[wbill]

It is caused by Global Warming and by that Dick Cheney and his patriarchal gender normative diabolical Weather Machine, which is of course, George W. Bush's fault.

I'm in the SE. We got about 6" of snow, a decent storm, but down here it's the next ice age.

There was an article in the local fishwrap yesterday, touting more-or-less exactly what you described. It mentioned (and you missed) the incoming Republican Congress, which is sure to worsen GW in the coming two years, unless they come to their senses and jump on the bandwagon.

[Kenny Bunk]

......touting more-or-less exactly what you described....

Billy, one could not possibly make up the crap that is inundating our fair land. All one can do, apparently, is observe, report, and prepare to fall back to Nova Scotia.