The storms are here, Silver hits 7 year high, stock watch, Blizzard hits East Coast, human commodity

... That sounds very bad, y'all take care up thar. The snow on the car roofs outside is down to about 2-3", I feel guilty. I clearly remember most of the big snowstorms we got in Essex Cty NJ 1951-1969. Sure, I was a lot shorter back then, but some of 'em reminded me of the cycloramic arctic backgrounds in ICE STATION ZEBRA, lol. My Mom also B&D'd me into one of those hellish snowsuits we absolutely had to wear for any arctic excursion into the back yard. You'd have thought that missing members of the Byrd Expedition were somewhere in the back of our non-frost-free fridge freezer. The mitten clips never worked, and you had as much a chance as an up-ended Galapagos tortoise getting back up if you slipped and fell, which is why that one quip in A CHRISTMAS STORY sent everyone of my generation in the audience into uncontrollable hysterical laughter. I sometimes
wonder how many tons of snow I've shovelled in my life, how many square miles of lawn I've mowed, and how many times the word "fuck" was expleted during WWII.

... We got maybe 3-4" here in western VA starting late Saturday night into Sunday, then it stopped. Right now it's Monday, cloudy bright and melting. Winter is GREAT down here. When it does snow, it usually melts away in about a day. I call it "Movie Snow" because it immediately gets struck after shooting, lol. I used to love snow when I was a kid in NJ. Now I call it The White Death :P