The one thing that's been fortunate this year is we've had a significant melt after each big snow.
The last memorable snowfall was 78-79, IIRc. Every weekend for 4-5 weeks we’d leave work, stop and buy groceries, then stay home. I lived in a 2-story condo at the time and could only see the neighbor’s unit (25’ away) from my second-story window. There was a single path shoveled out between units through 10’ high drifts so we could get to our front doors.
They ran out of room in mall parking lots to pile the snow and had to begin hauling it away. People drove with flags & stuff hanging from their antennas & CB radio masts so they’d be seen at intersections because of the piles of snow. You even had to watch for large piles of snow along the roads because they could contain buried vehicles. Toward the end, when they began getting highways cleared, I decided to visit my Mom in SE Wisconsin, just to get out of the house. I was on Hwy 23 North going toward Harvard, IL and hit a stretch of 5 miles where there was only one lane, with 12-15’ drifts both sides. Fortunately, I meet a vehicle going South until I was out of the single-lane section.Now, that was a winter! We haven’t seen anything remotely like it since. This year, which pales in comparison, is the closest I can remember. I do believe, however, there was a year in the late 80’s that had some heavy snow, but we were out of state then.