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Ok, maybe not a full blown blizzard, but you wouldn't know it trying to drive over by the shopping centers today. Folks are off the road, bonked into each other, and generally not behaving well behind the wheel. I think it takes a few storms before the basics sink back in: the road may be slippery when covered in snow, if I can go fast that doesn't mean I can stop fast, if a SUV with Mass plates is coming down the interstate...get out of the way!
This is the rock/view outside one of my basement office windows. We'll see how long it takes before it's no longer discernable from the rest of the backyard.
Fun weekend here in geekville. On Sunday I had StarBand installed at the house. If you aren't familiar with starband, or it's competitors, it's a two way internet connection over satellite. Download speeds are up around 600k while upload speeds are a more modest 60-90k. Still, the connection is always active (barring heavy weather or sunspot activity I suppose) and unmetered. In an act of celebration I even downloaded the latest Apple OSX development package: 217meg, which took about half an hour. On my old dialup they'd be up to OS XX before I managed that feat, if ever. Starband also has enthusiastic user groups, www.starbandusers.com
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You can see that the dish is a bit bigger than the epidermal entertainment patches (tv dishes) installed on most houses these days. That's probably due to a couple of things: it's used for transmitting back to the satellite, it's also used for receiving tv signals. All told this rig is listening to three separate satellites in space. Quite a setup.