I hate to say it but I'm starting to feel like that in my older age, my job is so much easier without a pack, I guess when I retire, I'll be rotting for huge packs again.
Weird choice of words but when the Alaska coast gets record snow, it's not usually good for us. 2012 Valdez had 300 inches or thereabouts and were had spring in February.
Don't like to see this
'Pandemic of snow' in Anchorage sets a record for the earliest arrival of 100 inches of snow (yahoo.com)
Usually great up there, means not so great here but there's time to turn things around.
Left my house to do some errands, was mixing here at 700 elev, down in town at about 400 elev it was pouring, on the way home it changed to a sleet fest with some snow mixed in.