Seattle doesn't get much snow but I sympathize. Actually it's funny when we DO get snow because everyone freaks out! Including me

When I started work at LAX in Southern California, I lived at 6,000 feet elevation and had a 200 mile a day commute. I was hired in October and due to the fact I was on probation, I couldn't be late. We'd get feet and feet of snow...and due to the fact our road was a dirt road and due to the fact it was steep going up and down the mountain, chains were required for about 10 miles or slightly less.

I remember digging out the car. I remember parking on the highway and carrying my bike over my head out to the car if the dirt road wasn't plowed. I remember wrapping a chain around an axle because I can't put on chains well. I remember falling asleep at night listening to rain and if I didn't hear rain in the middle of the night I'd panic because many times it had turned to snow.

I can relate. It is fatiguing due to shoveling, it's stressful due to driving, and it gives me hypochondriac ulcers Those feelings followed me up here so when we get our bits of snow, I overeact.

I don't know how you snow people do it!