This storm was pretty much a non-event. The kids were home from school, so I worked from home and took them sledding.

Good fun.

We had a standby crew at the firehouse all night that did nothing but eat too much and sleep. With the roads shut down, there were no car accidents. And with the power on the fire risk was no greater than any other night. (We get one to two real working fires a year in town. When the power goes off we respond to a ton of CO alarms from people who don't know how to use the generators safely.)

More interesting was when we had a freezing rain two weeks ago. FDNY EMS had a backup of over 600 calls, and volunteer squads from Long Island and New Jersey responded mutual aid to help out in the city. That doesn't happen very often...