No. Definitely not terrifying at all. Are you from a warmer climate place? A lot of places get 12 inches or even more of snow in the winter, on a given day/night. It usually wouldn't cause a flood unless perhaps a heavy rain followed the heavy snow. It otherwise melts gradually. I suppose it may depend on some soil types, but where I am it is usually fine. I remember back in 1996 there was an especially bad nor'easter blizzard that left 4 feet of snow. There was a similar one less than 10 years before that that was especially huge, with snow drifts. That did paralyze the area quite a bit. I can say that places like upstate New York have even more snow issues, usually. They call that "lake effect snow". People there are used to it and their road crews are snow removal experts. Unlike California getting the earthquakes, the east coast's biggest issues are the nor'easters or hurricanes/tropical storms.

Yes, it turned out that we will be waiting until the movers take our stuff. I confess that I had to have our realtor say this to really drive the necessity home. This was not the first time our realtor and I had to present a 2 against 1 argument. Don't get me wrong, sometimes my husband is the right one of us two. When I really put my foot down, it is usually always for very good reasons. We're waiting to hear back from our realtor with some answers on a few things. She said she'd call back in an hour, but an hour passed about 30 minutes ago. I want that call to be a conference call that includes my husband.