Care to Share a Few Snow Stories, Dad?

Monday and Tuesday this week we got quite a bit of snow.  A crazy amount if you ask me.  I like snow, but we had just decided not to buy a snow thrower.  I decided to take a few pictures because the snow levels were amazing.  It makes me wonder what Gunnison was like.

 
It's a good thing that we had an 18-inch ruler.  This was on the deck; it's our base level, not a drift.  After taking the picture I moved it to another spot and the snow came right up to the 16.

Here's what that much snow looks like on the neighbor's roof.  I didn't get a picture of my own roof because I didn't want to actually take the camera out into the snow.  All of these pictures were taken from under the eaves.

I thought it was funny how you can still see the profile of the stairs in the snow stacked on the stairs.  It's not a great angle, but if you carefully follow the lines you can see that the pile of snow on each step is as high as the second stair above it.  I guess it makes sense because each stair is about 8 inches so 16 inches of snow would be about 2 steps.

Have I convinced you coastal and southern dwellers to move up north?