And here I always imagined England to be very cold andd snowy in winter. Maybe that's just from Dicken's movies. You sound just like us. In Central Virginia, supermarkets shelves are swept clean of bread and milk at the first forecast of snow. No matter how much is forecast! But we're getting good at it now. After our 4th! snow this winter, a friend who really had to do her shopping said the store was not mobbed. If there were public transportation here, I wouldn't care how much it snowed. But as a health care worker who is "essential", I have to get in. Then it can be a drag.