“In northern NY we had lots of winter days literally just like that. And still went to school. Of course we didn’t have unions refusing to plow roads...”
Those unions are making a killing right now; they aren’t refusing to clean the roads. They are simply running out of places to put the snow. I’ve definitely seen worse storms growing up here; I don’t recall seeing such accumulations of snow lasting for weeks on end.
We used to dump it on the lake. Of course they cant do that anymore because it’s somehow worse for the environment than letting the same exact snow melt with all it’s same exact contaminants and flow into the same exact lake ‘naturally’.