Janee, re: "Big storm today--everything is shut down and high NNW winds." ... shades of my tender years! Have to get the team harnessed and hooked to the bobsled so we can take the milk out to the main road (3 miles). Ahhhh, the unpleasantness of it all.
And, yet, in the summertime, it (Warsaw, New York) is a genuine Eden. The town, itself, was beautiful in the winter because it was down in the valley. We were up on the west hill, where those NNW winds came straight out of your backyard.
It was so bad that Bird X's snow folks wouldn't even consider it. 'Course, inside, now that's another matter.
Fred