[greeneyes]

Thanks for the sympathy and prayers. We truly are luckier here, so far than the Eastern states with respect to the cold.

We do sometimes have winters when the snow is deep and so bad that school is out for almost 2 months straight-but that has been rare, in my lifetime.

We almost always have some warmer days in the 40s and 50s to recover until the next storm hits.

[dayglored]

Aye, tonight (2am here) I just came back in the house after plowing the ice and sleet off my driveway -- about a half-mile long, downhill, winding through the woods. The sleet is still coming down -- indeed the weather gurus say it's going to drop another 6 inches by noon, hopefully mostly snow at that point. I think I'm keeping up with it. :-)

Stay safe and warm, and God Bless.