Indy you must live at the nucleous of the universe???? LOL........ Good for you to have had such good fortune with living in the land of snow. All I can say is what a sad state of affairs it is up north. when I leave the in laws house in the northwoods and drive back to northern Illinois in early january and we have more snow, which isn't a lot, than they do in the north its a pretty sad picture. The snow we had was marginally ride able until today but the warm days are starting to take a toll. Is it just me or does the sun seem to be more "damaging" this year than ever. I mean earlier this week we had high temps in the teens with bright sunshine and it seems like our snow pack was still "greatly affected" by the sunshine.