Well, I didn't need to shovel it, but it was snowing moderate to heavy a few times especially when the lake effect streamers made it in. That's the other advantage to being there, lake effect is pretty much the only way to consistently see snow in any pattern, so being there really helps with that. There was nothing at all in Jim Thorpe but up where I live around 2000 ft it looked really nice.
Lake effect is the best kind of snow...."system snow snobs" dont have a leg to stand on, snow is snow, regardless of where it comes from, it's a distinction without a difference.