It’s on my lovely front porch. The porch has a roof so we’re good. I anticipate no school for my kids on Tues and Weds. They’ve lowered the snow count slight to twenty inches in my neck of the woods. Still insane though. Eh. I have over seven thousand books in the house if the power goes out so we’re fine with entertainment here.
Seconded! (Some weathercritter is claiming up to 30" in my area now, but it’s the local Fox affiliate. They’re a little apocalyptic WRT weather events.)
I’ve got a shovel and can get my hands on some torches. Pitchforks are probably out of season until spring. I’m not going into the Home Depot to get anything!
A walk around the 'hood yesterday showed all of the early spring flowers poking their heads up. We have fragrant heather in our yard already. February could be a real shock to all this, of course.
CNN is reporting a fucking “State Of Emergency” for an expected 2 lousy feet of snow.
Really, people? 
When I grew up in Tahoe, we would routinely get dumps of 3 to 6 feet at a time, in rapid succession.
It was called Winter. And those were good times.
“Golly, when I was a kid we used to deal with [extreme climate condition] all the time, so I don’t understand why a place that doesn’t deal with [extreme climate condition] all the time panics when it occurs.”
The Lake Tahoe area is a sparsely populated mountain terrain. It doesn’t contain six or eight million people like the East Coast areas that this storm is about to hit. If Tahoe doesn’t get cleared after a storm, maybe some resorts don’t open. If roads don’t get cleared here, you have a situation like 1978 where entire states get shut down for a week. So maybe it’s a good idea to get people off the roads so that they can be cleared and mobilized the power companies so that power can be supplied to those 10 million people?
People are so silly. Just because emergency services (police, fire, medical) can’t move when needed, that is no big deal.
If it makes anyone feel better, tennis classes were canceled tonight in the San Fernando Valley due to a light rain falling in the LA area currently. It’s only 64 F in downtown right now…
Winter is coming.
No, it isn’t.
Not here, anyway.
7,000? Wow. That’s…um…alot!
Anyone with torches is welcome to come by! We can light my tiki torches and hop in the hot tub.
ETA: Seriously, stay safe out there for people in the blizzard zone.