This is one reason I would rather live on the Gulf of Mexico. We lived near Sault St Marie, Michigan (that's on the Canadian border) in the 70's. I was in the Air Force stationed at Kincheloe AFB. It was the year the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on one of the lakes (they wrote a song about it). I think it's the worst winter on record up there. Almost 500 inches of snow. We had normal snow (not drifts) clear up on the roof of the house. It started snowing on Sept 13th and I didn't see the ground until sometime the folowing April. I'll stay here in Mississippi and take my chances with the hurricanes.