Our mild Winter came to an abrupt end this past weekend. Locally, we had 11" of heavy wet snow...some parts of the area saw as much as 20". Many of the schools are shut down yesterday and today, as the roads are refreezing overnight, making early morning driving, for the school busses, dangerous. Thousands, in the cities lost power as tree branches broke and took down power lines. We should get a brief respite Wed thru Friday, then a Canadian blast comes down over this coming weekend, dropping temps into the single digits...with more snow. This was the 3rd worst snowstorm for our area in the past century. It's about this time of year that I really start looking forward to Spring.