[savedbygrace]

I'm east of you OO, and we've got about the same. I took a yeardstick out in the front yard and stuck it down in a half-dozen places a couple of hours ago while it was still snowing. It measured over 12 inches in all of them.

It seems to have stopped now. I hope that's all of it. We're about out of food in the house and there's no way we can travel in this. They don't plow the neighborhood streets, just the main roads.

[Conservababe]

I am sick to death of this winter. When I first see a jonquil coming up (I don't care in whose yard) I am going to kneel down and thank the Lord.

When I moved to Southeast Missouri in the late seventies, I did not know anyone or the weather. I was assured by new friends that it never ever snowed in February. On February 24th, it snowed 24 inches eight hours.

And for the next ten or so years, it snowed and iced, a lot. I remember trying to crawl up a hill on snow and ice trying to get to a main street for a ride to work.

Then, for the next ten or so years we had extremely mild winters. One year it did not even snow at all.

So now, this winter has been dreadfully awful to bear, I tell you.

The older folks always told me that extreme weather is in cycles of seven to ten years, and then reversed. Is this true?