Actual Snow Redux

Okay, I hate driving in it, and the first news I had when the white stuff started coming down was a series of smack-ups on the nearby highway including a double fatality involving a couple of teenage girls...

But remember when snow was magic. Refresher — you probably looked about like this:


And you got the day off (from school) to do things like this:



And instead of shoveling the driveway, you got to do stuff like this:



For the record, we got nine inches, which is a hell of a snow-fall here. And single-digit temps for the next few days so it won't melt and flood my basement right way.