Mango: Don't you get hit by Northeasterners' big time where you live?
Aquabiotic: A few inches of snow, unless it's really fresh or has ice under it, is not much for us to worry about. But staying home is a great idea when it is worse.
Kurt: Very bad! Bad bad.
Paula, my Aunt calls them North Easterns!
I think you meant Nor'easters! Occasionally we get them. One year, we had one late April when my tulips were halfway up. My County is also a series of peaks and valleys, so the snow accumulation varies from one town to the next. One school may be open and another closed.
When I first moved here, I thought I needed a closet for Paarmalat milk, but we know how to drive here in the snow, and everyone has at least front wheel drive or all wheel.
I would rather drive in snow than an ice storm. Black ice scares the bejeebers out of me.
I wish I could scan well to show pictures, because 13 years ago, when I first built my house, there was one major snow storm after another. I had a mountain, literally, about 15 ft high at the end of my driveway. The ice did not fully melt until mid May. I am serious.