no snow? I am to blame. I bought TWO bags of ice-melting crystals in December!.........

actually, Our local weathercaster simply put up a map showing the Jet Stream had been doing weird things....some Winters the jet stream DOES weird things for awhile. Global warming is an general average, but individual Winters are just the result of strange combinations of conditions. I've live in this town (Wash DC area) for 27 years, and sometimes I shovel all Winter, and sometimes we barely see snow. But February is just getting started.