A feeling of isolation has been abated.

Thank heavens someone in our government understands the horrible plight I am under. As a child growing up on the east coast, I always felt left out. There was nothing I could do to really fit in with the rest of the country. I was alone (well, alone with the rest of the north east section of the country) because ... *sigh* ... we couldn't use a numbered category system to describe our storms. But thanks to those life savers at the NOAA, this feeling of isolation is no more. They have heard my plight, cast a sympathetic glance my way and said "Here you go. We'll give you category ratings to describe snow storms." Now, I too can experience the feeling people get when describing tornado and hurricane encounters. I can just see me now: "Bah, this was only a category 2 storm. Why sonny, I remember way back when to that Category 3 snow storm of Aught 2." Thank you NOAA!