I don't know if you got the email from Chatty with the snow pictures from Quebec City? Well, that's REAL! We're not quite as bad as that, but that's really how it is there (about 3 hours away) and where a lot of my hubby's relatives live. My SIL lives in Quebec City and can't use her front door for most of the winter because the snow is too high to shovel through. Here, we get more ice and jagged icy slush, but by mid-Feb, the snowbanks can get 5 feet high. There have been years when it's been up to the roof of our garden shed and we have to dig a tunnel-path through the backyard to get the garbage out to the street. That's why we go south every winter, so we can get outside without so much hassle and having to wear triple our weight in clothing.