my folks are down there during the fall/winter/spring-it's great-they're on the eastern side of town which is all new at this point. I've been down a few times-great area.
verdict is still out-sometimes the blocking doesn't materialize or is much weaker...also if it's south based, that's not all that cool here-see last winter when we had south based blocking and we had a month of temps in the 40's.