Same here, except I was a kid in the suburbs outside Ithaca NY and Syracuse NY. We had 60 inches over one weekend around 1966. No big deal except Mom & Dad ran out of smokes and they sent my sister and I packing down to the main road to pick up an emergency drop-shipment in our mailbox!
Maybe it’s the Internet because now we hear and the amazement and angst.
Of course it’s easy for me to look back and say “no biggie” because I packed up and headed to warm California after I got out of college. But now I have a liberal cesspool all around me; but that’s another story.
Well, of course, I live in California now also. LOL
If they did that today, they’d be arrested for child abuse and lose custody!!!!