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Dusting of snow here in the Pittsburgh area, 23 F so far. I did a little ad hoc research and apparently the article agrees with me that this winter is similar to the one in 1911/12 where is was so cold and so long. This has been a bad one for me, tired of driving in snow, the Hyundai Sonata (2004) is OK but miss my 4WD 1999 Blazer (sold the Blazer and now using Mom's car). Also, I lost my mother to cancer and know other family members (like my brother in law lost his mother two weeks after mine during Hannukah) and friends who lost loved ones too this winter so it has been doubly hard for me, my grief counselor says a lot of people in my boat where the winter was hard on them too. I'm an only child technically but I have a step-mom my father remarried after he divorced my mother and I have stepsisters and a stepbrother.

Even so, this has been one of the most brutal winters I can remember, sort of reminds me of the ones I remember in the 1970's and early 1980's. I remember in 1976/77, school was closed a lot and Mom baked cookies. That winter, we had trouble getting natural l gas from New Orleans to here so a lot of places were closed and I remember the Carter Administration urging energy conservation.