Some winters are way better than 5 days.

Looks like we have another 24 hours here, nothing too impressive, but we will likely end up with an inch and a half. Nice way to start the season.

I get the snow-in-the-backyard thing... but honestly, I don't think I'd mind CA/SW winters much coming from lowland PNW winters. Driving to snow is still an option, and for the lowlands... trading 5 days of cold/snow a winter to regularly see the sun honestly seems like a fair trade to me. Obviously cold and snow would still be ideal.

Right, absolutely nothing can.

That's what I liked about that winter actually. Snowfall was more evenly-distributed as opposed to one big event and then the rest of winter being boring.