I didn't get much chance to drive around rural Ohio much, unfortunately. I ended up just driving through the cold part. Whew! Cleveland was a nice frigid 5F when I awoke at 6am. I was a little better prepared for the snow this time than when I showed up at Georgetown in my tshirt and jeans, however.
So I drove off the beaten path a little bit, as much as my poor rented chevy impala was willing to tolerate the less-paved roads off the 71. The corn fields I had been told of were all encased in snow, as was pretty much everything else. I noticed most houses and farms didn't have footprints or tire tracks leading up to the houses; I wonder if anyone lived in this community? Perhaps they had all they needed and planned to endure the winter the old-fashioned way, by staying indoors for 3 months. Or perhaps they planned to endure the winter the actual old-fashioned way, by migrating to warmer places...