>>The past few days you can measure it in *feet* here in my area. But if it starts falling in *meters*, someone's in big trouble <s>
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>You're right about that! BTW I used to live in the D.C. area (I graduated from high school in Bethesda, MD) and I remember what a big deal it was when there was a significant snowfall, since nobody was really equipped to deal with it. Hope you guys recover and get back to normal soon.

Yes, we're really in sad shape when a major snowstorm hits here - I lived in Maine, where a foot of snow is no big deal, they plow it right up. But it's so seldom we get a real biggy snowstorm here, it doesn't make sense to maintain an enormous fleet of snow equipment. We just get snowed-in for a while :)