Man, that’s a lot of snow.
That was a good article. I remember the storm in ‘96, I shoveled my balcony 3 times. For one thing I was afraid it would collapse, for another I couldn’t face the idea of looking at a wall of snow for however long it would take to melt!
I lived in Bayonne at that time, on a little dead end street, they didn’t plow us out for 3 days. My boss was annoyed I didn’t come to work. I said: sorry, I love my job but not enough to walk through thigh high snow to get here. Pretty sure my kid had no school either. That snow hung around too, iirc.
Some years ago I lived in a row house with alley trash service and garages. I seem to recall we had 24”. After 3 days the alley still hadn’t been plowed and my husband had to drive to work. I went to all the neighbors on both sides of the alley between our house and the closest street. I urged them to come out and help dig out our alley and free our cars from their garages. Six or 8 people came out with shovels, someone brought out crackers, another cheese, and a third a bottle of wine. We got the job done in an hour and had fun working together.