Now, you guys in other places may just look on this as light snow but we are not used to this sort of thing in Oregon - not over one night. The bricks are two inches thick so we were looking at 10 to 12 inches of snow.
But the snow does have its compensations.
We were trapped in the house for seven days because we could not get down our drive to the main road. Then the day the snow cleared USPS delivered 20 packages of trigger housings so it was "back to work".