Dewey, our local weather people are great meteorologists, but they know nothing about snow -- yesterday it was 90 degrees at my house, and I would have gone to the beach except that there were no waves at all! I figure that most of the folks who read this forum know more about snow than anyone in Southern California ever will.
But based on what I am hearing from you folks in the North, this was indeed one of those once in a lifetime events. My wife and I have a list of those sorts of things -- like the time a dolphin surfed a wave with us and then did a backflip in front of us. Or the time that she petted a baby whale in Baja, after its mother herded it toward our boat. Or a moon-rainbow at Yosemite Falls on a winter night. Or swimming in the freezing indigo water of Crater Lake, on a hot summer day. Or, under very dark skies, seeing the reflection of the Milky Way in a still stream high in the Canadian Rockies, with several bull elk bugling in the forest all around us.
But we still have never seen the aurora during the winter -- we have seen dim glimmers during a summer bike tour in Alaska, but that is not the same thing.
