[Christien]

Actually we usually don't get *that* much snow here and usually not until into January. I usually still have the 911 on the road into December. Don't get me wrong, we get more than Florida or Arizona! But further west of here is what we call the "snow belt" - a stretch about 100 km or so wide that gets pelted. It's really bizarre - I can be driving eastbound towards home and the highways are just awful, snowing like crazy, and as soon as I get about 40 minutes west of here, it clears up almost instantaneously.