It's wintery in my part of WA,too. (I'm roughly Seattle area.) Snow tonight, which will change to rain. Tomorrow a high about 40.
I am wondering if today there was a huge surge of business at the grocery store. Someone told me once that when snow hits, they see people coming for bread and toilet paper. (I am not making that up!) As she pointed out, she wondered...isn't toilet paper something we should all have a good supply of?
As for winter in general, I am hoping for a reasonably mild winter. The roads where I am are scary when they get icy, and I'm in a place that is all electric, and that adds fear of power failure. One year, we had a massive snow/wind storm, and we were without power for 24+ hours. Fortunately, I have a neighbor I can rely on. But it was so much nicer the winter I was in a better place that had a wood stove and plenty of wood. No worries about power failures (and, of course, that was the winter when there were no significant power failures!). Plus that stove helped on nights it just felt cold. And the main heating system was a heat pump, and when temperatures were too low for that heat pump to work happily, I switched over to using wood at night, which kept the place quite warm. A part me thinks I wouldn't mind heating with wood. I don't have the physical condition to go out chop it myself, but I can handle tossing wood into a stove. I'd rather see my heating dollar go to a local person, rather than a huge energy company whom everyone hates.
