Yah well, talked with my mother this evening. They're being blanketed with a whole bunch of that white global warming stuff and are a wee bit short of carbon-based natural cyclical-energy storage modules ("logs").
She'd like a relief from this "global warming" -- and even here in the Seattle area this year has already features the most snowfalls of any year in the past quarter-century.
The modules tend to be sporadic at releasing their energy.
My sis can relate some of the less fantastic ways in which I coaxed extra energy releases from those modules.