It's always funny to me how NYC treats any significant snow as an impending disaster. Most of us have lived in the Northeast long enough to have the boots, coat, gloves, hat, etc to handle just about any weather since a temperature difference of over 100 degrees per year is normal, yet the subway, streets, Grand Central Station, and office were almost empty today.

Yes, it requires some caution and particularly for the elderly the last thing you want is to risk a fall, especially since the slipperiest places are usually the subway stairs, which are iron, and street corners, neither of which you can usually avoid. But you just suck it up and get where you're supposed to be. Maybe it's because I went to school at Cornell and no matter what the weather you got your butt to class (and then fell asleep in the lecture, but that was just me :) ).

And once I got to the office I got to observe a minor blizzard from the 37th floor and see the snow blowing by at an impressive clip. I never get tired of the view from there and today was a refreshing, beautiful change. Call me crazy, but give me winter any day.