The foothills have averaged between 8-12 (sometimes more) inches of snow per decade generally until recently. For this decade so far we are averaging 3.5.
I urge all of you to look at climatology on webber weather to see how winters used to be.
https://www.webberweather.com/nc-winter-weather-climatology.html
December 2010 comes to mind- it was a La Nina and we had that phase on Christmas and model wars for days before. It was a special time. Lots of northern stream energy flying around the next few weeks, can we get a phase with some southern energy?