I couldn't convince my wife to come and hang out, though...

I'd have been there in a heartbeat.

I'm now in DC, so I mostly missed last winter's ice storm (I went down a few days later to help scrape my mother (still in Durham) out. She had no power for several days, and it was downright cold in her house. She lived under blankets (and had to balance the desire for warm drinks with their inevitable, very chilly, result) for most of that time.

-jk