Yah this March is something. Here in Amery, WI I had minus 13F at 7:30AM at my house this morning.

In a great act of defiance I have locked my snowblower in the garage and it is not coming out again, we've decided just to drive through the stuff with 4WD.

Besides even if I did start the thing up and blow it out, the 300MPH winds that will not cease would just fill it in again anyway.

Compare today to one year ago (within days) - I was sitting on our upper deck with cocktail in hand visiting with my elderly folks, cooking out and it had a high of 80F that day.

Tim, I have a few hosepipes in my garage too, they are so stiff that I were to try bend them, they would snap.

I checked it out on-line. The first known use of the word Hosepipe was in 1825.

Depressing weather causes me to become interested in such things. Perhaps due to utter boredom.