@margo,
You get weird weather patterns here. The storm that dumped the white stuff all over the northeastern U.S. hit the Canadian maritimes, but it missed us. We are on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and the usual weather patterns come from the northwest, so there can be heavy falls of snow of the south shore of the lake and at the east end, and nothing in t.o. Had that weather front hit us, we'd have been buried. When cold air crosses the Great Lakes, it picks up moisture over the water, and dumps it on the far shore as snow. So it is not impossible to have heavy falls of snow to the west of t.o. (Lakes Superior and Huron), to the south (Lakes Erie and Ontario), to the east (Lake Ontario), and nothing in t.o.
