If you were in 2nd grade you were probably only 4 ft tall. That would put you half in in 2ft of snow.
I remember walking to school with the snow shoveled so high on each side of the walk that you could barely get over it. Not all the time, of course, but there were some very snowy days. Walking uphill through 5 feet of snow each way is just one of the silly things we say....but it wasn’t far off sometimes.
It was, however, worse in Buffalo. Buffalo got some dandy storms. I couldn’t believe the pics on the news coming out of Buffalo at times.