I hear your concerns about bad roads getting even worse and people without heat (there was one winter where we had severe ice storms and lost heat and power for four days--really very not good), and yet at the same time . . . snow \o/.

Yeah there was this terrible discrepancy between being worried about the people who were in a bad way and being all 'SNOW!!!!!! Pretty pretty SNOW!!!!' and since there hasn't been all that much to be excited about lately the excitement mostly won. The kids think it's great but hopefully won't expect this every year. It's not exactly common hereabouts lol.

Just reading that I'm having vague imaginings of the earth cracking open and dumping you into the core. And that's probably not helping, sorry . . . Lectures sound very interesting, though.

Heh, at least it would be warm in there (it's slightly cold here what with the ice still hanging around and all). But yeah the lectures should be great. There have been a few jokes that we're due for another big quake now though. The last time they tried to run a series of lectures the second one was scheduled for the evening of February 22, which obviously didn't happen and people got a bit twitchy. Funny the things that set off your quake twitcninesses :D