No offense taken and I'm sorry if I offended you. Your view tends to represent what much of the public would have thought about the storm, and the storm did overperform but there were also some pretty clear meteorological signs if you were following the model data and people like Ryan Hanrahan closely. You were definitely in a bit more of a marginal area being further south but I'm pretty sure you were in a winter storm watch the day before and upgraded to a warning and projected to get 3 to 6 in from the National Weather Service, although I would have to look back at the data. It was pretty clear that the air mass was very anomalous for that time of year, even if the sun made it feel mild just prior to the storm the atmosphere temperatures were already very cold and there was a strong high-pressure anchored in place and the predecessor snowfall gave a clue as to how cold the atmosphere was in the region even if snow didn't fall in your backyard. The end results did surprise almost everyone with the amount of damage and destruction but the models and the atmospheric pattern were giving us clues in advance. Some forecasters were clearly too conservative as well.