Welcome back winter

Winter has started to show its pearly whites. Snow blanketed the ground, but only for a while. Already the streets are muddied with slush from all the foot and car traffic. People in town have already started to ask, "Who did the snow dance?" Since this is an El Nino year we are supposed to have a very cold, snowy winter. We haven't had a seriously heavy snowy winter since 2006 when close to 100 inches was dropped on us, quite a bit for Southeast Alaska.