Correct, it is big cities. Just north of here there is an area that gets nailed all winter long. Not unusual for them to get 4 feet in one storm. Mostly lake effect. They are in the right spot for where the snow drops from the lake.
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@ jamesdhatch The heat island affect means that only about half the recorded amount of snow actually reaches the ground in those big cities! Or melts as soon as it touches the ground :-)))
You have to head to the hinterlands to really experience deep snow!!!
If somebody had the pro forge could they open the pass through door and use it to melt the snow? 
It is supposed to hit 87 in Vegas today. Just two weeks ago it dropped to the low 30s and I lost the corn I had planted. We have had some interesting weather this year.
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I miss snow living in south Texas, but I feel for my brothers and sisters in the North-East, thatās a little more
Than is fun.
My son lives in Syracuse. I went to school in Potsdam NY - started snowing in Oct and ended around May.
Iāve ridden the bike out west though where they just open the road in June and the snow on the side is still over my helmet height 
Broke a record in Tucson yesterday - 90 degrees . Should be same today . Stay indoors over there on the East Coast ( or come on over to AZ !) 
NYC guy hereā¦it was all hype
In NY, it usually is 
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lol
Yikes, not going there if itās negative 90!
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The serious issue with the storm was I was halfway through a 3D print that I needed for a lecture when the power flickered for about a minuteā¦ (and no I donāt have the UPS on the printer - but I do on the Pi running octoprint, so while the printer rebooted, the Pi had no idea what to do). Luckily I had time between snow blowing episodes (cement blowing?) to reprint it.
The particular fun of super wet snow, is we have a massive solar array on the roof, which avalanches when a film of water builds up on the glass. Dumps (and I mean dumps) an almost concrete hardness snow onto our front walk (I got nailed today, luckily was wearing my ski helmet as it was a goggles kind of day). It hits so hard it sort of gets enmeshed in the bricks. We have to chip at the snow with ice scrapers to break it up so the snowblower can grind and throw itā¦
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there was a saying in the Quiet Little Mountain Town where I used to live:
āThere are two seasons in Ward.
Winter, and August 15th.ā
It was an interesting town, at 9,000ā of elevation.
(sadly, the wikipedia page has been edited since I grabbed that quote.)
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Anyone ever heard of SNOWCREAM!? Yum
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āDoesnāt taste like lemonā¦ā
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As it was in the Philly area. Sure, I guess I got about 8" or so, but it wasnāt anywhere even close to the 18" minimum they stated coming down at up to 4"/hour.
MD here, we were supposed to get at least 5 inches. However with the Watery, slushy part of the snowing meant that we got 2.5 inches TOPS. But there was an under layer of ice. That had caused some of the snow to melt into that slush to help make the ice.
One day of vacation from work was nice.
If only. My boss made it clear: āThe buildingās closed, but you guys are expected to put in a full 8 hours from home. Either that or you can burn a vacation day.ā
I donāt have an option to work from home, so it was a vacation for me.
This storm was a dud less then half of what they said it would be