Gotta give some credit to old Buffalo. In five years of college, the school was never closed once. We had 3 inches here in Virginia on Monday night, and the elementary school just left a message that school is cancelled AGAIN tomorrow.
Back in the day our Town's road crews would hit our residential street up to 3x (or maybe more) per day, if required. Most trucks had a front plow and a wing plow. Occasionally a V-plow was used and we did have front end loaders (contracted from a local quarry) once to move the drifts back.
We had few snow days off from school.
It's a question of being prepared and having the can-do attitude.
Much of that seems to be lost these days.