Hi and Lois: Does Old Man Winter work for the I.R.S.?

See, the snowflakes are Hi's money, and the ground is tax season, and Old Man Winter works for the I.R.S. and is going away for some reason, and tax season, which is the ground, is arriving, from wherever the ground arrives from, that melts snow, which is, um, money. And stuff.*

*No one can torture a tax metaphor like the folks at Mort Walker Inc.