Well, here, the arctic air mass simply has not made its way into Minnesota. No snow to speak of. It's supposed to rain an inch on Friday here. Feh!
The ice on the lakes near the city is too thin to go ice fishing with any safety. Some flower bulbs I planted this Fall are starting to send up shoots. My poor snowblower is pining away in the garage.
Wierd.
When Pinatubo exploded we got ten feet of snow that winter. That was extraordinary since we normally get a foot or two all winter, but it prompted sales of a lot of plow blades for pickup trucks and also snowblowers, all of which now sit in garages and yards. Once in a while the neighbor will fire up his pickup truck and run the blade up and down his driveway, but for the amount of snow he picks up it seems to be a ritual rather than anything actually useful. DOT runs their snow trucks for an inch of snow, which is okay since they invested heavily in the euqipment and are budgeted for manpower for snow removal anyway, but there hasn't been any actual need for snow removal for years.