How'd you make out in the storm?

"I look at weather.gov a lot. It's not that I need to, for any reason. It's kind of like a tic, or perhaps more accurately, a low-stakes dopamine search. So, the past few days have been somewhat amusing, because the home page of that site was particularly colorful - pinks, light blues, dark blues, purples - for much of the continental United States. Most of my family lives in California; it was fun to send them screenshots going "Hey, most of the country has to deal with this" while they stay blissfully unaware of pretty much anything that isn't within a narrow band of temperatures."

"Anyway, the storm wasn't that bad up here in Boston. A lot of snow - I'm guessing around 16 inches will be the final tally for my environs - but it was all light and fluffy. I went out and shoveled a bit around 5 pm, and it was probably the easiest shoveling of my life, which made the fact that taking the dogs out at 10 pm saw me greeted with even more snow than I had initially shoveled out of the way."

"less frustrating than it would've been had it been soggier and heavier. In terms of less trivial matters, fluffy snow doesn't cause damage to power lines or equipment; I can't say the same for the ice storms that a lot of you probably dealt with. Hopefully you're not still dealing with them, as losing power these days is not much of a joke."

I frequently check weather.gov as a low-stakes habit. Recent days showed a colorful national forecast indicating widespread winter storms while most of my family in California remained unaffected. Boston received about sixteen inches of light, fluffy snow, which made shoveling unusually easy. Shoveling at 5 pm cleared areas that were partly refilled by 10 pm, but the powdery nature reduced frustration compared with heavy, wet snow. Fluffy snow generally avoids causing damage to power lines or equipment, unlike ice storms that can cause outages. I ask how others endured the storm or whether they saw little to no snow.

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