November seems like February

Soooooo, we have had cold like February for awhile now, Buffalo is getting hammered with 7 ft. of snow, we have had flurries in the air for days, and its November 21st?  Really????  Yes, this isn't all that unusual, but this year, uncharacteristically, the trees hadn't dropped their leaves before we left for California on November 4th, and when we got back,  it had already snowed and all the leaves were buried underneath.  Now normally I would just say, that is fine, I will consider it mulch for the plants, but somehow this is not how I feel this year.  I feel like I want to get the leaves up off the grass, put it on the gardens for the mulching effect, and haul the rest to the towns leaf disposal pile.  But I can't.  They say it will be 60 on Monday- that should melt the snow and reveal the leaves, but they are also saying rain and frankly, I don't feel like trying to get sopping wet leaves off the ground and over to the Town leaf pile.  So I suspect I will have to be comforted with the  notion that some of the leaves are actually on my gardens, that the remainder may miraculously dry out in some stretch of unseasonably warm weather in January, at which point I can haul them off to the leaf pile.