Oh it snowed in the valley half a dozen times last year, which is just BIZARRE. Of course, when a Californian says 'drifts' of snow, they generally mean 'an inch or two'. (whereas back home in central oregon, it meant things like 'three feet of snow fell and the stuff sliding off the roof is piled up so high we can't get out the back door, oh and the ceiling in the living room is caving in')