I was in high school. Got up that morning and my dad was sitting at the kitchen table and not at work. I asked what he was doing and he said go look out the door. I looked out the door for a bit until I realized I could not see anything but white. There ended up being drifts higher than 2d floors. Ours completely covered the cars and took a long time to dig out. Sledful at a time and dump in the back yard.
That was half my life ago, but I was quite warm living in the south of France at the time.
Good thing your dad could simply open his laptop and continue working from home. :-)