In my town, schools were closed not due to snow, but to the fact that the school district doesn't want to run the buses without two-way communication for safety purposes. The winds snapped the communication tower at the top of Sandia Peak near Albuquerque, NM.
In southern NM, they had 100 MPH winds in the city of Cloudcroft (about 10 miles or so east northeast of Alamagordo), and winds blew the roof off the police station at White Sands.