Reporting from the Heart of El Ninsnowmaggedocoplypse

The good news is that the power is still on, the house is warm, the dog has been out to romp in the snow already this morning, and the coffee is perking. There's something like a foot of snow on the ground, but it's blowing around so hard that there's not much of a difference between the ground and the sky, and the snow that's on the ground isn't very evenly distributed.

The bad news is that this isn't supposed to quit until around midnight tonight.