Heh, according to Mainbutter's profile, I live in the same metro area he does, and this is round 2 of big snow for us this year, and it was smaller than the first one. I actually didn't find it to be that bad, but I know the totals varied widely across the metro area. I guess Mainbutter must be in the southwestern portion of the cities; IIRC they got hit the hardest. 14 inches sounds like Bloomington maybe? I'm in the northeast; we got *maybe* 10 or 12 inches, and it barely slowed us down.