Here in Upstate New York we are all laughing at what we are reading and seeing on the News.

The whole East Coast shut down. The Government Closed ! ! !

People screaming about the snow that fell or is going to come!

The real problem is that most of theses folks just aren't use to getting that much snow. When we hear 12-14 inches up here we just figure that we have to get up a bit earlier and clean things out before heading to work or school.

On a normal winter day we get 2-3 inches per 12 hour shift.
You get and clean what fell overnight and then hit it again if things came down during the day.

On a good year with lots of snow we can get 175 inches of snow in the Syracuse area and maybe twice that in the tug hill area with all the lake effect snow and all.

But we are use to it and we have what we need to deal with it.
Like here.... we have our own personal snow plow, 6 snow blowers between work and the house. And a dozen 5 gal. gas cans a couple of dozens of good snow shovels.
We put them by every door and in every car and truck we own. Then we have a few tons of ice melt and rock salt. Which helps with the ice and helps melt the snow as it first falls. Pails by each door and garage openings or ramps.

City and Town and County plows start real early here and the guys who run them love to work and collect overtime pay!

Everybody has at least one snow brush and an ice scraper in their cars and of course gals and gals of windshield washer fluid to clean your windshield from all the salt they put on the roads.

We have had a great winter so far this year. Very little if any snow in Oct, Nov and December. Some snow started to fall just a week or so before Xmas. But in three days we got hit with almost 48 inches of snow right after. Then the first two weeks of January added 25 inches more. Now it is just some here and some there. We even had a week of 40 degree weather that cleared most of the snow away, except for the snow piles that most years takes till April or May to melt some years.

Most of the nice big storms have gone South of us or North of us. You folks have gotten the last few that we normally get, so we are very happy to share it with you all!

See up here we ski mobile and snow ski....and just make the best of it. Schools close when the wind chill gets so many degrees below zero or maybe if we get those big storms that can drop 2-3 inches an hour. How do you think that feels when you plow and shovel and you turn right back around and redo it, because you can't allow it to get ahead of you.

Big storms up here have been 36 -48 inches in a 24 hour period.
You get up one morning and the snow is up to your chest before you take the first shovel full! You open the garage door and no light come thru until the door is almost 2/3 the way open!!
Thank the lord it doesn't happen every day. Some pictures in years past show people skiing or ski mobiling near the tops of telephone poles after the snow drifted in spots.

After a while you wonder where you are going to put the snow. You are so sick of it that you almost cry when the weather people tell you that there is more on the way. That is why so many people up here head South for the winter.

Anyway it has been an easy winter for us this year. Thank God, but we still have several weeks left, and who know what it will bring.

Regard to you all
Fathersson