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I looked at the forecast and it claims your area should be getting 7+ inches over the next 24 hours - 20+ mph winds make for some pretty drifting - being stocked up and having the luxury of watching the drifts grow and change shapes is a "bonus".

I remember a few blizzards in the 60s where our area was shut in for 5 days before plows got to us (Henrietta, Wedgwood Park) and our house was at the end of the street and the wind blew straight up to us. Could literally watch the drift in front of the house grow and change shape and ended up with 3 feet at the top of the driveway and 6+ feet at the bottom and across the road. Driving the road that Olympic Park is/was on (have no idea of whether it's still there or not) and they had cleared 2 lanes and the banks were 8 feet high on either side.

I sometimes miss the ";excitement" of a good storm but do not miss the shoveling/scraping, etc., to get out of the driveway and to work.

S. MS Summers are as brutal on me as a NY Winter, but w/o the shivering/scraping/slip-sliding away when the glare ice covers everything - once watched a slo-mo accident where a car moving about 3 mph kept pumping the brakes as he slid about 60 feet and ended up with a slow fender bender into a parked car. There was also a storm off the lake that blew so much spray up that cottages along the lake were covered in feet of ice.

On the flip side - nothing more beautiful than the initial pristine landscape right after a snowfall with the blankets of white and ice glistening off the branches of trees. And during the Fall, when one drives the southern tier, every mile driven is an opportunity for 50 postcard pictures.

Stay safe and warm and enjoy the show - praying the power stays on for everyone.