They're worrying about the winter snows around here, too. No ski resorts in the area except for The Balsams, but miles and miles of snowmobile trails. A couple of the tiny tiny towns north of us make most of their year's money in the snowmobile season, and after two sucky ones in a row they're hurting bad.

Poor snowmobile trails are bad for accidents, too . . . the die-hard snowmobilers come up and use them anyway when they're mostly ice and half-buried rocks, and then the ambulance squad has to fetch the rescue sled and haul them out of the woods.