A few years ago they had so much snow out in parts of Washington State that some of the ski resorts had to close. The snow was so deep that the ski lifts couldn't be operated.
2-3 feet of snow in the Northeast is a massive storm.
THIS is like something your mind can't even grasp:
I believe this photo was taken up on Chinook Pass in June of 2011, at the end of a winter season when they had 860 inches of snowfall (that's more than 71 feet.
Now this NYC area storm seems like a piece of cake. LOL.
Ontanogan Michigan averages around 30 feet per winter.
I remember that one very well. I had a friend on the ski patrol up there who was one of the last ones up the mountain - said that first his skis, and then his butt, were dragging. When he got back to the parking lot there were no cars visible. They were all buried all the way over the roof with no safe way to dig them out except by hand, and nowhere to drive them once they were dug out. I ended up driving him and a couple of his friends home. They skied to the car.
“2-3 feet of snow in the Northeast is a massive storm.
THIS is like something your mind can’t even grasp”
I think for the most part NE snow is much heavier due to heavier water content, when I was stationed in Utah we just swept the snow away with a broom in depth up to 6 - 8”, being more powdery it blows around much more out West, in NE it tends to turn to ice faster.