I'd be thrilled to get 3" - any more than that would be amazing. Sure, it's not going to get super cold afterward and it's going to be really wet with marginal temps, but, for me, anything beats the CAD I've had to endure the past 2 weeks.
As I said, relative to those around us. Everything is relative. And yeah, having not yet hit 30", I'm going to stick with not our winter. The fact Rockford managed to sneak out more is the real kicker.
Looks like our forecasts weren't so bad, eh? I mean, I wanted so badly to be wrong, but this has clearly not been our winter (relative to those around us).
While I'll admit I'm aggravated by missing thunderstorms in the summer, especially if we need the rain, i'd rather miss a thunderstorm any day of the week.