Thanks for sharing. I think that's a similar reason that I think fondly of the 2002/03 El Nino, as that was my first winter in State College, PA when I was a graduate student, and it was quite a snowy one. It's also why the El Nino of 2009/10 is one of my favorites, although I had moved to Hawaii by then and so missed out on most of the fun (except when I flew to New Jersey for Christmas, and Newark Airport closed a couple hours after I arrived when snow really started to pick up during the onset of a blizzard).