Alas, it looks like you may have to move. Here is a link on 8 inches of snow in South Dakota, earliest in 120 years, and the last one was less than an inch. Is this catastrophism?
It’s not catastrophism. Last winter we got snow, more at the beginning of the winter, but the temps were ridiculously low for months on end, so none of it melted, it just settled in and headed toward ice. Lake Michigan froze over, which isn’t unusual, but it was such a hard freeze and lasted so long that the more foolhardy *might* have been able to hike across to Wisconsin. That would not be me, btw. The ice was thick such that it was possible to wander on out past the end of the pier in Grand Haven (assuming one veered away from where the river was invisibly passing underneath; one future laureate went out onto the river in Holland to get a nice photo of the lighthouse, got the shot, fell through, survived), something I didn’t do (it was just miserably cold and windy that day) but literally hundreds did. I heard that people had taken tables and chairs out there and were eating and having wine.