Geoff Mooney, a 1974 graduate of Lehighton Area High School who moved to sunny California right after high school, now makes his home in Sutton, Massachusetts, where it often gets cold and snowy.

On Tuesday, he experienced the deepest snow he's ever seen when the East Coast blizzard dumped three feet in his hometown.In addition, high winds howled most of the night.He couldn't drive for a couple of days.Despite this, he said, "It wasn't so bad."He said because the snow was light, he had no power outage."We had no real problems," he said. "We just hunkered down."Mooney is the son of the late Dr. Richard and Roseanne Mooney.After graduating from high school, he went to Silicon Valley, where he worked for Intel for about 10 years.A mechanical engineer, he then moved to Massachusetts 16 years ago. Sutton is about 5 miles south of Worcester.He and his wife, Susan, have four horses. They were the only thing Mooney stressed about during the storm.As soon as the snow stopped falling, he went to their stable and shoveled an area for them. "I probably spent six hours just moving the snow around," he said."It's a small horse farm, which was somewhat of a chore with a storm like that," he said.He said the one good thing about the snow is that it was light. "But it was not that difficult to deal with," he said.The state had imposed travel restrictions for two days because of the snow.He said the snow started falling about 6 p.m. Monday and continued for about 24 hours. The heaviest, about 2 1/2 feet, fell overnight Monday into Tuesday.Losing power would have been a problem, he said, noting that he lives outside the town limits so he doesn't have municipal water or sewage. Both are dependent on electrical power."It wasn't the worst storm because we didn't have the power outages (like some storms in the past)," he said.He said the storm was worse than what he remembers the Blizzard of '78 to be.This might have been the deepest snow he's witnessed, he said. The drifting created snow banks 6 to 7 feet high."We have storms with 1 or 2 feet of snow a couple of times a year," he said. "This one really wasn't too bad."He's a little bit concerned, though, saying weather forecasters are predicting the potential of another foot of snow on Monday.