Did you not start it, etc, before said storm? Did it just get too cold? Did it have new/good gas?
I kept that thing clean as a whistle.
Two mos. ago, I cleaned off my area, and that of my neighbor while he was away on holiday.
Sunday, I couldn't fire my snow blower puppy up, and so I surrendered myself to the shovel again.
Later my neighbor, nice kid, really, plowed me out with his own brand new snow blower.
"Thats what neighbors are for" he said.
Saved me hours of back breaking work he did.