joshing and joeking and baiting aside, I would love to see our lot try and survive just a single turbo feast/famine NE season. I've lost count of the number of mega dawgs they've had pop up well within kinda-not-fantasy-range only to go poof at ~100 hours just in '26. Yes I know you gotta live with it if you want 58734" Cat 8 slablizzard chances fives times a year in the first place, but that's exactly the problem. Shit cannot be for the faint of heart. I'm usually over it all by the second average-dawg rug pull of the season. Could you imagine going entire seasons with it literally hardly snowing and barely even a single head fake event, only to spend the very next year getting through like half a dozen possible major events that (irrespective of actual synoptic setup quality) show up well within reality range, with each one hanging around just long enough to trend away again? I think I'd probably be working for Exxon Mobil within two years.