I lived in Colorado and in 1983 I had snow so deep that the entire front of the house was covered in over 8 feet of snow. My back yard was just about as deep. When I dug out from my garage I got to the street and there was over (well over) 5 feet of snow between me and the house across the street. Cars could not be seen. Trucks could “barely” identified by a bump in the snow. We did not get our street cleared for almost a week because ALL of Denver and the surrounding suburbs were so stranded.
That was not historical. That was cyclical.