>
>It was significant here in southern Ontario. We got more than a foot of
>snow.


Here in the northern Catskills a foot of snow is really a nothing...
unless there's at least three feet of snow (and temps are down to
minus zero) it's hardly newsworthy. Today there was barely over a
foot of snow and it was only 20º, not worth talking about.