If it the Rockies and Cascades didn’t exist neither would nor’easters, arctic outbreaks, or EMLs to produce severe weather out here. So thank you for the sacrifice.

Snowy scene at O'hare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYebNz1jVt4

January 1969 recorded 95.4" at the state park which is 300' lower than my house. They also didn't record snowfall data on one date early in the month where their snow depth went from 0 to 5", so they should have officially hit 100". Given I usually get a bit more snow than that location, we probably were in the 110-120" range here that month. January 2008 is another month lacking complete data from the park, but they recorded 47.5" the last 4 days of the month, there were other times during the month the area would have received snowfall, and the 47.5" is fairly suspect because it also lined up exactly with the snow depth, so one would think the actual amount even in that 4 day period was substantially higher as there would have been significant compaction with that big of a storm. I'd guess that month produced close to 100" at my location. Then of course there is January 1950, a month which the park has no data for, sadly. They do have data for February 1950 though, and the snow depth on the 1st of the month was 41". Their weather station is at the park headquarters which is 1310'.

I’m a sinner.

Our crude is lighter and easier to refine than the heavy stuff from Canada and the Middle East. Oil demand will be met one way or another. Better to meet said demand via fracking vs giving power back to the OPEC cartel.