Well I've lived in places where I had to dig to find the mailbox at the end of the drive way. My parents house would have 3 feet of snow just about every year. Some years the drift was high enough that you could ALMOST enter and exit out of the second floor window.

The snow in PNW is different than what I'm used to. and the strong wind we have had at my house, the pile of snow developed several layers of crust intersparsed with fluffy snow, wet snow, dry pellet (sort of like styrofoam pellet) like snow.

Then we had freezing rain. What in the world is that?? The wind was blowing so hard that the freezing rain was pelting the back of our house. Last night, tried to let our dogs out to do their stuff before going to bed. And the sliding glass door was FROZEN SHUT. YES IT WAS FROZEN SHUT from the freezing rain.

And the ground... I'm can almost see the concrete ground but my sole of my boots were no where near the concrete. My boots were separated from the concrete by wet thick ice about 2 inches thick.

I've learned a few things about this strange weather phenomenon.

BTW, at the height of the snow storm, I was shoveling the snow in 17F and 20MPH wind. I was dressed head to toe in my snow suit, neoprene boots... My 2nd generation Norwegian neighbor said I looked like a honest to goodness good Norwegian.

My neighbor is another fun story. Is he really a Norwegian? I think so, I asked him about his Bunad. His father's Bunad is in safe keeping with his nephew. And yes he does speak bokmal Norwegian. I think that is correct... I'm digressing.

Ha det (I think that is what I have to say).

BTW, LPH, how are you going to spend your million Kroner from the Norwegian oil?