Major snowstorm

Third largest snowstorm in Chicago history. Here (Joliet) 19 inches.

Shakespeare remembered. “To every thing there is a season.” Similarly, one of Japan’s greatest haiku masters, Matsuo Basho, pined for a proper winter in 1666:

a winter shower
the pine tree is unhappy and
waiting for snow

Is there a more beautiful winter sight than evergreen branches drooping under snow’s white weight? Is anything more out of place than rain in winter? Basho remembered.

The hiaku cut is: "unhappy and".