The National Weather Service offers statistics to put the present snowstorm into perspective. The current record for a day in February for Madison snowfall is 11.9 inches (on 2.6.2008) and for Milwaukee snowfall it’s 16.7 inches (2.10.1960). We’ll see a great deal of snow over the next day, but there have been snowy days before.
We’re a hardy lot.
Although I’m not much for present-day England, the English have proved themselves hardy in the past, most surely during the Second World War. There’s a poster they created in 1939, that’s far, far more justified during our natural, snowy winter than it was during their genuine and terrible emergency, an horrific crisis —
Facing only nature, we’ll be just fine.
Enjoy the snow day ahead.