> When I grew up snow was an expected part of winter. It was rare to have a year without a snowfall of any kind. Same here, but some winters were without snow.

> When I grew up snow was an expected part of winter. It was rare to have a year without a snowfall of any kind. Same here, but some winters were without snow. The catch is, I grew up in the 70's, which were an unusually cold period. My grandparents grew up in the 20's and 30's and they'd had it much warmer in their childhoods.