We've got over 4" on the ground , it's (barely) below zero this morning and the road up to the highway is snow packed . A couple of the neighbors have ventured out , but I have no pressing business to tend to other than hauling in firewood . That I can do on foot . Schools and businesses are closed today all over the state ... I haven't checked the idrive maps yet to what's on the roads but I'm betting everything that was slush yesterday is ice this morning . Snag
------------------------------------ Relatives in Georgia and Florida tend to take jabs at our NH winter weather, but it's no longer funny when they suffer it themselves. I received a Christmas card showing kids sledding, with a note inside saying that was us but not them. On the day it arrived the same rain and wind storm was pounding the entire east coast down to the Keys. One winter Atlanta was so cold my parents cut their visit short and came back, to a house with HEAT. The TV weatherbabe just said that New Orleans was colder (23F) than Boston (32F).
Only ice storms shut us down, by dropping trees across roads and power lines. We'd cut and clear them ourselves except for the shock hazard.