I see, on TV, this is being touted as a "life threatening" storm. Used to be it was just snow; happened every year.
When my daughter was based at Ft. Drum, she lived in Copenhagen, NY. We experienced their winters a couple of times. There was, indeed, significant snowfall, but it didn't strike me as being life-threatening. I spent a half day snowshoeing on a state park trail and my tracks were well-covered (at least a foot) in the four hours I spent on the trail. The bad part was that the snow was wet and sticky and kept building up on the shoes. I was thirteen years younger then. Today, it might be life-threatening.
Here, in the west, there is little snow, but it is below zero. Hard to say which is worse. I find the cold weather to be much more tolerable if there is a foot or so of snow on the ground. GD
