We definitely had a blizzard here, and like others who have posted we had the merging of the two storms. I did not lose power, though I've heard homes just a few blocks north of mine did. (My son's family did, too. They live on Aquidneck Island in the middle of Narragansett Bay. Most homes on the island--which has three communities, Newport, Middletown where my son lives, and Portsmouth--lost power.) If any of you have seen Charley Noble's pics on Facebook, the snow in my neighborhood looks a lot like it does in his photos. My shoveling started at the doorstep where about a foot of snow had been blown onto the sill. (One of my friends couldn't get outside because she couldn't push either of her storm doors open against the snow. For once I was glad I don't have storm doors!) I continued to shovel alongside the driver's side of my car. A neighbor told me he would take care of it, but my car had been plowed in after I'd gone to bed last night and I couldn't let him do all of it! Then two young men (who I think work for the plowing company our condo management hired) came and said they'd take care of it and told me to go inside, so I did. About an hour later my neighbor knocked on my door. The shoveling out was done, and he'd cleared my car windows and windshield and suggested I move the car so the plow could do more. My unit is in a corner, and a lot of snow gets pushed into that corner, which can't be happen unless I move my car out of the way. I drove to a little shopping plaza in front of the condos where my neighbor and several others had already parked their cars. I cleaned the rest of the snow off my car and then cleaned a lot of it off my neighbor's car, too. I couldn't get it all because some was jammed under his roof rack. I would have had to push it out with my fingers and even with thick insulated waterproof gloves they were getting cold. When I sat in my car and took off my gloves, my fingers were bright red! There is a nice restaurant nearby, the Cowesett Inn, and within the next few days I'll pick up a gift certificate there for my neighbor and his family. He's refused pay in the past. Oh, and the post office cancelled mail delivery today, so we can no longer say "Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds." But I'm glad they cancelled. People need to dig out their mailboxes. And my mailman happens to be one of my former students, so I want him to be safe and warm! Now I'll wait to see if we get a special assessment fee from condo management which will happen if we've gone over budget for snow removal. At least we didn't need backhoes and payloaders!