[Alberta's Child]

I think people should go live in the mountains in Canada or Alaska for a winter. When you get through the snowstorms, the -40 cold, the days with five hours of daylight, the gravel roads that aren't plowed anyway, and then the spring flooding that occurs when all that snow and ice melts, you'll come back to Washington, D.C. and look upon a two-foot February snowstorm as a mild spring day.

[Last Visible Dog]

yeah but 100's of thousands of people do not try to go to work or school in the mountains of Canada or Alaska. 26" of snow is still a pretty good snowstorm even if you are a hard-core mountain man.