Lots of friends in New York, NYC and Long Island, have been under siege for weeks getting buried deeper
and deeper with shoveled piles up to nine feet reported, maybe more some places. We keep emailing them to
give support and keep them from going stir crazy. Now we have a dose of precip headed our way in N.C. We
usually don't get any depth, but icing on roads, even a thin glaze, does in our ease of driving. We don't have
the fleets of trucks and teams, and the glaze can be insidious on power lines and in broken bones, etc. So
though the quantity is laughably small, it often has a deadly effect. So we're hunkered down, garbage and
recycling carts on the curb for pick-up, a few extra groceries in the fridge/freezer. The upside is the snow and
ice usually melts off in a matter of a week or less. We'll see. Ours is not a winter wonderland, but I have photographed
the house under a good layer of snow on a number of occasions.