By the way, sorry if it seems like I'm being insensitive by making light of your snow situation. In the past, I've been in snowed-in without power for three days. It's not pleasant.

In particular, I'm acutely aware of the problems which exist in cities which get snow rarely enough that they don't have any infrastructure to handle it. Doug, having lived in Alaska, probably had it a bit easier there than people in milder climes, because it's something that the towns there deal with every year, so the infrastructure is in place.

Though now that I've said that, I'm curious if that's actually true. It's something I assumed, and something that people say all the time, but I have no firsthand experience. Doug, are Alaskans properly prepared for heavy snow? Or do Alaskan cities have all the same problems that, say, Seattle has when it snows heavily?