Call me crazy... I don't see the big deal, especially that far north? It might not be common there (or much of any major population center) but it's not Armageddon.
We got 3' down in MD last year for Valentine's Day. I was out plowing for 32 hours, we had about 4" on the ground at midnight when I started, tapered off mid-morning with about 18" on the ground, then picked back up in the late afternoon and dumped easily another 18" (I measured 36" total, and the 2nd snow compacted the earlier stuff too) by about midnight the next night. By the time I aroused from my 2-days-awake coma that afternoon, pretty much all the roads had been salted to wet pavement, it was pretty much business as usual but with big snowbanks everywhere. I was bouncing around commercial properties, and there was never a point that a decent driver with good tires and some care couldn't have gotten around the roads... not that we have many of those around here.
