Sorry to hear that you guys had got that much snow.
Get this: I'm 37, and this is a first for me.....rain today, in January. RAIN. I suppose it's probably rained a small bit in some years past, but if it did, it would have turned to sleet/ wet snow very quickly in a manner where it wouldn't stay in a rain state for long enough to be noticeable. I live in Winnipeg, with punishing winters of -30 to -40. Google our deep freeze last week (which is what it is like for most of January--every January) and then scratch your head as to why we'd got several hours of rain.
When I left for work this morning, not even a block away, there was an accident because of several inches of snow and some very mushy and slippery roads. It was treacherous. The radio traffic advisory had mentioned numerous cars in the ditch, major roads being backed up, and of course, I'd seen a big accident with my very own eyes.
I drove no faster than 40 km/ hr to work, and by the time I left work, the roads were clear from snow melting in a very warm temperature, and the rain cleared the rest of the snow and I was going 60 km/hr (the speed limit) without any real hesitation or concern at all. No traffic back ups, no accidents that i'd seen.....nothing. It was like two different days of weather crammed into less than 8 hours. I can't remember anything like it.
We'd got someone else's weather, and they had got ours. Normally, we have much more snow than we do this year.