Brooke...the back of the house faces the north...so the ocean is to the left. Can't quite see it from upstairs in the house...unfortunately.

Piper...yes DLI is right here in town at the Presidio. I'm attending the other military institution here...the Naval Postgraduate School (I'm Army, not Navy...just wanted to clarify that).

Chris...I don't know that I'd say we got out just in time. We got 8-10 inches of snow up at Drum the day they were loading our household goods on the truck. When I cleared Drum, we went to my dad's house near Rochester and got another 2+ feet in about three days time...but we did miss the big storm that came last weekend. We headed west out of Missouri the day the storm started to roll into the Midwest. I had to deal with 40-50mph wind gusts pulling a trailer through Oklahoma...but that was the worst we had to deal with the entire trip...so no complaints here.