Yes - I was in Tiffin, Ohio for the Blizzard of 1978, dutchess, trapped FOUR days inside, by law! There had been three major snowstorms the week before that.
Hubby is not a game player, and was desperate for something to do with his hands...our daughter was a teenager who had just been taught how to crochet (I sewed and knitted and embroidered, but did not crochet), and she showed him how.
It saved the sanity of all three of us! LOL
He advanced immediately to doing full-sized afghans, and made them for all the adult females in the family over the next few years, and soft baby ones for grandchildren.
Best of all, he did a beautiful yellow and white one for his bedridden mother in Florida, with a cross in the corner.
It was beside her all her remaining days.