Most of the people posting the comments on PJ Media are full of crap.
You can’t ‘walk’ to the store in 10-foot drifts. Snow trapped people in their homes here in Indianapolis in 78. You need serious cold-weather clothing to be outside in that type of weather for any length of time. If you get stuck in your car, you are seriously screwed.
I don’t know how much snow Ohio got this time but we got over 12” of snow with 4’ drifts on Sunday and the temperature was -11F with -40F windchills the next day. There is no way children can be out in that weather.
I remember walking to a store in 78, now it was only a city block. But I remember it kind of being cool! No traffic, no sound really. It was cold, but the wind had died down by then.