I had my dog into the vet for her booster shots a couple of weeks ago and the vet was saying they had already been out in this area for a week or two at that point. I remember when I first lived in central Vermont I took the dogs into the woods and long grassed fields twice a day for 7 years and never once pulled a tick off either of them. Now we worry about them with snow still around.
I just checked and we have 7.5 inches, so we have gotten 7 inches in past 3 hours. Biggest storm so far this season! Now past 75 inches, big big winter incoming!
I woke up to 2.2 inches new overnight or last evening. It was snowing at a nice clip when I put the dog out just before 8. It must have kept going for a bit.