And nobody does winter quite like the home of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont hasn't seen a winter quite like this in about 30 years, said Bonnie MacPherson, the mountain's director of public relations, who sent a videographer onto the slopes before Christmas to ask skiers to show off their best snow dances.
But as many of us have experienced, tomatoes in winter never quite taste the same as those in summer.
In the winter we quite often see heights of 3-5m, where in the summer this is often down to 0.5-2m.
"The sand has been shifted quite a lot by the winter swell we've had this year, " he said.
My winter has been quite nice, but I have a feeling that the team at Yamaha have had to work very hard indeed.
No strange cars in the driveway, and my wife at her dressing table, not quite naked in her negligible concession to winter.
I'm one of the latter set: The notion of entering a store on Black Friday is about as appealing to me as a dentist appointment in the dead of winter, but I'm quite happy to pick off some good online deals.
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Mr Stevenson said "Scotland faced its coldest winter temperatures in almost a century - and quite rightly people across Scotland needed to heat their homes to keep warm and safe".
Winter lasted only two months a year, and our family turned quite British for this season.
"We can't quite believe it, but what is clear is we are now one of the leading winter sports nations in the world, " says Anderson, trying his hardest not to laugh out loud.
"I think it needs to be stepped up quite a lot otherwise we'll get into the same situation at the end of next winter, " she said.
Winter's really not too bad and in the summer, there's nothing quite like putting all the windows down and catching a breeze as you roll under the canopy of giant, old oaks, passing the fabulous mansions of the Garden District.
If humans are still around when and if it happens it is quite likely we would survive these massive changes with air conditioning in the summer and a lot of heating in winter.
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