On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:38:43 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-02-11 3:15 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 3:01:05 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 2/11/2019 1:34 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>>>> People panicked here in the Seattle area last Thursday, as evidenced
>>>> by my local Fred Meyer being completely out of shopping carts when I
>>>> arrived around 6pm to pick up a few things. I had done my major shopping
>>>> the day before and as always I managed to forget something. I soon found
>>>> where all the shopping carts had gone - they were manned by restive
>>>> customers standing in lines 20 deep, going halfway up the aisles. I
>>>> must say things were pretty calm despite the gridlock and lack of
>>>> essentials like bread and bananas. Fortunately I had "about 12 items"
>>>> and the express lane lines were more reasonable.
>>>
>>> When I lived in Philadelphia, that was common. In New England, no big
>>> deal. People were batter at driving in snow and the highway crews are
>>> better equipped to deal with it. In all my years in CT, if I could get
>>> out my driveway I could get to the store.
>>
>> Same here in Michigan. What do you call 8" of snow? Tuesday.
>
>The people of Buffalo don't even consider 8" to be a snow storm. They
>average over 90" of snow per year.

Same in the northern Catskills... we're supposed to receive a foot+
tomorrow. Just came back from town with a 5 pound top round, pot
roast is always a good winter meal.
Just noticed five does grazing, means plenty snow coming... oops, one
girl looking in my window, and two more girls just arrived. Oh, two
more behind my vegetable garden. A small herd arrived.