Ah how I love living in Seattle... I went to college in Rochester NY - and yup we got snow like that at times while I was there. Once a friend of mine flew up to go skiing with us, but instead we got snowed into the aparment!! I opened the door in the morning and good thing the door opened in. We had a drift taller than me against the door.... So we got out the shovels and got out of the back yard (somewhere there exists a photo of me standing in a ditch over my head cut in the snow through the back yard). We managed to get out to the car, but alas even if we could drive without sliding around - in a foot or so of driving snow would pile up in front of the car, lift the front wheels off the ground (it was front wheel drive) and we could go no further. Since there was no way we could get anywhere that way we went back in, drank wine, ate chili and played cards. We always had at least a week of that nasty -60 degree wind chill weather every winter I lived there too. I miss it not! It was in the 50's and even a little sunny here today - nice riding weather.