No, not necessarily the snow. It's what the snow became.... ice. The ice made travelling nearly impossible.
Sounds like lots of kids had quite the adventure, camping out at school last night. Feel real bad for those kids stuck on the school bus all night. If those buses are anything like when I was a kid you could freeze to death before you got to school.
Come to Northern Nevada and I will show you spiky mountains and roads with vertical climbs, ice that never leaves until May, and highways that look like bobsled runs with walls of snow on both sides. It starts snowing here in September. Well, not this year anyway.
I'd still like an answer for thousands of commuters driving into a snowstorm wearing business attire with their car's gas tank on 'E'.