MUST we get the entire winter's worth of snow at once?

Valentine's day, 3 pm. Scheduled for work that night and upon awakening took a gander at this...

While I did have concerns about drought niggling at the back of my mind from the very late start to winter, and the relative dearth of snow, that did not mean I wanted four feet of snow at one whack. I was sick of winter BEFORE the blizzard, and now after tons of shoveling I'm significantly more tired of winter. The consolation is that the frigid part of winter is over, and after a good three weeks of temperatures in the -25 F range, the current temps of about 14 F feel positively balmy. No longer am I bothering with hat, and unless I'm shoveling (grrrrr), mittens. I don't even bother to button my coat unless its windy out, and if I'm hot from dance that remains true even with bare midriff. Its a funny thing how that happens towards the end of the winter, whereas earlier in the season we are shivering in the upper 20s and bundled up.