I’ve endured my California friends and kin yucking it up at my expense all winter, as they basked in warm sunny weather whilst I dug endless snow from my car and drive. It’ll do my heart good to hear of them having to adapt to navy showers, sprinkling bans, and building outhouses in their back yards to cope with flushing restrictions.
I don't know where you are, but it's likely that much of your endless snow would've fallen as snow or rain in California (or other Western states) in a wetter year. I wonder if any of them realized how they were getting so much warm, dry weather.